₦airaland Forum

MrDoGood:
So, she should just do as they want because she's getting paid. Na wa o

SultanOfAbia:
like i said IBB was consulted for advice for the coup by the south west senior officers. IBB decided not to be part of the coup. Simple

SultanOfAbia:
Femi Fani Kayode father was amongst the senior plotters.

Femi is a son that will always defend his father even if his father raped a cow. Femi will still defend him

fastseo:
Why closing a whole market?
This are market where they have to clothing section, building materials section, cosmetic section, foodstuffs station etc. Its a big market...

You can't close down the whole market instead close the affected section of the market.

What has someon who sells vegetables n red oil got to do with this matter that u close down sources of livelihood.

pazienza:
Accounts showed that the coup killed all enemies of Awolowo, including Okotie Eboh who might have been in NCNC but was a staunch supporter and friend of Balewa.

In contrast the coup spared Awolowo and other members of NCNC who were in UPGA coalition with Awolowos AG.
Additionally, Fajuiyi was the one who trained the boys involved in the coup .

OfoIgbo:
He died because the July coup plotters considered him one of the senior officers that helped the January 1966 coupists with combat training.

I suspect he was Awolowo's man.

The two most senior military officers involved in the January coup were Yorubas. Fajuyi and Banjo. The others were junior to them, but they cleverly stayed out of playing active part, thereby roping in unsuspecting Nzeogwu and co, into making it seem like an Igbo coup, when in actual fact, it was Awolowo's coup, who used it to eliminate all his political opponents.

Pazienza

Agbaka1997:
Really? That's absolutely new to me. IBB doesn't strike me as someone, who is bisexual though. But how true or factual is that assertion though?

Agbaka1997:
Really? That's absolutely new to me. IBB doesn't strike me as someone, who is bisexual though. But how true or factual is that assertion though?

ValarDoharis:
Does it make sense to you that Northern soldiers can't separate him from Ironsi?

Tranquillity360:
No be only bullet for Ironsi,he also took bomb for him

Fajuyi that was killed together with Ironsi, you changed the narrative because you are afraid of north.


This story was told by none other than the ADC to General Aguiyi Ironsi himself, Captain (Now Senator) Andrew Nwankwo. It shows how the Northerners murdered Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi and his host, Ironsi. It also shows that they lied to the Yoruba nation that Fajuyi was killed accidentally while defending Ironsi. His murder was covered up by the north in order not to make the west suspicious of their agenda. Read on.

How Ironsi was killed, by his ADC
By PETRUS OBI, Abakaliki
Monday, June 28, 2004
• Senator Andrew Nwankwo
Photo.Sun News Publishing

Senator Andrew Nwankwo from the Izzi clan in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, was a captain in the Nigeria Air Force before the January 1966 coup that made way for Major General J. T. U Aguiyi Ironsi to emerge as Head of State.
He became Ironsi’s Aide-De-Camp through the recommendation of Brigadier George Krubo who was then in-charge of the Air Force and subsequently supervised the late Head of State’s security.

Capt. Andrew Nwankwo (rtd) said he was to die with his boss, but for fate. He was present when both Ironsi and Fajuyi were shot dead.

Tracking the 61-year-old former ADC down in his one story building residence in Abakaliki was not as difficult as getting him to recall the events that led to the death of his master 38 years ago.
He would start by taking you down memory lane when he served as a courier to late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, "I was manning the octopus-a helicopter that carries 105 artillery gun and six other machine guns.

"So when Ethiopia was at war with Somalia in 1964/65 we formed the defence group of the emperor, we also formed an attack force. When the emperor is going to the frontline to see what is happening, we ring him round to clear the way for him".
It was part of these that Ironsi saw and handed over his security to the young captain. "It was cool working with Ironsi, he understood everything about what I should do because he had commanded the UN forces in Congo, and that exposed him to the type of people he needed".

The coup
Recalling the events of that night, July 29, 1966, Nwankwo noted that they were in Ibadan, "we had a small detachment of 106 Artillery, Commanded by one Walbe from Plateau"
The Head of State had the previous day hosted traditional rulers from all parts of the country in the Ibadan Government House. "He wasn’t feeling quite well, he had a knee problem and had to go to bed early.

