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aribisala0:
Babangida never said it is not an Ibo coup

That is a blatant lie

He said the opposite that

IT WAS AN IBO COUP

UNMISTAKABLE

was the word he used

It was an unmistakable Ibo coup

First there were assassinations

Then Ironsi too over

Why did Ironsi have to take over?

He claimed to have thwarted the coup

So why not let the civilians continue in power


Ironsi taking over was the culmination of the coup
The Ibo coup

His failure to prosecute any one was the confirmation
UNMISTAKABLE IBO COUP - IBB 2025

don't even mind them..the funny part was that the next in line in the civilians circle was an Igbo man...Orizu.. president of the parliament cos I don't recall Nigeria having a deputy prime minister then .

Eriokanmi:
Gowon is one of the cowards, insincere and weakest military leaders ever known. OBJ made same revelation. It appears IBB no wan carry the truth commot as his time ticks, which was why he spilled the beans. The foundation of this nation really had issues but the successive generations could have corrected it, if not for ethnic bigotry. It all started from the north and later found its way to the south due to the perceived civil war massacre as witnessed by those who lived in that era. I had an igbo colleague in those days, who was well advanced in age. He's in his 60s now. He once narrated the unfortunate war to me as experienced by him as a child and how he escaped those who captured him and wanted to send him to war to carry gun despite his age. I felt so emotional. My maternal uncle from ekiti also died in the civil war. He was my mum's immediate younger brother and the only son of my grandma.

Sadly, those generation of igbos to whom the story was narrated didn't manage the situation well. Rather than move on, they instigated rebellion against other tribes by accusing them of genocide and hate for the igbos. Yorubas and hausas also suffered severe casualties. All our forefathers were guilty and selfish. They caused the current wahala majorly. I've read several books on the civil war and the last I read was the Why We Struck. The intention of the war was to release Pa Awo and fast track the transition into civil rule by handing over power to him but baba made a you-turn by hobnobbing with gowon and giving them harsh tactics against the igbos, which included cutting off food supplies to them. Gowon also made his promise to him. Till his death, Pa Awo never ruled Nigeria.

I can never be a tribalist except I don't want this country to move forward. Pa Awo was to be killed alongside others but was released . The briefing containing the future of Nigeria was handed over to him but he went to Gowon's camp instead and the war rather raged on and took another turn. The Aburi Accord was also jettisoned, despite Gowon's promise to keep it. All our leaders still alive must apologise to all of us for ruining this great union called Nigeria and rendering this generation refugees at home and homeless abroad, struggling for survival.

The primordial problem is still evident today and that's why any tribe that produces president will populate his government with his tribes people. Naso e be from foundation. That's why I won't blame Tinubu wholly on what's happening in government today on his choice of political appointees. I only blame him for not being a true democrat by following his predecessors character. He should have acted differently because these were the perceived injustices he fought for, as a political activist back in the days.

Who knows, whenever it gets to the igbo's turn, they'd fill the government with their people too, time will tell. I think if we truly split and bear our father's names, it's better for us all else, the trend will only continue except our generation is proven wrong by whoever succeeds tinubu. Only obj ruled fairly in Nigeria, both as military and as civilian. I remember when some of our elders accused him of not being fair to yorubas and he said he's not yoruba president but Nigeria's president.

your epistle is very wrong ...Awo did not turn around anyone,he never had any agreement with The coup plotters ..if their intention was to put him as the head of state why didn't they announce it when they struck?why didn't Irosin release him,it was Gowon that released him years after ,you said he stopped food to the east of well why are the Biafran soldiers well fed and the populace who the food was meant for malnourished?so you mean the Nigerian government should have Kept on supplying food to the east meant for civilians and been hijacked by the Biafran soliders ,..make una continue to dey lie to una self..the author of this piece failed to quote the part of IBB book that said Ironsi not punishing the coup plotter and igbos mocking Northerners calling them cowards was the major reason for the counter coup .

turmacs:
Rubbish. If most of them know how much some of those Instagram and TikTok baddies dey earn a night, them go leave all this rubbish and become serious with their life. Woman go fine finish from up to down, come dey work for bank from 9-5, because of 3m per month and AC, God forbid. E get the kind men wey you go dey with sef from that 9-5 for just one day, na GLE 43 AMG dem go buy for you sef.

