Irony1:


Oga go and sleep, what happened cannot be changed you keep reference to the past like as if it will change anything. Okay igbos have not been in power since 66 what have you people done to change rhe fortunes of the country? Nothing. Oga you are a frustrated person go and face the source of your frustration it is not igbos abeg.

Of course we must keep referencing the past because we must know who is responsible for our present predicament first before we talk of solution. Those who caused our problems can't be the source of the solution. We must not allow them to clinch power again until they are remorseful and apologize. They were in power for only six months but within that short time they wrecked so much havoc which effects have lingered for up to 60 years. That means if they had spent up to four years in power our woes would have lasted for over 300 years.

Irony1:


Due you are pathetic really, because only a sick frustrated person will want to force a narrative that is stale on people.

So that comment you referenced above is a narrative? Do you even really have a dictionary?

Irony1:


Oga go and sleep, what happened cannot be changed you keep reference to the past like as if it will change anything. Okay igbos have not been in power since 66 what have you people done to change rhe fortunes of the country? Nothing. Oga you are a frustrated person go and face the source of your frustration it is not igbos abeg.

At least two attempts have been made to return Nigeria to true federalism but both of them were frustrated by Igbos again. Ask Nwabueze.

Irony1:


Hmmmmm you no dey tire? Dude you have lost the plot, just count your loses and go and sleep, this threadnis closed, nothing you can say will change anything. You have lost, go and find something to do with you life. Get a meaningful job be useful to your family, your tribe and your country. Stop this display of hate and bigotry. For the record I abhor Nzeogwu's killing no doubt, but at the same time I will defend any attempt to single out igbos for the action of a few men.

Edit: Ironsi has been so mischievously maligned, but in hindsight the person who abolished regions was in fact Gowon, and he himself said in recent years that stare creation has not brought about the unity of the country he had hoped.

If Ironsi had, after his so-called stoppage of the coup, simply court-martialled Nzeogwu and co and got them sentenced to death for mutiny, and then replaced the slain premiers with their deputies, sworn in Dipcharima as Balewa's replacement and returned to the barracks as a professional soldier, would Gowon have later gor to power to do whatever you accuse him of doing? Would Nigeria have later fallen into the hands of mediocres like Murtala Muhammed, Obasanjo, Shagari, Buhari, IBB, Abacha and all the rest who misruled and put us in this mess today? Anyhow one looks at it, Ironsi had a good opportunity to write his name in gold in the history of Nigeria and save us the Nigerian tragedy by simply being very professional at that moment of the coup but his greed for power which he had no idea how to even use got the better part of him and he misadventured into politics thus further worsening the already tense situation. Ironsi remains the worst thing to ever happen to Nigeria and not even the Nzeogwu coup.

Irony1:


I never insulted you, you are the one who is insulting out of desperation. Bring it on you are making me laugh now. I am reading you comment with a drink in my hand and.laughing at your desperation.

Again I am vindicated for saying you attended a bush school. So you think words like stupid, desperate, deluded, etc which you have been using without restraint are compliments? You are too depraved to live among humans.

Irony1:


Ohhhhhh God you are really in a very sad mental state, I am really feeling sorry for you, you are so desperate and frustrated. Igbos no send you even the elders in your tribe don't even know you and you are here forming knowledge forgetting that you don't even matter self in the scheme of things. This is real mental case, and you are a classic example.

He obviously is too ashamed to address the issues raised.
Weren't you folks the ones who first took power illegally in the history of Nigeria and therefore setting a precedent for future recurrence? Weren't you folks the first to disrespect our sovereignty by first tampering with the constitution we first ever produced entirely by ourselves? Weren't you folks the ones who fought against secession clause because you assumed Nigeria will be yours to dominate only to later hypocritically seek the same secession when the domination plot was crushed by the cooperation of the other tribes? From One-Nigeria to Biafra. Very inconsistent souls.

Irony1:


Go and sleep.

