March 1st in The History of Nigeria.

          Colonel Lawan Gwadabe was Military Administrator of Niger State in Nigeria from December 1987 to January 1992 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.He was accused of planning a coup against General Sani Abacha in 1995, for which he was jailed, tortured and convicted of treason. 
             He was release after the death of Abacha.

                     
               On the 1st of  March, 1995, he was arrested on a charge of plotting a coup against the Abacha government, and was jailed, tortured and later convicted of treason along with others.
               He was on death row but luckily...
for him, Abacha died unexpectedly back in June, 1998.
After some years, Abacha’s chief of staff Lt-Gen. Oladipo Diya said that he considered the claimed coup plot never existed.
               Gwadabe served as Chief of Staff of the Gambian Army, succeeding Brigadier Abubakar Dada. On his return to Nigeria after the July 1994 Yahya Jammeh coup in Gambia, he was briefly Principal Staff Officer to General Sani Abacha before being appointed commander of 23 Armored Brigade in Yola.