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dukie25:
If care is not taken, battle between Bubu and Tinubu might be the start of civil war.
Anyone thinking Tinubu is happy not getting a fair share of the present Looting going on in Abuja is high on Remi's butt plug.

which civil war? Any nonsense from tinubu and he will be in jail the next second

This man should go prepare his defence in his case with EFCC.

Stupid mallam. I don't think he knows wat he's saying

Nepotism and tribalism have been the order of the day since time immemorial. This country was built on a faulty foundation and that is why the different ethnic groups can't trust each other.
If a little quarrel can precipitate into a coup that later resulted to a civil war, then govt. officials and elected representatives should be wary of bad actions like election rigging, intimidating oppositions, unlawful detention etc that happened there to avoid repeating it.

AtlanticBreeze:

which civil war? Any nonsense from tinubu and he will be in jail the next second

Hmmm

What is this shameless Yam eater saying??

pentag0nal:
Facts have emerged of the factors which led to January 15, 1966 coup.

This, according Dr Tanko Yakassai, an active political player in the First Republic having held several national positions in the defunct Northern Elements Peoples Union, NEPU, was as a result of the battle between the Awolowo and Akintola factions.

In this interview published by Vanguard, the former National Financial Secretary, National Youth Leader, National Organising Secretary and subsequently National Secretary of the Aminu Kano led party expatiated on the factors that led to the January 15, 1966 coup and the consequences thereafter.

You were very much around in 1966. Was there any need for the coup of that year?

No, and I said it in my autobiography because, the only argument was that there were political crises in Western Nigeria between two factions of the Action Group AG -the Awolowo group and that of Akintola.

Of course, that crisis was serious but it was only limited to areas around Ibadan and Ijebu-Ode. Then, in Tiv division, there was crisis between supporters of the AG and UMBC and the result was that the crisis in these two places led to some killings, but the rest of the country was in peace.

The pretext the military used was that they took over power in order to quell those two crises in those areas. But if you look at the consequences of their actions -all they wanted to do was to save lives, but the coup led to the civil war and a rough estimate of the number of people killed on both sides during the war was five million which was not even the accurate figure.

So, if you came to save less than a hundred lives and you ended up killing over five million people, would you call that intervention justified? The coup was not necessary, but it was part of the process of development. You see, what brought about it was the quarrel in the Action Group, but even that quarrel, according to insiders, was not “national”.

People said it was a quarrel between the wife of the AG leader, Chief Awolowo and the wife of the man who succeeded him, his deputy, Chief Akintola and the reason for the fight was that when Awolowo was the Premier, the allegation was that his wife was getting contracts for the supply of exercise books and reading materials in primary and secondary schools and that when he left power and was succeeded by his deputy, the wife of the deputy insisted that the contract should be shared between her and Mrs Awolowo.

That led to a quarrel between the two wives and eventually it became a quarrel between two giants which led to the break-up of the party, but the public view of the crisis was that Akintola was of the opinion that the only way for the Yorubas to be in the mainstream of Nigerian politics was to cooperate with the northern leaders.

Awolowo was opposed to that and the crisis led to the split of the party at their convention in Jos, I think in 1962 or thereabout. That was what led to the crisis and also that was the excuse given by the military to take over power.

In essence, could that be the beginning of our setback in our quest for true democracy?

In our march towards perfecting democratic rule, the military intervention was the main cause of our setback. The first one of 1966 and the second one of 1983 when Buhari overthrew Shagari.

We have had 16 straight years of civilian rule. Do you foresee any possible military incursion in the nearest future?

Well, I am not God; only God can tell what would happen in the future but, at times the disenchantment and dissatisfaction within the society at large, could affect the psyche of the different segments of the society, the military also included. For instance, there is widespread poverty and lack money in circulation in the country now. People, hardly are able to have enough to take care of themselves and their dependents.

The military took over in 1966 believing that they could stop the killings in some parts of the West, but in the end they created a condition for the civil war. When the price of oil came down from $45 to about $7 per barrel in 1982/83, Buhari and his group thought that if they took over power, they would be able to handle the situation. This was exactly why they overthrew Shagari.

I read Buhari’s broadcast and he talked of corruption but there was no corruption because I just went through the list of members of Shagari’s cabinet, aides, ministers, advisers, assistants and others, and I think we were 75 or so. Throughout the two-year period of the military tribunal, only five people were indicted. Most of those convicted were state government officials but people at the centre, the majority of them, were not indicted and so we cannot describe that regime as corrupt.

The corruption that we are now talking about was exacerbated by the military from 1983 to date. Even the misfortune we had was that when this country was going back to civilian rule, power was handed over by the military to a retired military officer and therefore he ran the system with a military psyche.

Now, he handpicked Yar’Adua and after he died, he (Obasanjo) manoeuvred to get Jonathan to take over with the hope that he would continue to dictate from the background. He amended the constitution of his party to make himself the life-chairman of the Board of Trustees BOT.