You have not seen anything. I thought you are ready for insults? Idiot! Always using abusive language. Only a fool thinks insultive language is a virtue and that he has a monopoly of it. You will definitely unlearn from me that your silly proclivity for abusive language in debates running on facts and logic.

Irony1:


Hmmmmm you no dey tire? Dude you have lost the plot, just count your loses and go and sleep, this threadnis closed, nothing you can say will change anything. You have lost, go and find something to do with you life. Get a meaningful job be useful to your family, your tribe and your country. Stop this display of hate and bigotry. For the record I abhor Nzeogwu's killing no doubt, but at the same time I will defend any attempt to single out igbos for the action of a few men.

You are so pained that the evil you lots committed to derail Nigeria is being brandished right in your face. We will continue to remind you that you destroyed our good foundation by introducing coups, deriding our sovereignty by being the first to tamper with our truly we the people constitution by which we were making rapid progress, that you were the first to shed innocent blood in an independent Nigeria, that you people were too greedy to mind your business in your own regions but moving all over other regions and causing confusion all over the country in seeking to entrench your evil domination agenda deceptively packaged in the garb of calling for One-Nigeria and national unity, etc.

Irony1:


Go and Sleep Boy it is clear that these things are beyond you, you are just delving into things you cannot understand. Go and sleep and get something meaningful to do with your life. I guess you are so miserable with your life that is why you have all the time in the world to spread hate.

You can see that you are the miserable one. You have brazenly shown how badly educated you are. The fact that you were looking for a publicly issued authorization for the execution of a coup plot stands you out as having attended a very crude school in one remote village. You are miserable in your badly educated state of being. I guess you will call on the mods again for me replying you for first describing me as miserable. I have drawn the mods attention again now because I know you will later turn around to accuse me of being the first to call you miserable. Idiotic biafool defending Ironsi's stupidity out tribal sentiments.

Irony1:


Oga I pulled this out from someone who narrated Obasanjo's book that is why it was in the third person, if this is your scope yo attack me then you've got nothing boy. I have been so entertained by your desperation today than anytime since I joined nairaland.

Someone who quoted Obasanjo? So you have no personal copy of a book you so much adduce authority to? You are meant for comedy and romance sections.
Your claims here have largely been self contradictory and illogical. You dodged most questions and responded with insults and innuendos obviously for lack of facts and reason. Then the worst of it is that you started with insults but later began to play the victim card.

Irony1:


Oga why are you trying too hard to be smart when you are not? it is a hard endeavour for you, and you are nailing yourself the more.
I said Gamji's account of the planning of the coup is filled with falsehood and inaccuracies. You mischievously have the fact that I gave Gamji kudos for rhe account of the execution of the coup on that day and the fact that he alluded to the fact that there was a coup in the east. You are not smart to play propaganda my boy. You see now we are standing up and we are challenging your lies on social media, gone are the days when you can spread lies and propaganda without being challenged.

You gave kudos to Gamji on his claim that there was coup in the East because it agrees with want you want your gullible readers to believe and then you carpeted his narrative on the execution because it runs against your sentiments.

You don't aprobate and reprobate the same source of information. That is duplicity and intellectual fraud.

Irony1:


Oga why are you trying too hard to be smart when you are not? it is a hard endeavour for you, and you are nailing yourself the more.
I said Gamji's account of the planning of the coup is filled with falsehood and inaccuracies. You mischievously have the fact that I gave Gamji kudos for rhe account of the execution of the coup on that day and the fact that he alluded to the fact that there was a coup in the east. You are not smart to play propaganda my boy. You see now we are standing up and we are challenging your lies on social media, gone are the days when you can spread lies and propaganda without being challenged.

