24/05/2026
🚨 THE CRASH BEFORE THE CRASH 🚨
Two suspicious plane crashes in Nigeria, ninety days apart in 2006 during the war on terror, transformed the shape of Nigerian politics and global Islamic jihad — and set the stage for today’s genocide.
Earlier I reported about the crash of ADC Flight 53 that killed Sultan Muhammadu Maccido, his son and heir apparent, and his grandson — and elevated Brigadier General Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar to Caliph. Thanks to insightful comments from my amazing followers, several new pieces have come to light, which I have been able to validate.
🔥🔥The airport radar was turned off during the takeoff. The Aviation Minister blamed the pilot publicly within 24 hours, before any forensic investigation. ADC Airlines was shut down by the government shortly after.🔥🔥
Sultan Maccido had spent that morning meeting with President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja. The substance of that meeting is not in the public record.
Sultan Maccido was a documented moderate. A 2001 U.S. diplomatic cable from Ambassador Howard Jeter recorded him partnering with American forces on counter-terrorism training and stating he did not want Christians to feel threatened by Sharia. Obasanjo was a Christian Yoruba southerner whose attempt at a constitutional amendment for a third term had been blocked by the Senate in May 2006, just five months earlier, with strong opposition from the northern political establishment. He had personally established a presidential committee to restructure the senior officer corps of the Nigerian Army. The 2007 presidential succession was the central political question in Nigeria.
Senator Badamasi Maccido — the Sultan’s son and heir apparent — was, at the time of his death, under criminal indictment for accepting a ₦55 million bribe from the Education Ministry. The case was posthumously quashed in 2010.
🚨🚨Now let’s look at the other history-changing plane crash. 🚨🚨
Six weeks before ADC Flight 53 went down in Abuja, another aircraft went down in Nigeria. On September 17, 2006, a Nigerian Air Force Dornier 228 transport — NAF 033 — crashed into hills near Vandekiya, Benue State. Eighteen souls on board. Thirteen dead. Ten of them were army generals.
They were members of the same presidential committee Obasanjo had personally established to reposition the army. They were flying to a retreat at Obudu Cattle Ranch in Cross River State.
Obasanjo had personally established a presidential committee to reshape the senior officer corps — part of his broader effort to professionalize the Nigerian military, address corruption, and consolidate civilian control before leaving office. The committee’s mandate placed him in direct tension with the politicized northern officer networks that had dominated the military for decades.
The dead: Major-Generals A.N. Bamali, J.O. Adesunloye, J.O. Agboola, P.M. Haruna, J.T.U. Ahmedu, S.O. Otubu, B. Duniya, and S.M. Lemu. Brigadier-Generals Y.J. Braimah and M.B. Bawa. Plus Wing Commanders E.O. Adekunle and O. Balogun, and Lieutenant-Colonel N.A. Mohammed.
Ten generals. Gone in one event. The official cause: poor weather and pilot descent into hilly terrain.
Six weeks later, ADC Flight 53 took out Nigeria’s Muslim spiritual leadership and the political-religious leadership of Sokoto State.
👉🏾 In ninety days in 2006, Nigeria lost the senior officer corps of its army and the head of its canonical Sunni caliphate. Both crashes were officially ruled accidents. Both produced succession outcomes that benefited specific institutional actors. Neither was seriously investigated.
The senior army positions that opened up in September were filled across the next decade by northern Muslim officers — the foundation Buhari would later complete starting in 2015.
The throne that opened up in October was filled by a Brigadier General just back from every active jihadi theater on earth.
Ninety days. Two crashes. Two decapitations. One pattern.
Coincidence? Or sequence?
The investigation is just beginning.
