Nzeogwu coup was meant to install Awolowo as Prime Minister of Nigeria – Dr Ezeife


A former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife has disclosed that the failed Major Nzeogwu-led coup of 1966 was never an Igbo coup, stressing that it was meant to install Chief Obafemi Awolowo as the Prime Minister of Nigeria.

He made this known at the second day of the Igbo-Israeli Economic Summit titled South East Youth Economic Summit 2016 (SEYES 2016) which ended in Enugu yesterday.


Ezeife asserted that “it is not true that Igbos plotted the 1966 coup. The coup was planned by some elements within the military disenchanted with the drift of Nigeria who felt that Awolowo was in the best position to move Nigeria forward. The problem was that the execution of the coup got awry at some axis and everybody now claimed it was Igbo coup.”

He stated further that “the coup failed and General Ironsi carved provinces in Nigeria to help each group govern themselves better. They said that he was running a unitary system and killed him, yet Nigeria s practicing the same system for which...

Source: https://www.google.com.ng/amp/dailypost.ng/2016/10/07/nzeogwu-coup-meant-install-awolowo-prime-minister-nigeria-dr-ezeife/amp/

igbodefender:
Nzeogwu coup was meant to install Awolowo as Prime Minister of Nigeria – Dr Ezeife


A former governor of Anambra State, Dr Chukwuemeka Ezeife has disclosed that the failed Major Nzeogwu-led coup of 1966 was never an Igbo coup, stressing that it was meant to install Chief Obafemi Awolowo as the Prime Minister of Nigeria.

He made this known at the second day of the Igbo-Israeli Economic Summit titled South East Youth Economic Summit 2016 (SEYES 2016) which ended in Enugu yesterday.

Ezeife asserted that “it is not true that Igbos plotted the 1966 coup. The coup was planned by some elements within the military disenchanted with the drift of Nigeria who felt that Awolowo was in the best position to move Nigeria forward. The problem was that the execution of the coup got awry at some axis and everybody now claimed it was Igbo coup.”

He stated further that “the coup failed and General Ironsi carved provinces in Nigeria to help each group govern themselves better. They said that he was running a unitary system and killed him, yet Nigeria s practicing the same system for which...

Source: https://www.google.com.ng/amp/dailypost.ng/2016/10/07/nzeogwu-coup-meant-install-awolowo-prime-minister-nigeria-dr-ezeife/amp/

Propaganda at its' peak!! Ezeife was a good student of Chukwumerije, the grand commander of propaganda. Ezeife could never provide evidence to support this comment. There was absolutely no proof to substantiate his statement, yet you jokers keep reciting it. Na wa for una! Even Nzeogwu never said that Awolowo recruited them to carry out a coup for him. He only claimed it was a plan of the coupists. And those who know Awolowo said he would never have agreed to such a thing!

Colonel Wale Ademoyega would tell you it was not an Igbo coup. The only reason propagandists were able to get away with the fraudulent scammism [sic] that it was an Igbo coup was because Igbos dominated the officer corps then. That is also why Ironsi became President after crushing the coup.

danvon:
No one knows what killed him no bullet wounds no cuts, nothing

ifeajuna killed balewa when he saw the coup failing
dunno wia u got d no bullet wound part

igbodefender:
Colonel Wale Ademoyega would tell you it was not an Igbo coup. The only reason propagandists were able to get away with the fraudulent scammism [sic] that it was an Igbo coup was because Igbos dominated the officer corps then. That is also why Ironsi became President after crushing the coup.

You enjoy recycling falsehood. Ademoyega?? The same man who claimed he was brought in at the last minute? This propaganda you are recycling here, is making you look bad!

Roger3D:
And the ibos had to kill him

Like Yorubas and other non Igbos weren't involved in the coup, various accounts of the coup by unbiased foreign reports with existing details available on the internet database as well as various books, interviews, and journals on the attack on Balewa (which was confirmed by Nzeogwu himself when interviewed ) revealed that the troops that followed Nzeogwu that night to attack the prime Minister were predominantly Northerners, they willingly marched with Nzeogwu and were very much enthusiastic and even blood thirsty to take out Balewa which surprised Nzeogwu himself. The problem with historical revisionist like you (though I can't really blame your ignorance since there is no detailed syllabus on Nigerian history in the academic institutions there), is that you hinge on half truths, bask on recycled lies more so out of ethnic sentiment than a genuine willingness to read and be enlightened.... thus eluded by reality, and then spread that ignorance... and the epidemic of fact distortions continues to pervade the generational cycle of Nigerians... sad thing is this is the same lie you will also tell your children, and the seed of ignorance transitions like a chain reaction.

laudate:


Propaganda at its' peak!! Ezeife was a good student of Chukwumerije, the grand commander of propaganda. Ezeife could never provide evidence to support this comment. There was absolutely no proof to substantiate his statement, yet you jokers keep reciting it. Na wa for una! Even Nzeogwu never said that Awolowo recruited them to carry out a coup for him. He only claimed it was a plan of the coupists. And those who know Awolowo said he would never have agreed to such a thing!

igbodefender na kalu social media aide

laudate:


You enjoy recycling falsehood. Ademoyega?? The same man who claimed he was brought in at the last minute? This propaganda you are recycling here, is making you look bad!

aren't u from the SS ehn ds man
cc imhotep onyeoga

kyjuan99:

ifeajuna killed balewa when he saw the coup failing
dunno wia u got d no bullet wound part

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa

There

Hmm.

Roger3D:
Please pay no attention to his stupid rationalizations. That was how on the Kano drug thread they went all out in support of their drug dealing brothers

YorubaAssasin calm down na
remember ur BP

laudate:


Propaganda at its' peak!! Ezeife was a good student of Chukwumerije, the grand commander of propaganda. Ezeife could never provide evidence to support this comment. There was absolutely no proof to substantiate his statement, yet you jokers keep reciting it. Na wa for una! Even Nzeogwu never said that Awolowo recruited them to carry out a coup for him. He only claimed it was a plan of the coupists. And those who know Awolowo said he would never have agreed to such a thing!

Who said Awolowo recruited them? Maybe you. There is no evidence to suggest that Awolowo recruited them.

But there is ample evidence to suggest that the plotters, Wale Ademoyega, Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeanyi Ifeajuna planned to use their January 1966 coup to spring Awolowo from jail where he was after being convicted of coup plotting in 1962 and make him Prime Minister.

And we are saying these dudes should have resigned from the military and joined Awolowo's party to campaign for him instead of trying to use force.

Elparaiso:


And the comparison stems from?

A.the fact that zik wrote for the west african pilot and was a known speaker as well
B.Zik was at the forefront for independence and was against the secession clause

laudate:


You enjoy recycling falsehood. Ademoyega?? The same man who claimed he was brought in at the last minute? This propaganda you are recycling here, is making you look bad!

Common, a coup plotter is a coup plotter. Last minute or first minute. The same fate awaits them if it fails. So please bring up another argument.

igbodefender:
Who said Awolowo recruited them? Maybe you. There is no evidence to suggest that Awolowo recruited them.

But there is ample evidence to suggest that the plotters, Wale Ademoyega, Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeanyi Ifeajuna planned to use their January 1966 coup to spring Awolowo from jail where he was after being convicted of coup plotting in 1962 and make him Prime Minister.

And we are saying these dudes should have resigned from the military and joined Awolowo's party to campaign for him instead of trying to use force.

You see, when you persist in recycling lies, it makes you look thoroughly silly. You claimed they were military supporters of Awolowo, not so? How? When and where was this so-called support drawn up, to engage the services of Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu and his clique? It was simply an idea conceived in the minds of Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu and co. Awolowo was NEVER a part of it, and had never expressed a desire for their support. So what crap are you recycling here?

T9ksy:
Una don start again, huh. which ethnic divide are u reffering to? The inner circle of the coupists comprises of one yoruba and four Igbo Majors. And this constitute your idea of "cutting across the ethnic divide within the country"? I beg, carry go jo with your twisting all logic on its head, ojare. Its a pity/coincidence that the killings didn't "cut across the ethnic divide within the country"  

Here we go, again. No way could Ademoyega be made to wear the toga of "leader of the coup". Yeah, he was the co-ordinator but that does not make him the "leader". To put it bluntly, what influence does one yoruba major have over four igbo majors, two of whom (Nzeogwu and Ifeajunna) were his senior in rank. He was the last major to be recruited and at the eleventh hr so by no stretch of the imagination can Ademoyega be conferred with that hideous title "leader".
Onibara  e nba ole bo. Your beggar is surreptitiously morphing into an armed bandit!!!  

Another fallacy. Major Ifeajunna was the original creator of the coup. Ademoyega was recruited at the last minute, probably as an afterthought to give a semblance of the coup "cutting across the ethnic divide within the country".

source pls
The Police report stated differently.

Guy, I had to transfer your comments here from the other thread. Your people have started again, o! They claim Awolowo was supported by the coupists of the January 1966 putsch, which was staged by Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu and co!

danvon:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa

There

bro believe me ifeajuna killed balewa
ppl call this coup nzeogwu's coup but even the army personnel then knew ifeajuna was the brains of the coup
ifeajuna killed balewa,ran to the east and then went to ghana

Abokii. Are you sure he knew what he was doing?
Noo you knew what he was doing...

igbodefender:
Common, a coup plotter is a coup plotter. Last minute or first minute. The same fate awaits them if it fails. So please bring up another argument.