Them go buy for you because of what we're u doing with them?oloriburuku men buying you kinds GLE cos of puccies.. weaklings.

What an excuse,this foolery is not an excuse. You don't expect the outgoing to write you any letter as a Police command,you don't expect Obasa who has been removed to write you a letter that come and remove my security oya give am to Meranda..it's not done anywhere,The Police need to know that they owe their loyalty to the law and not to any human being,wait can we safely say their Olorunda guy former PPRO was deployed to come and do a hatchet Job?the majority said they don't want Obasa that's democracy..what on earth would they want again.

emoboy4u:
Lol, they are the most insecure generation always feeling threatened by Genz.

oh well am actually gen x but the way older generation bash this gen Zs..it's crazy ..we need to take a chill pill honestly.

Wealthoptulent:
Genzy Spotted ... did u watch STATE OF EMERGENCY? Naaah i bet with maa Balls

What has been a genz or whatever got to do with the question he or she asked .

FreeStuffsNG:
You sneaked in from the official recess of the HoA to execute a coup , now Speaker Obasa came in during recess to take over too. Ojoro cancelled.

This your masquerade dancing in the village square, onilu yin wa ni tosi.
Very soon, the mask will be removed and those sponsoring you against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be revealed.

You plotted to remove a whole Speaker while the Speaker and your political Leader, President Bola Tinubu, were away and not even given a chance to defend themselves. If nothing is done to rein you in, one day, we will wake up to read in the newspaper that you have impeached HE Babajide Sanwo-Olu nah.

stop posting rubbish online as if you are talking to illiterates,removal of a speaker or senate president is very well different from that of a governor or a president...that's no 1.
In the business of legislative,the house can conven when on recess to discuss any matter deem fit even the removal of the speaker even if it's just that they don't like his face or just a mere high-handedness or loss of confidence.

Try to impose an unpopular leader on a set of people will do nothing but back fire...this is not just one man this men have shown they are hellbent in getting rid of Obasa...the Police taking sides,if those in PDP had brains they would av called the IG to the house of rep or senate to come and explain himself,but they too have same precarious situation in Rivers .crazy people all over..they don't need to be sponsor if Obasa is leading them like a dictator,they av the right to reject and protest even if they were nominated each by the party leadership.

Sonnobax15:
sTop being in support of nonsense . There's size of bra for every boob out there . If she settle down waka from the starting of Onitsha to the end,she go must see the size of her breast buy

Did your grand mother wear bra in her days?she is well covers with her clothes and she is not naked , whatever she decides to wear or not to wear under garment is her privacy, Government has no right on that ,it's personal privacy and what they are doing is outright illegal.am pretty sure she must av been arrested for something else and not bra issue.

This is utter rubbish...Meranda should not back down or the lawmakers elect someone else from Lagos west but not Obasa..also the Police authority this days seems confused on their mandate.. honestly.

theophorus:
Na to Blame everyone except una self and na this hypocritical things still dey affect una.

If una like make una gaslight others till tomorrow, still the Truth will never change.

70-80% of Coup plotter = Ibos
Aguiyi Ironsi took over =Ibo
Unification decree = Ibos
Who made jest of North = Ibos
Whose Nationalist were not killed during the coup = Ibos.
Which Region took all the spoils of the Coup = Ibos.

On the Civil War.
Was there an Aburi accord?
Who looted the CBN buildings in the SE and Western Region?
Where/when did the defeat of the Biafra soldiers started? At Ore When they choose to march to take over Lagos.
Nsogbu-Nsogbu things without reasoning.

Una don start again.

The funny part is that they skipped the part where IBB said Igbos in the market were calling Northerners cowards .. mocking them before the counter coup,they forgot the part that IBB said in his opinion..which is not a fact..the coup was not intended to be an Igbo coup but took another dimension.
Saying an Igbo officer Crush the coup ..okay but who benefited from it Igbo, unitary system introduced by Igbo man too,when two parties wrong each other and the other one asking for an Apology or compensation..it's nothing but foolery .
Why were some of the coup plotter promoted according to IBB book non of the coup plotters were prosecuted ,that was the main reason for the counter coup.. Apology my foot ..this is so annoying.

