"One Nigeria" should be used as an example of Irony in English language.. What is ONE in this tribalistic country where hatred was enshrined into the DNA of some of its Citizens.
LET ALL "ONE NIGERIA" fanatics answer this questions
1) Why are the Northerners owning up to 85% of Oil Wells in Nigeria when there is No Oil producing Northern state? YET They and yorubas accuse Igbos of wanting to take SS Oil when Imo, Abia, Anambra, Asaba(my area), Oyibo are Igbo crude oil producing areas.
2) If the Northern Nigeria is the only Crude oil producing zone, will the hausa share it with the south and make it a National cake?
3) The Civil war was not fought to make Nigeria one BUT rather because of the hatred for Igbos.
4) We Delta Igbos have demanded for our Anioma State but the reason why FG and hausa majority senate are reluctant over it.
5) why are Northerners holding up to key positions in their hypocritical "One Nigeria"

6) why can't the south south have a 15% oil deriative?

What is One About This Country?

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I am Not Tribalistic BUT I hate hypocrisy that is attached to "One Nigeria".

My dear its One OILgerian

brize:
My dear its One OILgerian

exactly! If Northern Nigeria is the only Oil producing region, they would have created their Arewa Republic by now

Usman Danfodiyo is very much Alive and Well doing his best Job-- Islamising the entire Nation!

ZKOSOSO:
Usman Danfodiyo is very much Alive and Well doing his best Job-- Islamising the entire Nation!

Buhari want to northernise this country, a Tribalistic man..

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Nigeria is a zoo and must be pulled down. Long live Biafra long live Odua rep. Long live Arewa RIP Nigeria

zuchyblink:
Nigeria is a zoo and must be pulled down.
Long live Biafra
long live Odua rep.
Long live Arewa
RIP Nigeria

Enough is Enough, There is NOTHING One in this country.

[b]All speculations

1 Notherners own 85% of Nigeria's oilwell , where's that information coming from ? besides where were your brothers when people were buying oil wells ?

2 As long as the north is a part of Nigeria , Oil is a national cake , just as the Atlantic Ocean and the port in Lagos has been serving the whole nation only you people are greedy enough to want to leave with National cake

3 The civil war started because an ibo led a failed coup and assassinated northern elders and Yoruba leaders,and no Ibo leader was murdered but the Yorubas never got angry ,instead there was reprisal attacks and the Northerners staged another and successful counter coup this was displeasing to the eyes of the Almighty-not Ojukwu who without formal procedures asked his people to return to SE and Declared Biafra , Do not distort history

4 In the face of dwindling economy and mismanagement of funds by previous administration, I do not think that is possible, not everything is born out of hatred , Why hasn't Ife been given Ife state despite Yorubas clamoring for it ? You do not see anyone screaming hate or maltreatment

5 Buhari knows why he's appointing northerners , but taking the immediate past administration's record into account, i think not trusting anybody from that region is reasonable besides at least two ibos have been appointed maybe 2 yorubas, but Yorubas aren't complaining , Besides when there's an issue of corruption and Buhari decides to take action, you will be part of the people who will still complain that appointing ibos was a set up and that Buhari is witch hunting ibos in power


6 Massacre started because Ibo Soldiers staged the first coup in Nigeria since independence and sovereignty, Note that Nnamdi Azikiwe an ibo was still the president or was the immediate past president and Awolowo/Idiagbon factions could not agree on who would lead , My point is If those young ibo soldiers did not stage a coup and kill an Emir , the most important / god like position / rank for the north, nobody will attack or kill ibos , Ojukwu did not prepare evacuation plans before declaring Biafra, he left his people in every other part of the country a sitting duck


While your grievances may be pitiable , We need to learn from the past in order to correct / design the future and i am telling you Biafra is not the way


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DaBullIT:
[b]All speculations

1 Notherners own 85% of Nigeria's oilwell , where's that information coming from ? besides where were your brothers when people were buying oil wells ?

2 As long as the north is a part of Nigeria , Oil is a national cake , just as the Atlantic Ocean and the port in Lagos has been serving the whole nation only you people are greedy enough to want to leave with National cake

3 The civil war started because an ibo led a failed coup and assassinated northern elders and Yoruba leaders,and no Ibo leader was murdered but the Yorubas never got angry ,instead there was reprisal attacks and the Northerners staged another and successful counter coup this was displeasing to the eyes of the Almighty-not Ojukwu who without formal procedures asked his people to return to SE and Declared Biafra , Do not distort history

4 In the face of dwindling economy and mismanagement of funds by previous administration, I do not think that is possible, not everything is born out of hatred , Why hasn't Ife been given Ife state despite Yorubas clamoring for it ? You do not see anyone screaming hate or maltreatment

5 Buhari knows why he's appointing northerners , but taking the immediate past administration's record into account, i think not trusting anybody from that region is reasonable besides at least two ibos have been appointed maybe 2 yorubas, but Yorubas aren't complaining , Besides when there's an issue of corruption and Buhari decides to take action, you will be part of the people who will still complain that appointing ibos was a set up and that Buhari is witch hunting ibos in power


6 Massacre started because Ibo Soldiers staged the first coup in Nigeria since independence and sovereignty, Note that Nnamdi Azikiwe an ibo was still the president or was the immediate past president and Awolowo/Idiagbon factions could not agree on who would lead , My point is If those young ibo soldiers did not stage a coup and kill an Emir , the most important / god like position / rank for the north, nobody will attack or kill ibos , Ojukwu did not prepare evacuation plans before declaring Biafra, he left his people in every other part of the country a sitting duck


While your grievances may be pitiable , We need to learn from the past in order to correct / design the future and i am telling you Biafra is not the way


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you have a 2nd class upper in constructing lies.

some argued all appointments made so far are strictly on merit, while others complained abt d lopsided nature of d appointments.. others believe dat if credibility is d only yardstick used to giv out appointments into federal govt.. and dat if only notherners v bn appointed so far.. it therefore implies that u can only find credible people in d North.. and some skul of tots argued dat d appointments are based strictly on injecting fresh bloods and brains into d federal govt,if all appointments made so far are from the north.. this implies dat you can only find fresh brains in the North.. fair or unfair? any thing weh Baba do na d right thing sha.. welcome to Buhari show

Ugomba:
you have a 2nd class upper in constructing lies.

Ask for sources or google them

saint047:
some argued all appointments made so far are strictly on merit, while others complained abt d lopsided nature of d appointments.. others believe dat if credibility is d only yardstick used to giv out appointments into federal govt.. and dat if only notherners v bn appointed so far.. it therefore implies that u can only find credible people in d North.. and some skul of tots argued dat d appointments are based strictly on injecting fresh bloods and brains into d federal govt,if all appointments made so far are from the north.. this implies dat you can only find fresh brains in the North.. fair or unfair? any thing weh Baba do na d right thing sha.. welcome to Buhari show

buhari will divide this country with his hand.