"Lieutenant Sanni Bello was the army ADC, and we were very close. So, we left that night to go and look out and came back late. Lt. Adamu who was the ADC to Fajuyi, Sanni Bello, Walbe and myself, we all slept together in one room that night".
"At about 4a.m the telephone rang, I picked it up and that was Adeola, the then commissioner of police, Ibadan he said he wanted to speak with Ironsi, I said I was the ADC, he said he wanted to speak with him because there was a coup and he gave me some names Orok and two others that had been killed in

Abeokuta.
"Immediately, I made a mental picture of it, and I knew that it was the northerners that were responsible. So, I handed the phone to Ironsi and they talked. I then alerted Adamu and Sanni Bello and said look, there is a coup and the trend is this way.

"Bello assured me that if it is his own people he will protect me, because, there was tension in the land such that we knew a coup was imminent. So, we agreed to protect each other depending on where it will be coming from. I later discovered that Walbe who was sleeping with us was part of the coup; he later became ADC to Gowon.

"Around 5:30 we heard gunfire, then Ironsi had called Col. Njoku to tell him about the coup. As Njoku was going out, he was short at, but he escaped with bullet wounds. It was Njoku, who was the commander of Lagos Garrison that alerted others outside the Government House, Ibadan.
"Fajuyi later sent me outside the government House to find out what was happening. I met Danjuma, who was then a major and he was my friend. He pretended he didn’t know what was happening, he was asking me, and I said I didn’t know. While I was trying to go back, one sergeant from Benue almost shot me, but Danjuma stopped him and spoke to him in Hausa. Danjuma later told me that he would like to see Ironsi, so that he could tell them what to do.

"It was then that Fajuyi came out to find out what was holding me, and there inside the Government House Danjuma ordered for his arrest and mine too. That was when I saw Walbe. Then Fajuyi asked me to take him to Ironsi so that they will obey him, that there should be only one person in charge. So, I took them to Ironsi, and major Newman, immediately he saw Ironsi, he seized his crocodile swagger stick, and then they started asking him about the January coup, he said he didn’t know about it that he only agreed to be Head of State so that he can restore confidence and normalcy. It was immediately they arrested Ironsi that they turned violent".

The road to the valley of death
They marched us down, Ironsi and myself, to where Fajuyi was. They used telephone cable to tie my hands behind and my legs, with a little space to walk. Same they did to Ironsi, but they removed his shirt, he wore only trousers, they also tied Fajuyi. Ironsi was in a Land Rover, Fajuyi in a mini bus and myself in another bus. They drove us towards Iwo Road, 10 km from Ibadan, there was a small forest were they stopped, marched us to the right hand side of the bush, Fajuyi was leading and as he tried to cross a small stream, he fell down, the soldiers were unruly, it appeared some of them had for the first time taken Indian hemp, so when he fell down some of them started beating him.

My escape
As Fajuyi fell down and they were beating him, Sanni Bello came to me and tapped me and said, we could do something now. It was providence, may be I was not destined to die. I took a few steps from them and jumped into a nearby ditch, all in a split of a second, Bello came and stood by the ditch and was shouting that I had escaped pointing at another direction. So the soldiers ran around that direction shooting into the bush, and when they felt they must have killed me, they shot Fajuyi and then Ironsi there, by the side of the stream. So Bello made sure that he was the last to leave the place.
The ADC, who was later elected senator in 1983 stated that the former Head of State could have escaped if not that he wanted to make sure that there was no bloodshed. He said if he sacrificed his life and prevented bloodshed in Nigeria, it’s better for him. Even his chaplain urged him to escape but he said No. Also many of his officers who were contacted instead of taking action ran away.
The ADC denied the prevailing story that Ironsi was tied to a Land Rover and dragged along the road. He maintained that he saw Ironsi and Fajuyi shot dead. "They shot him on the chest and it was a burst, so he would have died after the first shot".

