People like this man are celebrated only in hopeless and useless countries like Nigeria.
He deserved to die. Him, Buhari, IBB, Danjuma, Abacha, Useni and other bastards like him.

slurryeye:


Thank you for twisting history so terribly. Do you know Awolowo was in prison in Calabar when the Aburi accord was agreed on? But guess what, your tribal bigotry wont allow you to reason well. And why won't Gowon be enemy with Murtala when it was Murtala that overthrown his government. And for christ sake stop making the silly point that awo committed suicide. If a man that died at the ripe age of 78 commits suicide, then I guess Ojukwu and Azikiwe committed suicide too
And did you say Gowon was the nicest Nigeria soldier? I'm sure you're not aware that Dimka that assasinated Murtala did so with Gowon acknowledgement

LOL. You are actually responding to someone who grew up listening to tales from ret@rded uncles and parents featuring how Awolowo purportedly committed suicide by drinking otapiapia (of course which was a way of making them feel better and sleep with foolish smiles on their faces)?

tifany89:
I feel pity for the Wya family

The story about how Col. Wya's wife committed suicide alongside her children is not true. -That was erroneously claimed by Col. Ogbebor, the first Nigerian to be enlisted in the NDA in one of his interviews. The Wyas 4 children (2 males, 2 females) are all alive hay and hearty today. Though Mrs Wya's car had a collision with a truck and died on her way to Kaduna few months after the death of her husband.

ceejay4real:

Major Abba Kyari

This same Kyari??

During the outbreak of violence against the Igbo people in Northern and Central Nigeria in 1966, Abba Kyari assisted Igbo soldiers in escaping from Kaduna, including Major Samuel Ogbemudia, who later was appointed Governor of Mid-West State in September 1967 following the state's liberation from secessionist Biafran forces.

slurryeye:


It's actually 4.30pm where I am. Is people like you that will be shouting recession upandan but not knowing that with little knowledge of history, you would have positioned yourself well before the calamity

See mumu. The only calamity here is that your leaders are idiots and criminals, how does one prepare for that? My friend Gtfoh biko.

logica:
This same Kyari??

Something doesn't add up..... How can a man who helped the Igbo escape from the north, then turn around to commit atrocities against their officers, during the coup? Or am I missing something, here?

freecocoa:
See mumu. The only calamity here is that your leaders are idiots and criminals, how does one prepare for that? My friend Gtfoh biko.

You sound very rude...I won't like to engage in dirty banter with you. You can only know as much as your cerebral content will allow you. I would have enlightened your ignorance ass how history determined the election of those idiots and criminals into power. Since you seem so uncouth, all I will tell you is bonne chance

signz:


For the love of God, Murtala Mohandas killed unarmed people who came to welcome him at the airport. They didn't charge at Murtala with guns, they came with drums and musical instruments for Christ sake and that blood thirsty man ordered their deaths.

This history is well documented. The survivors are still alive. Someone on twitter twitted how his Father saved by his senior brother who died there. Bishop Chukwuma told the story of how his Senior brother was killed in Oputa panel. Now these people were mainly teenagers, kids when Murtala committed this genocide.

However, to God be the glory.

if ur father tells u of his fight and who was wrong, and u bliv him, u are d worst morron

