WombRaiders:


Have you ever wondered why the counter coup by Northern officers never reverted back to the old regional arrangement and why Awolowo and co where silent about losing political and fiscal autonomy to a bunch of young khaki boys acting as central govt?

This is the entrance to the rabbit hole.

The 1966 coup was meant to destabilize and lead to a change in the political structure to pave for expoitation of Niger Delta Oil.

nduchucks:


Sir, who intentionally made the coup to look like an Igbo coup to justify wholesale slaughter, as you put it? Are you insinuating that there was a plan for the "pogroms" before the coup and that the pogroms were not reactions to the said coup?

naijaking1:


Hausa/Fulani muslims have organised the killing of Igbos and southerners before the killing of Sarduana, check the history books!

naijaking1:

These innocent people never knew the coupists or ever benefited from their action in any sort of remote ways, yet a nation without conscience cheered

nduchucks:


Sir, who intentionally made the coup to look like an Igbo coup to justify wholesale slaughter, as you put it? Are you insinuating that there was a plan for the "pogroms" before the coup and that the pogroms were not reactions to the said coup?

GspotAngela:
Operation Araba, the counter coup was a secession mission. The plan was to avenge the death of the Northern military officers and political leaders that were killed by ibo coupist in the Jan coup and to eventually split the country. That was the plan before the british prevailed on Gowon/Murtala to drop the latter agenda.

Your suggestion should be directed to Nnamdi Azikiwe, Micheal Okapara, Kingsley Mbadiwe etc who were free and unhurt after the 1st coup. Why didnt they kick against Ironsi's Decree 34 ?

micklplus:

I had already said the happening at that time was rather unfortunate.

naijaking1:


There is no question emotions were high, but that right there was the reason not to base any decision on emotions.
Even personal issues and decisions are negatively influenced by emotions, not to talk of nation issues.
More northern officers died in the first coup, but let's not forget the Igbo officer, Unegbu who was killed by the coupists too, because he refused to release arms to them.
Igbos would never have cared if those 5 officer were roasted alive and made suya, but the opportunistic agents in the north saw an opportunity they have been looking since the first riot against Igbos in 1940s.

Mind you, the retaliatory coup against Ironsi was carried out---to compensate for the northern deaths, and yet the killing of innocent Igbo women and children, those who had NOTHING to do with politics, army, or even anything continued!

These innocent people never knew the coupists or ever benefited from their action in any sort of remote ways, yet a nation without conscience cheered

AshiwajuFoward:


Dude, what are you smoking? ? Awolowo was in jail serving time during both coups. Hello? ?

GspotAngela:
Operation Araba, the counter coup was a secession mission. The plan was to avenge the death of the Northern military officers and political leaders that were killed by ibo coupist in the Jan coup and to eventually split the country. That was the plan before the british prevailed on Gowon/Murtala to drop the latter agenda.

Your suggestion should be directed to Nnamdi Azikiwe, Micheal Okapara, Kingsley Mbadiwe etc who were free and unhurt after the 1st coup. Why didnt they kick against Ironsi's Decree 34 ?

naijaking1:


There is no question emotions were high, but that right there was the reason not to base any decision on emotions.
Even personal issues and decisions are negatively influenced by emotions, not to talk of nation issues.
More northern officers died in the first coup, but let's not forget the Igbo officer, Unegbu who was killed by the coupists too, because he refused to release arms to them.
Igbos would never have cared if those 5 officer were roasted alive and made suya, but the opportunistic agents in the north saw an opportunity they have been looking since the first riot against Igbos in 1940s.

nduchucks:
Background

After independence, a political alliance made between the leading Hausa and Igbo political parties, which ruled Nigeria from 1960 to 1966 had excluded the mainstream Yoruba parties under Awolowo. To many, Igbo people were considered to be the main beneficiaries of this alliance, taking most of the top jobs and leading business opportunities in the Nigerian federation.

