Katsumoto:

Why is it that when 'some' people fail at something, they claim they were trying to help others?

When the January coup failed, they claimed they were going to install Awo. Yet when Ironsi assumed power, he left Awo in jail.

When the mid-west and western invasion failed, they claimed they were going to liberate the West and mid-west. Yet Zik connived with Balewa to send soldiers to the West for the brouhaha started by Zik's party in the Western House in Ibadan.

Anyone can claim their intentions were different from the real intentions that are betrayed by their actions.

What ever gave the young plotters in January 1966 the idea that Awo would have accepted to head the Government in those circumstances after such bloodbath? No one in their right minds would have accepted such a poisoned chalice let alone a seasoned political operative like Awo. But I am sure they knew this but still resorted to lying through their teeth just because their plot failed. Anyone who believes that the President who was safely chilling in the caribbean for two months while his colleagues were butchered, was not the intended benefactor of such 'generosity' needs to have their head examined or their conscience put through an examination.

Eko Ile:

But you still managed to show your evil and destructive hands against Awo and his people by slaughtering his people and invading their land right?

I don't know why you people think people are silly and can not read through your 2 face and manipulating utterances,

Good for Awo, he read through your evil ways and manipulations.

Katsumoto:

Did it occur to you that they were relieved at different times?

Awo was released by Gowon well before the war started. The others were released just before and during the war. For instance, Ademoyega was released by the Biafran Expeditionary Force that invaded the mid-west. Besides, did Awo commit the same crimes as the others? So why would you try to rationalise them all being released at the same time?

Please have all the specifics before trying to engage me.

Maybe because an Igbo interviewed him that's why it's hard to believe

Chyz*:

Wow, are you this dumb? You again come with your obvious lack of manhood to admit you're wrong. So what you are saying is that Ojukwu kept awolowo in jail because he didnt agree to join Biafra as Banjo, Ademoyega, and Adeleke did? Instead, Gowon, who couldn't even stop ojukwu from declaring war, ordered Ojukwu(the commander of the Eastern region) to free Awolowo? Or did Gowon personally come and unlock Awolowos cage and walked with him back to Lagos? Dude, you really have fufu for a brain.

Chyz*:


I've warned you about this don't let any Igbo coup nonsense come out of your mouth again. Thank you.

Eko Ile:


It's really ibo, not the new age and defaming IGBO terminology. Many deep ibo people don't even use that terminology.


I posted this interview by Phillip Effiong a while back, the man used ibo throughout the interview.

Katsumoto:

Did it occur to you that they were relieved at different times?

Awo was released by Gowon well before the war started. The others were released just before and during the war. For instance, Ademoyega was released by the Biafran Expeditionary Force that invaded the mid-west. Besides, did Awo commit the same crimes as the others? So why would you try to rationalise them all being released at the same time?

Please have all the specifics before trying to engage me.

Katsumoto:

Did it occur to you that they were relieved at different times?

Awo was released by Gowon well before the war started. The others were released just before and during the war. For instance, Ademoyega was released by the Biafran Expeditionary Force that invaded the mid-west. Besides, did Awo commit the same crimes as the others? So why would you try to rationalise them all being released at the same time?

Please have all the specifics before trying to engage me.

Katsumoto:

I am quaking in my boots because the almighty chyz warned me. LWKMD

Katsumoto:

Was Awo not released before the others? You can carry on with the insults; the only one making an ar.se of himself is the individual who is debating without facts.

bashr8:


RUDOLF OKONKWO: There is a big debate going on in the Internet over whether Awolowo said to you that if the East should secede, the West would secede. The conversation supposedly took place in Enugu on May 6, 1967 and was pulled from what was titled, Ojukwu and Pa Awo Conversation and Speeches during the War in 1967. The information was claimed to have been classified but now declassified. Is this information authentic?

OJUKWU: Let’s stop fooling ourselves, please. When any Nigerian gets up and say, this is classified information that has recently been declassified, I say, classified by whom? Declassified by whom? Do you think we are in America where you have these things? In Nigeria nobody classifies anything and nobody has declassifies anything. So, once it starts with that you know there is deception.

RUDOLF OKONKWO: They said you were the one that recorded this conversation.

OJUKWU: And then I declassified it recently?

RUDOLF OKONKWO: Prof. Aluko, Prof. Eni Njoku, Dr. Nwakanma, Dr. PNC Okigbo, Lt. Col. Imo, Chief J.I Onyia and many others supposedly attended the meeting.

OJUKWU: I find it quite amusing also that all the Igbo participants are dead.

RUDOLF OKONKWO: That is true.

OJUKWU: How come? Is it the death of Pius Okigbo that declassified the information?

RUDOLF OKONKWO: Did the meeting take place, and was there such an agreement?