You were the one who tried to use Ademoyega's name to prop up your weak argument. A coup leader can never be the same as a coup participant/follower, recruited at the last minute. The leader has more facts, info and resources at his fingertips, than a mere follower, even if the same fate befalls them all.

laudate:


You see, when you persist in recycling lies, it makes you look thoroughly silly. You claimed they were military supporters of Awolowo, not so? How? When and where was this so-called support drawn up, to engage the services of Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu and his clique? It was simply an idea conceived in the minds of Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu and co. Awolowo was NEVER a part of it, and had never expressed a desire for their support. So what crap are you recycling here?



Guy, I had to transfer your comments here from the other thread. Your people have started again, o! They claim Awolowo was supported by the coupists of the January 1966 putsch, which was staged by Ifeajuna, Nzeogwu and co!

You like shifting goal posts, clearly. Your argument is non compos mentis. Go and read up the meaning of 'support' in the dictionary if you have one, and stop this your half baked propaganda 'technique'. Goal post shifting as a form of propaganda rarely works in the 21st century.

kyjuan99:

bro believe me ifeajuna killed balewa
ppl call this coup nzeogwu's coup but even the army personnel then knew ifeajuna was the brains of the coup
ifeajuna killed balewa,ran to the east and then went to ghana

Were you there? See as you are stating 'facts' as if you were there. The coup had 3 known 'leaders', namely Ademoyega, Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna.

Did it have any unknown leaders, who knows?!

laudate:


You were the one who tried to use Ademoyega's name to prop up your weak argument. A coup leader can never be the same as a coup participant/follower, recruited at the last minute. The leader has more facts, info and resources at his fingertips, than a mere follower, even if the same fate befalls them all.

igbodefender:


Were you there? See as you are stating 'facts' as if you were there. The coup had 3 known 'leaders', namely Ademoyega, Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna.

Did it have any unknown leaders, who knows?!

the coup came about bcuz the population were fed up with the political class and d crisis in the west
ifeajuna was a known radical from his university days and other officers were drawn in by his charisma and zeal.
the senior officers like ironsi,maimalari and ogundipe were too "old skul" and apolitical and would have stopped any coup infact all the orders used during the coup were false
finally seeing as the coup caught the whole land by surprise,its hard to say it had unknown leaders

laudate:


You were the one who tried to use Ademoyega's name to prop up your weak argument. A coup leader can never be the same as a coup participant/follower, recruited at the last minute. The leader has more facts, info and resources at his fingertips, than a mere follower, even if the same fate befalls them all.

Go and read Why We Struck by Wale Ademoyega to get more facts on the January 1966 coup. He outlines the background of the coup quite insightfuly.

Those colonels would have been more should have resigned and campaigned for election to achieve their goal.

kyjuan99:

the coup came about bcuz the population were fed up with the political class and d crisis in the west
ifeajuna was a known radical from his university days and other officers were drawn in by his charisma and zeal.
the senior officers like ironsi,maimalari and ogundipe were too "old skul" and apolitical and would have stopped any coup infact all the orders used during the coup were false
finally seeing as the coup caught the whole land by surprise,its hard to say it had unknown leaders

Hmm

igbodefender:
You like shifting goal posts, clearly. Your argument is non compos mentis. Go and read up the meaning of 'support' in the dictionary if you have one, and stop this your half baked propaganda 'technique'. Goal post shifting as a form of propaganda rarely works in the 21st century.

igbodefender:
Go and read Why We Struck by Wale Ademoyega to get more facts on the January 1966 coup. He outlines the background of the coup quite insightfuly.

Those colonels would have been more should have resigned and campaigned for election to achieve their goal.

No, you are the one who has been shifting goal posts and recycling propaganda from day 1. Thank God, everyone here can read. Educate yourself, by learning what the word support means. You were the one who started waving around Ezeife's garrulous unverified comments, in an attempt to build up a silly fallacious argument, about how the coup was meant to be in favour of Awolowo. Thank God your lies were exposed, and your nefarious scheme, defeated.

Ademoyega's book only contains watery excuses for his role in the coup. It was short on facts, and rather long on rhetoric. What can one expect from someone who was brought in at the last minute, and was not privy to the planning and scheming of those who actually designed & instigated the coup, from the very beginning?

kyjuan99:

bro believe me ifeajuna killed balewa
ppl call this coup nzeogwu's coup but even the army personnel then knew ifeajuna was the brains of the coup
ifeajuna killed balewa,ran to the east and then went to ghana

Is this your way of trying to justify the burial of Nzeogwu by Gowon?