So Gamji and Max Silloun are more knowledgeable about the coup than Nzeogwu who was a direct participant and made it clear that there was no execution in the East? You just love lies. What we know is that Max Silloun and a host of others like Obasanjo who are sympathetic to you Igbos out of sentiments have written loads of books twisting history in favour of Igbos. Imagine Max Silloun claiming in one of his write ups that the remote cause of the Nigeria Civil War was a struggle over crude oil when even a simpleton could easily deduce that the January 15 coup laid the foundation for the chain of events that culminated in the war. Max Silloun is not an authority in Nigeria political history. If you want rawest facts on Nigeria political history then go to the National Archives or consult foreign authors who are definitely uninterested third party sources.

Irony1:


This is an excerpt from Obasanjo's book on Nzeogwu. Make una stop to dey lie.


"When Major Obasanjo landed at Kano airport on 13 January 1966, nobody met him. Surprised, he continued to the Engineers’ base at Kaduna. Again nobody met him. He telephoned his closest friend, Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu, who promptly ar r ived to take him home, then left for his office, explaining that they were conducting night training exercises: ‘Operation Leopard’. The acting commander of the engineers had left a note telling Obasanjo that he could not take over until 15 January. Obasanjo decided to catch up on his unit's files. The night of 14–15 January was disturbed by explosions and gunfire, but when he woke, everything was silent. Puzzled, he made for army headquarters. Nzeogwu was there, with a bandaged neck wound and his arm in a sling. He had just assassinated the Premier of Northern Nigeria"

How could Obasanjo have written a book about himself and be using the third person singular in reference to himself in it? Bunkum!

Irony1:


Oga Gamji's account has been proven on several occasions to be filled with falsehood. Three authors including Achebe wrote that Ifeajuna was assisted to the border at Seme by Christopher Okigbo, no where did it mention that he went to Enugu.

Ironically you yourself had just referenced the same Gamji and that was why I took used it to counter you.
You see how dubious you are? When you referenced the part which supports your narrative you didn't know it was full of falsehood but once someone else referenced the part which runs against your narrative it suddenly became full of falsehood in your eyes. Even a chameleon will shudder at your inconsistency and tendency to change colour.

Irony1:


Dude once again you are too big for these lies. At the time the coup failed in Lagos only. Nzeogwu was in control of Kaduna, so there was only two power centers Kaduna and lagos. Ironsi was in control of Lagos while Nzeogwu was inco trol of Kaduna. That was why Obasanjo and Colonel Nwawo were called to talk to Nzeogwu to ha Dover the north to Ironsi. Dude you are becoming very desperate and as such you have lost the initiative in this argument. I still hold the aces here and I am enjoying how desperate you are because it is showing you bigotry and hatred more.

As at the time of the coup Obasanjo was far away in England undergoing a military course. Was it therefore from England he was called to come back to Nigeria in a flash to prevail on Nzeogwu to hand over to Ironsi? Can you see again that you don't really know anything about Nigeria's political history? Meanwhile a supposedly smart person is looking for a public authorization given to plotters of a coup to go ahead with it. You are just so dumb. I am irritated engaging you.

Irony1:


Oga you don't know how to insult in a subtle way. You are still a learner. Dude your plan has failed big time

I strongly advise you to consider comedy. You have the talent.

Irony1:


Once again you are not that smart so stop trying to be clever when you are not.it is a tough task for you. Nzeogwu made that broadcast when it was clear that the coup failed in Lagos and he made the broadcast in Kaduna, let us clear the air on that. So stop trying to be clever, at the time the speech was made by Nzeogwu all the guys in Lagos has gone into hiding even Ademoyega himself, so Nzeogwu never hijacked Ademoyega's role.

So Nzeogwu knew a coup had failed and still went ahead to make a broadcast? To achieve what exactly? You see how incoherent you sound? If a radio broadcast was to be made even in an event of failure of the coup, then Ademoyega the supposed holder of that duty should have still been the one to do that and never Nzeogwu.

Irony1:


Dude you are not that smart don't try to steer the conversation. You are talking about the Majors and you are trying to dodge and exonerate Ademoyega that is the crux of the argument.

See who is talking of smartness. The same person looking for a public authorization from the sponsors of a coup, a top secret endeavor, to the executors. What a comedian!

