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This same nnamdi kanu who went beserk, ordering the killing of Igbos who did not align with his agenda is now pretending to be a victim.

He and his cohorts will face the repercussions of their deeds.

danvon:
Ojukwu should have killed himself like Brutus, Mark Anthony and Hitler.

Running away and leaving your people at the mercy of the enemy was an act of supreme cowardice.

Stop glorifying weakness.

Kaduna Nzeogwu actually did that (suicide) after realising he made a grievous mistake partaking in the coup.

No single criminal involved in the unlawful detention and threat to life of Ijele would escape.

Fake.

Mbanda:
This is a ship load of crap. The leader of the said coup (Nzeogwu) is a native of okpanam in delta state. And remember una dey always talk say Igbos dey attach delta by force that is to say, you Igbo haters don't see Nzeogwu's people as Igbos. Now, my question to you lots after all these allegations by you people that we are attaching them by force is, is okpanam Igbo? Because the same you lots said that delta is not Igbo.

Secondly, did the coup plotters ever had a meeting with Igbo leaders and communities about the coup, before they (coupists) executed it?

If there was nothing like meeting between the coupists and Igbo leaders/Igbo communities concerning the coup, why are you agents of lies and propaganda tagging the coup "Igbo coup"?

The truth can never be changed. Nzeogwu was never the leader of the coup.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3L4DYH3ltc?si=96vGBzKswAjEotsO



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A8hNFWDUIc?si=C_KOlcMA4-jqy7SL

'I am an unapologetic Ikwerre man' is an anti-Igbo comment?

Clowns!

Dalohad:
So you now remember that Yorubas were part of the coup.

No one denied that.

The outcome of the coup and immediate events thereafter was what made many Nigerians have the perception that it was an 'Igbo coup'.

But there are some individuals or groups who fraudulently want to distort history by 'blaming' Nzeogwu from an ethnic group in Delta North who have asserted they are not Igbos, as the leader of the 'Igbo coup'. While the truth is Ifaejuna from Anambra was the leader of the coup.

Ifaejuna led the January 1966 coup. Apart from the confirmation from Ojukwu himself, here is another prominent, honest Igbo man who amongst the few has earned respect for speaking the truth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A8hNFWDUIc?si=C_KOlcMA4-jqy7SL

Ok. Link to the types of Ibos below:

https://youtube.com/shorts/b0z_-LGsgQQ?si=_VC_HoO8Dtrx5AxT

Terrible idea.

Instead of proffering intelligent ways of attracting foreign tourists, this one is suggesting taxing citizens for coming home.

When there are choice tax-free destinations all over the world.

calaway:
You people are just hopeless how do you think u can turn the truth on it head? Awolowo was the person that weaponized hunger directed at killing innocent Igbo children against the wishes of Gowon.
So these lies you are peddling ryt now is a small thing. igbos are greater than you and will always be. Evil Animals
The are blessed like the jews and you can't knock them down

Within the first minute of this video, Ojukwu mentions the leader of the coup - Ifaejuna.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3L4DYH3ltc?si=96vGBzKswAjEotsO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6g6KEwy5UQ?si=fBFZzh5QDPCgY947

Konquest:
@diamond68

Just for further emphasis and clarity.

The vast majority of returnees from Brazil and Cuba to Lagos Island (Eko Island) from the mid-1800s were Yoruba people from the Bahia region in Brazil, then from Cuba, some Yorubas stayed back to take advantage of opportunities in business and other trades while others returned from Matanzas Province and Havana (Habana).

Many of them (such as the FIRST ever Nigerian Pounds Sterling millionaire, Candido Darocha were of Ijesa ancestry through his father who was taken as a war captive and got shipped on a Portuguese slave schooner to Bahia in Brazil in the early 1800s) were highly skilled people who had a high standard of living leading to them being very wealthy through international businesses exporting and importing commodities with ships between Lagos Island and South America before 1900!


NOW, to the Ikwerre issue, the Ikwerre folks that I've known since the 1990s right from back when I worked with a major multinational oil and gas company in Port Harcourt ALL told me emphatically that they are NOT Igbos. I did ask them about why SOME similarities exist in their names and the interior Igbos and it turns out that acculturation took place. This isn't strange though because acculturations occur a Lot at border areas where different cultures and ethnicities converge. The ONLY recognized Ikwerre organization established since 1963, "Ogbakor Ikwerre Worldwide" ALSO rejected the Igbos tag and affirmed again just this January 2025 that they are of Ikwerre ethnic nationality.


TODAY AT OGBAKOR IKWERE PRESS CONFRENCE! IPOB IGBOS WILL LEARN IN THE HARD WAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUPHP2CqnhA?si=OEruUsEEfyhBEEjW
January 10 2025


Right in Kogi and Northern Edo States for instance, there are Ebiras and in parts of Akoko Edo (who are ALSO ancestrally related to the Ebiras of Kogi State) that are NOT Yorubas, BUT they understand Yoruba language in addition to their indigenous languages and some bear Yoruba names. There are Ebira communities (that share direct boundaries with the Okun-Yorubas of Kogi State) who speak and bear Yoruba names due to intermarriage and acculturations. You will NEVER find the rest of cite Yorubas of Kogi, Kwara and the West of Nigeria forcing themselves rudely on the Ebiras people despite some shared similarities!

