[1][4] On 28 January 2021 it was announced that he is no longer serving as the chief of staff,[2] and Karim Valiyev took his position on 23 July of that year.

He is married and has three children[7][8] Sadikov's nephew, Ramil Asgarov, is another senior military official, who has been major general until June 2020.

[10] He graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow in 1988, and in 1991 completed the Senior Officer Courses "Vystrel" ("Shot") named after Marshal of the Soviet Union Boris Shaposhnikov.

[12] In early October 2020, Azerbaijani press circles spread rumors on the arrest of Sadikov, who was accused of treason.

Later, this information was refuted, and the media reported that Sadikov was sidelined at the beginning of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war due to his dissatisfaction with the widespread presence of the Turkish Armed Forces in the administrative level of the Azerbaijani military.

[17] The demonstrators demanded his resignation due to him being suspected of acting as a sleeper agent for the Armenian Army, in which he allegedly leaked the coordinates of General Polad Hashimov during skirmishes that month.

Fuad Shahbaz, a Baku-based political and military analyst, said that "the state wants a quiet solution to this and for people to forget about it".