The elections of 1965 saw the Nigerian National Alliance of the Muslim north and the conservative elements in the west, face off against the United Progressive Grand Alliance of the Christian east and the progressive elements among the westerners. The Alliance of North and West won a crushing victory under Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, amid claims of widespread electoral fraud. Many newspapers and election observers reported incidents in which millions of cattle, goats and sheep voted for the Northern candidates.

It was in this charged scenario that the military intervened.

The Coup

The January 15 was orchestrated by six Army officers: Kaduna Nzeogwu, Emma Ifeajuna, Chris Anuforo, Wale Ademoyega, Timothy Onwutuegwu, and Donatus Okafor.

Historians and scholars have consistently written in agreement that Nzeogwu, Anuforo and Ademoyega were genuine nationalists and detribalized men while the the motives of Ifeajuna and Okafor are still shrouded in mystery until today.

What is clear however, is that of the six plotters, only one (Ademoyega) was not Igbo, and going through a list of their victims, there was only one Igbo man (Lt. Col. A. Unegbe) killed.

The North lost the core of its political elite (Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello), and some of their best military officers (Zakariya Maimalari, Kur Mohammed, Abogo Largema and James Pam), while the West lost its leading politician at the time (Samuel Akintola), and some officers (Sam Ademulegun and Ralph Sodeinde).

This list of people killed is by no means exhaustive, but I must point out that four people who were on the list to die that day somehow escaped, and they are Nnamdi Azikiwe (who 'conveniently' left Nigeria two days before), Michael Opara, Dennis Osadebe and J.T. Aguiyi-Ironsi. They were all Igbo.

Detribalized Analysis

I do not believe that the coup of January 15, 1966 was meant to be an Igbo coup. Of all Nigeria’s coups, it was the most nationalistic in outlook and didn’t promote any group’s interests over those of any other. Unfortunately however, it was poorly executed by those who executed it in the South, and from that moment on the fates of millions of people was sealed.

Naturally, the North felt that it had been shafted, and began to make plans for revenge, a revenge which they took in more measures than one when the pogroms started in May 1966, and eventually the counter coup of July 29, 1966. I do not think any sane human being can blame the North for its reaction here.

And the rest they say, is [url=lalasticlala.oam4j.afam4eva]history.[/url]

Duru1:

Fact: NPC and NCNC never were in alliance

Fact: January 15, 1966 coup in Nigeria was not Igbo coup

Fact: The coup was precipitated by Nigerian army officers led by Igbo and Yoruba descents.
Fact: British, BBC, Gowon, Yusuf and Baba Usman connived to brand the coup an Igbo.

WombRaiders:
It was meant to look like an Igbo coup when in actuality it was a coup led by young Igbo Officers.

Let that statement above simmer in.

The British through the MI5 selected and supported these officers and groomed them for a coup that was meant to lead to war.

Why?

The British knew with the current political arrangement of regional govt, there was no way they could get their greedy hands on Niger Delta and Biafra Oil freely as they have done for the past 50yrs now.

The British needed to reorient the political landscape inorder to discard the regional arrangement and put all the oil control in the hands of a central govt controlled by the north.

This is what the coup was all about.

The young Igbo officers where highly myopic to the outcome of their brazen actions.

nduchucks:


This is irrelevant to the thread's topic. No one mentioned NPC or NCNC but you.



It appears that early blindness has started to set in o. Did you read this sentence in my post at all: "I do not believe that the coup of January 15, 1966 was meant to be an Igbo coup" ?



The 2 "facts" of yours above are unsubstantiated and are figments of your imagination and phobia. Stop manufacturing "facts"

Finally, join hands with moral Nigerians and let us build this nation together.

