JudasNaCarrot:
Ironsi was never part of the January 1966 coup. He and Odumegu Ojukwu were never part of it. Infact the the coupist, Kaduna Nzegwu,Ademoyega and other three Majors executed the coup with the plans of killing Ironsi who was at a party that night somewhere in Lagos.

Ojukwu was the one who foiled the coup in the North, making it impossible for Nzeogwu and his cohorts to succeed.

Ironsi only took over power because he was the highest ranking military officer then. His mistake was that he didn't bring the coup plotters to Justice. They should have been tried and executed by military law. His failure sent a signal that it was an ethnic cleansing carried out by officers of Igbo extraction agiant the Hausa Fulani and Yoruba ethnic groups as Azikiwe was not killed like his compatriots.

This was how the seed of ethnic division and hatred began in a once promising and examplary African Nation.

Now Buhari have taken this hatred, nepotism and destruction to the peak of mount Everest.

shugabasbn:
Fajuyi the man that died for the sin of others. Stupid or hero?

fuke:


I admire your sense of history but I am afraid you missed it somewhere.
Ironsi killed federalism by promulgating the unitary decree of May 1966.
Though the regions were still existing, they were only doing so on paper.
They lost all their powers.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/nigerias-unitary-federalism

blackboy:
Is nigeria a nation or a state? Political science students over to you. Is Isreal a nation or country.

NazoTimes:


Nigeria is a State
While Isreal is a Nation-State

BafanaBafana:

People like Ademoyega and Nzeogwu were made to believe they were carrying out a revolution. They didn't know they were ignorantly acting a script by Igbo soldiers and politicians

ogbuefi677:

His ppl are now being used as peppersoup by d ppl he was trying to please when he killed Ironsi.
They're practically begging for their right to live.

omoiyamayor:
The initiator of coup to Nigeria's Democracy, welldone Mr Ironsi,we are still facing the consequences of your action.

Firstorderwizard:
But why did he abrogate Regional Govt.?

jneutron4000:
Yoruba are not working towards one Nigeria and the North know this fact. Now the system we Practice today where the Presidency control almost everything is the hand work of Aguiyi Ironsi an Igbo man. Are you even aware that there was a time in this country history that the Niger Delta people wanted out of Nigeria, it was the Igbos who forced them, killed some them to still be in Nigeria. Yoruba desire we go back to Regionalism or better still Oduduwa Republic, the Igbos or the other hand are not asking for Igbo speaking territories as a Nation they wish for it to break out of Nigeria rather they want a Biafra that must also include other non Igbo territories, now you see where the criminality lies? Knowing fully well that Niger Delta or SS ethnicities do not wish to be part of it and will always wish to have an independence state/ region of their own. Till date, it is only the Igbos you will find spreading all across Nigeria, does that really shows that they truly want out of Nigeria? The Igbos are the force that is making dividing Nigeria very difficult, Imagine everyone stays back in their region, and the Hausa/fulanis are saying shit, what we would all just do in our respective regions in to take total control of our spaces, stop anyone who is not from your place taking your resources, controlling your security etc and Nigeria will just naturally divide. Yoruba leaders are playing politics, and if a proper Yoruba man gets to power today, I can assure you that 70% he would return Nigeria back to Regional government where regions, states and the people will take back control of all what Aguiyi Ironsi took away through decree 34.

olaniyilukman:
It is sad that this man together with Adekunle Fajuyi was killed in Ibadan, this particular line explain Yoruba as the laziest ethnic group in Nigeria. How unearthed will a northerners come down to your state and killed your own... It is a pity I am a Yoruba man

The guy got what he deserved by being nepotistic, killing Northerners and Westerners excluding his Eastern Brothers. He was the one that form Unitary Govt abolishing Regional Govt and Devolved Powers that his people are clamoring for today in the name of restructuring all because of greed and the grand plan to make his tribe to dominate other tribes in Nigeria.

His people started nepotism in Nigeria

kingzizzy:
The man who killed Ironsi, General Danjuma, is still out there being celebrated despite being a murderer

Christistruth00:


Nigeria came out of the Civil War as a Nation after the War had been won. You may not agree but that was what happened after people fought and died for it because of the Faith they had that it was the Nation that the Almighty had given them.

Ezeama400:


The bolded is not true.. Gowon abolished regional government and created 12 states.. Your lies and propaganda can never be true despite repeating it million times..
with you.. Bye

The guy got what he deserved by being nepotistic, killing Northerners and Westerners excluding his Eastern Brothers. He was the one that form Unitary Govt abolishing Regional Govt and Devolved Powers that his people are clamoring for today in the name of restructuring all because of greed and the grand plan to make his tribe to dominate other tribes in Nigeria.

His people started nepotism in Nigeria

kingzizzy:
The man who killed Ironsi, General Danjuma, is still out there being celebrated despite being a murderer

kingzizzy:


His people were already being massacred in 1945 and 1953 so lets not pretend as if the pogrom wasnt already an ongoing periodic thing long before there was any coup.

kestolove95:
Idiot

Christistruth00:


Nigeria came out of the Civil War as a Nation after the War had been won. You may not agree but that was what happened after people fought and died for it because of the Faith they had that it was the Nation that the Almighty had given them.

omoiyamayor:
The initiator of coup to Nigeria's Democracy, welldone Mr Ironsi,we are still facing the consequences of your action.

The guy got what he deserved by being nepotistic, killing Northerners and Westerners excluding his Eastern Brothers. He was the one that form Unitary Govt abolishing Regional Govt and Devolved Powers that his people are clamoring for today in the name of restructuring all because of greed and the grand plan to make his tribe to dominate other tribes in Nigeria.