Ugomba:
buhari will divide this country with his hand.

maybe it will be better that way.

DaBullIT:
[b]All speculations

1 Notherners own 85% of Nigeria's oilwell , where's that information coming from ? besides where were your brothers when people were buying oil wells ?

2 As long as the north is a part of Nigeria , Oil is a national cake , just as the Atlantic Ocean and the port in Lagos has been serving the whole nation only you people are greedy enough to want to leave with National cake

3 The civil war started because an ibo led a failed coup and assassinated northern elders and Yoruba leaders,and no Ibo leader was murdered but the Yorubas never got angry ,instead there was reprisal attacks and the Northerners staged another and successful counter coup this was displeasing to the eyes of the Almighty-not Ojukwu who without formal procedures asked his people to return to SE and Declared Biafra , Do not distort history

4 In the face of dwindling economy and mismanagement of funds by previous administration, I do not think that is possible, not everything is born out of hatred , Why hasn't Ife been given Ife state despite Yorubas clamoring for it ? You do not see anyone screaming hate or maltreatment

5 Buhari knows why he's appointing northerners , but taking the immediate past administration's record into account, i think not trusting anybody from that region is reasonable besides at least two ibos have been appointed maybe 2 yorubas, but Yorubas aren't complaining , Besides when there's an issue of corruption and Buhari decides to take action, you will be part of the people who will still complain that appointing ibos was a set up and that Buhari is witch hunting ibos in power


6 Massacre started because Ibo Soldiers staged the first coup in Nigeria since independence and sovereignty, Note that Nnamdi Azikiwe an ibo was still the president or was the immediate past president and Awolowo/Idiagbon factions could not agree on who would lead , My point is If those young ibo soldiers did not stage a coup and kill an Emir , the most important / god like position / rank for the north, nobody will attack or kill ibos , Ojukwu did not prepare evacuation plans before declaring Biafra, he left his people in every other part of the country a sitting duck


While your grievances may be pitiable , We need to learn from the past in order to correct / design the future and i am telling you Biafra is not the way


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U can lie o...
U think education is by writing a long epistle of lies.
Mr try and speak d truth, d first coup was caused by a delta man from present day southsouth, u wont also tell dem dat it was Gowon who declared war not d oda way around, u wont also tell dem dat a counter coup was carrried out by some certain people, what caused we igbos to be angry was after d coup was done, northerners started killing igbos in d north for no reason, all of a sudden d southsouth folks u guys try to cut off any afinity with igbos hv become igbos just because d southeast is been cheated on appointments, if buhari had not appointed a single yorubs man and had made appointments from other regions by now d entire press wud be filled with rubbish...

lygn19:

U can lie o...
U think education is by writing a long epistle of lies.
Mr try and speak d truth, d first coup was caused by a delta man from present day southsouth, u wont also tell dem dat it was Gowon who declared war not d oda way around, u wont also tell dem dat a counter coup was carrried out by some certain people, what caused we igbos to be angry was after d coup was done, northerners started killing igbos in d north for no reason, all of a sudden d southsouth folks u guys try to cut off any afinity with igbos hv become igbos just because d southeast is been cheated on appointments, if buhari had not appointed a single yorubs man and had made appointments from other regions by now d entire press wud be filled with rubbish...

You are very stwepyd , My post is not a long epistle of lies, as a matter of fact it is shorter than the post i replied

You said the first coup was led by delta , So now there's Deltaman , no Ibo man , but Wikipedia listed him as ibo when he committed that treason in 1966, so he's ibo even if your people break themselves down to Delta or Ijaw ,

Don't you have any brain in your head ? Ibo soldier toppled Nigerian government, Killed Northern elders and Yoruba leaders , not one ibo soldier or leader was armed in the operation , They went as far as killing an Emir ( Present day's Sanusi Lamido) Do you realize how powerful that man is ?? How he is exalted / Worshiped by Hausas ? You are here opening your mouth that ibos were killed for no reason, what more reason do you want ?? Most ibos who died back then died for the sin their leaders committed , it was reprisal attack and i tell you hausas had very good reasons to be pissed

Yes a counter coup was carried out by Hausas and it was successful, unlike the ibo people's coup , they took over the government and tried to negotiate for peace, they reached out to Hausas to stop the killings and they even left the country to negotiate with Ojokwu the not so great man


Details of the negotiation was not revealed but on arrival , Ojukwu returned to ibo land, and issued a statement that one place is now biafra, without thinking those ibos left in the north are in danger , the moment he issued that decree, he signed a death sentence for his ibo brothers in any part of the country , If Ojuwku had issued and apology , reprimanded the men who carried out the coup , there would still be death , but it would be minimal , Declaring Biafra was the last straw


And If Buhari did not appoint a Yoruba man , The press will not be filled with rubbish because the VP is Yoruba , What you don't know is most yorubas don't scream hate or scream about being marginalized, we plot , we execute and we are always successful, Yorubas give people a lot of chance before planning vengeance

So my advise ? Get some education from google and your elders if any , Your leaders and people like Kalu are leading you like sheeps to the slaughter house , It's coming and it won't be pretty

DaBullIT:



You are very stwepyd , My post is not a long epistle of lies, as a matter of fact it is shorter than the post i replied

You said the first coup was led by delta , So now there's Deltaman , no Ibo man , but Wikipedia listed him as ibo when he committed that treason in 1966, so he's ibo even if your people break themselves down to Delta or Ijaw ,

Don't you have any brain in your head ? Ibo soldier toppled Nigerian government, Killed Northern elders and Yoruba leaders , not one ibo soldier or leader was armed in the operation , They went as far as killing an Emir ( Present day's Sanusi Lamido) Do you realize how powerful that man is ?? How he is exalted / Worshiped by Hausas ? You are here opening your mouth that ibos were killed for no reason, what more reason do you want ?? Most ibos who died back then died for the sin their leaders committed , it was reprisal attack and i tell you hausas had very good reasons to be pissed

Yes a counter coup was carried out by Hausas and it was successful, unlike the ibo people's coup , they took over the government and tried to negotiate for peace, they reached out to Hausas to stop the killings and they even left the country to negotiate with Ojokwu the not so great man


Details of the negotiation was not revealed but on arrival , Ojukwu returned to ibo land, and issued a statement that one place is now biafra, without thinking those ibos left in the north are in danger , the moment he issued that decree, he signed a death sentence for his ibo brothers in any part of the country , If Ojuwku had issued and apology , reprimanded the men who carried out the coup , there would still be death , but it would be minimal , Declaring Biafra was the last straw


And If Buhari did not appoint a Yoruba man , The press will not be filled with rubbish because the VP is Yoruba , What you don't know is most yorubas don't scream hate or scream about being marginalized, we plot , we execute and we are always successful, Yorubas give people a lot of chance before planning vengeance

So my advise ? Get some education from google and your elders if any , Your leaders and people like Kalu are leading you like sheeps to the slaughter house , It's coming and it won't be pretty

Must you reply every childish thread?Allow the kids to play and rant together.

