When Major Kaduna Nzeogwu and his colleagues carried out Nigeria's first military coup of January 15, 1966, to end the country's First Republic, one of their grievances was the political unrest in the Western Region of Nigeria.

There were riots, looting, arson, and murder. Political opponents were burned alive. The West which had been an epitome of development was now a political Warzone where thugs and urchins engaged in wanton killings and destruction of properties. The event came to be known as Operation Wet-ie. And the Western Region was nicknamed Wild, Wild West….

The crisis over the struggle for political power during the Western Regional elections of October 11, 1965, was the last straw that broke the camel’s back which really convinced the January boys of their military coup on the morning of January 15, 1966.

The coup led to a counter-coup, which eventually led to the Nigeria-Biafra War which lasted for 30 months, from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970. #HistoryVille


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV1KKPJZdjQ

Going back to learn about Nigeria's history that was not included in the school curriculum in secondary school.

Nigeria received independence far too early. Two years into independence corruption, elections rigging, thuggery and violence was the order of the day.

rosskiti come and blame the imperialists and white man. Nigeria was doomed to fail from the onset, look at the example that was set for the present day crooks running the country.

Stupid Akintola.
Even tho he later got the position, he did nothing tangible to the development of Western Region.

Western Region has seen a lot.
The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

God bless Awolowo.
God bless South West.
God bless Yorubas at large.

Sammy07:
Stupid Akintola.
Even tho he later got the position, he did nothing tangible to the development of Western Region.

God bless Awolowo.
God bless South West.
God bless Yorubas at large.

I found in the documentary Awolowo was indicted for corruption and diverting funds from the Western Region to fund his party, The Action Congress, by the Coker Commission. And he was also indicted for sponsoring a coup to overthrow the Federal Government.

RuudVanNisteroy:

I found in the documentary Awolowo was indicted for corruption and diverting funds from the Western Region to fund his party, The Action Congress, by the Coker Commission. And he was also indicted for sponsoring a coup to overthrow the Federal Government.

There is no prove that he's sponsoring a coup.

And for diverting funds.
Actually, I'm not against politicians stealing money, because we can't take it from them.
But if they steal money with reasonable developments, haba. People won't look at the money they stole.

It's a Known fact that Western region was developing faster than other regions and Awolowo did more for Western Regions than other prime ministers of his mates.

There is no way he won't steal money or divert funds, but did he contribute meaningful development to western region? Yes!
All his achievements still stands and visible till date.

Even in advanced countries, they steal and loot with meaningful contributions to their countries.

Sammy07:


There is no prove that he's sponsoring a coup.

And for diverting funds.
Actually, I'm not against politicians thieving money, because we can't take it from them.
But if they stole money with reasonable developments, haba. People won't look at the money they stole.

It's a Known fact that Western region was developing faster than other regions and Awolowo did more for Western Regions than other prime ministers of his mates.

There is no way he won't steal money or divert funds, but did he contribute meaningful development to western region? Yes!
All his achievements still stands and visible till date.

Even in advanced countries, they steal and loot with meaningful contributions to their countries.

Set an extremely bad example for the present crops of crooks ruling the country and gave the military an excuse to stage a coup in 1966.

RuudVanNisteroy:

Set an extremely bad example for the present crops of crooks ruling the country and gave the military and excuse to stage a coup in 1966.

Expantiate more on what you said!

Sammy07:


Expantiate more on what you said!

The election thuggery and corruption. Using state funds to further personal interests.

He was using helicopters to campaign in elections.

RuudVanNisteroy:

The election thuggery and corruption. Using state funds to further personal interests.

He was using helicopters to campaign in elections.

Was he the only one guilty of corruption and thuggery?

The politics behind his going jail is simple and clear.
He returned the kind gesture to Zik and Tafawa or bello (whoever among the two) for their involvement in carving out Mid west region.
He returned the gesture to Zik by also allowing himself to be indirectly used in the COR movements of Eastern Region.

AWOLOWO PLAYED GRASSROOT REGIONAL POLITICS FOR STRENGTH OPPORTUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT.