[b]OJUKWU: We’ve said this over and over again, so many times, and people don’t understand; they don’t want to actually. If you remember, I released Awolowo from jail. Even that, some people are beginning to contest as well. Awo was in jail in Calabar. Gowon knows and the whole of the federal establishment knows that at no point was Gowon in charge of the East. The East took orders from me. Now, how could Gowon have released Awolowo who was in Calabar? Because of the fact that I released him, it created quite a lot of rapport between Awo and myself and I know that before he went back to Ikenne, I set up a hotline between Ikenne and my bedroom in Enugu. He tried like an elder statesman to find a solution. Awolowo is a funny one. Don’t forget that the political purpose of the coup, the Ifeajuna coup that began all this, was to hand power over to Awo. We young men respected him a great deal. He was a hero. I thought he was a hero and certainly I received him when I was governor. We talked and he was very vehement when he saw our complaints and he said that if the Igbos were forced out by Nigeria that he would take the Yorubas out also. I don’t know what anybody makes of that statement but it is simple. Whether he did or didn’t, it is too late. There is nothing you can do about it. So, he said this and I must have made some appropriate responses too. But it didn’t quite work out the way that we both thought. Awolowo, evidently, had a constant review of the Yoruba situation and took different path. That’s it. I don’t blame him for it. I have never done.[/b]


http://saharareporters.com/column/my-last-interview-dim-chukwuemeka-ojukwu-rudolf-okonkwo

bashr8:

i will like to know the so called people and land invaded and slaughtered , anyway the only people killing yorubas and their leaders are the nigerian army during military regime and hausa fulani right from the first jihad till date.

Relax101:

It is very possible for Gowon to have met Awolowo after his release that made him(Awolowo) change his mind.

Eko Ile:


Like I said, stay away from discussions about Nigeria, you are too ignorant to offer or contribute anything.

Chyz*:

So in other words, you are making an arse of yourself. Now was gowon the Commander of the Eastern Region. Yes or no?

Katsumoto:

Awolowo was a prisoner of the Nigerian government who was held in the Eastern part of the country. If Awo's release was not recognised by Gowon, he would have simply been locked up once he crossed into Asaba or he could have stayed in Biafra like the others did after him.


Isn’t it an irony of Nigeria that when General Gowon needed to build his federal coalition against Biafra, he quickly released Awo from prison and offered him the Finance portfolio which he coveted so much?
You see? Let me tell you how Okotie Eboh got the Finance Minister portfolio under the first indigenous federal cabinet. Sir Louis Ojukwu, Emeka’s father, contested election to the Federal House. Another multi-millionaire like him, one Shodipo from Abeokuta, contested and won election also on the NCNC platform.

How Britain Perpetuated  Northerners in powered  — Chief Mbazulike Amechi

http://www.primenamesmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=204%3Ahow-britain-perpetuated-northerners-in-powered-chief-mbazulike-amechi&Itemid=17

Katsumoto:

I guess local government chairmen/ mayors are more powerful than a prime minister/president in their little local governments/ boroughs. SMDH

Negro_Ntns:

Gowon is who we in the West revere and thank for his magnanimity and generosity in the Awo release.  We don't accord such reverence or noble view to Ojukwu, Ironsi or Zik at all.  Ibos jailed Awo but that middle belt man brought him out and restored him.  Not just Awo, but as well Chief Enahoro.  Uptil today Ibos have not seek forgiveness from the Mid-Westerners for what tehy did to Enahoro.

You all owe Gowon a big Thank You for his altruism and sense of brotherhood to declare no victor, no vanquished. . . . . .there was a victor!

Chyz*:

You make no sense at all. Listen to yourself. Gowon had no authority in the East. He was not recognized as all. There was no way that anybody, Ojukwu, or his subordinates would have release Awolowo upon gowon's order, no one.

Katsumoto:

Did it even occur to some of you that perhaps Ojukwu saw no reason to re-arrest Awo after he had been released by Gowon? Such an action (arresting Awo) would have compounded Ojukwu's problems at that time.

Chyz*:

Did it ever occur to you that awolowo didn't believe in nigeria as a country? Did it ever occur to you that he was thrown in jail for treason, and that a person with that kind of mind is valuable in a mission against northern muslim hegemony? Did it ever occur to you that Awolowo was Ojukwu's father's close friend and with that alone upon others he saw no reason for him to remain in jail?

Chyz*:

Did it ever occur to you that awolowo didn't believe in nigeria as a country? Did it ever occur to you that he was thrown in jail for treason, and that a person with that kind of mind is valuable in a mission against northern muslim hegemony? Did it ever occur to you that Awolowo was Ojukwu's father's close friend and with that alone upon others he saw no reason for him to remain in jail?

Chyz*:

If awolowo had refused any of gowons commands and tried to declare a oduduwa republic his head would have been on a stick. With that being said it is understandable why he chickened out but when he involved himself in the war against Biafra that's when the problem started.

OJUKWU: [size=14pt]We’ve said this over and over again, so many times, and people don’t understand; they don’t want to actually. If you remember, I released Awolowo from jail. Even that, some people are beginning to contest as well. Awo was in jail in Calabar. Gowon knows and the whole of the federal establishment knows that at no point was Gowon in charge of the East. The East took orders from me. Now, how could Gowon have released Awolowo who was in Calabar? Because of the fact that I released him, it created quite a lot of rapport between Awo and myself and I know that before he went back to Ikenne, I set up a hotline between Ikenne and my bedroom in Enugu. He tried like an elder statesman to find a solution. Awolowo is a funny one.[/size] Don’t forget that the political purpose of the coup, the Ifeajuna coup that began all this, was to hand power over to Awo. We young men respected him a great deal. He was a hero. I thought he was a hero and certainly I received him when I was governor. We talked and he was very vehement when he saw our complaints and he said that if the Igbos were forced out by Nigeria that he would take the Yorubas out also. I don’t know what anybody makes of that statement but it is simple. Whether he did or didn’t, it is too late.