SmartPolician:
Mali is wasting their time advising a useless country. Even when Saudi Arabia released the names of those financing Boko Haram and punished those in their country, Nigeria has yet to prosecute or kill them.

oga read ND comprehend before you make foolish statement on the internet, because the internet never forgets ...Mali is asking USA not Nigeria...chai..sad part 48 people liked your comment...48 mumu disciples.

simpleseyi:
An Osun state indegene was gifted oil wells in the South South, just as several others from the North, West, and Middle Belt, while the people on whose land the oil was put by God are slaving for the slave masters. All of you no go die well.

Before you quote me and say nonsense like I am jealous of them, please note that I am not wretched like your parents. I am not a billionaire, but I have given people millions on several occasions

they don't gift OPLs,if you have the money you are free to apply for it ,if you lucky you find oil in commercial quantity,cool,it's your luck then it becomes an OML,so stop vibrating,any Nigerian can apply for an OPL..the thing be like bet naija..if you get the money feel free to apply at the ministry of petroleum..they will gladly collect your money and give you license while wishing you best of luck .this woman borrowed money to prospect and got lucky.

Tjra:
I never mentioned Obi anywhere. Please don't misquote me.

smh,.Pandora papers,Peter Obi..we all get the message you don't need to say Obi directly....but this fake drug issue is something i don't expect anyone to play politics with .. anyone of us can be victim anytime any day .

alphaconde:
WHY IS RACISM ABOUT BLACKS

THAT MOURINHO LOVES BLACK PLAYERS DOESNT MEAN he IS not RACIST

how can you love something and hate it at the same time...what you wrote does it make sense ?

Tjra:
I saw this coming.

Those drug dealers and their sympathizers are very brutal.

Same people tried to kill Dora Akunyuli several times.

Even after she died through natural causes, they still revenged by murdering her husband.

President Tinubu, please do something.

The President send a Federal delegation to Pandora, he should call his boys to order. Nothing must happen to this woman.

not a fan of Obi but you political jobbers should av decorum when delivering your jobs..you tend to make unnecessary enemies for your master when doing your propaganda jobs..wetin concern Obi with this now abeg?

Kog45:
Why keep on saying I don't know what am saying but you refused to answer my honest question...what do you know about Tayo Ayeni.

Who is Tayo Ayeni..oga rest abeg .or you talking about the owner of fest wallet Tunde Ayeni?oga I be inhouse so hush it pls .

tunjilana:
The biggest cowards were the coupists of January 1966, killing unarmed civilian leaders along with their pregnant wives...even the military leaders they killed couldn't believe they came to kill them as these were boys who visited their house to eat pounded yam...Ademulegun's daughter still calls one of them uncle to show you how the family was always welcoming to the cowards that snuck on them at night to kill them...

don't mind those who claim they are brave and still don't know the meaning of the word coward...the real coward people.

What's the meaning of this new word "partner" you lots are throwing around,are you guys gays?that word in describing a relationship is reserve for people in samesex relationship..not in opposite sex relationship..define if it's your boyfriend or your girlfriend,so that people can easily know the gender you referring to .. Nigerians and stupid copy copy sha.

tishbite43:
Go and read

I directed you to go and do that needful..Mr Brave .

Germi9:
Toe to toe with a presidential convoy? loL you funny oh warfare is not power but strategy and intelligence. Your ability to take your enemy unaware makes you the bad guy. Go read 48 laws of power by Robert Greene.

I was answering someone calling other people coward...taking someone unaware is not a Hallmark of bravery,or can you say Brutus that stabbed Ceaser was much more brave than Ceaser?

tishbite43:
Stop telling nonsense lies
Fajuyi was marked for death like Ironsi
Many northerners believed he was sympathetic to the coup
He didn't sacrifice himself for anyone
Stop consoling yourself with lies

when you won't read nau .why won't you call someone a liar?there are several books written about the coup... google is your friend my dear .fajuyi marked for death and other region leaders were left alive abi?kwantinue..Mr brave.