Hypocrisy is when you are tired of Nigeria,yet you use her currency,flag and still reside in her country.

Get the hell out.Dumbos.

No vex


If person no train pikin, he no go learn , I just wan yarn am the fact make he use dey pose for him people say him be big boy , enlightenment clears the path to self realization

themilanway:


Must you reply every childish thread?Allow the kids to play and rant together.

Hypocrisy is when you are tired of Nigeria,yet you use her currency,flag and still reside in her country.

Get the hell out.Dumbos.

DaBullIT:



You are very stwepyd , My post is not a long epistle of lies, as a matter of fact it is shorter than the post i replied

You said the first coup was led by delta , So now there's Deltaman , no Ibo man , but Wikipedia listed him as ibo when he committed that treason in 1966, so he's ibo even if your people break themselves down to Delta or Ijaw ,

Don't you have any brain in your head ? Ibo soldier toppled Nigerian government, Killed Northern elders and Yoruba leaders , not one ibo soldier or leader was armed in the operation , They went as far as killing an Emir ( Present day's Sanusi Lamido) Do you realize how powerful that man is ?? How he is exalted / Worshiped by Hausas ? You are here opening your mouth that ibos were killed for no reason, what more reason do you want ?? Most ibos who died back then died for the sin their leaders committed , it was reprisal attack and i tell you hausas had very good reasons to be pissed

Yes a counter coup was carried out by Hausas and it was successful, unlike the ibo people's coup , they took over the government and tried to negotiate for peace, they reached out to Hausas to stop the killings and they even left the country to negotiate with Ojokwu the not so great man


Details of the negotiation was not revealed but on arrival , Ojukwu returned to ibo land, and issued a statement that one place is now biafra, without thinking those ibos left in the north are in danger , the moment he issued that decree, he signed a death sentence for his ibo brothers in any part of the country , If Ojuwku had issued and apology , reprimanded the men who carried out the coup , there would still be death , but it would be minimal , Declaring Biafra was the last straw


And If Buhari did not appoint a Yoruba man , The press will not be filled with rubbish because the VP is Yoruba , What you don't know is most yorubas don't scream hate or scream about being marginalized, we plot , we execute and we are always successful, Yorubas give people a lot of chance before planning vengeance

So my advise ? Get some education from google and your elders if any , Your leaders and people like Kalu are leading you like sheeps to the slaughter house , It's coming and it won't be pretty

N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs.
The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures.

Disciple of hate and propaganda, here are the members of Yoruba tribe that participated in the January 1966 coup:
(See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

*Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is:

*Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18).

*Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’

*There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.

"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

Lagos (in South West) was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 up to 1991, until Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991. It was on 14 November 1991, the Presidency and other federal government functions were finally relocated to the new capital city of Abuja.

YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA - By Sanusi Lamido 
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
   * The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
    * Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
    * The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)...
Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

REMI FANI KAYODE, AKINTOLA, AWOLOWO, WESTERN REGION AND THE CRISIS THAT TRUNCATED THE FIRST REPUBLIC

These captains of the “tribalism industry” have good incentives to always omit the causes of the January 1966 coup preferring instead to dwell only on the coup itself. The reason  is simple;  It was  in their own  Western region  then known as the “wild wild west”  that  election rigging, thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and other  forms of corruption and acts of lawlessness that occasioned the January 1966 coup  took place as pioneering acts in Nigeria.

Soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil. Premier Ladoke Akintola and Chief Obafemi  Awolowo became embroiled in a protracted crisis. By 1962 the crisis led to sustained violence and acts of lawlessness with law makers engaged in vicious physical combats in the Western regional parliament. Amongst serious injuries and other damages, the mace of office was broken.  The federal government intervened to curb the lawlessness and violence by imposing a state of emergency and appointing Dr Moses Majekodunmi as interim premier of the Western region on the 29th of June 1962. This became the first imposition of a state of emergency in Nigeria’s history due to heightened levels of lawlessness. Following an alliance between Akintola and Ahmadu Bello, Ladoke Akintola was returned to power on the 31st of December 1962 in spite of protests by Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe who requested fresh elections rather than reinstating Ladoke Akintola.

By 1963, the plot between Akintola, Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/ treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history. Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola together with vice premier Remi Fani Kayode went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed.  By this time Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe had realised the folly of entering a coalition with Tafawa Balewa’s government   and teamed up with incarcerated Chief Awolowo’s Action group to form the all progressive grand alliance (UPGA).  

In 1964, federal elections became due. As usual ethnic chauvinism, intimidation and violence was part of the frenzied campaigning. Remi Kayode and Akintola’s campaign was as usual almost entirely based on tribalism. When the elections were finally held, it was massively rigged in the Western region. Indeed deputy premier Remi Fani Kayode had famously boasted that “there is nothing they can do, whether they vote us or not, we will win.” This statement turned out to be true as massive rigging was orchestrated in the elections.  Once again this became the first pioneering act of election rigging by indigenous actors in Nigeria’s history. The announcement of the rigged election results quickly sparked off unprecedented acts of thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and general acts of lawlessness in the Western region.

Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie). This violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966 when the military lost patience and finally struck.

The Western region was thus a region in crisis from the onset of post-colonial rule. By the time of the military coup, Chief Obafemi Awolowo himself was incarcerated for treason and the region was practically on an uncontrollable violence and trajectory of self destruction for almost two years from 1964 to 1966. At the same time that the Western region was aflame the Eastern region was calm and democratic. Unlike the Western region there were no cases of election rigging, thuggery or other such acts of lawlessness in the East. In the North there was sporadic violence in the TIV division which was put down by the military.

Of all the regions, the western region was torn the most by crisis and acts of lawlessness which eventually occasioned the coup. If the leadership of the Western region had played by the rules and avoided the infighting, the election rigging, the thuggery, the  planning of a coup in 1963, the  arson, the mass murders and other  such corrupt acts and vices  many of which were being  introduced for the first time  in Nigeria  and which incidentally continues to haunt the nation to date, there would have been no coup and Nigeria would no doubt have immensely benefited from  a  functional democracy  devoid of election rigging, thuggery and violence as it obtains  in many progressive nations around the world.

The leadership of the Western region in conspiracy with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello are singularly responsible for the events and crisis that truncated the first republic and ruined the nation.

Those who carried out the coup choose to act out of genuine anger and frustration at the carnage in the Western region.  Whatever the demerits of the coup, It is obvious the coupists had nothing to gain other than the patriotic urge to end the corruption and lawlessness that had taken hold of the nation particularly the Western region.

