Ito, Kuroda and other Satsuma-Choshu Domain clique members believed that this information was disseminated by Okuma, and they ousted him in the failed Meiji-14 coup of 1881.
大隈が情報を流したせいだと考えた伊藤・黒田ら薩長閥は、明治十四年の政変で大隈を失脚させた。