It's this FACT of historical acculturation that some of these ignorant younger Igbos don't get. Even the different Igbo subgroups in the core 5 Igbo-speaking states of today historically underwent acculturation and borrowed some cultural practices in the area of loan words, food, dressing, religion, etc, from their neighbors from different ethnic groups along the border areas. The Red CHIEFTAINCY cap in NOT indigenous to the Igbos BUT was originally brought into the Nsukka area of Northern Enugu State within the last 500 years from where it spread to other parts of Igboland that NEVER had contact with Igalas. Igbo culture is also NOT monolithic but varies from one community to another. I've seen viral YouTube videos of some irresponsible young Igbo members of ipob threatening to wipe out or deport Ikwerres to Benin and take Ikwerreland for the Igbos which is highly irresponsible and further portrays Igbos as the aggressors who do NOT respect people's wishes. Similar video threats have been made by these irresponsible ipob boys guys to capture Ijaw and Edo State areas and include them in Igboland and they mean it! These acts of ipob Igbo aggression have led to Ijaws, Bini-Edos and Esan-Edo firing back (in recent videos I've seen threatening to deal with Igbos from henceforth).

The REAL FACTS that I've gleaned from the Ikwerres is that the Few among them who are claiming to be of Igbo origin are of Aro (Arochukwu) descent who settled in their midst in the 1700s to 1800s during the slave trade. It turns out that the Aros settled in many interior Igbo communities and other areas such as Bonny Island in Ijawland from where they organized the notorious slave trade (where many interior tribes now referred to as collectively as Igbos) were captured and brought to the Atlantic coast for sale to the White men who bought the enslave people while the Ijaws made money by acting as the middlemen in the trade based off of what the Aros brought to them. The Trans-Atlantic slave ship records and other advanced archival documents that I've read since the 1980s show that 80% of the "Eboes" Igbos shipped out of Bonny Island were females. Jaja of Opobo himself was sold as a slave from the Igbo interior in the 1800s (he was from Ama igbo in Imo State) and was brought to Bonny Island where he was acquired by his Ijaw master and made to undergo an Ijaw initiation rites to become Ijawnized after he became a free man. However, an internal political war in Bonny led to Jaja (and others of different pure Ijaw and Ibo slave ethnic origins) to flee to Ibibioland (Ikot Abasi) in 1870 where he and his fleeing team were given a space in Ikot Abasi (Opobo). As a matter of fact, the advanced history books state that Jaja would have been killed, but his British trader friends that he knew from Bonny save him by repelling the better armed political rivals from Bonny Island who chased Jaja and his team to where they fled to.

The Aros actually worked in partnership with their allies from Ohafia and Abam (all in today's Abia State) to raid for many captives in the Igbo interior who were sold as slaves in Bonny, and other slave ports of the Ibibio and Efiks. This is the reason why Asari Dokubo who identifies as an Ijaw today emphasized in some of his videos that his direct male ancestor Ediabali an Abam man who was part of an Aro team (or contingent) from Obosi that got retained by the Ijaw ruler who needed his services in the Palace.

Insightful. Love to see people abreast with history and truth!

One thing I've learnt over time is history can never be hidden. It always manifests itself in various ways, even through the behaviour of individuals and people. It should be perceived as motivation for improvement rather than a burden.

Onyiridike:
Which school did you attend?
How many Ikwerres do you know and have you been to Ikwerre before?

You just analyse issues from your head without any empirical evidence.

To you, Ikwerre is Wike, Amaechi and Mbata because you read about them on social media.

For your information, the issue about Ikwerre being Igbos or not is just like indigenous people of Kwara State and Okun people of Kogi State claiming that they are not Yoruba because the narrative suits them.

Again, Igbos are too big for Ikwerre . Ikwerre is not even up to Owerri Igbo community in Imo State.

One question for you - are you Ikwerre?

The only Ikwerres I've seen claim to have some Igbo heritage at various times were two politicians who were seeking either votes or favour from Igbos regarding their ambition:

Rotimi Amaechi when he was soliciting votes from Igbos during campaign period. He was reported to have denied being Igbo at some other time.

The second is this Mbata who contested for the ohanaeze president general.

Every other Ikwerre I've seen, also their sociocultural group has made it very clear they are not igbo, but Iwurhonna (Ikwerre).

Bede2u:
Actually Brazilians are Portuguese and Yorubas, they didn't fall from heaven.
Switzerland and Austrians are ethnic Germans too.
An Igbo man can understand Ikwere as much as they can understand Nsukka or other non-central Igbo dialects spoken outside the major cities.

Never knew Christiano Ronaldo was Yoruba!

Bede2u:
the Blacks of Yoruba heritage in Brazil are yorubas. Ronaldo is from Portugal not Brazil. Have you been drinking?

Are you sure you saw what you posted?