AZIKIWE PLAYED WURUWURU, MIXED BAG OF CHANCE POLITICS. HE WANTED TO BE GOVERNOR OF THE HEARTLAND OF YORUBA ENCLAVE.

AHMADU BELLO FEARED THE TWO AND SOUGHT TO ALWAYS DISAGREE WITH THEIR AMBITIONS.

ALL OF THE ABOVE, ARE PART OF DEVELOPMENT AND FOR THESE REASONS

BUHARI MUST AND WITHOUT FURTHER EQUIVOCATION ALLOW

FULL AUTONOMY OF POLICE RESOURCES AND ELECTIONS CONTROLS TO OUR 36 CONSTITUTIONAL STATES NOW, BEFORE HE IS DRIVEN OUT OFFICE AND

ALLOW FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BE RESPONSIBLE ONLY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MILITARY AND TREATIES ONLY.

MY FRIEND, NIGERIA IS BIG ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US. YORUBA, IGBOS, HAUSA FULANIS TIVS ETCETERA ETCETERA. LET US THINK OF WAYS FORWARD, NOT PROBLEMS BACKWARDS.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA AND THE 36 CONSTITUTIONAL STATE GOVERNMENTS.

orisa37:
AWOLOWO PLAYED GRASSROOT REGIONAL POLITICS FOR STRENGTH OPPORTUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT.

AZIKIWE PLAYED WURUWURU, MIXED BAG OF CHANCE POLITICS. HE WANTED TO BE GOVERNOR OF THE HEARTLAND OF YORUBA ENCLAVE.

AHMADU BELLO FEARED THE TWO AND SOUGHT TO ALWAYS DISAGREE WITH THEIR AMBITIONS.

ALL OF THE ABOVE, ARE PART OF DEVELOPMENT AND FOR THESE REASONS

BUHARI MUST AND WITHOUT FURTHER EQUIVOCATION ALLOW

FULL AUTONOMY OF POLICE RESOURCES AND ELECTIONS CONTROLS TO OUR 36 CONSTITUTIONAL STATES NOW, BEFORE HE IS DRIVEN OUT OFFICE AND

ALLOW FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BE RESPONSIBLE ONLY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS MILITARY AND TREATIES ONLY.

MY FRIEND, NIGERIA IS BIG ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US. YORUBA, IGBOS, HAUSA FULANIS TIVS ETCETERA ETCETERA. LET US THINK OF WAYS FORWARD, NOT PROBLEMS BACKWARDS.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA AND THE 36 CONSTITUTIONAL STATE GOVERNMENTS.

way forward is to restructure this goddammit country or we go back to regional government or we go our different ways.

Sammy07:


way forward is to restructure this goddammit country or we go back to regional government or we go our different ways.

Did you watch the video?Regional goverment was a disaster and anarchy reigned in the Western Region.

Sammy07:


way forward is to restructure this goddammit country or we go back to regional government or we go our different ways.

If you go back to regional government with the north still holding overwhelming majority federal legislative seats like they have done since independence, you will still be oppressed like they oppressed you in the First Republic

odogwux:


If you go back to regional government with the north still holding overwhelming majority federal legislative seats like they have done since independence, you will still be oppressed like they oppressed you in the First Republic

I have been watching so many history documentaries. Nigeria foundation was faulty from the onset, the census was rigged to favour a certain section of the country.

odogwux:


If you go back to regional government with the north still holding overwhelming majority federal legislative seats like they have done since independence, you will still be oppressed like they oppressed you in the First Republic

RuudVanNisteroy:

Did you watch the video?Regional goverment was a disaster and anarchy reigned in the Western Region.

What then do you think is the way forward?

Judiciary bastardized
legislative comprised
executive non functioning.

even the citizens are looking for ways to loot and scam their fellow citizens.
no trust again.

Baby factory people again. they are here blaming the south West for Ozulubu church massacre, drug trafficking, scamming, and swindling in Alaba and computer village, blaming us for their landlocked erosion desecrated region, for their political insignificance, how does political structure of the west concern you, when your people with their greed and insatiable lust and quest for appropriating things that never belong to them, they committed crime, wanton destruction, killing and ARMED ROBBERY IN NIGERIA ARMY UNIFORM, what a disgrace, so this set of people we will give change to destroy our beloved country the more, God forbid.

