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General John Gideon Okello was the leader of the Zanzibar Revolution, he was supposed to be respected by the zanzibar majority rather than Mzee Karume. Okello was convinced he had orders in his dreams by God to break the powerful leadership of Arabs and to found the revolutionary state of Zanzibar and Pemba. On January 12 1964 Okello leaded his men and fought their way to Stone town, where the Sultan of Zanzibar lived and succeeded to overthrow the Arab domination in Zanzibar and Pemba. Okello created a Revolutionary council and APPOINTED Abeid Aman Karume as the President, and Abdulrahman Babu as the Vice President. (these two were not informed by Okello the coup, since they resided in Tanganyika until after the revolution, they returned to Zanzibar immediately after they were appointed to the new government by Okello. Zanzibar has to give full Salute to John Okello rather than Abeid Karume.