Irony1:


Ademoyega's role in the coup was to take over the radio station and make the broadcast after all targets have been neutralized. This lies will not work, we will argue this till the end of time and my resolution is still the same Ademoyega was deeply involved on the coup as every other igbo participant

Oh, you now agree that it was only Ademoyega and Igbos that plotted the coup? So where are the Hausas and Fulani you previously argued were part of it?

Irony1:


😆 🤣 😂 Oga your argument is so Hollow. He was tasked with taking over the radio station to ensure that there was a broad cast after all targets have been neutralized. In Ojukwu's words Ifeajuna provided the inspiration to the coup, but it was clearly known that himself and Ademoyega were the first Conspirators and it was them who recruited participants to the coup. My brother stop the lies this games have failed. See in the next 100 years my stand is resolute concerning the 1966 coup.your propaganda games will not work.

Ademoyega was assigned with taking over the radio station after all targets had been neutralized but Nzeogwu ended up making the said radio broadcast? What an interesting irony from a monicker named irony? Can't you see you are just shooting yourself here and there? Nzeogwu clearly hijacked Ademoyega 's duty and Ademoyega was okay with it. Why not look the way of comedy?

Irony1:


Oga you people are pathetic liars. Why did Ademoyega not come out to distance himself from the coup rather he defended the rationale behind the coup and even proudly defended his role in the coup planning. Oga go and rest your plans have failed.

I always wonder how you reason. How could Ademoyega have come out to distance himself from a coup plot he supposedly conceived according to you? The question you refuse to answer is how come a neck deep person in a plot ended up getting no single slot of targeted politicians or army officers to be killed?

The glaring truth is that Ademoyega had no identifiable role in the coup. He was just a figure head.

Irony1:


Aahhhhhhh!!!!!! God has caught you. Fear God oooooo and stop lying. The person who was brought late into the plot was Nzeogwu. Ademoyega was deeply involved in rhe conceptualization and recruitment of Co-conspirators

And that person so involved in the conceptualization and recruitment ended up not even being assigned any of the hit list names for liquidation? Wasn't he even supposed to be the one assigning targets and did the major killings like Balewa, Okotie Eboh, Mainalari, while leaving just one or two to Ifeajuna and the rest if he really were the conceiver of the entire plot? Meanwhile Ojukwu always made it clear before he died that Ifeajuna was the architect of the whole plot

Irony1:


Okay let us assume they were five Ademoyega was proudly among the five. If there is an arrest all actors both planners and executors are all named. Why are conveniently trying to dodge the nonigbo actors in the coup?

Ademoyega was recruited into the plot very late just to give the coup a false non-Igbo appearance. If it was really not aimed at entrenching Igbo hegemony over Nigeria, then Ademoyega should have been assigned to kill at least one Igbo politician or army officer in the hit list just the way Akintola, Sodeinde and Ademulegun being Yorubas were all assigned to Igbo members of the plot to kill. Worse still, Ademoyega wasn't even assigned any target. Didn't he know how to pull the trigger?
Even in his book "Why we struck" Ademoyega couldn't say any role he played in the execution that night. He only wrote essays to justify the senseless killing of innocent politicians and his superior army officer by his friends who actually fooled him into an ethnic cleansing made to look like a revolution.

Irony1:


Oga go and read Ademoyega's book. He confirmed that they wanted to install Awolowo as Head of State. Please stop lying

Adegboyega was simply fooled with the Awolowo-to-be-installed theory in order to convince him to join the plot since he was a very strong Awoist despite being a member of the Army.
So tell that excuse to children in your village.

tishbite42:

And he also confirmed that the coup d'etat wasn't an Igbo one
How about that?!
How about his claim that they planned to release Awo and make him the PM?!
Don't be selective with your 'truth'

According to the coup plotters, their major objective behind the coup was to create a strong center in order to promote nationalism over tribalism.
Now, recall that Awolowo hated centralized system of government with a passion hence had even before independence written books and made public speechless on why Nigeria must never experiment with a strong government at the center. It was therefore public knowledge that Awolowo hated unitary system and any form of it and favored regionalism for which a lot of Igbos termed him an irredeemable tribalist. Now how then could a group of very educated young officers mostly from the tribe which perceived Awolowo as father of tribalism in Nigeria have plotted a coup aimed at eradicating tribalism but ironically preferred that very tribalistic Awolowo to come and head such a government?

