1966 Coup: “The Igbos Now Vindicated And Exonerated”

26th February 2016 News, Politics 1 Comment
1966 Coup: “The Igbos Now Vindicated And Exonerated”Olusegun-Obasanjo



Let the truth be told. The People involved in that so called 1966 “Igbo coup” were:

1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (Midwest Region Igbo)

2. Major Adewale Ademoyega (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”

3. Capt. G. Adeleke (Western Region – Yoruba).

4. Maj. Ifeajuna (Midwestern Region – Igbo).

5. Lt. Fola Oyewole (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “The reluctant rebel”.

6. Lt. R. Egbiko (Midwestern Region – Ishan).

7. Lt. Tijani Katsina (Northern Region – Hausa/Fulani).

8. Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Western Region – Yoruba).

9. Capt. Gibson Jalo (Northern Region – Bachama).

10. Capt. Swanton (Northern Region – Middle Belt).

11. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Midwest – Urhobo).

12. Lt. Dag Warribor (Midwest – Ijaw)

13. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Northern Nigeria -Hausa)

14. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Northern Nigeria-Tiv).

The reason for calling the 1966 Coup an Igbo exercise is because the government of Nigeria has refused teaching Nigerian History in our schools. And core North has been busy misinforming Nigerians that the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.
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Yoruba – Igbo fact sheet. This article has no tribal sentiments. Pls add ur own facts if u have any. History will always tell us what happened.

1. Azikiwe defeated Awolowo to become the first Nigerian Premier of Western Nigeria (present Southwest plus Edo and Delta States). Awolowo instead of forming Opposition, rather formed Egbe Omo Yoruba and used it to intimidate Yorubas that won election on NCNC platform to cross carpet and join him against Azikiwe. This was the first parliamentary coup in Nigeria.

2. Awolowo from then on, started indoctrination of Yorubas against the “threat of Igbo domination”. That is how the incurable seed of fear of Igbos was sown in the psychic of Yorubas which Yorubas later sold to other groups through Yoruba control of the media for decades.

3. Alhaji Tafawa Balewa , Nigeria ‘s first Prime minister could not tolerate Awolowo’s treacherous and inordinate ambition of acquiring political power by all means and at any cost. So, he threw Awolowo into prison for treason.

4. Samuel Ladoke Akintola who replaced Awolowo as Premier of Western Nigeria tried to destroy Awolowo’s political grip on Yorubaland by forming a party to takeover Western Nigeria in alliance with the Hausa-Fulani oligarch who Awolowo despised as a backward race. Consequently, Yorubaland went ablaze in revolt against Akintola’s plot. Law and order completely broke down in Western Nigeria. Wole Soyinka wore a mask and forced announcers at Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation to declare that Akintola’s government was a fraud.

5. Yet, Tafawa Balewa refused to declare state of emergency in Western Nigeria in order to keep Akintola as a proxy for Hausa-Fulani interest. This was the MAIN reason Yoruba graduates in the Army were the brains behind the coup led by Chukwuma Nzeogwu who happened to be Igbo.

6. As Wole Soyinka and even Obasanjo acknowledged, Nzeogwu ‘s coup was widely accepted by a vast majority of Nigerians across regional, religious and ethnic divides. 9. But the dissatisfied Hausa-Fulani oligarchy who had majority in Nigerian Army infantry used their puppets, Yakubu Gowon, Theophilus Danjuma and co to overthrow General Ironsi.

7. In order to win support of Yorubas, Gowon released Awolowo from prison. The Hausa-Fulani knew Awolowo’s fear of Igbo as the only group that stood against his ambition to power. Gowon therefore quickly made a deal with Awolowo which in effect was that power would rotate between the North and the West (Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba) in post war Nigeria if Awolowo convinced Yorubas to join the North in fighting Igbos.

8. The Nigerian Army was consequently split into two divisions: the northern sector division commanded by Hausa-Fulani and the southern sector division, commanded by Yorubas.

9. Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967). 14. Awolowo was made Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council and Finance Minister. All federal government owned banks in Nigeria at the time which included the Central Bank and First Bank, were under Awolowo and Yoruba management. It was a deal Awolowo could not resist. The man was an unscrupulous Machivellian anyway.

10. The Igbos were eventually defeated and Yorubas became champions of nationalism.

11.
Awolowo tried to make sure no Igbo man or woman would ever be more than acfinancial destutute let alone have the financial resources to rival a Yoruba

12. To achieve his objective of permanent Yoruba supremacy, Awolowo insisted that every bank account owned by an Igbo, regardless of how much was in it before the declaration of Biafra, would only be replaced with twenty pounds! He instructed Yoruba Permanent Secretaries who took over the Federal Civil service when Igbos left, to make sure that Igbo senior civil servants were not reinstated but to rather retire those who could not be dismissed as rebels. The same policy obtained in the Armed Forces of Nigeria and Police .

13. The Igbo were not only made pariahs but also financial destitutes.

14. Every house and industry in Igbo city was destroyed by war. Schools were closed for 3 years and many were razed to the ground.

15. Awolowo masterminded the indiginization policy by which Yorubas bought over all companies in Nigeria using money readily made available to them by the banks under their control. The Igbos were excluded.

16. They rejoiced and relaxed and complaisantly asked: “How could Igbos ever rear their ugly heads up again”? Sure, if that had happened to Yorubas or any other ethnic group, that would be their end. But as Awolowo rightly feared, we happen to be Ndi Igbo.

17. The shooting war ended 45 years ago and we are still here. We have survived all policy shenanigans contrapted by treacherous Yoruba masterminds and executed by their Hausa-Fulani allies.

18. In frustration, they have realized that we are who we are. Imagine their frustration! Never mind all Yoruba masterminded psychological attacks on Igbos disparaging us in any way they can.

19. Yes, Federal government policy has made them the tycoons of oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing. Oh, their Hausa-Fulani cum military allies gave Nigeria to Obasanjo for 8 years in keeping faith with their alliance.

20. Bola Tinubu is struggling for Awolowo mantle by forming an alliance of etho- religious jingoistic to ensure power keeps rotating between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Where is the position of the Igbo and other tribes in Nigeria.

What is ur sincere opinion?

The truth most surly surface gradually.

God bless you op!

My goodness what brilliance!!!!!! God bless you Manx you earned a new stripe today....the enemies of the truth can distort history as much as they want, but the truth always resurfaces! deep down they know they are nothing without Ndigbo, our superiority isn't built on delusions of grandeur, it's simply embeeded in our confidence as a people and our uncanny abilities to survive against all odds, no ethnic group in Nigeria would have gone through a quarter of what the Igbos went through in the civil war alone and still staged a comeback like we did, I repeat NONE.

Kudos OP.

Hmmmmm

V. Brilliant piece,loaded with facts!

The children of hate from waste-land will surely avoid this thread

God bless u Op

I love the way Igbos have been seriously pounded against the ropes with facts and now have to lie to deny a coup they were so proud of and boasted about in the North, ultimately leading to an instilling of a murderous respect by their Northern hosts.

I like the way the OP has held back on the names of the actual planners of the coup, save for Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna and Ademoyega, and has instead populated the list with all manner of irrelevant foot soldiers who only got orders from their Igbo commanders on the night of the coup.

What about these Igbo names with senior rank who planned and directed the execution of the coup, and the assassination of the victims.
Maj Don Okafor
Maj Onwuatuegwu
Maj Humphrey Chukwuka
Maj Chris Anuforo
Capt Emmanuel Nwobosi
Capt Ben Gbulie.

So of all the 9 names above, how many are Igbo and how many are West or North?

I also read from the OP that Awolowo created Egbe Omo Oduduwa (which metamorphosed into Action Group) as a response to Azikiwe's NCNC winning majority votes in the Western Region elections?
If this bullshit theory is true, under what party did Awolowo and his supporters contest the elections, since the association was yet to be formed, talkless of becoming Action Group?

