APCLyingBastard:
The man Awolowo will later be released from prison by the Gowon govt to which he willingly served under.

Compared to his peers (Zik, Bello and Belewa) this was to say the least shameless.

Awolowo serving under Gowon was akin to a lord of a manor being deposed by his security guard only for the guard to later engage the lord as his butler.

It doesn't stop there....

Awolowo will later play the most reprehensible and slanderous opposition to another civilian govt.

The coup plotters got Awolowo's blessing after they toppled Shagari.

When it became clear that he had been duped by the Buhari regime and left out in the cold, the same Awolowo will throw his weight and support for IBB.

Babangida knew better and during his regime kept close surveillance on Awolowo as he knew very well that Awolowo's burning ambition to rule Nigeria made him a potential enemy.

Just like back in 1962, the IBB govt was able to get a mole into Awolowo's inner circle from where he was informed of a coup plot in the making by Awolowo.

Awolowo can thus be singled out as one of the main corrupting influences in Nigeria.

The likes of the Sarduna championed the ultra conservative northern culture and it's isolation. Zik was a pragmatic politician seeking political solutions (even though flawed) for political hurdles he encountered. But Awolowo on the other hand was quick to resort to extra criminal measures to consolidate his power base and lust. This is evident on the lingering crisis in western Nigeria under Awolowo after indepence and the successive coup attempts and uprisings that he gave his blessings.

The man was a snake .

APCLyingBastard:
Awolowo was the first to consider a coup in Nigeria.

Awolowo was convicted for treason and was serving his sentence at Calabar prison before the Jan. 15 Coup.

Awolowo will stand trail alongside 23 others including Enaharo.

Enaharo will later escape to Ghana and confess that indeed there was a plot to by the AG led by Awolowo to form a militia to overthrow the govt.

Soyinka was deported to Nigeria by the UK govt to stand trial alongside Awolowo for attempting to overthrow the govt.

The SW political class lobbied the military to overthrow the NPC govt.

Awolowo was held in high esteem by the likes of Nzeagwu .

The Majors had planned to release Awolowo and prop him up as national president .

Nzeagwu like most of his pairs in the Nigerian army officer cadre where university graduates with known leftist tendencies.

The likes of Ifeanjuwa was a graduate of the University of Ibadan who will later join the Army after the British began the Nigerization of the military.

Ifeanjuwa met Wole Soyinka in Ibadan.

The Pyrates Confratenity was formed not as a university society but as a leftist recruiting base.

The likes of Ifeanjuwa got radicalized with leftist ideology on campus.

Maj.Gen Ironsi once complained to a close confidant that he asked for soldeirs and they gave him politicians in army uniform.

This was in response to the increasing partisan nature the newly commissioned university graduate officers like Nzeagwu openly condemned the govt.

Emeka Ojukwu was a member of the UK communist party which he joined when studying at Oxford .

Emeka Ojukwu returned to Nigeria and enlisted as an NCO in the army before the Nigerization policy of the British.

Emeka Ojukwu enlisted as a conscript because he felt as a native he will be effective staging a mutiny against the colonial govt not as an officer but as an enlisted man.

Ojukwu was considered dangerous by the US govt because of his communist leanings. This is why they never supported Biafra.

Leftist ideology was what led to the disaster of the civil war.

Ojukwu was never interested in Biafra but to govern Nigeria as it's central govt.

The Ibos pre-1966 where more open to one Nigeria than they are now.

The counter coup of July, 1966 changed all that.

The north never wanted a central govt and have always opposed any form of intrusion into their highly ultra conservative society by the trousered natives to the south.

The Nationalization decree which turned Nigeria from a republic to a federation of states under a powerful head of state was opposed by the north.

In so many ways, the south caused the problems we face now.

Rather than Zik and Awolowo to swallow their pride and get a coalition going , these two men will struggle to play second fiddle to the north.

The NPC (Northern People's Congress) was unapologetically a regional party as their names implied and they never even bothered to field any candidate in the south.

In 1953 after the NPC parliamenters staged a walkout after Enaharo brought up the motion of independence, they were stoned and insulted the next day by hired Lagos thugs.

A week later the western region Action Group (AG) decided to hold a party rally in the north. The north repaid them back in their wn coin and had the crowd stone them. The skirmish will later escalate to killing innocent Christians and southerners (mainly Ibos) by the almajiri mob.

KwaraRat:
Awolowo, frustrated from not able to clinch central authority began plotting to undermine and overthrow the Tafawa Belewa govt.

In one of his treason plots, a loyalist present during the meeting, had on him a tape recorder which he used to tape Awolowo plotting to overthrow the Bwill later turn state evidence providing the tape to the Special E-Branch of the Nigerian police.

This same govt witness testified against Awolowo during his treason trial.

Awolowo's plans to overthrow and undermine the Tafawa Belewa govt ended with one of his loyalists betraying him.

Fast forward to the IBB era, Awolowo was at it again potting to undermine and overthrow the IBB military regime only for him to be betrayed again by another of his loyalists. He was presented with evidence of his folly by IBB and presented with two options ; go on exile or face treason charges which would have surely led to Awo getting executed by firing squad. He chickened out and took his life by ingesting rat poison.

Recall that Awo played s huge role in villifying the democratically elected civilian govt of Shehu Shagari by publishing and spreading propaganda on the pages of the Yoruba dominated print media claiming the Shagari govt was extremely corrupt and weak. This was what gave that goat buhari the audacity and impetus to overthrow Shagari.