Sammy07:


What then do you think is the way forward?

Judiciary bastardized
legislative comprised
executive non functioning.

even the citizens are looking for ways to loot and scam their fellow citizens.
no trust again.

RuudVanNisteroy:

I have been watching so many history documentaries. Nigeria foundation was faulty from the onset, the census was rigged to favour a certain section of the country.

The only way is for the number of federal legislative seats to be spread equally across the geo-political zones. Of course the north will never agree and their godfather (Britain) will always support them.

Sammy07:


What then do you think is the way forward?

Judiciary bastardized
legislative comprised
executive non functioning.

even the citizens are looking for ways to loot and scam their fellow citizens.
no trust again.

All the establishment politicians in APC,PDP and APGA need to be voted out. A new party with Nigerians that are visionary and have high integrity have to take over at local,state and federal level.

Baby factory people is the only set of people I know that turn things upside down, ojukwu disguised like a woman and ran away with his family after engineering the death of over 3 million people, they called him brave and hero instead of coward and warmonger, Kanu Nnamdi ran away inside car boot with goats and basket of tomatoes, they are calling him activist instead of coward and secessionist, they scam you at Alaba and computer village, they blame for been greedy, they sell babies for ritualism, they blame the babies for been careless, they traffick teenagers for prostitution, the blame the teenagers for been greedy, they massacre people in Ozulubu church, they blame the dead for not running when the gunmen were shooting, they traffick drugs in another people's country, they accused the country of arresting them for developing their county, their land is barren and retrogressive, descrate and ravaged by erosion they blame yorubas, Tinubu and Kiki Osibanjo for mismanaging their land and allocation.

RuudVanNisteroy:

I have been watching so many history documentaries. Nigeria foundation was faulty from the onset, the census was rigged to favour a certain section of the country.

Fire burn Lugard. Created a fake, giant north monolith and instituted a governance system that would always give the fake giant more power than the south

Sammy07:
Stupid Akintola.
Even tho he later got the position, he did nothing tangible to the development of Western Region.

Western Region has seen a lot.
The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

God bless Awolowo.
God bless South West.
God bless Yorubas at large.

who told he did nothing to the Yoruba region or you just wanna be stvpid?
its sad history has been removed from our curriculum..
go and do your research, it was actually Akintola that established OAU in 1961 and not Awolowo....OAU was established by Akintola Govt,though today,they have removed his imprint in the school,
Akintola play a huge role in in what we now call cocoa house..in fact it was he who named the place "cocoa house"
because of bitter politics Awolowo faction and bitter SW right wings totally removed his imprint for the things he did in SW...thanks to removing history and their dominance of the media unlike now

or do you think every Yoruba was pro Awolowo?..
nope...actually the people who opposed Awolowo most were his own Yoruba people hence every election in SW then was a real war compared to the rest of the country...
its like how stupidd sw APC supporters believe, you are only a real Yoruba man when you are pro tinubu,but once you are anti APC and tinubu,you are labeled ipob and Igbo..a useless senator even labelled Obasanjo as Igbo.
its actually a knock on Awolowo that his personal ambitions led to the destruction of lives and so many properties.
Awolowo was a great man on his right... so is Akintola..
only foools will abuse Akintola?
and if you are Akintola what are u gonna do?

Sammy07:


There is no prove that he's sponsoring a coup.

And for diverting funds.
Actually, I'm not against politicians stealing money, because we can't take it from them.
But if they steal money with reasonable developments, haba. People won't look at the money they stole.

It's a Known fact that Western region was developing faster than other regions and Awolowo did more for Western Regions than other prime ministers of his mates.

There is no way he won't steal money or divert funds, but did he contribute meaningful development to western region? Yes!
All his achievements still stands and visible till date.

Even in advanced countries, they steal and loot with meaningful contributions to their countries.

lol..see you..go and read the coker reports..the indictments against Awolowo was alarming....he was as corrupt as they come..yeah,he did some great things in SW,but it doesn't mean we put avoid talking about his other side..
do you know cocoa house was not built for public use..
it was originally for the personal private business of Awolowo in which he used his cronies such as S.O gbadamosi,shonibare,Alfred rewane as fonts...the company used as font was National investment and properties companies...
it was in the coker reports...
it was taken away from them after which Akintola renamed it cocoa house..
these are not hearsays..find the coker report and read.

