Major Gideon Gwaza Orkar (October 4, 1952 – July 27, 1990) was a Nigerian military officer who staged an attempted violent coup against the government of General Ibrahim Babangida on April 22, 1990.
[2] However, the coup was crushed by the Babangida regime and Orkar including 41 other coconspirators were tried, convicted of treason and were executed.
[4] He started his officer cadet training at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna with the 12th Regular Combatant Course.
[5] He was commissioned in December 1974 in the rank of Second Lieutenant and posted to the Nigerian Army Armoured Corps School in Ibadan.
[5] Major Orkar and 41 other conspirators were convicted of treason[6] and executed by firing squad on July 27, 1990 by the government of General Ibrahim Babangida.