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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Coloradvantage(m): 9:16am On Mar 03, 2018
ill bliss grand father... the rapper.
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by asorocker: 9:20am On Mar 03, 2018
EvilChild:

He lasted longer than your dad who's a 10 seconds man, rubbish.
Igbo can never rule Nigeria again.
We the Fulanis own this nation, there's nothing any one of you can do about it
Another Nzeogwu is warming up to kick fooolanis out of Nigeria, foools
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by EweduAfonja(f): 9:33am On Mar 03, 2018
Deo1986:
The Niggar killed himself! Went around trying to placate 'certain' regions not knowing that 'certain' regions has already sealed his fate. Should have changed his batman Danjuma but typical with all Igbos: nothing de happen. Trusted his spiritual powers. It failed him. Jonathan repeated such errors.


with jega and the then PDP national chairman.... they all worked together and brought buhari to power...

Stupid igbos will never learn

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Adebowale89(m): 9:38am On Mar 03, 2018
Quality20:
d igbo man who brought d culture of coup to Nigeria and set us back by more than a century. Nearly leading to the destruction of d ppl of Nigeria when they killed all d leaders of north and west.
As if that was not enough Ojukwu started a secession that lead to the death of many Nigerians and destruction of properties. Now, tell me, are the igbos not truly on an evil pathway? Can we in our right senses ever allow these ppl who caused all ds havoc rule us again?



what amaze me about them is seeing Yoruba as the bad ones here while their leaders brought nothing to Nigeria development but war, secession, unitary system lack of foresight



bunch of hypocrites

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Smartademu(m): 9:45am On Mar 03, 2018
kingthreat:
And so freaking what? One of the worst head of states ever. Let his people slaughter Northerners and Westerners and denied the victims justice.
That is the lie your leaders told you to justify his killing but we know better.
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by potterdon: 10:08am On Mar 03, 2018
A lot of Nairaland user are very poor students of history and don't know that history repeats it's self when ignorance strides
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Alariiwo: 10:11am On Mar 03, 2018
Ironsi the mastermind behind the first ever coup..

Instead of executing the coup plotters who happened to be his boys, he left them to continue balling for a job well done.
The rest is history.

Crafty igbo man.

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by wink2015(m): 10:19am On Mar 03, 2018
The Unitary System that Late General brought in by virtue of the Army system of CENTRALIZATION has remained with us over 50 years since his death from the crisis that followed the 1966 military coup. Infact, he was killed alongside Fajuyi in Ibadan, Oyo state during a visit he made there.

The Hausa/Fulani leadership ( Northerners in general ) have refused to throw away this FEDERAL UNITARY SYSTEM.

They forced it on Nigerian who are tired of UNITARISM and desire RESTRUCTURING of the FEDERATION.

Ironsi was an hero and leader on one aspect, but on the second aspect his tenureship brought in UNITARY SYSTEM of government that is very difficult to abolish because of the lack of co-operation of the Northerners who throw the suggestion of restructuring away.

Ironsi, the GODFATHER OF UNITARISM, Happy posthumous birthday.

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by kettykings: 10:22am On Mar 03, 2018
EvilChild:

He lasted longer than your dad who's a 10 seconds man, rubbish.
Igbo can never rule Nigeria again.
We the Fulanis own this nation, there's nothing any one of you can do about it

Freaking compuond fooools who think they can stop igbos , Nzeogwu will be a childs play if Fulani arrogance continues
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by gidgiddy: 10:43am On Mar 03, 2018
Ironsi was a good man

His only problem was that he was stupid enough to believe in "one Nigeria"
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by achiever12: 10:46am On Mar 03, 2018
MrMystrO:
First and only igbo Head of state and a Strong man. Too bad bad he didn't Last longer as our Leader.

The man that started the history of military coup. He isn't a hero. He is a villain.

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Nobody: 10:49am On Mar 03, 2018
seguno2:


Why are you dancing palongo all over your own comment?
You said Head of State in your original comment, didn’t you
Was Nnamdi Azikiwe our Head of State then or was he not?
Is Queen Elizabeth only a figurehead?

You surely don’t know what you are talking about.

Yes, Queen Elizabeth II is only a figurehead. Google is your friend. And my comment is accurate, if you care about accuracy.
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by MrMystrO(m): 11:08am On Mar 03, 2018
EvilChild:

He lasted longer than your dad who's a 10 seconds man, rubbish.
Igbo can never rule Nigeria again.
We the Fulanis own this nation, there's nothing any one of you can do about it

OK. I hope that translates to money in your bank account. Good luck.
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by MrMystrO(m): 11:09am On Mar 03, 2018
achiever12:


The man that started the history of military coup. He isn't a hero. He is a villain.

He wasn't the one who orchestrated the coup. Get your facts right.