Sammy07:


Actually, I'm not against politicians stealing money, because we can't take it from them.
But if they steal money with reasonable developments, haba. People won't look at the money they stole.

It's a Known fact that Western region was developing faster than other regions and Awolowo did more for Western Regions than other prime ministers of his mates.

There is no way he won't steal money or divert funds, but did he contribute meaningful development to western region? Yes!
All his achievements still stands and visible till date

Sammy07:


way forward is to restructure this goddammit country or we go back to regional government or we go our different ways.

It's Excellent Restructuring to RESTORE THE FULL POWERS OF AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY GOVERNMENT TO THE 36 CONSTITUTIONAL STATES, LIMIT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS MILITARY AND TREATIES AND CONTRIBUTING TITHES BY THE STATES TO RUN F.G.

olril17:

who told he did nothing to the Yoruba region or you just wanna be stvpid?
its sad history has been removed from our curriculum..
go and do your research, it was actually Akintola that established OAU in 1961 and not Awolowo....OAU was established by Akintola Govt,though today,they have removed his imprint in the school,
Akintola play a huge role in in what we now call cocoa house..in fact it was he who named the place "cocoa house"
because of bitter politics Awolowo faction and bitter SW right wings totally removed his imprint for the things he did in SW...thanks to removing history and their dominance of the media unlike now

or do you think every Yoruba was pro Awolowo?..
nope...actually the people who opposed Awolowo most were his own Yoruba people hence every election in SW then was a real war compared to the rest of the country...
its like how stupidd sw APC supporters believe, you are only a real Yoruba man when you are pro tinubu,but once you are anti APC and tinubu,you are labeled ipob and Igbo..a useless senator even labelled Obasanjo as Igbo.
its actually a knock on Awolowo that his personal ambitions led to the destruction of lives and so many properties.
Awolowo was a great man on his right... so is Akintola..
only foools will abuse Akintola?
and if you are Akintola what are u gonna do?

Watch the video, Akintola was responsible for the anarchy in the Westen Region and made the population have no faith in parliamentary democracy, through the massive rigging he did for the NNDP and unleashing of party thugs and kidnapping of electoral officers. There were riots, looting, arson, and murder. Political opponents were burned alive. The West was reduced to a Warzone where thugs and urchins engaged in wanton killings and destruction of properties.


He inspired Adedibu of Oyo state 'amala politics" andthe likes of Tinibu into fraternising with the likes of MC Oluomo.

RuudVanNisteroy:

I found in the documentary Awolowo was indicted for corruption and diverting funds from the Western Region to fund his party, The Action Congress, by the Coker Commission. And he was also indicted for sponsoring a coup to overthrow the Federal Government.

It was a set up by the NPC, NCNC, and Akintola

samdunzo:


It was a set up by the NPC, NCNC, and Akintola

Awolowo was a saint like Tinubu. He never touched public funds, I have heard.

RuudVanNisteroy:

Did you watch the video?Regional goverment was a disaster and anarchy reigned in the Western Region.

It was a disaster because there were minority agitations in the big 3 regions. The West gave in, but the North and East did not. In fact, Bello told Awolowo that the Middle Belt were his "slaves". We still see this domineering attitude in Fulanis to this day, which is why there is no sense of national identity after all these damned years

RuudVanNisteroy:

Awolowo was a saint like Tinubu. He never touched public funds, I have heard.

I'm not saying Awolowo was a god, but it was widely known that NPC especially did not like Awo b/c they deemed him too progressive and saw him as a threat to their feudal culture and plans for domination of the entire country

samdunzo:


I'm not saying Awolowo was a god, but it was widely known that NPC especially did not like Awo b/c they deemed him too progressive and saw him as a threat to their feudal culture and plans for domination of the entire country

Awolowo was a saint who used a helicopter to campaign for elections. The Coker Commission lied he diverted funds from Western Region to fund his party.