You can see that the theory that the coup was to install Awolowo in power does not hold water logically.

Irony1:


See he renamed the regions and called collection of provinces with a provincial administrator. We have argued this before so go back and refresh your memory. Ironsi didn't abolish regions he still kept the regions, I will not go back to something I have clarified before. So Oga go and rest tour plans have failed.

That still doesn't answer the simple question. Did the group of provinces operate exactly like the previous regions? If yes, then why change their name or rearrange them? Isn't that stupidity? Who were the premiers of each of the groups of provinces? Were they autonomous or reporting to the center as Ironsi commanded in his broadcast? Did they own and control their public services like the previous regions did?

Irony1:


Haaaaa so Major Adekoyega was smuggled, so Lt Fola Oyewole was smuggled, so Capt Ganiyu Adeleke was smuggled and so was Lt Dag Waribor.

Bros I never believe you will go so low as to lie in your desperation to push an agenda.

Okay, tell us what role these so-called non-Igbo members of the plot played in the execution. Who did Adewale Adegboyega gun down on that night? Which politician or army officer was assigned to Lt. Dag Waribor or Capt. Ganiyu Adeleke to kill? Why was it that all the target politicians and officers were assigned to only the Igbo members of the plot to kill? Or are you suggesting that all these Yoruba and Northern co-plotters were watching while the Igbo members shared the targets among themselves alone and didn't question it? Each time you write you further exposu how shallow your reasoning is.

Irony1:


Haaaaa so Major Adekoyega was smuggled, so Lt Fola Oyewole was smuggled, so Capt Ganiyu Adeleke was smuggled and so was Lt Dag Waribor.

Bros I never believe you will go so low as to lie in your desperation to push an agenda.

Nzeogwu an insider granted an interview with Ejindu in which he disclosed that they were just five in the plot. Likewise, most books written by authors who knew the details make it clear that there were just five majors in the plot. Your revisionist tales are dead on arrival.

gragz8701:


Do you know that they've made several attempts to edit and expunge the names of their criminal coupist brothers from the page in Wikipedia?

The lead are as listed below in order of rank for the record and documentation for posterity:
Maj. Kaduna Nzeogwu **
Maj. Don Okafor - Igbo
Kaj. Timothy Onwutuegwu - Igbo
Maj. Chris Anuforo - Igbo
Maj. Wale Ademoyega **
Maj. Humphrey Chukwuka - Igbo
Capt. Emmanuel Nwaobosi - Igbo
Capt. Ben Gbulie - Igbo
Capt.Ogbu Orji - Igbo

They have smuggled in even some names of Hausa, Yoruba and Fulani army officers just to create a false appearance of national spread for the coup plot whereas these Hausa and Yoruba officers were the ones Nzeogwu ordered from training ground to Ahmadu Bello's residence without them having any prior knowledge of their mission there at that odd hour of the night.

Irony1:


You know the truth Oga. The fact that Nzeogwu wanted to kill Ojukwu was one of the reasons why Ojukwu never trusted Nzeogwu so stop playing halg clever. And all I said was not based on what might happen, but on what happened.
Dude you are too desperate to spread lies which shows that I have defeated you, your plan has failed.go and get a decent job and be meaningful to your family.

How come they could not kill any of the Igbo politician or officer they wanted to kill but could easily kill all the Yoruba and Northern politicians and officers they wanted to kill? Do you even listen to yourself at all? Are you not ashame of even saying this repeatedly?