For a fact, the Egbe Omo Oduduwa had been formed long before the elections of 1952. It was formed in 1945 while Awolowo was a student in London. The association set up Action Group by 1951 in preparation for the regional elections.
NCNC won a majority, while the 2nd placed AG got the support of other parties to form a government with Awolowo becoming the 1st Premier of the Western Region, while Azikiwe who would now be in opposition chose to run back to the East and upstage the 1st Eastern Premier in the person of Eyo Ita, and made sure he became the 2nd Premier of the Eastern Region.

Till today, the NCNC apologists cannot tell us the names of their members that cross-carpeted to swell the ranks of the AG. Azikiwe simply felt he won a majority and would form a government ahead of the AG. He seemed to have forgotten that other parties could team up to achieve a majority seat in a parliamentary democracy. I have ascribed this poor politics of Azikiwe to his American education that exposed him to Presidential Democracy, as opposed to the Parliamentary Democracy Awolowo and other Westerners were exposed to in Britain. Same flaw of Azikiwe would see him opting for the role of ceremonial President, when he could have formed a coalition with the fellow Southern Action Group, such that the NCNC with 2nd majority votes and AG with 3rd majority votes, could have formed the first federal government of Nigeria. Azikiwe's NCNC being the senior party of the coalition would have produced the Prime Minister and the AG would have produced the Deputy. The Northern NPC despite being the 1st majority would have become opposition party since they did not have an exclusive majority to form government.

It is a fact that David Cameron and the Conservative Party formed government with the Liberal Democrats despite both being 2rd and 3rd majority respectively. Labour Party that was 1st majority but not exclusive majority, refused to accede to the demands of the Liberal Democrats, who then teemed up with the Conservatives so that David Cameron could become Prime Minister of the UK ahead of Milliband of the Labour Party who had the highest number of parliamentary seats.


The poetic justice to all these is that the Igbos continue to suffer a lot of misery for the decisions they have made in the past.
They want to be out of Nigeria now, yet they rejected Awolowo's argument to include such clause while fighting for independence.
They detest the present central government where they have no political majority, but they established this unitary government under the Igbo Ironsi, forgetting they would not rule forever.
They detest any fellow Southerner aligning with the North, yet history tells us they forged the very first North-South/Muslim-Christian alliance in Nigeria.
They claim every military coup was to prevent an Igbo from potentially ruling the country, yet they forget they started coups in Nigeria, together with assassination of political and military leaders of other regions.

Other points stated by the OP only reflects the misery occasioned by the onset of the Ipobic Plague Disease.

9. Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967).

Of note is the statement that "Lagos a city built by the Igbos was ceded to the Yorubas".
Igbos are truly jokers. So as at 1967, Igbos had built Lagos as houseboys to my family?

I guess having served as houseboys to the British and Wealthy Yorubas in Lagos, the city should have been ceded to the refugee Igbos?
Yet they claim Azikiwe was wronged by Yorubas?
If he had become Premier of the West, I reckon Yorubas would be speaking Igbo now and with Igbo names?

They also hated Sir Ahmadu Bello for wanting what was best for his own people within their own region. This was a man who never pretended not to know the Igbos and their greed to claim everything as theirs.

The author was obviously high on strong Onitsha weed when penning that rubbish up there. And as per the coup, these people should quit trying to play with people's intelligence abeg. All the non-igbos that participated in that coup were clearly conned by the igbo masterminds into thinking it was a 'patriotic' move, when infact the planners never intended to touch any igbo premier or leader and eventually ensured that their kinsmen ended up as beneficiary. It was a well planned script on ifeajuna and nzeogwu's part. Obviously the supposedly 'marked' Eastern leaders (a la Azikiwe and Okpara) were tipped off ahead of time to ensure that none of them was killed -- Zik was conveniently out of the country (yeah, right). And to top it off another nepotistic kinsman of theirs , Ironsi, emerged as the beneficiary of the whole exercise. These are incontrovertible facts that most people know by now.