Softmirror:
Lol 😂. Such seniority didn't apply after Abacha died otherwise Abubakar Abdulsalam wouldn't have been Head of State.

It was Al Mustapha's doings that made a one time Court Marshalled Abubakar Abdulsalam who was convicted of embezzlement, tempering with Soldiers Salaries in the early 70s Nigeria's Head of State after Abacha died.

And Abubakar Abdulsalam made sure he looted almost every dime Abacha saved in Nigeria's Treasury to reinforce his one time conviction embezzlement as true.

it actually happened...Lt Gen Useni was a senior to Abdusalam...but the only thing here was that,Abacha didn't die because of coup but natural death ..Useni also had no command like Obasanjo and Ogundipe..you guys should please learn .

tishbite43:
Epistle of cowardice.
For the records, Ojukwu outlived Ogundipe by a mile.
Ironsi never begged anyone.
He died gallantly.
Ask Sani Bello and Theophilus Danjuma.

died after a Yoruba man sacrificed his life for him ...dey play .

Germi9:
Danjuma has never been a Coward as a matter of fact Danjuma was the finest Military officer Nigeria had back in the days.. his capacity was second to non and that is why the likes of IBB feared him. Again.. he led the squard that unlived Aguyi ironsi. Danjuma don’t like to operate from an open space infact he rejected so many opportunities of becoming a civilian President

unlive Ironsi in an unmatched ambush situation..that's a coward my friend..he should have gone toe to toe with them to show his bravery..only a coward ambush others their safety were entrust In his hand ,he should av taken the Position if others behind him won't off him ..

AndroBlaze:
Lol, like we say about you people, your hubris and pride will always be why you will struggle to lead in a nation as dynamic and multi faceted as Nigeria, as you will keep falling into obvious traps set for you.

First of all, in what you read from the original post, who was it that everybody unanimously agreed should lead the country, clearly IBB said it was his Boss General Danjuma. Now why are you not calling Danjuma a coward for refusing to accept the clear nomination of everyone... were all the officers their not trained properly and suppose to know that OBJ was the number 2 and suppose to automatically take over?

In fact, not only did Danjuma refuse to be HOS, he even refused to serve as no 2, going as far to look for a much junior officer to come and lord it over him! I will post what Danjuma had to say after this and you will realise that this your pride and uncompromising spirit has always been the reason una struggle for this country. In fact I am almost certain that if President Yaradua's vice had been from the SE, he would have struggled to successfully succeed him the manner GEJ was able to and win over a nation, at least temporarily.

Anyway, to cut the long story short, a bloody coup had just been commited against a Northern Muslim Head of state again, and this time not by the "imagined" traditional rivals of the North, you Igbos, but by what would come to be termed as "Christian" Middle belt officers (who (middlebeltans) in fact were always the ones spearheading coups in Nigeria after learning from una). The Northerners as usual were tagging the coup as a "christian coup" again to benefit the middlebelt and ensure another middle belter in the shape of Gowon or something like that takes over. Now do you expect Danjuma, to be stupid enough to fall for this trap??

As for OBJ, he had been a political officer for a while after his exploits in defeating Biafra. He had no troops under his command and it very obvious that he understood he was at an obvious disadvantage when his main rival was not only the same rank as him, but had the backing of most of the troops who were also mainly from his part of the country. Another thing you people forget, that most of the NCOs have always been from the middlebelt anyway. Anyway there was no way he could force his claim without complete loyalty of the troops or at least a guarantee of it, which only the person who holds their loyalty can give (Danjuma in this case).

This was a similar scenario that Ogundipe faced and tried unfortunately to paint and get into the head of Ojukwu, but Ojukwu was to stubborn and not listening. People should learn from history (especially recent history), but its clear some certain people in this country struggle with this.

