Tobrasky:

What nonsense lol, some of you unintelligent mo.rons just relish regurgitating the same old crap tales you probably read from the internet, that's why Nairaland is a citadel of ignorance, poor cognitive reasoning and sheer stupidity... why would Ojukwu be hiding in the East when he had already repatriated all officers and men of Northern origin back to their regions? Every account I've read about the events of the coup and counter coup NEVER mentioned Ojukwu "hiding" anywhere in the East. As a matter of fact, the East remained at the time the only region that had no Northern soldier occupying its region or military installation... why Ojukwu SUCCESSFULLY sent all the Northern soldiers packing from the East, the Western region under Colonel Adeyinka recoursed to shamelessly hiding and kissing Aboki ass in the name of "playing it safe and savvy"... while the Yoruba population were groaning under Northern occupation all over Western region!

itsme01:


quote your source and stop spreading lies, when the coup was staged Col Katsina had already instructed his friend Col Adebayo who had relayed the message to Ogundipe and Ogundipe had tried warning foolish Agiuyi Ironsi but he wouldn't listen as he insisted on going on his scheduled tour.. Aguiyi Ironsi's chief transport officer was President Buhari and his ADC was Theophilus Danjuma and Ogundipe had warned Aguiyi Ironsi of the grave danger but the stuborn dude still never listened,.. when Aguiyi was murdered his death wasn't announced but was only declare missing, and during coups until it was ascertained that the number one was dead or captured with proof of his body nobody dare announce himself the head of state... Ogundipe's attempt to mobilise troops from ikoyi close to the state house marina met stiff resistance as nobody listened to his orders.. since he had no troops to command he left Nigerian shores on a naval ship heading to UK, where he later settled and subsequently became an ambarsabor

Tobrasky:

.. say what you want, but the truth remains that no officer or leader from the Western region supported Ogundipe taking over from Ironsi in the aftermath of the counter coup... Not a SINGLE Yoruba leader resisted the arbitrary takeover of power by the North... at least Ojukwu was bold enough to refuse to recognize Gowons office, and stuck to that principle to the end.

franchasng:
You are correct, Aguiyi Ironsi messed up....he believed too much in united Nigeria and handed over most of his security watch posts to Northerners despite warnings from other southern officers.


He thought he would convince Northern Jenjeri soldiers with Queens English that he knew nothing about the first coup and maybe also he relied too much on his useless staff jazz called Aguiyi and he paid the grave price of his stupidity and stubbornness

gidgiddy:


That the whole point. That Brigadier Ogundipe should have been the next head of state after the death of Ironsi. But nobody supported him, not even his own people. Only Ojukwu stood by him.

But as soon as Gowon pushed Ogundipe out of Lagos and assumed control, Yorubas flocked to support Gowon

itsme01:


Aguyi's approach was to meet and discuss in a gentleman's manner, and that was what he was doing flying about, unfortunately things where so bad that the northerners where so much pumped with anger and hate, they broadcasted it in their radio, their kings met regularly at Emir of Zauzas palace to discuss their revenge, their military did and even their scholars all met at ABU Zaria.. it was almost like the single most planed and uchestrated violence Nigeria ever had... the northerners gave other Southerners (Yoruba and Bendel) option of staying neutral or risking full blown war..

Aguyi's main option where clear and even Ojukwu advised him also as his loyal subordinate.. execute Nzeogwu and other captured soldiers who killed sarduna and publicise it to pacify angry north, then form a supreme military council that had Northerners with you ruling in Lagos instead of south dominated hierarchy.. he still didn't listen, unfortunately he paid dearly while Nzeogwu he protected later gave intel to northerners during the Biafra war and got full military honorary burial after he died in civil war battle

YeeboMuslim:

2500 words of empty and ignorant rant .
We are talking about the immediate aftermath of the July 1966 counter coup here .
Lol, who told you there was no Northern officer in the Eastern region immediately after the coup ..You are the one with a single digit IQ here .
Get proper books and read . Stop depending on Radio Biafravd .

Even goodygoody, the op didn't argue about Ojukwu being in a police station during the immediate aftermath of that coup .

I know it's shameful thing to do . A soldier hiding in a police station .
Even shame dey catch me for Ojukwu too

unbitchable:

who is this idiot?. the coup was successful. the coup plotters determined who takes over the seat of power. whenever the seat of power falls, a coup becomes successful.
there was a war because ojukwu declared biafra in breach of the oath he had sworn to which had no secession clause. prior to that, northern soldiers no longer took orders from ojukwu in the east.

seunmsg:


I stated clearly in my post that Gowon was with Ogundipe initially before he became a turncoat and seized power for himself.