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by lowaist101: 11:14am On Mar 03, 2018
One Million Gun Salute For The First Of His Kind In The History Of This Nigeria! RIP

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by chibyk92: 11:19am On Mar 03, 2018
EvilChild:
Your 10naira note is now useless, but at least more useful than the dullard and certified slow poke in Aso rock.

Pardon me; is it aguiyi or Alvan face on 10 naira note?..is like u ar on weed...

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by CrtlAltDel: 11:24am On Mar 03, 2018
Ddaji:
Continue to rest in hell. The evil man that destroyed our regional system due to his greediness,the evil that conspired with other Ibos elite and killed northern and western leaders. The genesis of all problems that we are in today as a nation.
Gbam grin grin grin

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by donfemo(m): 11:26am On Mar 03, 2018
NaijaMutant:
Such a brilliant man with a stellar military career.


His only undoing was the creation of the Federal system of government in Nigeria undecided


Some ignoramuses are calling him a coupist undecided

Let me restate this for all to learn.
The leader of the failed Jan. 1966 coup Maj. Kaduna Chukwuma Nzeogwu hailed from Okpanam Local government in present day Delta state. Midwestern Nigeria and present day South-south.

Maj.Gen Aguiyi Ironsi was the highest ranking military officer at that time which made him an automatic apparent heir to the throne wink

If you think South- south is not Biafraland because of their oil, kindly note that Maj. Kaduna Chukwuma Nzeogwu is not an Igbo. grin

I'm yoruba to start with so I don't even do tribal things. Maj Chukwuma Kaduna's reason for a couple was because the civilians were using the nation's wealth for themselves and in a documentary I watched he said if things continued that way there would be nothing left for the country and there will be no development. That is what we are experiencing today. Brave minds like chukwuma wanted to prevent this with his coup but Ironsi made sure the coup was not successful and the schemed his way to power knowing he was the most senior man in the military.

Chukwuma who you are denying today fought for the Biafra Army and he died in active duty to Biafra. However, because of his outstanding contributions to the Nigerian military, Gen Gowon ensured he was buried in Nigeria with full military honors. We don't know our history hence we don't know who the hero's are.

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Kenturkey048(m): 11:47am On Mar 03, 2018
EvilChild:

He lasted longer than your dad who's a 10 seconds man, rubbish.
Igbo can never rule Nigeria again.
We the Fulanis own this nation, there's nothing any one of you can do about it
whedone sir
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by achiever12: 11:50am On Mar 03, 2018
MrMystrO:


He wasn't the one who orchestrated the coup. Get your facts right.

Yeah, his fronts orchestrated the coup
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Kenturkey048(m): 11:52am On Mar 03, 2018
donfemo:


I'm yoruba to start with so I don't even do tribal things. Maj Chukwuma Kaduna's reason for a couple was because the civilians were using the nation's wealth for themselves and in a documentary I watched he said if things continued that way there would be nothing left for the country and there will be no development. That is what we are experiencing today. Brave minds like chukwuma wanted to prevent this with his coup but Ironsi made sure the coup was not successful and the schemed his way to power knowing he was the most senior man in the military.

Chukwuma who you are denying today fought for the Biafra Army and he died in active duty to Biafra. However, because of his outstanding contributions to the Nigerian military, Gen Gowon ensured he was buried in Nigeria with full military honors. We don't know our history hence we don't know who the hero's are.
abeg no insult,chukwuma didn't precisely fought for Biafra in the civil war..he was locked in an Eastern prison when the war broke out.,Enugu precisely..he was killed by federal advancing toops ...although I don read so many conflicting statements about him death..in Obasanjo's book THE NIGERIAN cIVIL WAR..
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Kenturkey048(m): 11:55am On Mar 03, 2018
Alariiwo:
Ironsi the mastermind behind the first ever coup..

Instead of executing the coup plotters who happened to be his boys, he left them to continue balling for a job well done.
The rest is history.

Crafty igbo man.
u be truly alariwo.
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by donfemo(m): 11:56am On Mar 03, 2018
Kenturkey048:
chukwuma never fought Biafra war..he was locked in an Eastern prison when the war broke out.,Enugu precisely..in Obasanjo's book THE NIGERIAN cIVIL WAR..

Read bro Read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukwuma_Kaduna_Nzeogwu
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Kenturkey048(m): 12:08pm On Mar 03, 2018
donfemo:


Read bro Read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukwuma_Kaduna_Nzeogwu
thank you.
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by oyetpel(m): 12:38pm On Mar 03, 2018
Alariiwo:
Ironsi the mastermind behind the first ever coup..

Instead of executing the coup plotters who happened to be his boys, he left them to continue balling for a job well done.
The rest is history.

Crafty igbo man.

What are you saying? They wanted to kill Ironsi too na, but they didn't succeed
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Alariiwo: 12:46pm On Mar 03, 2018
oyetpel:


What are you saying? They wanted to kill Ironsi too na, but they didn't succeed

That's what they told you.. But I'm saying it as it is.