Yorubas created the crisis that occasioned the coup and whose region the coup saved from self destruction are  some of the biggest ungrateful noisemakers  who peddle  the propaganda  of  colouring  an anti corruption revolutionary coup with patriotic ideals  very similar to that of  Flt Lt  Jerry Rawlings  in a tribal garb. In Ghana, Jerry Rawlings led a coup that eliminated three former heads of state, top military officers and top members of the judiciary. Not one of those killed was from Jerry Rawlings Ewe tribe, but Ghanaians didn’t spew tribalism into the coup and Ghana is better for it. With too many vultures and opportunists...preying on tribalism in Nigeria the story was bound to be different and thus a coup driven out of patriotism and obvious anger at the state of affairs was reconstructed as an Igbo coup and the worms were let out from the woodwork.

JANUARY 1966 COUP

Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January coup. His book ‘Why We Struck’ gives insight into the coup’s antecedents; planning; modus operandi and partial success. Any study of January 15 that ignores Ademoyega’s book is incomplete.

In a September 5 2010 interview with ‘The Nation’ newspaper, Matthew Mbu, then a Junior Defence Minister, narrated how, at an Air Force base in Kaduna on an official assignment on 5 January 1966, he was bluntly told by Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun that the military was going to sack the government. Ademulegun made no bones about their plan to shoot key members of the political class, notably Chief Okotie-Eboh, the Minister for Finance.

... the killing of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Unegbe is attributed to his possession and non-surrender of the Lagos armoury keys to the plotters.
As professional soldiers the plotters knew this. Going by the accounts of Ademoyega and Gbulie who wrote ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors,’ what the plotters desperately needed were armoured vehicles to consolidate their gains in Lagos on January 15.

In page 60 of his book, Ademoyega mentioned Unegbe as one of the officers he and his colleagues had marked down for arrest.

Northern officers and men were involved, especially at the execution stage. Max Silloun, the military historian, mentions them in his landmark online article ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2.’ It can be accessed from most search engines. Prominent among these Northern officers was the then Lieutenant John Atom Kpera who later became the Benue State governor in the Babangida regime. Kpera participated in the coup under Captain Ben Gbulie, Nzeogwu’s right hand-man in Kaduna. (See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

Although Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18). Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’ There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.


For personal studies consult the following sources as quoted in this post: 

http://www.naijastories.com/2013/04/the-facts-and-fiction-of-the-january-15-1966-coup/

https://www.nairaland.com/334770/famous-aburi-conference-full-minute/3

* Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’ - where he mentioned ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry.

* ‘Why We Struck’ - a book by  Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, who was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January 1966 coup.

* Max Silloun (the military historian) landmark online article - ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2

* 'Nigeria’s Five Majors’ - book by Ben Gbulie

* Major General Alexander Madiebo - excerpts from his interview with National Mirror
http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/13104-blame-gowon-and-awolowo-for-biafra-genocide-general-madiebo

* ‘Reluctant Rebel’ - a book by Captain Fola Oyewole, who went on to fight for Biafra just like Ademoyega 

* See the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108

* Sanusi Lamido's writings, "Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. 

* Sanusi Lamido's writings/publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)

* Sanusi Lamido's paper presented at the “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.

* http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Get the books and published papers and acquire some useful knowledge that can help you make informed decisions, and unravel the lies and propaganda being peddled in the public domain by the criminal 'sophisticated' tribe, even in this age of information technology. 

Lies upon lies, it took you a week to gather your copy and paste, wetie was a riot between Yoruba politicians it has nothing to do with Igbos

One Yoruba officer was involved with the coup not 5, that's mother of fat lies

The fact remains that Igbos killed an emir and that's why northerners were killing Igbos in their region

Anything else you say is irrelevant, you have no point

xtrorse:


N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs.
The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures.

Disciple of hate and propaganda, here are the members of Yoruba tribe that participated in the January 1966 coup:
(See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

*Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is:

*Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18).

*Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’

*There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.

"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

Lagos (in South West) was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 up to 1991, until Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991. It was on 14 November 1991, the Presidency and other federal government functions were finally relocated to the new capital city of Abuja.

YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA - By Sanusi Lamido 
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
   * The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
    * Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
    * The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)...
Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

REMI FANI KAYODE, AKINTOLA, AWOLOWO, WESTERN REGION AND THE CRISIS THAT TRUNCATED THE FIRST REPUBLIC

These captains of the “tribalism industry” have good incentives to always omit the causes of the January 1966 coup preferring instead to dwell only on the coup itself. The reason  is simple;  It was  in their own  Western region  then known as the “wild wild west”  that  election rigging, thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and other  forms of corruption and acts of lawlessness that occasioned the January 1966 coup  took place as pioneering acts in Nigeria.

Soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil. Premier Ladoke Akintola and Chief Obafemi  Awolowo became embroiled in a protracted crisis. By 1962 the crisis led to sustained violence and acts of lawlessness with law makers engaged in vicious physical combats in the Western regional parliament. Amongst serious injuries and other damages, the mace of office was broken.  The federal government intervened to curb the lawlessness and violence by imposing a state of emergency and appointing Dr Moses Majekodunmi as interim premier of the Western region on the 29th of June 1962. This became the first imposition of a state of emergency in Nigeria’s history due to heightened levels of lawlessness. Following an alliance between Akintola and Ahmadu Bello, Ladoke Akintola was returned to power on the 31st of December 1962 in spite of protests by Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe who requested fresh elections rather than reinstating Ladoke Akintola.

By 1963, the plot between Akintola, Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/ treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history. Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola together with vice premier Remi Fani Kayode went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed.  By this time Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe had realised the folly of entering a coalition with Tafawa Balewa’s government   and teamed up with incarcerated Chief Awolowo’s Action group to form the all progressive grand alliance (UPGA).  

In 1964, federal elections became due. As usual ethnic chauvinism, intimidation and violence was part of the frenzied campaigning. Remi Kayode and Akintola’s campaign was as usual almost entirely based on tribalism. When the elections were finally held, it was massively rigged in the Western region. Indeed deputy premier Remi Fani Kayode had famously boasted that “there is nothing they can do, whether they vote us or not, we will win.” This statement turned out to be true as massive rigging was orchestrated in the elections.  Once again this became the first pioneering act of election rigging by indigenous actors in Nigeria’s history. The announcement of the rigged election results quickly sparked off unprecedented acts of thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and general acts of lawlessness in the Western region.

Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie). This violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966 when the military lost patience and finally struck.

The Western region was thus a region in crisis from the onset of post-colonial rule. By the time of the military coup, Chief Obafemi Awolowo himself was incarcerated for treason and the region was practically on an uncontrollable violence and trajectory of self destruction for almost two years from 1964 to 1966. At the same time that the Western region was aflame the Eastern region was calm and democratic. Unlike the Western region there were no cases of election rigging, thuggery or other such acts of lawlessness in the East. In the North there was sporadic violence in the TIV division which was put down by the military.

