As a colonel in December 1983, he was involved in the military coup when President Shehu Shagari was replaced by Major-General Muhammadu Buhari.

Ogbeha approached Captain Augustine A. Anyogo of the Brigade of Guards and told him to arrest the president at midnight.

Anyogo refused and alerted his superior officer, who arranged for increased security around the State House.

[4] Ogbeha played a prominent role in the subsequent coup of August 1985, when General Ibrahim Babangida ousted Buhari's government.

[13] After leaving the Senate, Ogbeha became Chairman of the Confluence Cable Network, Kogi State's first private broadcasting station.

[14] He also became a member of the board of Falcon Securities, a stock brokerage established by Peter Ukuoritsemofe Ololo in 1993.

[15] In July 2009, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua appointed Tunde Ogbeha to the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, representing the non-oil-producing North Central region.