His people started nepotism in Nigeria

Ezeama400:


The bolded is not true.. Gowon abolished regional government and created 12 states.. Your lies and propaganda can never be true despite repeating it million times..

[b]Before Gowon became head of state in August 1966, Nigeria was a federation of

1) 4 semi-autonomous Regions
2) Each Region had resource control
3)Each Region kept 50% of whatever accrued within it, paid the Federal Government 25% and the rest 25% went into a General account that all the Regions including the Federal Government could use for developmental purpose.
4)Because the 4 Regions were semi-autonomous, it made the centre week and prevented any Region from dominating another

Today, we have

1)36 states that have little or no resource control
2) A powerful Federal government that now pays the states
3)Fiscal federalism is dead

How did we get here? It was Gowons promulgation of Decree 14 on the 27th of May 1967 that caused it all. It was this same decree that forced Ojukwu to declare the Eastern Region a seperate country called Biafra 3 days later and this led to the war. It should also be added that decree 14 was a violation of the Aburi agreement that both Gowon and Ojukwu signed in Ghana.


Decree 14, abolished the 4 Regions, replaced them with 12 states, took away resource control, reversed fiscal responsibility and made the federal government all powerful

It was seen for what it was by Ojukwu and the Eastern Region, a calculated attempt by Gowon and his Northern cohorts to dominate everyone.

Suddenly, the North that was one Region, had 6 states while the South that was 3 Regions had to share 6 states between them. This effectively made the North the dominant partner[/b]


Subsequent military administration's led by Northerners subdivided the 12 states Gowon created, and gave the North more states and local governments than the south

Today, the North that was one Region has overwhelming advantage over the South that was 3 Regions

1) The North has 19 states while the south has 17

2)Of the 109 Senators in Nigeria, the North has 59 while the south has 50

3) Of the 360 house of rep members, the North has 191 while the South has 169

4) Of the 774 Local Governments in Nigeria, the North has 419 while the South has 355

This undue advantage given to the North, starting with Gowons decree 14 which changed the structure of Nigeria, is what led to war and created the mess Nigeria is in today

Know your history..

I am done with you.. Bye

IamWonderful:
Baby factory people always say Yoruba are coward and backstabbers, fajuyi insisted they can't take away his visitor with him, despite igbos were the cause of the retaliation and retribution that was melted on them and which righteous fajuyi became part of it

Ezeama400:


The bolded is not true.. Gowon abolished regional government and created 12 states.. Your lies and propaganda can never be true despite repeating it million times..

[b]Before Gowon became head of state in August 1966, Nigeria was a federation of

1) 4 semi-autonomous Regions
2) Each Region had resource control
3)Each Region kept 50% of whatever accrued within it, paid the Federal Government 25% and the rest 25% went into a General account that all the Regions including the Federal Government could use for developmental purpose.
4)Because the 4 Regions were semi-autonomous, it made the centre week and prevented any Region from dominating another

Today, we have

1)36 states that have little or no resource control
2) A powerful Federal government that now pays the states
3)Fiscal federalism is dead

How did we get here? It was Gowons promulgation of Decree 14 on the 27th of May 1967 that caused it all. It was this same decree that forced Ojukwu to declare the Eastern Region a seperate country called Biafra 3 days later and this led to the war. It should also be added that decree 14 was a violation of the Aburi agreement that both Gowon and Ojukwu signed in Ghana.


Decree 14, abolished the 4 Regions, replaced them with 12 states, took away resource control, reversed fiscal responsibility and made the federal government all powerful

It was seen for what it was by Ojukwu and the Eastern Region, a calculated attempt by Gowon and his Northern cohorts to dominate everyone.

Suddenly, the North that was one Region, had 6 states while the South that was 3 Regions had to share 6 states between them. This effectively made the North the dominant partner[/b]


Subsequent military administration's led by Northerners subdivided the 12 states Gowon created, and gave the North more states and local governments than the south

Today, the North that was one Region has overwhelming advantage over the South that was 3 Regions

1) The North has 19 states while the south has 17

2)Of the 109 Senators in Nigeria, the North has 59 while the south has 50

3) Of the 360 house of rep members, the North has 191 while the South has 169

4) Of the 774 Local Governments in Nigeria, the North has 419 while the South has 355

This undue advantage given to the North, starting with Gowons decree 14 which changed the structure of Nigeria, is what led to war and created the mess Nigeria is in today

Know your history..

I am done with you.. Bye

BafanaBafana:

Then how did he become head of state?
Ironsi staged a coup within a coup.

donstan18:
I just wish Military regime will be back, so that one particular man like that will be killed with his cows.

Deadlytruth:


The slaughtering of Igbos in the North and by Northerners prior to the coup seems not to attract any concern or sympathy because at independence, despite the benefit of hindsight created by those pogroms targeted at them in the North, it was the same Northerners Igbos preferred to align with in such a way that state power fell into their (Northerners') hands. I think that choice of alliance at independence convinced and till today convinces every other tribe that Igbos actually enjoyed being slaughtered in the North prior to independence and the 1966 January coup.

No normal human being gives raw state power to a person who oppressed and killed him at a time he hadn't even got state power.
No one can love you more than you love yourself.
Jesus only asked us to love our neighbours as ourselves and not more than our own selves.

OfoIgbo:


He did not abrogate regional government. The region's were in full force throughout his tenure. Ojukwu was the governor of Eastern region. Ejoor was the governor of MidWestern region e.t.c

It was Gowon and Awolowo that got rid of the region's, eliminated resource control, and created weak states so they can carry out the plundering of state resources.

So basically the southern minorities gained states but lost resource control. That's majorly why we are where we are