I never said it was acceptable to me for Ogundipe not to become the head of state. My point is clear, Ogundipe was not in any position to seize power from those that masterminded the counter coup. He had no troop to enforce his seniority. If he had insisted, the plotters would have killed him without thinking twice.

itsme01:


quote your source and stop spreading lies, when the coup was staged Col Katsina had already instructed his friend Col Adebayo who had relayed the message to Ogundipe and Ogundipe had tried warning foolish Agiuyi Ironsi but he wouldn't listen as he insisted on going on his scheduled tour.. Aguiyi Ironsi's chief transport officer was President Buhari and his ADC was Theophilus Danjuma and Ogundipe had warned Aguiyi Ironsi of the grave danger but the stuborn dude still never listened,.. when Aguiyi was murdered his death wasn't announced but was only declare missing, and during coups until it was ascertained that the number one was dead or captured with proof of his body nobody dare announce himself the head of state... Ogundipe's attempt to mobilise troops from ikoyi close to the state house marina met stiff resistance as nobody listened to his orders.. since he had no troops to command he left Nigerian shores on a naval ship heading to UK, where he later settled and subsequently became an ambarsabor

Dedetwo:


By the way, Hassan Katsina was a Major while Adebayo was a Col. Katsina cannot instruct Adabayo to do anything since Adebayo was Katsina's superior officers. Katsina cannot be Adebayo's friend. In addition, Adeyinka Adebayo was not even in the country when January 15, 1966 coup was precipitated. I do not know why certain goons come to Nairaland to regurgitate crap.

itsme01:


Honestly your IQ seem really low so just stick to your peers

Dedetwo:


Ogundipe had Nigerian soldiers who were of Yoruba ethnicity and had returned to their region of origin at the time of this debacle. It was the majority of these Yoruba Nigerian soldiers that formed the Lagos and Ibadan garrison organization which gave rise to 2nd and 3MCDO Divisions of Nigerian army.

Dedetwo:


Get lost ninny!!! What the hell do you know about IQ?

gidgiddy:


That the whole point. That Brigadier Ogundipe should have been the next head of state after the death of Ironsi. But nobody supported him, not even his own people. Only Ojukwu stood by him.

But as soon as Gowon pushed Ogundipe out of Lagos and assumed control, Yorubas flocked to support Gowon

gidgiddy:


Doesnt it look strange to you that a Yoruba man who was the most senior officer in Nigeria at the time, and should have been president, only got support from an Igbo in the East?

itsme01:



when will some Ibos get a life and stop spreading fake news due to inferiority complex ? when.. if we open this same chapter some of you would weep bitterly and see how hopeless it might get for you in national politics

time and time again it has being shown through history and karma that it is always the greedy pigs that instigate issues that always pay bitterly with their bloods flowing everywhere, without any ray of hope, while God uses the calm to lord over them while they wail endlessly



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goodnessme1:
The coward tribe changed the narrative,that Fajuyi decided to died for an Igbo man,just because they fear of north.
imagine a yoruba man die for Igbo.

itsme01:


Great Awolowo enjoyed his life till the ripe age of 78, and he achieved many feat, like free education for his people, Odua investment, Nigerian Tribune, Cocoa house , bodija Housing estate, Ironically a Pig named Ojukwu also cowardly leaved to age 78 and achieved death of 3 million of his people while he ran from one underground bunkers to the other before Obasanjo chased him to ivory coast, his other achievement is marrying Femi Fani Kayode's prostitute who later took over Ojukwu's asset chasing his fat children away,.. oh and politically ojukwu became the biggest looser losing Senatorial seat when he came back from exile, he founded a party APGA yet he couldn't win anything and his Bianca wife even lost Senatorial primaries in the party failure Ojukwu founded...

XANDERBOY85:


Methinks that, like chloroquine, they find that fact too bitter a truth to swallow! It’s mind-boggling though how they let the Fulani get away with so much impudence, yet if Igbos do just 5% of that, it’s panic-stations and they sound the alarm bells that Yorubaland is about to be taken over!

Kwon1999:
Gidgiddy please don't make post like this again.

