In February 2010, the military seized power in a "coup d'état", dissolving the National Assembly after it had been sitting for only three months. Lamine thus lost his parliamentary seat, but he was appointed as Special Adviser to the President of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, Salou Djibo, in March 2010; he was also given the rank of minister. Following the January 2011 parliamentary election, Issa was accused by local military governors in N'Gourti and Diffa Region of attempting to fix the elections in N'Gourti by orchestrating the kidnap of election officials, and organizing groups of his CDS-Rahama supporters and ex-combatants from his 1990s rebel group to attack areas presumed loyal to rivals.