Even the revenge counter-coup of 1966, Gowon was not the one that started it or was interested in it; it was the likes of Murtala Mohammed, Danjuma and other middle belt soldiers as usual. The coup plotters unanimously agreed they wanted Muritala who they knew and was their co-conspirator, but he cleverly insisted that it would be wrong for them to copy there predecessors and benefit from it directly, lets allow a "Christian" Northern gentleman lead, someone that would be acceptable to many other Nigerians, and probably more importantly to the British. Murtala made Gowon head of state, and when he got tired of waiting, took it back from him in his own coup.....but within 8 months he suffered the consequences of behaving like you people.

Kudos needs to be given to the likes of the Danjumas, OBJs and Ogundipes for living long enough to tell their tale and not being taken down by careless bullets all so they could foolishly boast they were brave, uncompromising and courageous soldiers.... and by the way 99.9% of people lose their bravery when they face a barrel and know certain death awaits them, by now you should be old enough to know that only happens in Hollywood and Bollywood movies. If you don't believe me, listen to the way Danjuma tells the story of how General Ironsi and co were begging him and mere soldiers with him just before they murdered them.

Thank you .I was telling someone else this same thing in one other thread this morning calling Yoruba generals weak..he even lied white mercenaries fought on the sid of Nigerian soldiers..a friend was telling me his grandfather who fought on Biafra side told him people were starved in the east during the war..I asked him who starved the people?were you aware Biafran try occupied present day Edo and Delta state for some times..if the people present then come out and tell you what the faced in the hands of Biafran soldiers you will stop blaming one side and will understand that no war is good for anyone
.both sides can be equally guilty depending on who I telling the story to you..now because your grandpa told you something doesn't mean its true..OLD MEN ALSO LIES.

ERockson:
The judge is right.Nobody stops Muslims from sitting inside mosques and and resolve various Islamic issue, be it family, marital etc. Every major mosques has this panel already and they are resolving issues before this time without government involvement or intervention. All these noise are mere religion politics that extremist want to take advantage of which every right thinking Yoruba will not allow.

exactly what I said that sharia panel are at every mosque already..but some of them want go take it a step further and they want government legitimacy, later they will ask for hisbah claiming it's only for Muslims..what all other SW people are saying is very simple.. anything concerning Sharia, Islamic laws in marriage, family you can go to the masjid local to yoj and get interpretations.

Abufo:
My father fought in Igwuruta on the Biafran side.......he told me white army officers fought for the Nigerian side during the Bonny invasion...and from grapevine sources, the British SAS had operatives during major encounters with Biafran forces during the war, especially in the Niger delta!

sorry but your Dad didn't tell you about the white men from France that fought for Biafra right ?besides no pictures or documentation showing any white officer fought on Nigerian side ..but pictures of white mercenaries from France fighting and flying for Biafra is all over the place .

What a stupid thread by a clown..so you expect a General who had no command but just administrative to go and lay down his life after a senior Igbo General Ironsi who a Yoruba man died for to also go and face Muritala ,TY Danjuma etc of northern extraction who had military commands,units at their disposal,so tha he can die foe Igbo cause like Banjo did or go to jail cos of Igbos like Soyinka did..oga make una go rest and stop exhibiting been a clown online..the whole country is laughing at you guys the way you glorifying Ibb just this one week now .

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BreconHills:
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The "we yoruba" group again 😂 There is nothing like "we" yoruba.

Just leave them they won't learn.

santaclaws:
Their revenue fell to $344 million from $539m in the previous year, that's not a $344m revenue loss, they just made less profit than they did last year...

In other words, Airtel made $344 million, they didn't lose $344 million.

Nigerians learn to read!!! 😒

Exactly what I want to say here .. question is how many telecom companies in the world makes $1b in nine months in a year..this people are sucking us dry..they didn't make a loss they made lesser profit due to Naira "semi flotation".
F Dem joor .

Lightway:
Is it not suspicious that NAFDAC has been exposing so many of these drugs and iniquities but they are yet to expose an importer, a drug dealer or anything like that.

Nobody has since been persecuted.

this is so true ,just seizing goods is not good enough, Nafdac need to start prosecuting people, arranging, exposing them like NDLEA,just seizing doesn't make Sense if there is no punishment.

Obviouslyblunt:
Never knew a day would come when some part of the country would praise Abacha.

lolzz..I swear down .. unbelievable