Of all the regions, the western region was torn the most by crisis and acts of lawlessness which eventually occasioned the coup. If the leadership of the Western region had played by the rules and avoided the infighting, the election rigging, the thuggery, the  planning of a coup in 1963, the  arson, the mass murders and other  such corrupt acts and vices  many of which were being  introduced for the first time  in Nigeria  and which incidentally continues to haunt the nation to date, there would have been no coup and Nigeria would no doubt have immensely benefited from  a  functional democracy  devoid of election rigging, thuggery and violence as it obtains  in many progressive nations around the world.

The leadership of the Western region in conspiracy with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello are singularly responsible for the events and crisis that truncated the first republic and ruined the nation.

Those who carried out the coup choose to act out of genuine anger and frustration at the carnage in the Western region.  Whatever the demerits of the coup, It is obvious the coupists had nothing to gain other than the patriotic urge to end the corruption and lawlessness that had taken hold of the nation particularly the Western region.

Yorubas created the crisis that occasioned the coup and whose region the coup saved from self destruction are  some of the biggest ungrateful noisemakers  who peddle  the propaganda  of  colouring  an anti corruption revolutionary coup with patriotic ideals  very similar to that of  Flt Lt  Jerry Rawlings  in a tribal garb. In Ghana, Jerry Rawlings led a coup that eliminated three former heads of state, top military officers and top members of the judiciary. Not one of those killed was from Jerry Rawlings Ewe tribe, but Ghanaians didn’t spew tribalism into the coup and Ghana is better for it. With too many vultures and opportunists...preying on tribalism in Nigeria the story was bound to be different and thus a coup driven out of patriotism and obvious anger at the state of affairs was reconstructed as an Igbo coup and the worms were let out from the woodwork.

JANUARY 1966 COUP

Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January coup. His book ‘Why We Struck’ gives insight into the coup’s antecedents; planning; modus operandi and partial success. Any study of January 15 that ignores Ademoyega’s book is incomplete.

In a September 5 2010 interview with ‘The Nation’ newspaper, Matthew Mbu, then a Junior Defence Minister, narrated how, at an Air Force base in Kaduna on an official assignment on 5 January 1966, he was bluntly told by Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun that the military was going to sack the government. Ademulegun made no bones about their plan to shoot key members of the political class, notably Chief Okotie-Eboh, the Minister for Finance.

... the killing of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Unegbe is attributed to his possession and non-surrender of the Lagos armoury keys to the plotters.
As professional soldiers the plotters knew this. Going by the accounts of Ademoyega and Gbulie who wrote ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors,’ what the plotters desperately needed were armoured vehicles to consolidate their gains in Lagos on January 15.

In page 60 of his book, Ademoyega mentioned Unegbe as one of the officers he and his colleagues had marked down for arrest.

Northern officers and men were involved, especially at the execution stage. Max Silloun, the military historian, mentions them in his landmark online article ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2.’ It can be accessed from most search engines. Prominent among these Northern officers was the then Lieutenant John Atom Kpera who later became the Benue State governor in the Babangida regime. Kpera participated in the coup under Captain Ben Gbulie, Nzeogwu’s right hand-man in Kaduna. (See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

Although Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18). Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’ There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.


For personal studies consult the following sources as quoted in this post: 

http://www.naijastories.com/2013/04/the-facts-and-fiction-of-the-january-15-1966-coup/

https://www.nairaland.com/334770/famous-aburi-conference-full-minute/3

* Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’ - where he mentioned ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry.

* ‘Why We Struck’ - a book by  Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, who was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January 1966 coup.

* Max Silloun (the military historian) landmark online article - ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2

* 'Nigeria’s Five Majors’ - book by Ben Gbulie

* Major General Alexander Madiebo - excerpts from his interview with National Mirror
http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/13104-blame-gowon-and-awolowo-for-biafra-genocide-general-madiebo

* ‘Reluctant Rebel’ - a book by Captain Fola Oyewole, who went on to fight for Biafra just like Ademoyega 

* See the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108

* Sanusi Lamido's writings, "Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. 

* Sanusi Lamido's writings/publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)

* Sanusi Lamido's paper presented at the “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.

* http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Get the books and published papers and acquire some useful knowledge that can help you make informed decisions, and unravel the lies and propaganda being peddled in the public domain by the criminal 'sophisticated' tribe, even in this age of information technology. 

xtrorse:


N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs.
The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures.

Disciple of hate and propaganda, here are the members of Yoruba tribe that participated in the January 1966 coup:
(See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

*Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is:

*Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18).

*Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’

*There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.

"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

Lagos (in South West) was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 up to 1991, until Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991. It was on 14 November 1991, the Presidency and other federal government functions were finally relocated to the new capital city of Abuja.

YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA - By Sanusi Lamido 
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
   * The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
    * Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
    * The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)...
Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

REMI FANI KAYODE, AKINTOLA, AWOLOWO, WESTERN REGION AND THE CRISIS THAT TRUNCATED THE FIRST REPUBLIC

These captains of the “tribalism industry” have good incentives to always omit the causes of the January 1966 coup preferring instead to dwell only on the coup itself. The reason  is simple;  It was  in their own  Western region  then known as the “wild wild west”  that  election rigging, thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and other  forms of corruption and acts of lawlessness that occasioned the January 1966 coup  took place as pioneering acts in Nigeria.

Soon after Nigeria got independence the Western region was in turmoil. Premier Ladoke Akintola and Chief Obafemi  Awolowo became embroiled in a protracted crisis. By 1962 the crisis led to sustained violence and acts of lawlessness with law makers engaged in vicious physical combats in the Western regional parliament. Amongst serious injuries and other damages, the mace of office was broken.  The federal government intervened to curb the lawlessness and violence by imposing a state of emergency and appointing Dr Moses Majekodunmi as interim premier of the Western region on the 29th of June 1962. This became the first imposition of a state of emergency in Nigeria’s history due to heightened levels of lawlessness. Following an alliance between Akintola and Ahmadu Bello, Ladoke Akintola was returned to power on the 31st of December 1962 in spite of protests by Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe who requested fresh elections rather than reinstating Ladoke Akintola.

By 1963, the plot between Akintola, Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello was perfected and Chief Obafemi Awolowo was arrested for coup plotting/ treason. His trial commenced in earnest and he was alongside some accomplices convicted for treason and jailed for 10 years. This again was the first alleged coup plotting and conviction in Nigerian history. Intent on totally decimating Chief Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola together with vice premier Remi Fani Kayode went into a political alliance with Prime minister Tafawa Balewa and new political party known as the Nigerian National Alliance (NNA) was formed.  By this time Dr Nnamidi Azikiwe had realised the folly of entering a coalition with Tafawa Balewa’s government   and teamed up with incarcerated Chief Awolowo’s Action group to form the all progressive grand alliance (UPGA).  