Just before 8:30 a.m. on February 13, 1976, the following curious announcement was heard on Radio Nigeria:
"Good morning fellow Nigerians, This is Lt. Col. B. Dimka of the Nigerian Army calling. I bring you good tidings. Murtala Muhammed's deficiency has been detected. His government is now overthrown by the young revolutionaries. All the 19 military governors have no powers over the states they now govern. The states affairs will be run by military brigade commanders until further notice.
All commissioners are sacked, except for the armed forces and police commissioners who will be redeployed. All senior military officers should remain calm in their respective spots. No divisional commanders will issue orders or instructions until further notice. Any attempt to foil these plans from any quarters will be met with death. You are warned, it is all over the 19 states.
Any acts of looting or raids will be death. Everyone should be calm. Please stay by your radio for further announcements. All borders, air and sea ports are closed until further notice. Curfew is imposed from 6am to 6pm. Thank you. We are all together."
Just prior to this broadcast, then Head of State, General Murtala Ramat Muhammed, along with his ADC (Lt. Akinsehinwa), Orderly and driver, had been assassinated on his way to work in a thin skinned black Mercedes Benz car without escorts. The unprotected car had slowed down at the junction in front of the Federal Secretariat in Ikoyi, Lagos, when a hit team which allegedly included Lt. William Seri and others, casually strolled up and riddled it with bullets.
Following confirmation of Muhammed's death, Lt. Col. Buka Suka Dimka, of the Army Physical Training Corps, who (along with some others) had been up for most of the night drinking champagne, then made a quick trip to the British High Commission at about 8 am where he demanded to be put in touch with General Gowon in Britain.
He allegedly left a message through Sir Martin LeQuesne, saying Gowon should proceed to Togo and await further instructions. Then he returned, initially accompanied by six others, to Ikoyi to seize the Radio Station. The martial music played was allegedly specially selected by a civilian worker, Mr. Abdulkarim Zakari, who had been alerted before hand to do so.
Other hit teams simultaneously went after other key functionaries of the regime's trioka, namely the Chief of Staff, SHQ, Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo and the Army Chief, Lt. Gen. T. Y. Danjuma. The Military Governors of Kwara and Oyo States, Colonels Ibrahim Taiwo and David Jemibewon, respectively, were also targeted. Taiwo, who had been the national coordinator of the July 1975 coup that brought Mohammed to power, was abducted and killed by a team led by Major K. K. Gagara. Jemibewon, whose name had been added to the list of targets by Lt. Col T. K. Adamu, merely because Adamu "did not like his face", escaped.
In response to a pro-coup broadcast (and other activities) from Benin-City by the Brigade Commander, Colonel Isa Bukar, counter-broadcasts dissociating other army units from the coup were made, first from Calabar by the Brigade Commander, Colonel Mamman J. Vatsa, and then from Kaduna on behalf of the GOC, Brigadier Alani Akinrinade.
As efforts were being made within the military to crush the revolt, University students in Lagos and Ibadan (among others) took to the streets to protest the coup. Later, when it became known that Dimka had visited the British High Commission on the day of the coup, some students attacked British and American facilities in Lagos.
The coup attempt eventually failed seven hours later, crushed by forces rallied and directed from a temporary base at Bonny camp by Lt. General T. Y. Danjuma, Chief of Army Staff, whose designated assassin (reportedly Lt. Lawrence Garba) had chosen at the last moment to spare him at the Marina Jetty, allegedly in part to avoid collateral casualties.

slurryeye:


You sound very rude...I won't like to engage in dirty banter with you. You can only know as much as your cerebral content will allow you. I would have enlightened your ignorance ass how history determined the election of those idiots and criminals into power. Since you seem so uncouth, all I will tell you is bonne chance

You are talking rubbish, okay, so you didn't know it's rude approaching me like you did, who were you shaking your head at? Unto what na? Then you don't even have anything to say but jump to how I'm rude, I'm rude because I tell you off for insulting me? Talkin about how I'd have known to prepare for the calamity, just how could one have been prepared for this? And you are talking nonsense!

My friend the history of what happened on the day he was assassinated is rubbish, they should all be assassinated, we have no reason to care, if me thinking that makes you want to jump off a cliff, please do.

Thanks OP for bringing this on, I wasn't born then and I never heard it all in history, especially the Col. Wya part. It's very pathetic how a whole family will perish because of injustice meted out to them.

God Save Nigera!
God Bless Nigeria!

Op, austino3050, why are you not mentioning that OBJ ordered the execution of Wya and others?

2016easy2017:

if ur father tells u of his fight and who was wrong, and u bliv him, u are d worst morron

If you also believe your own father tales by moonlight and also deliberately refuse to read history then it's no one's fault that you intentionally decided to be foolish

austino3050:
Do Know What Happened On Feb 13th 1976?

