SirToby:

Ojukwu is as stupid and confused as his brain washed followers. See them hailing saraki and Atiku and screaming biafra or death with other mouth. Those guys are just idiotic and i spit on them..

Chemcrown:


Then we are lost on who to believe on Who released the sage - AWOLOWO. You may help yourself by reading Adeyinka interview on how he clamour for the release of Awolowo (make google your best friend).
But let reasoning prevail: if " Ojukwu, Aguyi and Fagbuyi were in the know to handover power to democratic dispensation with Awo being a major beneficiary." according to your 'theory', the northern coup plotter (Gowon is one of them, I believe you agree oooo) wouldn't have love to see Awolowo at all let alone of absorbing him into their cabinet, giving him the mandate to head peace committee. The person you assume Ojukwu and co wanted to hand over power to.
Bro, please be logical now. Thanks

Caseless:
Awo is great!

GreenCap:


greater than 6 (Zik, Bello, Belewa, Okpara, Osadebe and Akintola combined)

just 1 man gave these godfathers sleepless nights.

they were luring him to join them

but he beat them all

and they jailed him

because they dare not kill him.

i prostrate for Awolowo.

had Britain not caged him, the likes of Nkrumah and Lumumba may not fit in his shoes.

Chemcrown:


Uncle, where you got it wrong most was " he had to flee to fight another day". He never fought another day ooo, he died with a Nigerian in body, soul and spirit And nigeria national anthem was song on his corpse.

T9ksy:



fight another day, ke? The cantankerous orangutan-look alike came back to lick the ar..ses of the same people he claimed

wanted to wipe his people off the face of the earth. The same people he vowed to only "deal with on the battlefield".

naijaking1:


This where you have to reason deeper instead of taking things at face value.
They knew Awo's potential, they also knew his ambitions and the plans by the Ojukwu group. What a better way than to mix up the 2, get what you want, give Awo what h e wanted-even temporarily, and then declare victory.

So, they "releasesd" Awo, absorbed him into their cabinet, and promised to hand over to him in 3 years, after the violent post war condition of the country is better stabilized for a civilian---that's the lie lie they told him. Then, after 3 years, they will "unconditionally hand over power to him!

If that had happened, Awo would have been president in 1973! But you know Awo was never president.
1973 came, and went, Gowon, and his group, invented many reasons why they could not hand over to Awo, it was postponed to the following year.
The following year came and went too, and then you know what happened.
Awo left the cabinet in frustration, because then he knew cleared that there was no plan to hand over to him.
1975, the real Fulani mafia pushed out their hitherto moderate, but obstructing middle belt clan, and finally clinched power with Murtala Mohammed in power.

Now, compared to what Ojukwu, Ironsi, and Fajuyi had planned. Awo would have been president from 1968 if the Fulani mafia had not somehow managed to change to focus from corruption, inaptitude, and tribalism to singling out Igbos as the devil that had befallen Nigeria.

Awo will never be president of Nigeria again, never, but we can at least read history correctly.

T9ksy:



fight another day, ke? The cantankerous orangutan-look alike came back to lick the ar..ses of the same people he claimed

wanted to wipe his people off the face of the earth. The same people he vowed to only "deal with on the battlefield".

Chemcrown:


Sir, na so the person I quote talk am oooo, say Ojukwu fled to fight another day oooo. I come dey surprise say which fight he fight again. Or che na the one wey he fought against death and death still win am he dey talk about?

@ bolded..........................abi o, jare!!!


When there is no shred of evidence to buttress their phantom claim they still persist in regurgitating the same fallacy.

Same way they now call yorubas, "afonja slaves" simply because SOME yorubas decided to align with the north for once in our over five decades of existence as an independent nation. Meanwhile, there exist incontrovertible evidence that their mischevious fathers have always been willing to lick the fulanis' backsides right from the 1st republic when am american-trained doctor opted to lick a mere grade II teachers' ar..se.

Even after the supposedly genocidal war, the fulanis waged against them during the Oil/biafran war not forgetting the "pogrom" the same fulanis unleashed on their sorry fl.a.t tops that finally culminated into the war, another american-trained doctor from their neck of the woods willing chose to be seconded to another grade II teacher (seems like their so educated elite have a penchant for grade II fulani teachers' behind ) in the second republic. Many other instances abounds where these clones have literally bent backwards to serve their masters up north but we never for once called them "fulani slaves" o!

It is FACTUAL also that these same fulanis have been slaughtering their kinsmen up north like 'roaches even before we got independence yet it was their leaders that were busy shouting "One Nigeria" like inebriated newts whilst other regional leaders were pleading caution.

However their new singsong now, is "afonja slaves".


It is highly impossible to argue or debate with a CLONE who has been classically CONDITIONED.

Strikethem:
Yes, the igbos know this, that is why they hate and envy him, evening after 30years of his demise.

phase1:


Pass JAMB first before learning to insult people online.

By the way, your grammar is atrocious. Do you attend Ile kewu Arabic school in Oshogbo?

Tallesty1:
What's this one saying sef?

Roger3D:
You cant totally place the responsibility of the concentration of power at the center on Ironsi alone. Remember that the structural hierarchy of the military and its command structure is highly centralized. I doubt if there has been any military government in modern times that can operate a government with a weak center

tishbite41:
afonja hypocrites, ojukwu ,not gowon, released awo

phase1:


He didn't address it to Col. Ojukwu then because Gowon and his gang of usurpers have not taken power illegitimately.