In 1964, federal elections became due. As usual ethnic chauvinism, intimidation and violence was part of the frenzied campaigning. Remi Kayode and Akintola’s campaign was as usual almost entirely based on tribalism. When the elections were finally held, it was massively rigged in the Western region. Indeed deputy premier Remi Fani Kayode had famously boasted that “there is nothing they can do, whether they vote us or not, we will win.” This statement turned out to be true as massive rigging was orchestrated in the elections.  Once again this became the first pioneering act of election rigging by indigenous actors in Nigeria’s history. The announcement of the rigged election results quickly sparked off unprecedented acts of thuggery, violence, arson, mass murders and general acts of lawlessness in the Western region.

Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie). This violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966 when the military lost patience and finally struck.

The Western region was thus a region in crisis from the onset of post-colonial rule. By the time of the military coup, Chief Obafemi Awolowo himself was incarcerated for treason and the region was practically on an uncontrollable violence and trajectory of self destruction for almost two years from 1964 to 1966. At the same time that the Western region was aflame the Eastern region was calm and democratic. Unlike the Western region there were no cases of election rigging, thuggery or other such acts of lawlessness in the East. In the North there was sporadic violence in the TIV division which was put down by the military.

Of all the regions, the western region was torn the most by crisis and acts of lawlessness which eventually occasioned the coup. If the leadership of the Western region had played by the rules and avoided the infighting, the election rigging, the thuggery, the  planning of a coup in 1963, the  arson, the mass murders and other  such corrupt acts and vices  many of which were being  introduced for the first time  in Nigeria  and which incidentally continues to haunt the nation to date, there would have been no coup and Nigeria would no doubt have immensely benefited from  a  functional democracy  devoid of election rigging, thuggery and violence as it obtains  in many progressive nations around the world.

The leadership of the Western region in conspiracy with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello are singularly responsible for the events and crisis that truncated the first republic and ruined the nation.

Those who carried out the coup choose to act out of genuine anger and frustration at the carnage in the Western region.  Whatever the demerits of the coup, It is obvious the coupists had nothing to gain other than the patriotic urge to end the corruption and lawlessness that had taken hold of the nation particularly the Western region.

Yorubas created the crisis that occasioned the coup and whose region the coup saved from self destruction are  some of the biggest ungrateful noisemakers  who peddle  the propaganda  of  colouring  an anti corruption revolutionary coup with patriotic ideals  very similar to that of  Flt Lt  Jerry Rawlings  in a tribal garb. In Ghana, Jerry Rawlings led a coup that eliminated three former heads of state, top military officers and top members of the judiciary. Not one of those killed was from Jerry Rawlings Ewe tribe, but Ghanaians didn’t spew tribalism into the coup and Ghana is better for it. With too many vultures and opportunists...preying on tribalism in Nigeria the story was bound to be different and thus a coup driven out of patriotism and obvious anger at the state of affairs was reconstructed as an Igbo coup and the worms were let out from the woodwork.

JANUARY 1966 COUP

Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January coup. His book ‘Why We Struck’ gives insight into the coup’s antecedents; planning; modus operandi and partial success. Any study of January 15 that ignores Ademoyega’s book is incomplete.

In a September 5 2010 interview with ‘The Nation’ newspaper, Matthew Mbu, then a Junior Defence Minister, narrated how, at an Air Force base in Kaduna on an official assignment on 5 January 1966, he was bluntly told by Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun that the military was going to sack the government. Ademulegun made no bones about their plan to shoot key members of the political class, notably Chief Okotie-Eboh, the Minister for Finance.

... the killing of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Unegbe is attributed to his possession and non-surrender of the Lagos armoury keys to the plotters.
As professional soldiers the plotters knew this. Going by the accounts of Ademoyega and Gbulie who wrote ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors,’ what the plotters desperately needed were armoured vehicles to consolidate their gains in Lagos on January 15.

In page 60 of his book, Ademoyega mentioned Unegbe as one of the officers he and his colleagues had marked down for arrest.

Northern officers and men were involved, especially at the execution stage. Max Silloun, the military historian, mentions them in his landmark online article ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2.’ It can be accessed from most search engines. Prominent among these Northern officers was the then Lieutenant John Atom Kpera who later became the Benue State governor in the Babangida regime. Kpera participated in the coup under Captain Ben Gbulie, Nzeogwu’s right hand-man in Kaduna. (See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

Although Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18). Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’ There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.


For personal studies consult the following sources as quoted in this post: 

http://www.naijastories.com/2013/04/the-facts-and-fiction-of-the-january-15-1966-coup/

https://www.nairaland.com/334770/famous-aburi-conference-full-minute/3

* Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’ - where he mentioned ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry.

* ‘Why We Struck’ - a book by  Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, who was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January 1966 coup.

* Max Silloun (the military historian) landmark online article - ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2

* 'Nigeria’s Five Majors’ - book by Ben Gbulie

* Major General Alexander Madiebo - excerpts from his interview with National Mirror
http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/13104-blame-gowon-and-awolowo-for-biafra-genocide-general-madiebo

* ‘Reluctant Rebel’ - a book by Captain Fola Oyewole, who went on to fight for Biafra just like Ademoyega 

* See the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108

* Sanusi Lamido's writings, "Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. 

* Sanusi Lamido's writings/publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)

* Sanusi Lamido's paper presented at the “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.

* http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Get the books and published papers and acquire some useful knowledge that can help you make informed decisions, and unravel the lies and propaganda being peddled in the public domain by the criminal 'sophisticated' tribe, even in this age of information technology. 

The Igbo, the Yoruba and History

DaBullIT:
Lies upon lies, it took you a week to gather your copy and paste, wetie was a riot between Yoruba politicians it has nothing to do with Igbos

One Yoruba officer was involved with the coup not 5, that's mother of fat lies

The fact remains that Igbos killed an emir and that's why northerners were killing Igbos in their region

Anything else you say is irrelevant, you have no point

Disciple of hate and propaganda, if you have a contrary opinion on the participants of the 1st coup do so NOW, and state the credible sources.

N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs.
The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures.

MEMBERS OF YORUBA TRIBE THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE JANUARY 1966 COUP
(See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

1*Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is:

2*Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18).

3*Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’

4*There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.

"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

Lagos (in South West) was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 up to 1991, until Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991. It was on 14 November 1991, the Presidency and other federal government functions were finally relocated to the new capital city of Abuja.


For personal studies consult the following sources as quoted in this post: 

http://www.naijastories.com/2013/04/the-facts-and-fiction-of-the-january-15-1966-coup/

https://www.nairaland.com/334770/famous-aburi-conference-full-minute/3

* Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’ - where he mentioned ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry.

* ‘Why We Struck’ - a book by  Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, who was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January 1966 coup.