Igbos developed Lagos!?

What a joke.

Yaaayyy!!!!!!!!!

forgiveness:
Igbos developed Lagos!?

What a joke.

I tire for these miserable jokers ooo.

So a handful of Igbo houseboys eking a living in Lagos prior to 1967 developed the city such that when it became a state in 1967, it should have been an Igbo state far removed from the isolated Igboland that has no connection with it?

The Igbo man can never change his greedy ways and would always hate the Yorubas who manage to get things work for them easily despite the desperate manipulations by their Igbo adversaries who continue to look up to Yorubas and play catch up.

StOla:

What about these Igbo names with senior rank who planned and directed the execution of the coup, and the assassination of the victims.
Maj Don Okafor
Maj Onwuatuegwu
Maj Humphrey Chukwuka
Maj Chris Anuforo
Capt Emmanuel Nwobosi
Capt Ben Gbulie.

So of all the 9 names above, how many are Igbo and how many are West or North.

Note the name of the author of this book ==>

We yoruba muslims must lament against this thread for adding yoruba officer names to the list of coup plotters. If we had not claimed that the coup was an Igbo coup and tactfully removed the yoruba names. The hausas would have fried our buttocks all over yorubaland.

We lied against the Iboes because we were afraid of hausa and fulani. We already had brown roof refugee IDP camps in ibadan and osun. We didn't want more, that was why we lied against Iboes.

imhotep:

Note the name of the author of this book ==>

A name already well noted in my post.

He made sure he fought Ifeajuna when they were both in prison, owing to his tribal execution of what Ademoyega had thought was a nationalist cause.

AshiwajuFoward:
The author was obviously high on strong Onitsha weed when penning that rubbish up there. And as per the coup, these people should quit trying to play with people's intelligence abeg. All the non-igbos that participated in that coup were clearly conned by the igbo masterminds into thinking it was a 'patriotic' move, when infact the planners never intended to touch any igbo premier or leader and eventually ensured that their kinsmen ended up as beneficiary. It was a well planned script on ifeajuna and nzeogwu's part. Obviously the supposedly 'marked' Eastern leaders (a la Azikiwe and Okpara) were tipped off ahead of time to ensure that none of them was killed -- Zik was conveniently out of the country (yeah, right). And to top it off another nepotistic kinsman of theirs , Ironsi, emerged as the beneficiary of the whole exercise. These are incontrovertible facts that most people know by now.

See your daft logic, so why didn't this non Igbo soldiers then opt out by the time they realized it wasn't a nationalistic coup after all? A yoruba man by name of Adewale Ademoyega who was part of the coup even acknowledged in his book that every soldier regardless of tribe were enthusiastic about executing every objective of the coup to its last bullet, for goodness sake expand your horizon of knowledge for once and read more about the coup.

Honestly, this osu group of people are bunch of lousy jokers.

How can a bunch of villagers, whom it took decades of years to experienced civilization and social orientation developed a region that's been in existence,and experienced civilization far ahead of them?



Una region isn't developed una want to develop other region,ba?

This must be a joke of a decades. Nigeria isn't even developed.
Lmaoooo

midol:
We yoruba muslims must lament against this thread for adding yoruba officer names to the list of coup plotters. If we had not claimed that the coup was an Igbo coup and tactfully removed the yoruba names. The hausas would have fried our buttocks all over yorubaland.

We lied against the Iboes because we were afraid of hausa and fulani. We already had brown roof refugee IDP camps in ibadan and osun. We didn't want more, that was why we lied against Iboes.

I am enjoying your comedy, people like you make NL an interesting place to be.

AFI ' We' nah fah!

StOla:



A name already well noted in my post.

He made sure he fought Ifeajuna when they were both in prison, owing to his tribal execution of what Ademoyega had thought was a nationalist cause.