Nzeogwu never denied leading the coup he gave a full boast you can watch the video on YouTube

kyjuan99:

A.the fact that zik wrote for the west african pilot and was a known speaker as well
B.Zik was at the forefront for independence and was against the secession clause

And this affects a photo of Tafawa Balewa driving a tractor in his farm how? E no follow, bros.

Zik was good, Tafawa was good. They were all good.

danvon:
Is this your way of trying to justify the burial of Nzeogwu by Gowon?

Nzeogwu never denied leading the coup he gave a full boast you can watch the video on YouTube

i am referring to the overall head of the coup
nzeogwu was brought in late
babaginda plotted against buhari yet it was dongoyaro and abacha that read the speech
orkar was brought in late but he was the one who read the speech
Nzeogwu like all the officers who partook in that coup were detribalised officers

AlfaSeltzer:
Abokii. Are you sure he knew what he was doing?

My oga, this one no be aboki o.

If you listen to this man speak, you go believe.

British accent with 10/10 eloquence (University of London).

The current crop of leaders we have are unworthy to touch his robe.

laudate:



No, you are the one who has been shifting goal posts and recycling propaganda from day 1. Thank God, everyone here can read. Educate yourself, by learning what the word support means. You were the one who started waving around Ezeife's garrulous unverified comments, in an attempt to build up a silly fallacious argument, about how the coup was meant to be in favour of Awolowo. Thank God your lies were exposed, and your nefarious scheme, defeated.

Ademoyega's book only contains watery excuses for his role in the coup. It was short on facts, and rather long on rhetoric. What can one expect from someone who was brought in at the last minute, and was not privy to the planning and scheming of those who actually designed & instigated the coup, from the very beginning?

What you are exhibiting here is a malady of ethnic haters who see only what they want to see and throw away the rest of the facts.

Again, I ask you to go get a copy of Colonel Wale Ademoyega's book Why We Struck, and this time read it s-l-o-w-l-y so the import of the book may have a better chance of sipping through.

Apart from shifting goal posts, it is noticed you also have a compulsive predilection for semantic nit-picking. Now that is disingenuous because you don't expect us to be dumb sheep or pigs or something.

kyjuan99:

i am referring to the overall head of the coup
nzeogwu was brought in late
babaginda plotted against buhari yet it was dongoyaro and abacha that read the speech
orkar was brought in late but he was the one who read the speech
Nzeogwu like all the officers who partook in that coup were detribalised officers

As far as I know it was ifeajuna who died trying to prevent the Biafra war

igbodefender:
What you are exhibiting here is a malady of ethnic haters who see only what they want to see and throw away the rest of the facts. Again, I ask you to go get a copy of Colonel Wale Ademoyega's book Why We Struck, and this time read it s-l-o-w-l-y so the import of the book may have a better chance of sipping through.

Apart from shifting goal posts, it is noticed you also have a compulsive predilection for semantic nit-picking. Now that is disingenuous because you don't expect us to be dumb sheep or pigs or something.

Hehehehe....I saw this coming. Whenever anyone disagrees with your perspective on any subject, you and your clique are quick to play the victim card, by alleging ethnic hatred. When will you grow up? This was a simple discussion about coup plotters and Awolowo, all of a sudden you have jumped up to make wild and false allegations claiming that it is a 'malady of ethnic haters who see only what they want to see and throw away the rest of the facts.' Wubbish of the highest order.

I have read Ademoyega's book from cover to cover. I can even give you a list of other books, that would shed more light on the fact that Ademoyega dwelt more in the realm of conjecture and rhetoric, than facts. Please educate yourself, and match brake on top this your tales by moonlight.

Different books on the events that took place at that time, need to be read along with other accounts of the coup, in order to compare the different perspectives, so that readers can draw their own conclusions.
Please read the following:

1). Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966-1976) by Max Siollun
Published by Algora Publishing (2009) 268pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0875867083
ISBN-10: 0875867081
Read the review here: https://maxsiollun./my-book/

According to Nigerian scholars in 2011, over 69 books and pamphlets, 53 government publications, 3 bibliographies and various theses have
been published on the different coups in this country, as well as the subsequent 30 month long Nigerian Civil War which took place between 1967 and 1970. In the US, over 2,000 books were written about their own civil war.

So there is still a need to write more. People need to tell their stories about what happened during that period, because in the words of Chimamanda Adichie "we all remember differently."

Cromcruach91:


Are you sure you know what you are doing in life?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5m9Fn9RBg

Watch and see the man you called 'lacking in knowledge'

Grow up. Not everythig is tribe. And I say this as someone who is not a fan of the NPC government of 1960-66.

knowledge is indeed Power.
Thank u so much for this video.....I would never in my wildest imagination have thought that this man was this eloquent.

Having watched this video, I'm emboldened to submit that Buhari is not fit to lace Sir Balewa's shoes....

This was an era when Nigeria still had purposeful leaders