2eggs1goal:

Aguyi Ironsi acts and greed for power was/is part if not the main cause of Nigeria's problem, whereby people in government want to get to top even if it means killing their follow country men and expect people to worship them for it.
For his actions dia was a reaction, an eye for an eye makes Nigeria go blind sha.

chidozieikeji2:
ye. U are right dats why obj a president instructed a yoruba senior officer to go and meet his vice wen he told him dat dia is need to promote yoruba officers yaradua heard it and sacked the guy d next morning

ManMountain:


QED.

No body have ever come out to explain the reason for Aguiyi not following military tradition of bringing instant justice to the coup plotters.

tomquest:


Dude is from the Indomie generation. All they know is phones and electronic games. They hardly read books on Nigeria's history.

Eluwilussit:


That was the first time we had to deal with such a situation. So it was not easy. Everyone else learnt from that mistake. .

cyberdurable:
[size=20pt]Fact[/size]: [size=15pt]Aguiyi Ironsi and Nnamdi Kanu came from the same village[/size]

[size=15pt]GREAT SON OF IBEKU LAND IN ABIA STATE...[/size]

chidozieikeji2:
go and read history and stop talking trash ironsi was against nzeogwu he even did a lot of things in other to make the north happy he promoted countless northern soldiers with double ranks ranging from murtala muhammed even danjuman don't blame ironsi blame nzeogw ironsi died for something he didn't know about and secondly blame the npc contractors, men of ten percent In the north who felt they have lost power and so misled d north in order to bounce bak in the corridors of power

tomquest:
Truth be told, Aguiyi Ironsi had the golden opportunity to do the right thing upon assuming leadership after the abortion of the so-called Igbo coup. But he failed to bring instant justice to those officers who brutally murdered notable Nigerians (while sparing those from a particular region of the country). This was the case against Ironsi. Perhaps the events which led up to the Civil War would have been averted and millions of lives saved.

DIKEnaWAR:



Very correct!

People don't know that while other officers ran into hiding, it was Ironsi who came out and crushed the coup and assumed command. Being the most senior officer, he had to take over.

Now an igbo coup was crushed by an igbo officer. No one talks about this.

southpole:

You Igbos are too tribalistic, first it was the Igbo tribal coup, second the coupists infirmed their Igbo stakeholders to run away before the coup was carried out, third an Igbo man was made the head of state, fourth, the Igbo man head of state was not ready to punish the coupists may be because they were Igbos, fifth, when Ironsi was killed ojukwu an Igbo man started nursing ambission. why?

2eggs1goal:

Aguyi Ironsi acts and greed for power was/is part if not the main cause of Nigeria's problem, whereby people in government want to get to top even if it means killing their follow country men and expect people to worship them for it.
For his actions dia was a reaction, an eye for an eye makes Nigeria go blind sha.

2eggs1goal:

Aguyi Ironsi acts and greed for power was/is part if not the main cause of Nigeria's problem, whereby people in government want to get to top even if it means killing their follow country men and expect people to worship them for it.
For his actions dia was a reaction, an eye for an eye makes Nigeria go blind sha.

southpole:
[size=14pt]It is this same Igbo man that destroyed the True federalism Tafawa Balewa was operating, and now Igbos and Avengers are crying for the same true federalism their brother destroyed[/size]

iwadobo:

the bulk of the money being used to run Nigeria Wass from oil and not groundnut .

logicab:
Oil in 1966?

gartamanta:


And when Ojukwu got back that 'true federalism' at Aburi, who are the people who fought Ojukwu to make sure that we still practice unitary rule to this day?

Stanbeto:
Aguiyi my Father use to tell us these stories those days

2eggs1goal:

Aguyi Ironsi acts and greed for power was/is part if not the main cause of Nigeria's problem, whereby people in government want to get to top even if it means killing their follow country men and expect people to worship them for it.
For his actions dia was a reaction, an eye for an eye makes Nigeria go blind sha.

gartamanta:


And when Ojukwu got back that 'true federalism' at Aburi, who are the people who fought Ojukwu to make sure that we still practice unitary rule to this day?

ManMountain:
Knowing the undercurrents of the coup and all the sentiments, Aguiyi Ironsi should NOT have taken over leadership at that moment in time, it only fueled speculations and the resultant commotions from Jan 1967.

ManMountain:
Knowing the undercurrents of the coup and all the sentiments, Aguiyi Ironsi should NOT have taken over leadership at that moment in time, it only fueled speculations and the resultant commotions from Jan 1967.

DIKEnaWAR:



Very correct!

People don't know that while other officers ran into hiding, it was Ironsi who came out and crushed the coup and assumed command. Being the most senior officer, he had to take over.

Now an igbo coup was crushed by an igbo officer. No one talks about this.

DobleO7:


He was the highest ranking military officer at the time and the right person to take over. Even the Northern military officers knew that and had little or no qualms with his ascension to power. The problem was his decision not to deal with the proponents of the coup which bred suspicion and the unquenchable desire to revenge what they believed was an Igbo coup.

ManMountain:


Danjuma led the assault that foiled the Dimka coup against Murtala, he was Chief of Army staff, be refused to to assume leadership role, to some people, they will labeled that as an act of cowardice, but a sensible one, it was a wise decision knowing that Dimka is a Middle Belt man like Danjuma.
Sometimes, the right thing is not always the wise or moral thing.

DobleO7:


He was the highest ranking military officer at the time and the right person to take over. Even the Northern military officers knew that and had little or no qualms with his ascension to power. The problem was his decision not to deal with the proponents of the coup which bred suspicion and the unquenchable desire to revenge what they believed was an Igbo coup.

DobleO7:


He was the highest ranking military officer at the time and the right person to take over.