Yeah
Notice the title is "Why WE Struck"

StOla:


I tire for this miserable jokers ooo.

So a handful of Igbo houseboys eking a living in Lagos prior to 1967 developed the city such that when it became a state in 1967, it should have been an Igbo state far removed from the isolated Igboland that has no connection with it.

The Igbo man can never change his greedy ways and would always hate the Yorubas who manage to get things work for them easily despite the desperate manipulations by their Igbo adversaries who continue to look up to Yorubas and play catch up.

Play catch up to yoruba, what an insult! Tell me what facet of milestones yorubas have made that Igbos haven't made or even surpassed...draw out your index and back it up with statistics while I do mine, let me help you...is it in academia that you beat us? Sports, innovation? Civil service? National and international achievements? abeg what is there to play catch up to?? The civil war set the Igbos back to quarter of a decade, thanks to the redundant policies made by your government to reduce them to begging stragglers trooping to all parts of Nigeria to beg for crumbs..but God pass una, you know whose boss when quarter of a period after we are back to owing real Estates and landed properties all over the country while still maintaining a 99% control of our own economy back in the East, you say the East is ridden with poverty and all sorts of self-loathing lies to please yoruba Afonja worthless selves, but the indices of human and economic growth in the East says otherwise, we are still booming and blooming! Go to Nnewi, Onitsha, Owerri, Aba and other metropolitan cities in the East and see how monumental edifices of all sorts and styles spring up on every per square mile of space, I'm talking about mansions...small boys and real hard hustlers making it rain in the East, wealth is evenly distributed and one man alone provides water, tars the roads, and brings development to a whole community, cause that's how we roll in the East...we don't depend on government handouts like you leeches do in the South West and North, cause your cultures promote laziness and over dependence...we are superior to your kinds, we were the kings of the first republic and that's why you yorubas and Hausas were always scared of Igbo donination...cause we were achievers, Ogbeni the bar the Igbos have set is far higher than a million of your likes put together will ever reach, that's why we even come to your lands and dominate you...cause we are good at putting our interiors where they rightfully belongs even on their own supposed turf.

Qelvin:

See your daft logic, so why didn't this non Igbo soldiers then opt out by the time they realized it wasn't a nationalistic coup after all? A yoruba man by name of Adewale Ademoyega who was part of the coup even acknowledged in his book that every soldier regardless of tribe were enthusiastic about executing every objective of the coup to its last bullet, for goodness sake expand your horizon of knowledge for once and read more about the coup.

Of course my logic will be daft to one whose brain is partly missing owing to the flatness of your head. There's absolutely NOTHING 'daft' about my logic as history does support my assertions.

* Were notable Igbo leaders including the then Premier of the Eastern region not spared during the execution of the coup?

*Was Zik not conveniently out of the country when the coup was executed?

*Were Igbo officers not the masterminds of the coup, from planning to execution?

*Was an Igboman (Ironsi) not the ultimate/eventual beneficiary of the coup?

These are facts and not mere coincedences, as later events and history have cleary shown.

Ademoyega turned out to be a foolissh and stvpid pawn who played into the hands of ifeajuna and his fellow eastern officers. He and other non-igbo participants were played for suckers. That is the verdict of history.

Qelvin:

Play catch up to yoruba, what an insult! Tell me what facet of milestones yorubas have made that Igbos haven't made or even surpassed...draw out your index and back it up with statistics while I do mine, let me help you...is it in academia that you beat us? Sports, innovation? Civil service? National and international achievements? abeg what is there to play catch up to?? The civil war set the Igbos back to quarter of a decade, thanks to the redundant policies made by your government to reduce them to begging stragglers trooping to all parts of Nigeria to beg for crumbs..but God pass una, you know whose boss when quarter of a period after we are back to owing real Estates and landed properties all over the country while still maintaining a 99% control of our own economy back in the East, you say the East is ridden with poverty and all sorts of self-loathing lies to please yoruba Afonja worthless selves, but the indices of human and economic growth in the East says otherwise, we are still booming and blooming! Go to Nnewi, Onitsha, Owerri, Aba and other metropolitan cities in the East and see how monumental edifices of all sorts and styles spring up on every per square mile of space, I'm talking about mansions...small boys and real hard hustlers making it rain in the East, wealth is evenly distributed and one man alone provides water, tars the roads, and brings development to a whole community, cause that's how we roll in the East...we don't depend on government handouts like you leeches do in the South West and North, cause your cultures promote laziness and over dependence...we are superior to your kinds, we were the kings of the first republic and that's why you yorubas and Hausas were always scared of Igbo donination...cause we were achievers, Ogbeni the bar the Igbos have set is far higher than a million of your likes put together will ever reach, that's why we even come to your lands and dominate you...cause we are good at putting our interiors where they rightfully belongs even on their own supposed turf.

Go and have your discussion with Chinua Achebe in the grave. He was one of many Igbos who admitted to Igbos closing the gap on the Yorubas and catching up.

As for Yorubas who do their own thing and achieving many firsts in Africa both in Academia, Sports and Economic exploits, Igbos have to do it knowing the Yorubas have already done it.

Infact many Igbos have to come to the West to avail themselves of the resources therein so as to achieve their own firsts and catch-up.

Yorubas have set a standard for Africa, and the Igbo man having been taught how to letter his own Igbo language by the Yoruba First African Christian Bishop, Ajayi Crowther, only has catching up left for him as an accomplishment.

Qelvin:

Play catch up to yoruba, what an insult! Tell me what facet of milestones yorubas have made that Igbos haven't made or even surpassed...draw out your index and back it up with statistics while I do mine, let me help you...is it in academia that you beat us? Sports, innovation? Civil service? National and international achievements? abeg what is there to play catch up to?? The civil war set the Igbos back to quarter of a decade, thanks to the redundant policies made by your government to reduce them to begging stragglers trooping to all parts of Nigeria to beg for crumbs..but God pass una, you know whose boss when quarter of a period after we are back to owing real Estates and landed properties all over the country while still maintaining a 99% control of our own economy back in the East, you say the East is ridden with poverty and all sorts of self-loathing lies to please yoruba Afonja worthless selves, but the indices of human and economic growth in the East says otherwise, we are still booming and blooming! Go to Nnewi, Onitsha, Owerri, Aba and other metropolitan cities in the East and see how monumental edifices of all sorts and styles spring up on every per square mile of space, I'm talking about mansions...small boys and real hard hustlers making it rain in the East, wealth is evenly distributed and one man alone provides water, tars the roads, and brings development to a whole community, cause that's how we roll in the East...we don't depend on government handouts like you leeches do in the South West and North, cause your cultures promote laziness and over dependence...we are superior to your kinds, we were the kings of the first republic and that's why you yorubas and Hausas were always scared of Igbo donination...cause we were achievers, Ogbeni the bar the Igbos have set is far higher than a million of your likes put together will ever reach, that's why we even come to your lands and dominate you...cause we are good at putting our interiors where they rightfully belongs even on their own supposed turf.

All these are merely oral stats oga prove it.
I stand gidigba to prove the person you quote, ' he's right'.
Oya let's go there!


If you ask me, it's rather an insult to compare ibo with Yoruba as per achievements.
It's an insult on great Yoruba race abeg

Waiting..