This was after he had sold everything salable to his kitchen cabinet boys and when Yar’Adua came, he realized that life could not continue that way and he decided to reverse the sales of many of those properties and other policies. When Jonathan succeeded Yar’Adua, Obasanjo also hoped that he would stay in his Ota Farm to be dictating things to Jonathan because dictatorship is part of the military psyche and they live by directing their subordinates.

https://www.naij.com/697044-must-read-tanko-yakassai-reveals-battle-awolowo-akintola-led-1966-coup.html

DOMINIQUE, LALASTICLALA, SEUN.

ladies be ruining careers and destroying peace since the beginning of time.

kadas01:
Oga Tanko, you can lie o!

That coup was never "nationalistic" in outlook!

It was the "exemption" of a particular ethnic group and the "targeted killings" of other ethnic nationalties that blew everything out of proportion!

..... Were u alive then? He's an old man wif a 1st hand info bout wat took place in 1966.. All u read was a report that's bn doctored by some people... Smh for u

Yerubas and women! So na women make these men dey fight?

Another version created.. Yakkasi your history is not acceptable, we have read many that are close to the truth of the matter ,this yours is far to it..

You this Tanko, you are a bloody liar. Just keep shut if you do not know what to say.

[size=18pt]Yakassai go and face your charges with the EFCC, You collected money from Col. Dasuki (rtd ) but you were denying. You and Chief Anthony Anenih ( Mr Fix it ) should be retired from public life by now but you are still following your grand children to drag the meat that falls from the master's table. You both are asslickers all for money [/size]

Lobbish

Soon they would tell us its Don Jazzy and Olamide gf beef that caused the civil war

In other words the problems started from the west side.


Come and see attack.

This is an old interview, not a current one how come nairaland is recycling old stories these days

Nigeria of 1960s is still the same in 2016. Nigerians had never been united.

Dr Tanko Yakassai when are you going to refund that Dasuki blood money?

Senile old man, all these people are dead and they can't defend themselves.

Was it Awolowo that asked Nzegwu to kill Sardauna and leave ZIK, kill Tafawa Balewa in cold blood and install Agui ironsi?

Rubbish.

First it started with Akintola wife and Awolowo wife, may it not start again with yemi and tinubu's wives. Youroba women get power under their. ...

Thank God this man is not from the east,so if you like hear the truth.

Tanko Yakassai, though was there in the first Republic, we too were alive too though young. Nevertheless, we were hearing on goings. However to show that Yakassai was not sincere and truthful there are some indisputable facts. One, Awolowo was jailed in 1963 for a phantom coup and the real coup took place in 1966. Was Awolowo fighting Akintola from gaol and enlisting the support of the Army? Out of the five Majors that masterminded the coup only one was Yoruba, Major Ademulegun. Is Tanko suggesting that the coup was organised by Ibos to save Awolowo, a Yoruba? If yes why was Awolowo not released from gaol by Ironsi until Yakubu Gowon came in through a counter coup and released Awolowo? Even in death efforts have not ceased to discredit Awolowo but they are poor, thoughtless and incredibly silly efforts. Facts indeed! Anyway nothing can be more fallacious. By the way when did "People said" become a statement of facts. That is mere, speculative hearsay. Read the interview again. I quote copiously below:

"People said it was a quarrel between the wife of the AG leader, Chief Awolowo and the wife of the man who succeeded him, his deputy, Chief Akintola and the reason for the fight was that when Awolowo was the Premier, the allegation was that his wife was getting contracts for the supply of exercise books and reading materials in primary and secondary schools and that when he left power and was succeeded by his deputy, the wife of the deputy insisted that the contract should be shared between her and Mrs Awolowo."

Check http://ayosogunro1./2015/01/16/january-15-1966-50-years-after

Thank u tanko for laying the truth bare, not the lies and half truth that lagos ibadan express-way junk media houses sold to Southwest gullibles. The fact that awolowo and akintola could not control their greedy wives Quarrel which spiral out of control and led to the many killing and crises in western Nigeria and subsequently to the coup of 1966. Awolowo and akintola are sorry ars leaders who should be relegated to dustbin of history.

You yoruba guys will always go to any length to defend this una pa Awo dat so craved to satisfy his selfish desires of ruling Nigeria... Unfortunately for him he never did and d ojukwu u guys so vilify was d person dat released him from prison, shiooor on you yoruba folks, u guys are the height of hypocrisy and eye service, continue in your quest of being errand boys to d northerners.

God knows the truth.

May God lifts any curse that might have been placed upon this nation.
can you imagine, 6 years after independence, because of selfishness of our leaders, they started killing themselves to the extent that soldiers had to take over
Truly, Nigeria needs leadership deliverance ...

so it is not a new thing for the price of oil to always crash, but women shall. just for exercise books contract the two women made their hubby to cause problems
how i wish H.I.D was alive when this man made this confession

samplegirl:
In other words the problems started from the west side.


Come and see attack.

Oh, so you didn't know ? How do you think the term (WIDE WIDE WEST) came to be ?