* Max Silloun (the military historian) landmark online article - ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2

* 'Nigeria’s Five Majors’ - book by Ben Gbulie

* Major General Alexander Madiebo - excerpts from his interview with National Mirror
http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/13104-blame-gowon-and-awolowo-for-biafra-genocide-general-madiebo

* ‘Reluctant Rebel’ - a book by Captain Fola Oyewole, who went on to fight for Biafra just like Ademoyega 

* See the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108

* Sanusi Lamido's writings, "Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. 

* Sanusi Lamido's writings/publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)

* Sanusi Lamido's paper presented at the “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.

* http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Get the books and published papers and acquire some useful knowledge that can help you make informed decisions, and unravel the lies and propaganda being peddled in the public domain by the criminal 'sophisticated' tribe, even in this age of information technology. 

DaBullIT:
Lies upon lies, it took you a week to gather your copy and paste, wetie was a riot between Yoruba politicians it has nothing to do with Igbos

One Yoruba officer was involved with the coup not 5, that's mother of fat lies

The fact remains that Igbos killed an emir and that's why northerners were killing Igbos in their region

Anything else you say is irrelevant, you have no point

Disciple of hate and propaganda, since you have agreed that the military coup plotters were not only Igbos, why was the pogrom carried out on only Igbo civilians For the sake of posterity, explain to your readership what you meant by lies. What about the paper by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (the current Emir of Kano)? Is Sanusi also telling lies? Is Sanusi an Igbo man? Let's know how the so called lies where countered.

Allow your brain to assimilate credible information; 'Operation Wetie' was more than mere riot and it lasted from 1964 to 1966! And it affected Lagos in SW and its inhabitants (federal government officials, Yoruba, Igbo, Bini, Hausa, Fulani etc.), and was the seat of power - the Nigeria federal capital.

"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

Lagos (in South West) was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 up to 1991, until Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991. It was on 14 November 1991, the Presidency and other federal government functions were finally relocated to the new capital city of Abuja.

Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie). This violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966 when the military lost patience and finally struck.

The Western region was thus a region in crisis from the onset of post-colonial rule. By the time of the military coup, Chief Obafemi Awolowo himself was incarcerated for treason and the region was practically on an uncontrollable violence and trajectory of self destruction for almost two years from 1964 to 1966. 

Yorubas created the crisis that occasioned the coup and whose region the coup saved from self destruction are  some of the biggest ungrateful noisemakers  who peddle  the propaganda  of  colouring  an anti corruption revolutionary coup with patriotic ideals  very similar to that of  Flt Lt  Jerry Rawlings  in a tribal garb.


YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA - By Sanusi Lamido 
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
   * The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
    * Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
    * The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)...
Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

brize:
My dear its One OILgerian

Exactly!

Ugomba:
exactly! If Northern Nigeria is the only Oil producing region, they would have created their Arewa Republic by now

And yourobber will not be telling anioma and Ikwere that they migrated from Benin.

xtrorse:


Disciple of hate and propaganda, if you have a contrary opinion on the participants of the 1st coup do so NOW, and state the credible sources.

N.B: The essence of this information is mainly to expose the lies of the notorious history distortionists and wicked propagandists who insult and malign others continually with lies and falsehood, and shout and make much noise on every available media. This a tribe that is after all well known for being loose cannons. Uncouth, uncivilised and disrespectful set of people who made a career out of abuse and slurs.
The same treacheerous beings who precipitated the January 1966 coup and the 1967-70 civil war with their bloody 'Operation Wetie ' in the SW. They start trouble and heat up the polity only to run cowardly to hide in their evil Soka forest when the jungle matures.

Disciple of hate and propaganda, here are the members of Yoruba tribe that participated in the January 1966 coup:
(See Ben Gbulie: ‘Nigeria’s Five Majors.’).

*Adewale Ademoyega is the most prominent Yoruba participant in the coup, there were other Yoruba officers who were involved at the dangerous execution stage of the coup. One of them is:

*Second Lieutenant Olafimihan, an officer serving under Madiebo in Kaduna. He was sent by the plotters to gauge his commander’s loyalty. (See Madiebo pp.17-18).

*Another is Lieutenant (some books refer to him as a Captain) Fola Oyewole. He, like Ademoyega, went on to fight for Biafra and wrote a book on his coup and wartime experiences. The book’s title is ‘Reluctant Rebel.’

*There is also Captain Ganiyu Adeleke who became an instructor in the Biafran Infantry School. For confirmation, see the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108, and this quote from Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’: ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry was released at a later date after his co-plotters had been freed.’ Omoigui’s work is significant because, though he exhibits a high level of professionalism in his research, he has no sympathy for the January 15 coup. If his facts corroborate Ademoyega’s they are worthy of attention.

"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

Lagos (in South West) was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 up to 1991, until Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991. It was on 14 November 1991, the Presidency and other federal government functions were finally relocated to the new capital city of Abuja.


For personal studies consult the following sources as quoted in this post: 

http://www.naijastories.com/2013/04/the-facts-and-fiction-of-the-january-15-1966-coup/

https://www.nairaland.com/334770/famous-aburi-conference-full-minute/3

* Nowa Omoigui’s online account: ‘Mid-Western Invasion of 1967’ - where he mentioned ‘Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, who had taken part in both the January 15 coup and the Mid-Western invasion before becoming an instructor in the Biafran School of Infantry.

* ‘Why We Struck’ - a book by  Adewale Ademoyega, a full blooded Yoruba army officer, who was deeply involved in the planning and execution of the January 1966 coup.

* Max Silloun (the military historian) landmark online article - ‘The inside story of Nigeria’s first military coup Parts 1 and 2

* 'Nigeria’s Five Majors’ - book by Ben Gbulie

* Major General Alexander Madiebo - excerpts from his interview with National Mirror
http://elombah.com/index.php/special-reports/13104-blame-gowon-and-awolowo-for-biafra-genocide-general-madiebo

* ‘Reluctant Rebel’ - a book by Captain Fola Oyewole, who went on to fight for Biafra just like Ademoyega 

* See the list of coup plotters detained by Ironsi’s regime in Ademoyega pp.106-108

* Sanusi Lamido's writings, "Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. 

* Sanusi Lamido's writings/publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)

* Sanusi Lamido's paper presented at the “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.

* http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Get the books and published papers and acquire some useful knowledge that can help you make informed decisions, and unravel the lies and propaganda being peddled in the public domain by the criminal 'sophisticated' tribe, even in this age of information technology. 

^^^The slimeball has ran off with his tail between his legs!

Walahi, i wish i could wave a magic wand and be separated from the Muslim north and South West.....for as long as we share the same country with these two groups -that have kinsmen among them that despise us with passion- they will continue to have the opportunity to sabotage our interests and try to hold us down! Never in my life have i known a more malevolent set of people!

DaBullIT:
[b]All speculations

1 Notherners own 85% of Nigeria's oilwell , where's that information coming from ? besides where were your brothers when people were buying oil wells ?

