Jonathon Tunde Ogbeha
| Jonathan Tunde Ogbeha | |
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| Governor of Akwa Ibom State | |
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In office 28 September 1987 – 30 July 1988 |
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| Succeeded by | Godwin Abbe |
| Governor of Bendel State | |
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In office Dec 1987 – Aug 1990 |
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| Preceded by | John Mark Inienger |
| Succeeded by | John Ewerekumoh Yeri |
| Senator - Kogi West | |
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In office May 1999 – May 2007 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 1947 (age 69–70) Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria |
Jonathan Tunde Ogbeha is a retired general from Kogi State, Nigeria, who was administrator of Akwa Ibom State and then of Bendel State during the military rule of General Ibrahim Babangida (1985–1993). After the return to democracy in 1999 he was the elected senator for the Kogi West constituency of Kogi State from May 1999 to May 2007. He is an influential figure in Kogi State politics.
Tunde Ogbeha was born in Lokoja, Kogi State in 1947. After obtaining a West African School Certificate, he attended the Nigerian Military School, Zaria, where he obtained a Nigerian Defense Academy diploma in 1970. In 1986, he attended The Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru for a year.
Tunde Ogbeha was commissioned second lieutenant in 1970. As a colonel in December 1983, he was involved in the military coup when President Shehu Shagari was replaced by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari. Ogbeha approached Captain Augustine A. Anyogo of the Brigade of Guards and told him to arrest the president at midnight. Anyogo refused and alerted his superior officer, who arranged for increased security around the State House. However, the coup succeeded despite these measures. Tunde Ogbeha played a prominent role in the subsequent coup of August 1985, when General Ibrahim Babangida ousted Buhari's government. Brigadier Ibrahim Bako was the other senior army officer and coup conspirator who accompanied Colonel Ogbeha to arrest President Shagari during the coup. Bako was killed under murky circumstances, likely cross fire and confusion that ensued between the Brigade of Guards loyal to President Shagari and the army detachment accompanying Bako and Ogbeha to arrest President Shagari.
In 1985, he was appointed an ambassador to Equatorial Guinea. In 1987, he was appointed military governor of the newly formed Akwa Ibom State. In 1988, he was appointed military governor of the now defunct Bendel State. Reminiscing about the period, Ogbeha said that he was not in the vanguard for the 1991 creation of Kogi State, but helped in its creation because he was a trusted advisor of President Ibrahim Babangida.
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