It is very bad.

alfasexy:
Afonja and cowardice are 5&6

Lifestone:

But Ojukwu that has gut, led over 2million of his people to death !

alfasexy:


Death is better than a life of cowardice.

itsme01:



when will some Ibos get a life and stop spreading fake news due to inferiority complex ? when.. if we open this same chapter some of you would weep bitterly and see how hopeless it might get for you in national politics

time and time again it has being shown through history and karma that it is always the greedy pigs that instigate issues that always pay bitterly with their bloods flowing everywhere, without any ray of hope, while God uses the calm to lord over them while they wail endlessly



.

itsme01:


quote your source and stop spreading lies, when the coup was staged Col Katsina had already instructed his friend Col Adebayo who had relayed the message to Ogundipe and Ogundipe had tried warning foolish Agiuyi Ironsi but he wouldn't listen as he insisted on going on his scheduled tour.. Aguiyi Ironsi's chief transport officer was President Buhari and his ADC was Theophilus Danjuma and Ogundipe had warned Aguiyi Ironsi of the grave danger but the stuborn dude still never listened,.. when Aguiyi was murdered his death wasn't announced but was only declare missing, and during coups until it was ascertained that the number one was dead or captured with proof of his body nobody dare announce himself the head of state... Ogundipe's attempt to mobilise troops from ikoyi close to the state house marina met stiff resistance as nobody listened to his orders. . since he had no troops to command he left Nigerian shores on a naval ship heading to UK, where he later settled and subsequently became an ambarsabor

gidgiddy:

Bad or not, its still Nigerian history

gidgiddy:


Thats the one thing I never understood about Yorubas. When Igbos supposedly do something wrong, they scream and shout about it so much.

But when Northerners do something that is 50 times worse, Yorubas downplay it as if it is not so bad.

The examples in Nigerian history are abound:

Yorubas refer to the first coup as an 'Igbo coup', but they never say that all other coups that happened in Nigeria were 'Northern coups', not even the one that kicked out Shonekan

Yorubas like to trumpet about Ironsi's decree 34. They even say that decree 34 ended federalism. But in essence, all dcree 34 did was unify the civil service. It did not deIineate the borders of the 4 Regions and neither did it take away from the 4 Regions the essential ingredients of true federalism such as resource control, fiscal responsibility or the revenue sharing formular agreed at independence. But the same Yorubas will never talk about Gowon's decree 14 that abolished all 4 Regions, replaced them with 12 states, 6 of which went to the North that was one Region, removed resource control, ended fiscal federalism and changed the revenue sharing formular to favour the North.

The average Yoruba man will never say that Ojukwu and Gowon met in Aburi Ghana and signed an agreement that would bring peace and that Gowon broke that agreement with decree 14, but he will blame Ojukwu for causing the war even though it was Gowons fault.

Even with this thread that Ojukwu stuck by military tradition that the next highest ranking officer should always take charge in the absence of the most senior officer, they cant admit that Ojukwu stood for their own brother, Brigadier Ogundipe, when they could not.

Even the Vernom the average Yoruba feels towards IPOB who were unarmed and never killed them, they dont feel it for armed herdsmen who murder them every day

They just cant admit that when Ojukwu stood up against Northern domination, even against their own son, Brigadier Ogundipe, when they just couldn't do the same.

gidgiddy:


Thats the one thing I never understood about Yorubas. When Igbos supposedly do something wrong, they scream and shout about it so much.

But when Northerners do something that is 50 times worse, Yorubas downplay it as if it is not so bad.

The examples in Nigerian history are abound:

Yorubas refer to the first coup as an 'Igbo coup', but they never say that all other coups that happened in Nigeria were 'Northern coups', not even the one that kicked out Shonekan

Yorubas like to trumpet about Ironsi's decree 34. They even say that decree 34 ended federalism. But in essence, all dcree 34 did was unify the civil service. It did not deIineate the borders of the 4 Regions and neither did it take away from the 4 Regions the essential ingredients of true federalism such as resource control, fiscal responsibility or the revenue sharing formular agreed at independence. But the same Yorubas will never talk about Gowon's decree 14 that abolished all 4 Regions, replaced them with 12 states, 6 of which went to the North that was one Region, removed resource control, ended fiscal federalism and changed the revenue sharing formular to favour the North.

The average Yoruba man will never say that Ojukwu and Gowon met in Aburi Ghana and signed an agreement that would bring peace and that Gowon broke that agreement with decree 14, but he will blame Ojukwu for causing the war even though it was Gowons fault.

Even with this thread that Ojukwu stuck by military tradition that the next highest ranking officer should always take charge in the absence of the most senior officer, they cant admit that Ojukwu stood for their own brother, Brigadier Ogundipe, when they could not.

Even the Vernom the average Yoruba feels towards IPOB who were unarmed and never killed them, they dont feel it for armed herdsmen who murder them every day

They just cant admit that when Ojukwu stood up against Northern domination, even against their own son, Brigadier Ogundipe, when they just couldn't do the same.