Friday the 13th, particularly when it occurs in February, is deemed a very unlucky day in Western superstition. For certain, a lot of people in the Europe and America have come to believe the day holds a lot of ill luck. Hollywood has even produced horror film franchises based on the theme. The superstition like many others, have been strengthened by individual claims of some ill event like a sack, divorce or accident happening to them either on a February 13th or a Friday the 13th. The word, friggatriskaidekaphobia, meaning, the fear of Friday the 13th derived its origins in Norse mythology.

Despite insufficient proof to support the ill-fated day, Friday, 13 February 1976 sticks out in Nigeria’s history as a day that brought a string of bad fortune to many in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Head of State was brutally assassinated on his way to his office on that fateful day. His unescorted Mercedes Benz car was riddled with bullets killing all four passengers including General Murtala Mohammed.

Luck also ran out on the perpetrators of the coup as it was botched by troops loyal to Mohammed’s regime. Buka Dimka, his sponsors and accomplices were summarily rounded up and shot in a firing squad weeks after the coup.

The most tragic tale from this Friday the 13th saga was the erroneous arrest and execution of one Col. A.D.S Wya for complicity in the coup. At the time of his arrest, Colonel Wya had been the Commander of the Corps of the Artillery and an accomplished wartime hero. His story is most unfortunate because his British wife had sought even the assistance of her home government to prove her husband’s innocence to no avail. In the end, Wya was executed. Col. Wya among a host of other officers and men were later exonerated from plotting and participating in the Dimka coup. But it was now too late. Having lost all hope and sensibility, Mrs. Wya drove into a train in Kaduna killing herself and her four children. Col. Way’s disconsolate younger brother equally committed suicide at the demise of his brother.

Indeed Friday, February 13th 1976 should never be forgotten in Nigeria

msthewwwwww
even though its something worth reading when he massacred more than 1000 Igbo men in asaba don't he know karma has taken his name down.
pls next item

Gaara101:

If I remember correctly, it was a bloodless coup. So what are you saying?

Well, I did not say he entered through a bloody coup. He entered through coup, and left through coup is what I clearly said. Should I say he entered through coup and left through democracy? Besides, his hands ain't clean too. He may enter through a bloodless coup, but one ex military govt was executed for gross misconduct on his order when he entered office. That is blood. Maybe not a multitude but it is still blood. I am not here to judge him, but the military back in those days we're not a gang of I want clean hands.

UncleSnr:
Thanks for sharing.
History is no longer being taught in schools.

Which is the sad reason why the upcoming generation has no sense of direction or belonging.
Our so called leaders are going to find out shortly how they are doing more harm than good by proscribing history lessons in schools. You CANNOT build a nation by neglecting your past, whatever the circumstance was.
We are still far from becoming a nation, in the real sense of the word.

At The Tender Age Of 12, Mustafa Wya Was A Student When His Father, Col Abdulazizi Wya, Was Killed For Taking Part In The Coup Plot In Which The Then Head Of State, Gen. Murtala Muhammed, Was Killed In 1976. In This Interview With IBRAHEEM MUSA, Mustapha Speaks On How The Family Has Been Fairing 40 Years After The Sordid Incident.


Where were you in 1976, when the Dimka coup which subsequently led to the death of your father 40 years ago, occurred?

Actually, when the coup happened, I was at King’s College, Lagos. We were all in class when the news broke out and of course everybody was devastated. It was a general tragedy for the nation and you could feel it on the streets.

How was the news broken to you when your father was executed?

At that time, he was under house arrest at an Airforce Mess on Victoria Island. As far as he had told me, the arrest was about inquiries; they were conducting enquiries on events that led to it. And since Col. Ayuba Tense was our neighbour and was a frequent visitor in our house and vice versa and my father was said to be at a party in Tense’s house a few days before the incident.

So, he was helping them in the inquiries. I used to go and visit him. In fact, every outing day they used to come and pick me up; he still had his driver, his ADC and everything. My mother and everybody never knew that it will end up that way.

As a young man of 12 years, how did you take the incident when it ended ‘up that way’ at that impressionable age?

