text: 1985 coup: Dasuki denies arresting Buhari - The Nation Newspaper
  1985 coup: Dasuki denies arresting Buhari
  Embattled former National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki has denied arresting President Muhammadu Buhari, shortly after he was overthrown as a Military Head of State in August 1985.
  He also said he had supported Buhari's presidential aspiration in 2003, 2007 and 2011.
  He said he knelt down in 2011 for the former National Chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande, to make Buhari a joint candidate of the ACN and the defunct Congress of Peoples Congress (CPC).
  Col. Dasuki made the clarifications in an interview during an encounter with a blogger and the Publisher of the Economic Confidential, Mr. Yushau Shuaib.
  The piece is titled: "Sambo Dasuki: An Encounter with the spymaster".
  He spoke against the backdrop of insinuations that his house arrest might have to do with a retaliation of a similar maltreatment against Buhari in 1985.
  The ex-NSA also spoke against the backdrop that he attempted to truncate the election of President Muhammadu Buhari in March and inauguration on May 29.
  He said he had been part of Buhari's presidential aspiration in 2003, 2007 and 2011.
  The journalist added: "The major shocker for me in his narratives was his campaign for Buhari to emerge the joint candidate of ACN and CPC in 2011. He disclosed how he pleaded with Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu in the presence of Bisi Akande to accept Muhammad Buhari as the joint presidential candidate for ACN and CPC.
  "Dasuki stated that he knelt down, begging 'Baba Bisi Akande' who was then the National Chairman of ACN that 'General Buhari is a man to be trusted'.