They killed other high ranking officers and politicians successfully but somehow failed to kill Ironsi and other Igbo elites right?

Keep fooling yourselves.

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by T9ksy(m): 1:06pm On Mar 03, 2018
Alariiwo:


That's what they told you.. But I'm saying it as it is.

They killed other high ranking officers and politicians successfully but somehow failed to kill Ironsi and other Igbo elites right?

Keep fooling yourselves.


@ bolded...................abi o jare!!! That's ibo logic 101 for you.


Maimalari escaped Okafor's initial attempt on his life however Ifeajunna went looking for his brigade commander insisting the man must die and when ifeajunna eventually came face -to-face with maimalari, he shot him dead in cold blood.

But when it came to Ironsi, no one went looking for him after the presumable first attempt on his life, failed leaving him free and able to scupper the coup in lagos, anyway.

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Deadlytruth(m): 1:09pm On Mar 03, 2018
Ironsi remains the worst leader Nigeria ever had because his administration gave birth to all the very issues central to the arguments around which Nigeria's failure in the past 52 years revolve. Here they are:
1. Ironsi introduced to Nigeria the aberration called military rule. This would later militarize our democracy as IBB recently confessed to his creation of a military wing in PDP. Even from 1999 till the present the military has actually been in charge of our democracy both directly and indirectly. Parties totally devoid of military membership content don't usually grow beyond their respective local constituencies because Nigerians generally are no longer used to purely civilian affairs.
2. He met a perfectly working constitution which no one was complaining against but ironically he decided to start amending it.
if at all necessary, the amendment should have been towards further weakening the center since the very crisis on ground was a direct fall out of abuse of power at the centre by way of its illegal interference in the Western Region's internal affairs. But against logic and common sense, Ironsi did the exact opposite by concentrating more powers at the centre.
3. He made the three most offensive Decrees in the history of Nigeria, namely: Unification, Anti-seccession and Anti-tribal Associations Decrees, all of which were aimed at imposing on Nigerians the task of pretending that they were a homogeneous tribe with the same culture and value system. That was tantamount to tearing down all the barriers that separated rats, cats, snakes, crocodiles, pigs, chicken, etc in a farm stead and expecting these animals to thereafter coexist peacefully without predation and blood letting. Ironsi simply lacked an understanding of the characteristics of a complex society required of good leaders.

4. He centralized the regional civil service institutions, thereby also centralizing the source of the revenues from which their salaries were being generated thus striping the future states of the power to control their resources and lands. This would later give birth to marginalization of every other tribes by the tribe lucky to perpetually hold power at the centre. As an evidence the Niger Delta which ended up separated farthest from the center would be the first to take to open armed struggle against the centre for resource control restoration.

5. It took Ironsi less than three months to get Isaac Adaka Boro (a non-Igbo) sentenced to death for mutiny but was talking him eternity to do same for the January coupists (mostly Igbos) whose mutiny was not only by far deadlier and bloodier but recorded victims whose innocence were all too glaring. And he did not bother about how such selectiveness in justice administration would impact on the public's perception of his detachment from the long suspected Igbo domination agenda.

6. He arrogantly turned down all pleas from the public to leave the constitution intact, and then stubbornly went ahead with his pioneership of its mutilation. This alone would later give birth to a constitutional crisis for which the Aburi Summit was convened albeit improperly, leading to a set of resolutions hurriedly done by men unskilled in the art of legislation hence its consequent rejection by the populace which triggered the tragic war that ended up casting inter-tribal resentments and hatred in stone till today.

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by CoolAmbience(m): 1:46pm On Mar 03, 2018
NaijaMutant:


History revisionists are the reasons for the repeat of history undecided
I won't waste my time educating you on history. Continue to live in delusion.
God bless his memories cool

You may not like what he said but there isn't any delusion about it.
You cannot say that he was entirely wrong with what he said.
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by madjune(m): 1:59pm On Mar 03, 2018
Danjuma personally supervised this great man's killing and till today, he's still busy supervising the sharing of our national wealth.

Nigeria get serious problem.
Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by uba1991: 2:02pm On Mar 03, 2018
Dis is d man dat destroy d regional govt. When yoruba was doing fine in EDUCATION and AGRICULTURE, hausa was doing fine in AGRICULTURE and MINING. At dat time Igbo had nothing to offer. FACT

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Re: Johnson Aguiyi-ironsi's 94th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Deadlytruth(m): 2:12pm On Mar 03, 2018
madjune:
Danjuma personally supervised this great man's killing and till today, he's still busy supervising the sharing of our national wealth.

Nigeria get serious problem.

The man had himself was responsible for the action that redirected all wealth to the center to be shared. Initially there was even nothing like national wealth otherwise called national cake. All wealth was domiciled at the regions and provinces. And the kinsmen of Danjuma and their likes warned Ironsi never to nationalize wealth but he refused. So whose fault is it that the Danjumas now share national wealth?

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