(Long pause) On that day that they were actually executed, my father wasn’t amongst the people who were executed at Bar Beach. He was in the other batch that was executed at Kirikiri, if my memory serves me correctly. (He was actually executed at the Bar Beach).

On that particular day, the day of the execution, King’s College had a football match against CMS or one other school in the Principal’s Cup. My father actually sent his driver, Ade, to come and take me for the match. Of course, we were already going on the school bus.

So, the driver followed us to the football match. Afterwards, we took permission and the driver took me and four of my friends out. My father had already told him what to do, that he should take me out for a special treat. We went to Falomo Shopping Complex, the Ice cream shop, had ice cream with my friends.

Then by the time the driver dropped us at school, the news had already broken. Thank God my school fathers and friends, people like Femi Doherty, Gbegi Ojora and Daniel Gwani, were waiting to receive me. You cannot imagine my state of shock. They consoled me.

Of course, it was a very sad day but people really treated me well. I was very fortunate. The driver re-appeared and took me home to Mhyoung Barracks to join my devastated mother. Maybe because of my father’s nature, there were people that stepped in immediately to look after us.

At that time my uncle Nuhu, my father’s younger brother, was a student at the ABU Zaria, his immediate younger brother Daniel was in the Navy. And then, due to circumstances still unknown to me, my uncle Daniel also lost his life about a month and half later.

That was two down in one and half months. But the most tragic event was still to come shortly, which is even one of the reasons why I agreed to grant this interview so that I can correct a misconception. Barely three months later, while my mother was driving on her way to Kano to visit family friends, my mum did not commit suicide, she had an accident and died on the spot.

Before you knew it, some newspapers started speculating that she committed suicide because she lost the love of her life. So, from that day, people started assuming that the poor woman committed suicide which she didn’t. This speculation made it difficult to even bury her; the church said that she was a Catholic and she committed suicide.

But no mother will go and drive off the road that she wants to kill herself and leave her children behind, at least not my mother as I knew her. So, three months later, my mother too died while I was once again at school.

The shock was so much that my relatives and family friends didn’t even let me know about her death till I came back to Kaduna on the day they buried her. I arrived to a house of grief and despair. So, I never witnessed my father’s or mother’s burials.

But, that is life. It was a very traumatic experience, especially for a child of 12. My younger sister was 10, the other was eight and my younger brother was four. That is why I will like to use this opportunity to advise people that we shouldn’t take for granted the time we spend with our children when they are growing up.

The greatest influence that we have on our children is between the age of their birth and 12 years old. By the time they are 13 to 14, they have already been formed. So, most of my motivation is what I have learnt in those 12 years. That’s what made me what I am today. I had a solid foundation of love and guidance from my parents and this is something that nobody will ever be able to take away from me.

The coup made the situation in the country dicey and tense at that time. Everybody was being monitored and my father’s friends had to be very careful. If they bonded too much with us the authorities will say that maybe they were part of the coup.

But people like Haruna Zego Azeez, Jonah Jang and Clement Ugah stuck out their necks. They were in the Air force but for the remaining three years of my life at King’s College Lagos they were my guardians. By the time I came back home, of course I had Danladi and Tasala Nyam to look after us; he was the late Sarkin Yakin Jaba and a very dear friend of my father.

Then there was my uncle, Nuhu Wya and his wife Lydia, his elder sisters Mrs Rifkatu Ayeidun and Kande Gwani.

They took care of us till we were ready to start our lives as adults and we will always be forever grateful for the sacrifices they made for us.

How did these tragedies affect you emotionally? Did they affect your studies?

Of course. I even have the report card of that year. Honestly, it didn’t turn out too badly. Even my teachers and principal noted that I missed about a term and when I sat for my end of year exams they commented that I put in a very good effort considering the circumstances. So, I didn’t miss a year or anything.

Like I said, it was a very terrible time because all of a sudden you were on your own surrounded by a deep dark cloud of pain, grief, hurt, anger and disbelief. At first you will not believe it is happening to you. All the while, you will think that your parents went somewhere and they will come back.