Qelvin:

Play catch up to yoruba, what an insult! Tell me what facet of milestones yorubas have made that Igbos haven't made or even surpassed...draw out your index and back it up with statistics while I do mine, let me help you...is it in academia that you beat us? Sports, innovation? Civil service? National and international achievements? abeg what is there to play catch up to?? The civil war set the Igbos back to quarter of a decade, thanks to the redundant policies made by your government to reduce them to begging stragglers trooping to all parts of Nigeria to beg for crumbs..but God pass una, you know whose boss when quarter of a period after we are back to owing real Estates and landed properties all over the country while still maintaining a 99% control of our own economy back in the East, you say the East is ridden with poverty and all sorts of self-loathing lies to please yoruba Afonja worthless selves, but the indices of human and economic growth in the East says otherwise, we are still booming and blooming! Go to Nnewi, Onitsha, Owerri, Aba and other metropolitan cities in the East and see how monumental edifices of all sorts and styles spring up on every per square mile of space, I'm talking about mansions...small boys and real hard hustlers making it rain in the East, wealth is evenly distributed and one man alone provides water, tars the roads, and brings development to a whole community, cause that's how we roll in the East...we don't depend on government handouts like you leeches do in the South West and North, cause your cultures promote laziness and over dependence...we are superior to your kinds, we were the kings of the first republic and that's why you yorubas and Hausas were always scared of Igbo donination...cause we were achievers, Ogbeni the bar the Igbos have set is far higher than a million of your likes put together will ever reach, that's why we even come to your lands and dominate you...cause we are good at putting our interiors where they rightfully belongs even on their own supposed turf.

Go and have your discussion with Chinua Achebe in the grave. He was one of many Igbos who admitted to Igbos closing the gap on the Yorubas and catching up.

As for Yorubas who do their own thing and achieving many firsts in Africa both in Academia, Sports and Economic exploits, Igbos have to do it knowing the Yorubas have already done it.

Infact many Igbos have to come to the West to avail themselves of the resources therein so as to achieve their own firsts and catch-up.

Yorubas have set a standard for Africa, and the Igbo man having been taught how to letter his own Igbo language by the Yoruba First African Christian Bishop, Ajayi Crowther, only has catching up left for him as an accomplishment.

And all of these happened even before independence, so no excuse of civil war as an obstacle.

As I speak, many Igbo youths are waiting at the bus terminals in hopes of getting a fast ride out of their doom and obscurity, and into the salvation Yorubaland has afforded their uncles and aunties.
From Akure, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Sagamu, and Lagos, you can find the refugees who also have another contingent in the North having escaped the limiting walls of the East.

StOla:


Go and have your discussion with Chinua Achebe in the grave. He was one of many Igbos who admitted to Igbos closing the gap on the Yorubas and catching up.

As for Yorubas who do their own thing and achieving many firsts in Africa both in Academia, Sports and Economic exploits, Igbos have to do it knowing the Yorubas have already done it.

Infact many Igbos have to come to the West to avail themselves of the resources therein so as to achieve their own firsts and catch-up.

Yorubas have set a standard for Africa, and the Igbo man having been taught how to letter his own Igbo language by the Yoruba First African Christian Bishop, Ajayi Crowther, only has catching up left for him as an accomplishment.

And all of these happened even before independence, so no excuse of civil war as an obstacle.

As I speak, many Igbo youths are waiting at the bus terminals in hopes of getting a fast ride out of their doom and obscurity, and into the salvation Yorubaland has afforded their uncles and aunties.
From Akure, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Sagamu, and Lagos, you can find the refugees who also have another contingent on the North having escaped the limiting walls of the East.

Trust me I got this, mind you with facts.
Waiting for the dude,to prove his oral,aba made figures!

StOla:


Go and have your discussion with Chinua Achebe in the grave. He was one of many Igbos who admitted to Igbos closing the gap on the Yorubas and catching up.

As for Yorubas who do their own thing and achieving many firsts in Africa both in Academia, Sports and Economic exploits, Igbos have to do it knowing the Yorubas have already done it.

Infact many Igbos have to come to the West to avail themselves of the resources therein so as to achieve their own firsts and catch-up.

Yorubas have set a standard for Africa, and the Igbo man having been taught how to letter his own Igbo language by the Yoruba First African Christian Bishop, Ajayi Crowther, only has catching up left for him as an accomplishment.