Duru1:


This is the first sentence of the thread: "After independence, a political alliance made between the leading Hausa and Igbo political parties, which ruled Nigeria from 1960 to 1966 had excluded the mainstream Yoruba parties under Awolowo". Please note that I was not born yesterday. If NPC and NCNC were not inferred in your previous post, can you expatiate the followings: a political alliance made between the leading Hausa and Igbo political parties. Were you referring to APC and PDP in that condescending statement?

omonnakoda:
Dende how is the new sanatorium?

owobokiri:
As far as I am concerned, Nzeogwus crime was that he didn't kill enough. Ditto Ifeajuna and co. Some of you hang a huge question mark on your intelligence when you defend ijiots that turned this countrys politics into a primordial contest between waring ethnicities. Nzeogwu didn't just wake up one morning and started killing people. From 1964 to 66, operation weties in the west, orchestrated by Sarduanas/Balewas NPCs deadly alliance with Akintola has sent awolowo to jail, decapitated AG, corrupted the army, brought back the british through the back door and ultimately led to the killing of thousands. . This was/is the fact the op won't mention. . The military officers killed by Nzeogwu and co were in bed with these political leaders whose diabolical politics was setting the young independent country on fire. Time was given for them to see reason and retrace their steps, they didnt.

The 1964 elections were so massively rigged by balewa, akintola and the sarduana that Zik as the president, refused to invite the so called winners to form the government for months. Infact, it is a great injustice to history that these days, we seem to willfully villify Nzeogwu and co for trying to arrest anarchy while making little or no mention of the fact that the country was imploding slowly as a result of balewas tribally driven blood gulping politics. What we see these days are peacefull pictures of balewa and sons resting in bauchi, nobody shows us the endless streets of ibadan ,strewn and littered with corpses.. . Nzeogwu as a great revolutionary should have maimed more. That way, counter revolutionaries like murtala, babangida, buhari and danjuma, who usurped power 6 months later and turned Nigeria into an eyesore would have been taken care of.

Duru1:


I guess you reside in one.

Duru1:


This is the first sentence of the thread: "After independence, a political alliance made between the leading Hausa and Igbo political parties, which ruled Nigeria from 1960 to 1966 had excluded the mainstream Yoruba parties under Awolowo". Please note that I was not born yesterday. If NPC and NCNC were not inferred in your previous post, can you expatiate the followings: a political alliance made between the leading Hausa and Igbo political parties. Were you referring to APC and PDP in that condescending statement?

baralatie:

did the coup arrest anarchy or it created a further anarchy!
that is what this tread is addressing and if by their actions a further anarchy ensured.
is it not better to state the obvious that the goal of the pursuit of ethnic divide does not work!

owobokiri:


Nzeogwu was a patriotic nationalist determined to rid Nigeria of fulani hegemonistic trappings. .

naijaking1:
So if 4 or 5 young Igbo officers staged a coup, killed mostly non-Igbos, how did that transcend into killing EVERY Igbo person at sight
Please don't go into that usually laughable reason on how some Igbos were seen jubliating, dancing and sing Ewu n'ebe akwa, and turning the volumes of their radios high: as reasons to officially launch a genocide against the Igbo people.

naijaking1:


Everytime a group fells slighted, what do they do?
The master minds of those terroristic genocidal killings are still around today, living big, and making all sorts of childish excuses to justify their action.
Unfortunately, the nation will never move forward in peace, justice, and progress until those basic evils are addressed--history tells us so.

vicadex07:
Lol u mean members of a nationality can plan the murder of just one person...the president of usa without devastating consequences to all of its citizens by and large. Remeber 9/11 and what happened to afghanistan and iraq.

carnegiefan:


So now you are comparing what happened between different nations to what happened within same nation, among same citizens? You see why any intelligent eastern Nigerian will NEVER believe in Nigeria. We won't because the noisiest proponents of it don't believe in it. lol
One always have to wait patiently for a hint from their forked tongues and hopefully be intelligent enough to analyze the duplicitous and fallacious arguments to decipher the real truth.
Funny people.

micklplus:


I had already said the happening at that time was rather unfortunate.