For my father, it took me sometime to accept his death but my mother’s case was immediate. But like I said, I was very fortunate with the people that surrounded me. We also received a lot of support from my father’s and mother’s friends.

But we also lost a lot of friends due to the circumstances of what happened, some people didn’t want to be associated with us. It was a terrible experience but then, if you have faith in God it overcomes everything. Once you know that God is there for you, no matter what, there is nothing to worry about. Of course I will not lie, as I grew older, when I reached the ages of 15, 16 and 17, issues came up. At that stage you don’t really have anybody.

So, as a young person you can get distracted and before you know it, you are drinking and smoking and living life on the fast lane because there is nobody to control you. But at the end of the day, like I said, if you have a good family, it will ground you.

You straighten up and realise that that is life. You just have to do your best, work hard because hard work is always rewarded.

Is it true that your father was exonerated from the coup post-humously?

No, he was never officially exonerated. At least as far as my family is concerned, nobody ever wrote us to say anything like that. In fact, it is even good that you asked me. One of my most traumatic experiences, was that growing up in the barracks made me comfortable with the military.

They were my family. From 10 to 12 when my father was at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), I learnt how to horse ride there. I learnt how to box there. I learnt karate there. So, the military was always like part of my family.

Then after my father died, the army came to collect his ceremonial dress and sword. Soldiers came in a Land Rover fully dressed, demanding my father’s ceremonial sword and uniform. My mother was terrified because she didn’t know whether they were coming to carry her too, she actually kept me behind her while they were there. She handed over to them what they came for and they went away. I must commend the then Brig. Domkat Bali.

I have an official letter which he wrote to my mother before she died, where he enclosed a cheque of 5,000 pounds from the unit, in appreciation of my mother’s efforts. But as for exoneration, there was none. Right now, several of the characters have written different accounts of what happened in their respective memoirs so that’s that, maybe the real truth will never be known.

Why did you write a petition to the Oputa panel? Did you want to get some kind of restitution or exoneration?

Exoneration didn’t come into this matter. The coup plot had nothing to do with me. It had nothing to do with my mother, my sisters and brother. We were a collateral damage. So, as far I’m concerned, the coup was a workplace incident, an occupational hazard; a fallout within colleagues.

This is what power does. Nigerian Civil War started when they were in their early 20s. They were drafted to war, survived it and it was a terrible experience for most of them. Some of them committed suicide after the war; they were suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which nobody was aware of in those days. We heard of broken marriages, alcoholism and suicide. So, those that survived, you can imagine how they felt. They now came into power; at the age of 25-26 some were governors.

They had the destiny of this country in their hands. So, there was bound to be fallouts here and there. Everybody saw what their colleagues were doing with power and everybody felt they could do a better job. But the same problems have been behind every coup in this country from 1966 till date The Dimka coup was a power struggle amongst friends. So, like I said, we were just collateral damage. So, exoneration was not in my mind when I wrote the petition. It was the least of my problems.

I wanted the Oputa panel to make the army identify where my father’s remains are so that our family can collect them and bury him in his village, Ankung. It is about two kilometres from Kwoi (the headquarters of Jaba Local government in Kaduna State). That was my only reason for going to Oputa panel. Now of course you will ask me why I withdrew the petition.

The petition was never read before the Oputa panel. What happened?

After I had presented the petition, a lot of people were concerned that the issues I had brought up would be a logistical nightmare. I was approached directly by a late junior colleague of my late father also from Kwoi who reasoned with me that even if they were able to give me his remains, which to them was virtually impossible due to the time that had elapsed and problems of identifying his remains; what about the hundreds of other executed coup plotters over the years?

So I decided in the interest of peaceful coexistence to let it go. After all, nobody knows tomorrow. Maybe one day, one of my children will be able to retrieve him and give him his rightful burial and allow him to finally rest in peace.

Some of your late father’s course mates later became the leaders of Nigeria. Did they help you?

No. Don’t forget, by the time these people were in power, they had to take care of their own. Let me tell you this; nobody will come and look for you. That is why family units are very important. Apart from your family, don’t expect anybody to do anything for you.