And all of these happened even before independence, so no excuse of civil war as an obstacle.

You have proven why you are a waste of even a rebuttal, how exactly have you proven how Igbos play catch up to Yorubas? Lmaoo guy you funny die sha, so it was Ajayi Crowther that lettered the Igbo language? When did suggesting a biblical translation into Igbo language made by a Bishop become lettering the bible into Igbo language...and dude stop flattering yourself like the South West is some El dorado...you will find an Igbo man even in the remotest part of Chad Republic, it's in our nature to expand and conquer economically, we don't find it lucrative staying in one place cause opportunities are vast...the Chinese, Arabs, and Jews are all over the world not because they care about playing catch up but just to expand their business empires and have multiple access to wealth..but then only a successful mind will understand this basic principle.

midol post=52907678lly de:
We yorubauslims must lament against this thread for adding yoruba officer names to the list of coup plotters. If we had not claimed that the coup was an Igbo coup and tactfully removed the yoruba names. The hausas would have fried our buttocks all over yorubaland.
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We lied against the Iboes because we were afraid of hausa and fulani. We already had brown roof refugee IDP camps in ibadan and osun. We didn't want more, that was why we lied against Iboes.

Our fulani slave master really dealt with we frustrated ipod osu zombie coward jews who killed all Northerners but due to cowardice left all ipods unarmed. ....what a coward we are.

While I wouldn't love to tag the 1966 Coup an "Igbo coup", yet it won't changed the fact that the primary planners and leaders were of Igbo ethnic group. The beneficiary of the coup was also of Igbo ethnic group, while the victims were non Igbos save for one. The man that refused to handover power to an acting Prime Minister was also from Igbo tribe.

That shows that the coup had tribal connotation. FACT!
But I will always be of the opinion that it was wrong to blame an entire tribe for the action of a negligible few.

We should desist from trying to rewrite history but learn from our past, and move on.

As for ceding Lagos to Yoruba, that part is funny tho...

StOla:


Go and have your discussion with Chinua Achebe in the grave. He was one of many Igbos who admitted to Igbos closing the gap on the Yorubas and catching up.

As for Yorubas who do their own thing and achieving many firsts in Africa both in Academia, Sports and Economic exploits, Igbos have to do it knowing the Yorubas have already done it.

Infact many Igbos have to come to the West to avail themselves of the resources therein so as to achieve their own firsts and catch-up.

Yorubas have set a standard for Africa, and the Igbo man having been taught how to letter his own Igbo language by the Yoruba First African Christian Bishop, Ajayi Crowther, only has catching up left for him as an accomplishment.

And all of these happened even before independence, so no excuse of civil war as an obstacle.

As I speak, many Igbo youths are waiting at the bus terminals in hopes of getting a fast ride out of their doom and obscurity, and into the salvation Yorubaland has afforded their uncles and aunties.
From Akure, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Sagamu, and Lagos, you can find the refugees who also have another contingent in the North having escaped the limiting walls of the East.

Point out one Igbo right now in your Akure, Abeokuta, Sagamu, and other related slums and I'll show you his booming merchandise and yoruba apprentice and houseboy or girl, those Igbo youths have good back ups back in the East, some are not even up to your age yet can boast of properties you can only dream of...we are not beggars bro, we don't even stoop low to conquer, cause we are a proud race of conquerors already.

TonyeBarcanista:
While I wouldn't love to tag the 1966 Coup and "Igbo coup", yet it won't changed the fact that the primary planners and leaders were of Igbo ethnic group. The beneficiary of the coup was also of Igbo ethnic group, while the victims were non Igbos save for one. The man that refused to handover power to an acting Prime Minister was also from Igbo tribe.

That shows that the coup had tribal connotation. FACT!

We should desist from trying to rewrite history but learn from our past, and move on.

As for ceding Lagos to Yoruba, that part is funny tho...

Tonye as a student of history I believe you to be, can you honestly say the coup wasn't hailed as a success by all tribes?