OfoIgbo:


If I am reading you right, I believe one of your major points is that the then REGIONS became PROVINCES. And not that Ironsi set about to create new provinces irrespective of the then regions. If I am right in my assumption of your point above, then we are definitely on the same page with regards to that point.

Now there is a whole world of difference between SUSPENSION and ABROGATION. That Ironsi suspended certain clauses in the constitution so that he can run a military-friendly government, does not in anyway mean that it is now permanent.

When the northerners planned and carried out the genocide of July 1966, if they were so aggrieved about Ironsi's unitary government, why didn't they immediately lift the suspension placed on the federation clause and ensuring it wasn't changed over the decades that followed?

Why did Gowon and the subsequent governments make permanent, the financial.castration of states, especially now that we are supposedly running a civilian democratic government?

Even Ojukwu asked for confederation in Aburi, yet Gowon and Awolowo-led Nigerian government rejected it in favour of the current unitary government.

Don't get me wrong, I have not one single respect for Ironsi. I see him like the current Enugu governor Ugwuanyi, who are just houseboy materials and have no business being in government.

That's why I'm not super enthusiastic about semi illiterates like Peter Obi or Orji Kali taking the Igbo presidential slot.
I prefer more versatile and highly educated individuals like Prof. Kingsley Muoghalu, Soludo or Ngozi Okonjo Iweala doing the honours, as they will be more proactive in avoiding political banana peels

Dpharisee:


When did Igbos kill people of Niger Delta to keep them in Nigeria. Do you know that Igbos are part of Niger Delta?
How do you Yoruba Muslims enjoy spining history and formulating nonsense about Igbos

Deadlytruth:


Are you for real? If the constitution got suspended the moment the January boys struck in the early hours of January 15, then it would mean that even Ironsi too stopped being Army GOC at that moment since the same constitution gave him that role and designation. So why then did Ironsi take over power knowing fully well that he had stopped being GOC courtesy of the suspension of the constitution by the five majors just few hours behind?

RevDesm0ndJuju:


Decree 34 was written on Jan 16. A day after the coup but was kept secret up till March when Ironsi started hinting about it in his broadcast

Ironsi didn't come to power by mistake. He was part of an elaborate Igbo coup.

mainman7:
Bitter Truth time! Are you ready?! Ok. Someone once said "If you see a Snake and see an Igbo, quickly kill the Igbo first because Igbos are more deceitful and dangerous than snakes." I didn't believe this Initially, but when I discovered that the North earned their respect and peace from Igbos only after they started massively killing them. Yorubas on the other hand accepted them as brothers, soon they started satanically eyeing Yoruba Land, and hatched a plan of enslaving Yorubas right on Yoruba Land. It is forever in Igbo Nature to ferociously Bite the Finger that feeds them. Just because Yorubas focused on Education and Igbos focused on trading, they were able to rake in much of Yorubas Monies. But instead of being grateful and thankful, they used this same Yoruba Money to stab Yorubas in the back by engaging in derogatory scandalous slanding of Yorubas as a People. Telling other tribes that Yorubas are stupid, dirty, etc. Until Yorubas start to mercilessly kill Igbos enmasse like Housa-Fulanis do, Igbos would never respect them. The plan is very much under way for Yorubas to earn their much deserved respect from Igbos by mercilessly killing them enmasse, it shall happen very soon all over Yoruba Land.. It is just their nature, as subtle deceptive snakes and scopions, Igbos can never change their satanic evil wicked ever nursing greed and evil for other people Nature, unless they are massively slaughtered. It is the only way to make them think like normal apperecitive human souls. Let me remind those with short memories here, During Good luck Jonathan era, this their Satnic agenda would have been achieved if he won 2nd Term. They already got the Law in Process, saying that Igbos can become Governor of Lagos, Lagos is a no Man's Land, etc. Truly, you would be destroy by the Satanic Igbos masquerading as Saints everywhere if you don't quickly destroy them. There is a wicked nepotic insatiably Greedy Demon in every Igbo.

As Southerners, just before 1960, Azikwe and Awolowo made an Oath to form Political alliance so that Azikwe would become Nigerian Prime Minister while Awolowo would be the President, more so because both Southerners have fought for Nigerian Independence from Britain since 1956 when the Northerners were still saying they don't want Indipendence, the North wanted to remain slaves to Britain. Awowlo and all Yorubas were rudely shocked the following Day to see same Azikwe coming out in alliance with Tafawa Balewa. Igbos are born Betrayals, they Introduced Politic of Betrayal into Nigeria. He was Afraid of pattering with an extremely wise Sage like Awolowo to make Nigeria great, he rather wanted a dimwitted Northerner that he could manipulate so that Igbos can enslave every other Tribes in the Nation. Unfortunately, the Northerner that he thought he could enslave soon proved to know Politics more than Igbos. After which the ever Greedy satanic Igbos resulted to massive Bloodshed of other Tribal Leaders on January 29, 1966. They just want to own Nigeria and every soul in the Nation.