They have their own children, relatives and hangers-on and people they have to appease. Why in God’s name are they going to look for you? To bring back memories or what? Nobody wants to remember that past. And on my own part, I blame my father’s situation on his friends. Or let me not generalise, I blame his situation on his bad friends.

And that has always guided me too in choosing my own friends. Even today when people tell me that ‘’your father was my friend’’, I tell them that I’m not aware of that. You were his friend but not his family’s friend. Because going for naming ceremonies,parties and so on together, doesn’t mean friendship. I don’t think most of them were his friends.

They were just professional colleagues. And on my own part, why should I look for government contracts? Thank God, through scholarships, I went to King’s College and Ahmadu Bello University. I graduated from ABU at the age of 19. Finished NYSC at the age of 20.Started working in New Nigerian in 1985, moved to United Bank for Africa (UBA) in 1986, remained there till 1990 when I set up my own business. So, I really have no business with government.

What is your line of business?

I’m a marketing consultant, which is what I studied in school. And I’m into printing and publishing.

You mean that you don’t seek for government patronage in anyway, be it contract or what have you?

No, no, no. Don’t make that mistake. You will get patronage when you go and look for it. Government will not come and look for you and say take this contract. You have to register with them and I have never gone to look for contract from any government agency.

So, the blame is not on them; if there is to be any blame at all it is squarely on my shoulders. I’m very content. I’m 52 years, I graduated in 1983. I should be able to take care of myself and my family. To date with the exception of those tragic years I have had a pretty wonderful life all thanks to God.

Is any of your children contemplating joining the army? And will you encourage him or her if he or she shows interest?

To be honest with you, when you look at even the para-military generally, who will like to join any of them the way that they are today? I wouldn’t encourage any of them. To go and join the army for what? There are retired soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for this country yet they have problems receiving their pensions up till now.

There are widows who cannot collect their late husbands’ gratuities. What benefits do you get from joining these organisations the way they have become today? In those days, yes. But I will not encourage my children to join the army now, definitely not.

That is why I’m training them to be professionals. My son studied Human Relations and he graduated from Ghana. My first daughter is in the United Kingdom studying Mechanical Engineering. My second daughter is also in the UK studying Law.

My last son will be ready for university next year. Things are becoming more professionally oriented now in this country and hopefully they will one day work in government and serve their country to the best of their ability.

Not much is known of your other siblings. You mentioned that you have a younger brother and two younger sisters. Who are they and where are they now?

There are four of us. Myself, Fiona, Fatima and Omar. My immediate younger sister Fiona retired over a year ago; after years of services with Unity Bank. She is doing very well. She is in Kaduna now and into IT Consultancy. Fatima is also very okay and she is based in Yola. She is into her business.

My younger brother Omar is into human resources consultancy and he has been based in the UK for over 20 years now. So, they are all doing very well, thanks to God. We have a total of seven grandchildren now so things haven’t turned out too bad.

How will you describe your late father?

Strong and once he made up his mind, it’s made up. Gregarious, he liked to laugh a lot. In fact that was why he and his colleagues had a good time together. He was out going and he loved his games and music. All his life, in any compound that we lived in, he always kept a patch of land aside for farming.

And physically, he will do the hoeing, planting and harvesting because as a child growing up, he walked two kilometres to school from Akung to Kwoi. When he returned, he joined his father on the farm. My father used to wash his own personal items, that was who he was.


-This is the accounts of the first son of the late army officer.

austino3050:
Do Know What Happened On Feb 13th 1976?

Friday the 13th, particularly when it occurs in February, is deemed a very unlucky day in Western superstition. For certain, a lot of people in the Europe and America have come to believe the day holds a lot of ill luck. Hollywood has even produced horror film franchises based on the theme. The superstition like many others, have been strengthened by individual claims of some ill event like a sack, divorce or accident happening to them either on a February 13th or a Friday the 13th. The word, friggatriskaidekaphobia, meaning, the fear of Friday the 13th derived its origins in Norse mythology.