2 As long as the north is a part of Nigeria , Oil is a national cake , just as the Atlantic Ocean and the port in Lagos has been serving the whole nation only you people are greedy enough to want to leave with National cake

3 The civil war started because an ibo led a failed coup and assassinated northern elders and Yoruba leaders,and no Ibo leader was murdered but the Yorubas never got angry ,instead there was reprisal attacks and the Northerners staged another and successful counter coup this was displeasing to the eyes of the Almighty-not Ojukwu who without formal procedures asked his people to return to SE and Declared Biafra , Do not distort history

4 In the face of dwindling economy and mismanagement of funds by previous administration, I do not think that is possible, not everything is born out of hatred , Why hasn't Ife been given Ife state despite Yorubas clamoring for it ? You do not see anyone screaming hate or maltreatment

5 Buhari knows why he's appointing northerners , but taking the immediate past administration's record into account, i think not trusting anybody from that region is reasonable besides at least two ibos have been appointed maybe 2 yorubas, but Yorubas aren't complaining , Besides when there's an issue of corruption and Buhari decides to take action, you will be part of the people who will still complain that appointing ibos was a set up and that Buhari is witch hunting ibos in power


6 Massacre started because Ibo Soldiers staged the first coup in Nigeria since independence and sovereignty, Note that Nnamdi Azikiwe an ibo was still the president or was the immediate past president and Awolowo/Idiagbon factions could not agree on who would lead , My point is If those young ibo soldiers did not stage a coup and kill an Emir , the most important / god like position / rank for the north, nobody will attack or kill ibos , Ojukwu did not prepare evacuation plans before declaring Biafra, he left his people in every other part of the country a sitting duck


While your grievances may be pitiable , We need to learn from the past in order to correct / design the future and i am telling you Biafra is not the way


[/b]

Trash!
If Biafra is not the way, tell the way let's see.

Ugomba:
buhari will divide this country with his hand.

He has already done that and I love it.

Ugomba:
you have a 2nd class upper in constructing lies.

Don't mind d mumu

DaBullIT:
Lies upon lies, it took you a week to gather your copy and paste, wetie was a riot between Yoruba politicians it has nothing to do with Igbos

One Yoruba officer was involved with the coup not 5, that's mother of fat lies

The fact remains that Igbos killed an emir and that's why northerners were killing Igbos in their region

Anything else you say is irrelevant, you have no point

You and ur folks have been exposed for whom u are.

U must have datodua country by fire by force, we will then see why u'vall been afraid of having it.

Keep telling lies to bind and suck from one Nigeria, dat will soon consume u as ur tactics is known now.



Whether u like it or not Yoruba must have their own country to run it themselves.

Construct your own comment ,I am tired of reading the same thing over and over again , You are not the brightest bulb in the bunch, that much i understand ,

xtrorse:


Disciple of hate and propaganda, since you have agreed that the military coup plotters were not only Igbos, why was the pogrom carried out on only Igbo civilians For the sake of posterity, explain to your readership what you meant by lies. What about the paper by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (the current Emir of Kano)? Is Sanusi also telling lies? Is Sanusi an Igbo man? Let's know how the so called lies where countered.

Allow your brain to assimilate credible information; 'Operation Wetie' was more than mere riot and it lasted from 1964 to 1966! And it affected Lagos in SW and its inhabitants (federal government officials, Yoruba, Igbo, Bini, Hausa, Fulani etc.), and was the seat of power - the Nigeria federal capital.

"Operation Wetie" in Yoruba means wet a human being and his/her properties with petrol and set them ablaze.

Lagos (in South West) was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 up to 1991, until Abuja officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991. It was on 14 November 1991, the Presidency and other federal government functions were finally relocated to the new capital city of Abuja.

Daily mass murders and arson became routine in the Western region (wetie). This violence and lawlessness in the Western region was to continue from 1964 until 1966 when the military lost patience and finally struck.

The Western region was thus a region in crisis from the onset of post-colonial rule. By the time of the military coup, Chief Obafemi Awolowo himself was incarcerated for treason and the region was practically on an uncontrollable violence and trajectory of self destruction for almost two years from 1964 to 1966. 

Yorubas created the crisis that occasioned the coup and whose region the coup saved from self destruction are  some of the biggest ungrateful noisemakers  who peddle  the propaganda  of  colouring  an anti corruption revolutionary coup with patriotic ideals  very similar to that of  Flt Lt  Jerry Rawlings  in a tribal garb.


YORUBAS ARE THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA - By Sanusi Lamido 
In sum, the Yoruba political leadership, as mentioned by Balarabe Musa, has shown itself over the years to be incapable of rising above narrow tribal interests and reciprocating goodwill from other sections of the country by treating other groups with respect. Practically every crisis in Nigeria since independence has its roots in this attitude.
   * The Yoruba elite and area-boy politics;
    * Igbo marginalisation and the responsible limits of retribution; and
    * The Yoruba Factor and "Area-boy" Politics.
My views on the Yoruba political leadership have been thoroughly articulated in some of my writings, prime among which was " Afenifere: Syllabus of Errors" published by This Day (The Sunday Newspaper) on Sept 27, 1998. There was also an earlier publication in the weekly Trust entitled " The Igbo, the Yoruba and History" (Aug. 21, 1998)...
Being Excerpts from A Paper Presented At The “National Conference On The 1999 Constitution” Jointly Organised By The Network For Justice And The Vision Trust Foundation, At The Arewa House, Kaduna From 11th –12th September, 1999.
http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/yorubas-are-the-problem-with-nigeria-by-sanusi-lamido-sanusi-elombah-com.111348/

Ugomba:
"One Nigeria" should be used as an example of Irony in English language.. What is ONE in this tribalistic country where hatred was enshrined into the DNA of some of its Citizens.
LET ALL "ONE NIGERIA" fanatics answer this questions
1) Why are the Northerners owning up to 85% of Oil Wells in Nigeria when there is No Oil producing Northern state? YET They and yorubas accuse Igbos of wanting to take SS Oil when Imo, Abia, Anambra, Asaba(my area), Oyibo are Igbo crude oil producing areas.
2) If the Northern Nigeria is the only Crude oil producing zone, will the hausa share it with the south and make it a National cake?
3) The Civil war was not fought to make Nigeria one BUT rather because of the hatred for Igbos.
4) We Delta Igbos have demanded for our Anioma State but the reason why FG and hausa majority senate are reluctant over it because they do not want a 6th S.E state out of hatred.
5) why are Northerners holding up to key positions in their hypocritical "One Nigeria"

6) Some Easterners have lost their relations to anti-Igbo massacre in the North and you are shouting ONE NIGERIA.

What is One About This Country?

When my Asaba people were massacred during the biafran war because they refused to deny their Igboness.

I am Not Tribalistic BUT I hate hypocrisy that is attached to "One Nigeria".

God be with you nwanne madu