The crocodile staff
It was a swagger stick, which he made after his name Aguiyi (crocodile). It was in the Congo, when he was commanding the United Nations Forces, the Indian troops were to land at the Lumumbashi Airport but the Cameroon gendarmes went and blocked the place with trucks, so that the Indian soldiers will not land, so, he used a Land Rover and with the stagger stick waved as they were shouting, he was eventually able to convince them to remove the trucks. Many attributed that feat to extraordinary powers in his swagger stick. But there was nothing in it, it was just a stick. Ironsi was not fetish; he was a devoted Catholic and attended mass every morning, even the day he was killed. ***** This Interview was culled from www.sunnewsonline.com

Yorubafather:
Still better than the propaganda your forefathers has passed to you that makes you lose touch with reality other than propaganda, do you know anything else in life apart from propaganda and back stabbing?

ValarDoharis:
He wasn't protecting Ironsi. He was marked for death to. It was alleged he was the link to Awolowo who was planned to be made president if the coup had succeeded

Tranquillity360:
A lie Yorubas have told for long is he died defending Ironsi.

But the fact is Northerners killed Fajuyi together with Ironsi,instead of Yorubas to confront Hausafulanis for killing their brother, they changed the narrative that fajuyi asked Northerners to kill him too.

Does that even make sense?



But assuming it was Igbo soldiers that killed him, will you people believe he asked the Igbo soldiers to kill him?


Won't Yoruba ask questions like, even if he said you should kill him, must you kill him.




Ev!il things that used Lagos ibadan gutter media to write rubbish to portray themselves as good and change every narration to suit them.

Tranquillity360:
Francis Adekunle Fajuyi born on 26 June 1926 and killed on 29 July 1966.


He was a Nigerian soldier of Yoruba origin and the first military governor of the former Western region

Smartcitizen:
You slippery fool, you are a complete liar.

Any Yoruba man suffering now will claim obedient, that's why I expose one idiot here.


😂😂😂😂😂

Killerofpigs:
Sharap.. illiterate

Killerofpigs:
Nnamdi Kanu told you..IBB confirmed it.

Propaganda is DEAD..

More to come

OfoIgbo:
Igbos fought the whole of Nigeria, a feat that Fulanis, Hausas or Yorubas can never ever do. So that should dispel any suspicions of Igbo cowardice.

However I am beginning to think that the January 1966 coup was Awolowo's coup. The main reason being that all those that were killed were Awolowo's political opponents.
He allegedly even arranged for the killing of his brother Akintola, just because Akintola had already subdued him in Western Nigeria.

Sardauna and Balewa were responsible for imprisoning Awolowo. Of course they had to go.

Azikiwe, Tarka, Okpara had no hand in the imprisonment of Awolowo, which was why they were not eliminated by Awolowo's coupists

SerpentAWOLOWO:
Yoruba

Tueh

COFFINSELLER:
Watch the video

https://x.com/harreceipts/status/1893347956243214512?s=19[/quote]Where was it indicated that this happened in Yorubaland?

Abfinest007:
Compare Abuja to capital of Rwanda and other beautiful city in Africa .u will see Abuja is still far behind

Revealpanda:
It's in their blood.

*Anything Rape... Leave it for the descendants of oduduwa*

ChizzyBuna:
someone that was born there and is earning big.
I swear i go pick myself up and go
When fortune smiles at me
If that boy ever near me to claim blood. I go disgrace am publicly.

Chiboy keep your head up🤧

DeepSightZ:
You guys are funny. Hate my country? Not a chance.
Someone cooks up blatant lies against the stark reality we are facing and I am supposed to accept it?

It is you guys that hate Nigeria since you are cool with that.

Besides what kind of retards cannot see the corealation between the deal FG had with Bloomberg in December and their articles saying all is well in paradise?

eepeepook:
Wetin dey confuse me pass na why Yoruba women dey always waka barefeet. In a crowd of fifty women, the ones who refuse to wear shoes are surely Yoruba ones.

meobizy:
They always claim "thick not fat." What I see in the real world doesn't reflect it. Overfed pigs are fitter than many of the females I see Yoruba men lusting after.

Ebuka78:
First and foremost, this is wrong, you are deporting your citizen. It is not right. It's just like somebody from Chicago telling somebody from New York to go back to New York this is not right

Pious101:
OP but where did weapon come from as suggested in Ur title?
Read d article twice and couldn't find where weapons was found on them

officialmario:
What are they even saying?