I was Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from October 1, 1979 until the early hours of the morning of December 31, 1983 when there was a coup d'état and ouster of the elected federal and state governments by the Military. I was immediately placed under detention, first in a military camp, and thereafter successively, in government quarters, in Nigeria's Kirikiri Maximum Security Prisons, Ikoyi Prisons, and in three more government quarters until July 3, 1986...