Key Leaders and Participants
Lt. Col. Bukar Suka Dimka: The central figure and leader of the coup
attempt.

Major General I.D. Bisalla: The then-Minister of Defence, executed for complicity.

Joseph Dechi Gomwalk: Former Military Governor of Benue-Plateau State, convicted of involvement.

Lt. William Seri: Identified as the officer who fired at General Murtala Muhammed’s vehicle.

Abdulkarim Zakari: A civilian broadcaster at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation who assisted
Dimka with his radio announcement.