BREAKING: Five Nigerian Military Officers Detained Over Alleged Coup Against Tinubu ‘Fall Ill In Custody,’ Wives Plan Protest

SaharaReporters learnt that the officers within the beginning detained on the Defence Intelligence Company hold been moved into a depressing, underground protection pressure cell in Abuja a pair of weeks ago.

As a minimal five out of the protection pressure officers detained over the alleged coup d’état to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s government hold reportedly fallen sick.

SaharaReporters learnt that the officers within the beginning detained on the Defence Intelligence Company hold been moved into a depressing, underground protection pressure cell in Abuja a pair of weeks ago.

“About five of them are significantly sick and two of them collapsed closing week. Till now, a pair of of them are keeping mum. One in every of them wasn’t even provocative. He’s being punished for being mindful, but failing to alert the protection pressure authorities,” a protection pressure source informed SaharaReporters.

Meanwhile, some households of the detainees informed SaharaReporters they hold been not advised about the whereabouts of their family members for months, with the officers being held incommunicado.

“We hold now been denied procure admission to to them since their arrest. We are able to’t dispute this modified into once where they hold been moved to,” one among them said.

“We’re planning to vastly bellow at DIA to quiz of their whereabouts. DIA set up of work is beside the Pronounce Dwelling Sanatorium at Mambilla Barracks. About 15 of us, we could like to dart and request if our husbands are quiet alive,” one among the opposite halves of the arrested officers informed SaharaReporters.

“Since they hold been arrested, the protection pressure authorities hold denied them procure admission to to their households and lawyers,” she persisted.
“We are able to’t continue treasure this. We don’t hold procure admission to to their monetary institution accounts as they took away their ATM cards. We are able to’t pay for our kids’s college prices and diverse things.”

Background

In October 2025, SaharaReporters solely reported the arrest of lots of protection pressure officers by the DIA in Abuja over an alleged diagram to overthrow President Tinubu’s government.

The case is being dealt with by the Chief of Defence Intelligence (CDI), Lieutenant Usual Emmanuel Parker Undiandeye, who heads the protection pressure department.

President Tinubu reappointed Undiandeye as Chief of Defence Intelligence on October 24, 2025.

He first assumed set up of work because the 17th CDI on June 23, 2023.

The DIA, established in 1986, is Nigeria’s main protection pressure intelligence physique. It is to blame for gathering and offering intelligence to the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence to counter security threats, safeguard national integrity, and enhance protection pressure operations, along side ongoing efforts in opposition to terrorism and insurgency.

In October 2025, top protection pressure sources disclosed the names and departments of 16 senior protection pressure officers who hold been on the time being detained by the DIA over the alleged diagram.

SaharaReporters had earlier solely reported that a Nigerian Navy officer, Lieutenant Commander B. Abdullahi, modified into once amongst the senior officers detained in connection with the case.

Sources on the Defence Headquarters confirmed that the officers, drawn from the Nigerian Navy, Navy and Air Force, hold been arrested in coordinated operations by protection pressure intelligence operatives following weeks of covert surveillance.

Beneath are the profiles of the detained officers as compiled by PREMIUM TIMES:

1. Brigadier Usual Musa Abubakar Sadiq (N/10321) Brigadier Usual Sadiq is believed to be the suspected leader of the alleged coup diagram.

Here’s not his first brush with controversy. In October 2024, he modified into once reportedly detained for “alleged diversion of rice palliatives and selling of protection pressure equipment, along side generator devices and operational automobiles to scrap yards.”

2. Colonel M.A. Ma’aji (N/10668): Ma’aji, born on March 1, 1976, is a Nupe native from Niger Pronounce.

3. Lieutenant Colonel S. Bappah (N/13036): Bappah, from Bauchi Pronounce is a member of the 56 Long-established Direction.

4. Lieutenant Colonel A.A. Hayatu (N/13038) is a local of Kaduna Pronounce.

5. Lieutenant Colonel P. Dangnap (N/13025) is from Plateau Pronounce, Dangnap. He modified into once court docket-martialed in 2015 alongside 29 others for offences linked to the Boko Haram war.

6. Lieutenant Colonel M. Almakura (N/12983): Almakura, additionally from Nasarawa Pronounce, modified into once born on March 18, 1983.

7. Essential A.J. Ibrahim (N/13065): He’s from Gombe Pronounce and modified into once born on June 12, 1987.

8. Essential M.M. Jiddah (N/13003): Born on July 9, 1985, Essential Jiddah hails from Katsina Pronounce. He’s an Infantry officer and member of the 56 Long-established Direction (2004–2008).

9. Essential M.A. Usman (N/15404) is from the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

10. Essential D. Yusuf (N/14753): Born on Also can simply 26, 1988, Essential Yusuf hails from Gombe Pronounce. He serves within the Ordnance Corps.

11. Essential I. Dauda (N/13625): From Jigawa Pronounce, Essential Dauda joined the Navy by technique of the Mutter Rapid Service Commission (Direction 38).

12. Captain Ibrahim Bello (N/16266): Born on July 28, 1987, Captain Bello is a member of the Mutter Rapid Service Commission Direction 43.

13. Captain A.A. Yusuf (N/16724): Captain Yusuf is a Nigerian Navy officer with restricted public records accessible.

14. Lieutenant S.S. Felix (N/18105): Lt. Felix is amongst the junior officers in detention. Most well-known points about his role remain unclear.

15. Lieutenant Commander D.B. Abdullahi (NN/3289): Lt. Commander Abdullahi serves within the Nigerian Navy and is one among two non-Navy officers detained in connection with the alleged coup diagram.

16. Squadron Leader S.B. Adamu (NAF/3481): Squadron Leader Adamu serves within the Nigerian Air Force. His alleged involvement remains beneath investigation.

Meanwhile, SaharaReporters had reported that protection pressure operatives raided the Abuja set up of a old Minister of Pronounce for Petroleum Property, Timipre Sylva, in connection with the alleged coup diagram presently beneath investigation by the DIA.

A couple of security sources confirmed to SaharaReporters that the operation took set up at Sylva’s dwelling in Maitama, Abuja.

In response to the sources, a “special protection pressure team” conducted the raid after intelligence reviews linked a “old South-South governor” to alleged secret conferences with a pair of of the detained protection pressure officers.

Sylva later confirmed the protection pressure raid on his Abuja set up in a assertion, but denied any involvement within the alleged coup diagram.