Hmmm... Ok. In another news, the guy's reply below made me know that there is still Hope for Nigeria. We all know that Greed is what started the very first Coup and Political Bloodshed in Nigeria. Fulanis were very good people who never knew that Destiny of a Nation could be enslaved with guns plus Polical Authority till evil Souls showed them the satanic way by being the very first to do such on January 29, 1966. Know you History, so that you know your true Enemy that already masquerades as Saints.
You are among the very few that still has Sense on NL. You are very intelligent, unlike most gullible senseless people on NL Hoodwinked and brainwashed to think GTB is the one defaulting. Innoson is a Big Thief! Wise ones know how highly tribalistic Igbos still supported and justified Evans in notorious merciless Kidnapper, is it Innoson that obviously tried to Borrowed from GTB, tried to dupe the Bank and still unrepentantly dragging the Noble Name of the Bank in the mud that the sad souls called Igbos would now defend?! Worse still Innoson was robbing Nigeria Government by Tax Evation on all is Imports until this GTB case exposed the 419 Company. By now, myhopic gullible Yorubas should have learned enough from History to never to be manipulated by the satanically deceitful souls called Igbos. They are frantically trying to DeMarket GTB so that unscrupulous Igbo Banks like Fidelity Bank can hijack their large Customers. You should know the irreparable Depth to which satanic Nepotism and demonic Hatered for other Humanity has eaten Igbo Souls by seeing how wickedly United they have been against the Innocent Wonderful Benevolent Soul like Lola who lifted the whole Okoye Family from excruciating Poverty when they were nobody. Yet, they quickly forgot that and chew the Finger that fed them. Such Satanic Heartless is what only Igbos are capable of. All the Fulani Bandits and Tribal Killers that now about in Nigeria should ONLY Kill Igbos, because they introduce Political Killings into a Once Thriving Country called Nigeria. All Igbos must be wiped out from the Surface of the Earth. "Woe unto them that say they are Jew and they are not! But they are Synagogue of Satan!" Talking about Igbos! They masquerade as Saints whereas they are the most evil Satanic Souls on Earth. The CREATOR of all Humanity shall Avenge the sleepless Nights they have caused the likes of Lola and others, all the Innocent Yoruba Blood shed during the Coup and even the Blood of the ones killed by Bandits shall forver be upon Igbos, they introduced Bloodshed and Political Killings into a once wonderful innocent Nation called Nigeria. May Judgement of ALMIGHTY GOD once again Fall unpon all the satanic insatiably Greedy Souls Igbos and permanently wipe them out of existence. They shall all be wiped out of the Surface of Earth for the unnepolitic untribalistic united Humanity to enjoy Everlasting Peace.

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

naijainreverse:
God you are so STUPID!

woky:
unfortunately, Ademoyega and Nzeogwu were the officers that prepared the script..

GeneralPula:


Typical Igbo man..

You called out buhari for blame, you silence on Ojukwu and Ironsi..

Yeeboz should just be sent away from Nigeria. Since it’s even what they want..

Spiitttt

chuxjay:


He took charge of the government after the coup as the highest ranking military officer.

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

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

naijainreverse:
Dolt(means Idiat) because the coup plotters were not in control of the whole country. It succeeded in the north but Ironsi foiled it in the south.

Deadlytruth:

How does this commot comment of yours relevant to the topic of debate here?

BafanaBafana:

Nope.
The first coup itself failed, Gowon was able to squash it in Lagos. Since the prime minister was killed, the cabinet agreed on electing an acting prime minister, a certain guy called Dipcharma from Borno who was the most senior member of the ruling party was selected but Orizu Nwafor, the senate President refused to swear him in. It was then that Ironsi came around had a tete a tete with Nwafor and then convinced the MPs (with heavily armed soldiers surrounding them) to hand over power to him.

humilitypays:
Not Gowon, Aguiyi Ironsi and Ojukwu foiled the coup!

Where do you guys get your history from abeg


Gowon that was scared and shaking to speak to Nzeogwu and Anofuru to the extent they invited Nzeogwu's doctor to speak to him out of fear.


Please read full account of the coup by even a Yoruba officer amongst them; Adewale Ademoyega

OAFMods:
So exposing evil Igbo deciet is now a distraction ? Anyway, we can ignore the distraction but truth that Igbo ruined regional govt will forever hunt you, your father n your unborn generation n it matter not if Nigeria get dissolved or not.

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

naijainreverse:
Wow and one of the leaders of the coup Ademoyega did not know about this but YOU knew

favour32:
Nigeria can never be the same again.
Where a section of the country wants to dominate and enslave others.
Any country that a part wants to dominate others will never PROGRESS.It is not a curse but a fact. Check progressive countries and see for yourself.
The North wants to dominate without any productive inputs in everything.
The South will continue to look..
Despite this dominance,
is the North peaceful more than the South?

balladin:

Ode. Meted not melted.

AbumChetachi:


His so called brothers that initiated the coup are also included in your map of Niger Delta so you can say that Niger Delta are the ones that did the first coup

Deadlytruth:


The North originally didn't want to dominate anyone. Please recall that the North didn't even want to belong to Nigeria ab initio. So how could Northerners have been planning to dominate a country they never wished to be part of in the first instance.

BafanaBafana:

Nope.
The first coup itself failed, Gowon was able to squash it in Lagos. Since the prime minister was killed, the cabinet agreed on electing an acting prime minister, a certain guy called Dipcharma from Borno who was the most senior member of the ruling party was selected but Orizu Nwafor, the senate President refused to swear him in. It was then that Ironsi came around had a tete a tete with Nwafor and then convinced the MPs (with heavily armed soldiers surrounding them) to hand over power to him.

Dedetwo:
When will Nigerians get commonsense? It was foolhardy for a person to have abrogated regionalism yet appointed regional governors. The regionalism in Nigeria was killed by the fool who created 12 states because eastern regional governor performed the function on the reason behind regionalism. The eastern regional governor opposed his usurpation of power at center.

humilitypays:
how you guys derive joy on twisting history just to show your hatred for Igbos beat my imagination.


Aguiyi Ironsi abolished regional government yet he was on a visit to Western Region Governor Fajuyi when he was killed; do you people ever have conscience in your dealings


God will shame you Yoruba liars someday if you don't desist from all these lies you guys have been spreading oh!


It was Gowon that abolished Regional Government and he is alive, you can go find out from him. Stop spreading lies just because you hate Igbos!

naijainreverse:
Of course! They only planned to dip the Quran into the sea in the south by gisting with the south about it Ode!

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

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

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