Originally Posted by Agidimolaja 
I think Gen. Muritala Mohammed was the most prepared for political office before he came to power or better to say, he was the first one to be so prepared.
Since he lost out to Gen.Gowon in the scuffle to lead the nation in 1966,Muritala was always looking for the chance to pull down the regime of Gen.Gowon.They never see eye to eye.
As a matter of fact, it was the presence of Gen Hassan Katsina as the Chief of Staff, Army that slowed Muritala down.Nevertheless he was secretly planning and {as IBB said},"waiting for the right time".
The waiting and planning however took him another ten years before he eventually succeeded.
Muritala made a lot of money as Federal Commissioner for Communication.It was that money he used to finance the 1975 coup. He single handedly recruited all the plotters and financed them.
During his recruitment drive,he approached Benjamin Adekunle to come and be part of the grand plot to unseat the person{Gowon} that disgraced him{Adekunle} out of military service.
Adekunle however refused to join up using his hot temper as an excuse not to work with Murutala since he {Muritala} is also hot tempered.
AdeKunle said that you and I shall be pulling guns on each other when our hot tempers got the better of us and its not going to look good nor speak well of us.
"Ok, if you can't come in,then find me another Yorubaman to be included" Muritala said to Adekunle.
That was how our Obj was brought into the plot at the last minute and later on became the Head of State after Muritala was killed. Obj, always lucky!
Brother.
This your account is at variance with the contents of the book written by late Maj.Gen Joe Garba (Diplomatic Soldiering) on how Murtala was recruited for the 1975 coup.