We'll keep saying it for 500th time. Ojukwu was Governor of the Eastern region including calabar where Awo was held, he never recognized gowon and therefore could not have taken orders from Gowon. Stop being ungrateful, Ojukwu RELEASED Awo. Even Governors today in less federated nigeria have the power to give clemency to prisoners talkless of powerful regional governors of those days.

tyson99:

Sharap I am Yoruba and honestly this man led us to where we are today he could have allowed us to split then but greediness won't and he swindled money too so not moved




I am waiting for bashing

phase1:


You are demented, there is nobody who 'terrorized' the british government for independence like Igboa like Dr Zik with his pen. Educated in the USA, he was a non-conformist to british colonial ideals.

It's the reason the British ensured the Igbos never got to the crux of political power when they finally handed over. Which Awo fought for independence? You yoromuslimz and your funny revisionism are dead on arrival.

Djinja:

Mumu, who detained Awo in the first place? Was it not Gowon's brethren? Thinking upside down as usual

chikarism:

d coup plotters actually intended install Awo but Ironsi truncated the coup.
it's a general knowledge that coup was not a success

PrecisionFx:

Gowon didn't release Awolowo from prison, General Odimegwu Ojukwu did.

the plan was to install Awolowo as president, that's why Yoruba soldiers were part of the coup.

phase1:


Your yoruba skull is filled with clumpy palm oil. The British were not prepared to give independence to nigeria without the 'good boy' conformist, indirectly ruled north being ready. They made it clear it was going to be handed to the north (who gave them lesser colonial problems) from the word go. If the north had backed down from the 1960 date, the rest of the country had to wait till whatever date they deemed fit. [b]Hotblooded Zik[/], Enahoro and co. were not ready to wait. 1960 it was and they took the opportunity with both hands and legs.

You are not well lettered and brushing you up on history lessons will be definitely exhilarating if you don't do a brain transplant with at least that of a monkey, the brain in your skull is definitely inferior to the I.Q of a rotten amala plate.

emmanuelex1:
Please can a president of a federal republic release a prisoner in a region he has no control at a particular time? I may not be Igbo but I think Ojukwu could have killed Awo if he wanted to.

LBanks:


At least he fought before he ran.

That history is better than the history of Brigadier Ogundipe who even peed on his pants for fear of his life when Ojukwu was advocating for him to succeed the assassinated Aguiyi-Ironsi, being the second highest ranking military officer then after Ironsi

Ogundipe is the biggest coward in the history of mankind, I wonder how such a person even got into the military in the first place with such cowardly tendencies

Deadlytruth:


How could a set of coupists planning to replace a federal arrangement with a unitary government have rooted for the most committed apostle of federalism to head the unitary government?

Deadlytruth:


Nzeogwu the only honest and frank member of the plot didn't insinuate let alone say so in any of the several interviews he granted to the press before his abrupt death the following year.

Secondly, Awolowo was known all over as the most consummate and an unrepentant federalist. So how could a set of coup plotters whose self confessed mission was to replace the existing federal arrangement with a unitary one have rooted for a federalist like Awolowo to head their unitary government? Were those coupists, some of whom were even university graduates, so daft not to see the ideological contradiction in such plan?
This story of "the plan to make Awolowo the Prime Minister" was an afterthought fabrication aimed at mitigating the openly tribal execution pattern of the coup.

PrecisionFx:




Deadly Truth, Ur speaking outta gross ignorance.

This lie has expired, all sane people (especially we the youths) in Nigeria now knows the truth n have long accepted it.

Federalism was not ended by General Aguiyi Ironsi, Rather it was ended by General Yakubu Gowon wen he created states. From the day Ironsi became the head of states until he died, We still had 3 regions n each region semt 30% of their generated revenue to the Centre n kept back 70% to develop their region.

Aguiyi Ironsi brought all military n police sectors to the full control of the central military government in order to be able to maintain peace in the country for the time being. Aguiyi Ironsi never touched resource control until he died.

Aguiyi is well educated unlike Gowon, Abacha, Buhari, Babangida etc that are on the other side so he will never be idiotic like them n end regional government n resource control.

From 1914 till now, The eastern region was at least 2 - 3 times wealthier than North n SW combined together, Mo sane IGBO man would sacrifice regional government n bring together resources of the igbos to share wit Hausa n Yoruba who were making very little money (only Palm oil gotten from eastern nigeria made more cash than ALL the revenue Yoruba region were utilizing at the time.


Wake up from this stupid sleep, General Aguiyi Ironsi never ended regional gov't n resource control, Gowon did.

PrecisionFx:




Deadly Truth, Ur speaking outta gross ignorance.

This lie has expired, all sane people (especially we the youths) in Nigeria now knows the truth n have long accepted it.

Federalism was not ended by General Aguiyi Ironsi, Rather it was ended by General Yakubu Gowon wen he created states. From the day Ironsi became the head of states until he died, We still had 3 regions n each region semt 30% of their generated revenue to the Centre n kept back 70% to develop their region.

Aguiyi Ironsi brought all military n police sectors to the full control of the central military government in order to be able to maintain peace in the country for the time being. Aguiyi Ironsi never touched resource control until he died.

Aguiyi is well educated unlike Gowon, Abacha, Buhari, Babangida etc that are on the other side so he will never be idiotic like them n end regional government n resource control.

From 1914 till now, The eastern region was at least 2 - 3 times wealthier than North n SW combined together, Mo sane IGBO man would sacrifice regional government n bring together resources of the igbos to share wit Hausa n Yoruba who were making very little money (only Palm oil gotten from eastern nigeria made more cash than ALL the revenue Yoruba region were utilizing at the time.


Wake up from this stupid sleep, General Aguiyi Ironsi never ended regional gov't n resource control, Gowon did.