Despite insufficient proof to support the ill-fated day, Friday, 13 February 1976 sticks out in Nigeria’s history as a day that brought a string of bad fortune to many in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Head of State was brutally assassinated on his way to his office on that fateful day. His unescorted Mercedes Benz car was riddled with bullets killing all four passengers including General Murtala Mohammed.

Luck also ran out on the perpetrators of the coup as it was botched by troops loyal to Mohammed’s regime. Buka Dimka, his sponsors and accomplices were summarily rounded up and shot in a firing squad weeks after the coup.

The most tragic tale from this Friday the 13th saga was the erroneous arrest and execution of one Col. A.D.S Wya for complicity in the coup. At the time of his arrest, Colonel Wya had been the Commander of the Corps of the Artillery and an accomplished wartime hero. His story is most unfortunate because his British wife had sought even the assistance of her home government to prove her husband’s innocence to no avail. In the end, Wya was executed. Col. Wya among a host of other officers and men were later exonerated from plotting and participating in the Dimka coup. But it was now too late. Having lost all hope and sensibility, Mrs. Wya drove into a train in Kaduna killing herself and her four children. Col. Way’s disconsolate younger brother equally committed suicide at the demise of his brother.

Indeed Friday, February 13th 1976 should never be forgotten in Nigeria

I reject every evil ear tingling news accompanied with today's date in the name of Jesus!

logica:
LOL. You are actually responding to someone who grew up listening to tales from ret@rded uncles and parents featuring how Awolowo purportedly committed suicide by drinking otapiapia (of course which was a way of making them feel better and sleep with foolish smiles on their faces)?

Go and sit down. That Awo commited suicide taking Otapiapia is a truth all Yorubas know deep down their hearts, and those who blew the saga wide open were not Igbos themselves, they are fellow Yorubas.

Abayor7:

hbd sir!

THANKS ALOT.

neekemi:
Happy birthday dear

THANKS ALOT.

Ironlion1:

So na ur voice I be de hear for that hospital that night. O boy, why u shout like that wen them born u?

I BEG NO VEX NO BE MY FAULT O, WHEN I SEE SAY THAT THERE GLARING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHERE I WAS COMING FROM AND WHERE MY MAMA SHIT ME PUT, I HAVE NO CHOICE THAN TO YELL! and considering the fact that someone was killed that day, and e come happen say my papa and that person are in the same profession, naim tension come catch me say i go come come farther-less just like that

ReubenE:
Nigeria foreign policy was very assertive during his few days in office. For the very first time, Nigeria crafted a foreign policy devoid of western influence.

Though, he actively participated in almost all the coups that took place before the one that claimed his life....starting from July 29, 1966.

Not that he participated... He was the brain behind the coup that threw out Ironsi, although he lost control of it and the stuff went from a coup to a pogrom. He didn't participate in the one that brought him to power...the leader in that one was one Nanvem like that who I heard was Gowon's relative.
Muritala failed in almost all his military endeavors... From the counter coup he lost control of to the failed battles of Onicha and finally the annihilation he suffered at abagana which led to his retirement from the war.

cocoberry:
HBD

THANKS ALOT.

Crying4NIGERIA:
chai u be really big for nothing

THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENT!

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Thank you for twisting history so terribly. Do you know Awolowo was in prison in Calabar when the Aburi accord was agreed on? But guess what, your tribal bigotry wont allow you to reason well. And why won't Gowon be enemy with Murtala when it was Murtala that overthrown his government. And for christ sake stop making the silly point that awo committed suicide. If a man that died at the ripe age of 78 commits suicide, then I guess Ojukwu and Azikiwe committed suicid.murtala had no regard for Gowon's government and disobeyed orders from lagos during the war eg he was ordered to march in biafra through federal controlled territory but he refused and decided to go amphibious over the river niger which backfired with loss of troops.he also disobeyed orders from lagos that resulted in abagana which led to his dismissal from the army.he is a northern supremacist thats the reason why he despise non northerners like ironsi and gowon.

austino3050:
...unlike now they move around with a full battalion...

they cannot come and go and die away now..

LoveJesus87:
why are you thanking the op for it
You want to fry beans with it

Incase you didn't i did learn something from it