In any case, this would be a very good analogy to the discussion at hand.

No! The Yorubas do not claim that every black person in Brazil or Portugal is Yoruba!
Blacks from other parts of Africa also migrated to these areas at various times.

Yoruba culture, language, names and traditional worship system have been adopted by the people of these regions, including the indigenous whites who invariably would have intermarried with Yorubas, these do not make these areas Yoruba territories and no Yoruba is desirous of claiming such as their territories.
This is a sign of a high level of maturity, sincerity and respect for others to choose their identity and who to identify with.

Rather, it's these people of various origins who yearn to identify with the Yoruba cultural system, and even claim to be Yoruba. This is how it should be.

In Nigeria, there are many ethnic groups who claim they are descendants of the Binis(Edos), have you seen any Edo claim these people or their territories?


It's very obvious there are ulterior motives regarding this desperate tagging of Ikwerres as Igbos.

With these recurrent reports of child trafficking businesses in the guise of 'orphanage homes' notably in the SouthEast, any genuine one existing in such place would be at high-risk.

This should be a national emergency.

Godwin4444:
is it that Igbo men are impotent or can't impregnate women

Na una get baby factory, na Una still dey steal other people's children

It's just a 'business venture' for some.
Despite being in the 21st century, such practice is apparently still rampant in the region.
You can imagine how severe this would have been during the pre-agrarian and agrarian era (pre-colonial era).

What actually happens to these children? Obviously, they are not 'bought' to be kept in people's homes.

Turji o! Shekau o! Kanu o! Ekpa o! All of them must face the music.

CommonSense1967:
Hell no.
This is one of the problems in Nigeria.
People will demand and ask for good governance but when it comes to their own personal interests they will change mouth.

The same people who will ask for justice and rule of law are now begging President Tinubu to violate rhe laws of the land, to ignore the constitution and interfere in thr duties of the Judiciary by releasing a known IPOB terrorist just because he's Igbo.
These people are pathetic blind hypocrites.

Imagine when the British handed administrative authority of the old Eastern region to them, what the others went through. Some groups had to go join Cameroon.

Wike the performer! More strength!

Every ethnic group should call for release of their terrorists.

The FG knows better.

helinues:
The issue with some of you is arguing blindly on incorrect facts. Nigeria had 3 regions in the 60's. North, Midwest and Eastern region

Where was your West located?

Stop disgracing yourself

Whatever you do, don't make the mistake of thinking that guy is from Edo. Clearly, does not even know the history of Western Nigeria, and no Edo wastes time arguing what he's attempting to inject into your conversation with him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnyv_fbNopQ?si=We-3_2CaVC8spcX-

From the streets of Ikwerre land


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnyv_fbNopQ?si=We-3_2CaVC8spcX-

AntiZikist:
Funniest thing is that the middle belt participated in the pogroms with much zeal and the region witnessed the highest volunteers to join the federal forces.


Awolowo tried getting the middle belt to leave the north but they much wanted to be under northern Nigeria.

The balkanization of each three regions at independence was the main agenda by each separate region.

The Sarduna teamed up with Zik to ensure the of western Region was duly balkanized. The Yorubas did not oppose this move and the process to create Midwestern region sailed peacefully in the Yoruba dominated Regional House in Ibadan.

Awolowo then supported the agitation for both a separate region for the NE and also MB people but their response was lukewarm.

In the old eastern region agitation for COR region was the loudest by the so-called minorities as far back as 1951 when eastern region was created. The regional house in Enugu that was dominated by the ibos did not borrow a leaf from the Yoruba dominated house in Ibadan and suppressed all moves by minority reps to call for a referendum to leave the old Eastern region.

It's at this time that the Sarduna coined the phrase "one north" which was meant to see northern Nigeria as sacrosanct and indivisble.

The minorities of the eastern region found a loophole in getting a referendum to leave Eastern Nigeria by approaching the federal house. They got the support of both the Sarduna and Akintola to support their bid alongside MPs from the newly created Midwestern region.

It's at this point that it dawned to Zik that the old eastern region will be reduced to its current SE size and makeup that they then conspired to halt the federal parliament convening from a Christmas break to look into and pass a motion calling for a referendum for the creation of the Calabar-Ogoja-Rivers region. Their officers in the military were then deployed to thwart the house from convening but to end regionalism all together.


This is the reason for Jan 15 coup and it had nothing to do with the political crisis in the western region or freeing Awo .

Fact

For this menace to stop, capital punishment has to be applied.

Unity indeed!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC8V2BUwzN4?si=5dB9BQDKLbw3RhDq

calaway:
Kaduna nzeogwu was the mastermind of the said coup.......stop telling lies animal

That's the lie your elders or the likes of nnamdi told you abi? Better go learn your history!

Infaejuna was the mastermind. Nzeogwu was recruited into the plot at a later stage. Why Nzeogwu's name was prominent was because he was the one deployed to kill the Sardauna in Kaduna.

In the video below, Ojukwu clearly stated the name of the leader of the January 1966 coup:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3L4DYH3ltc?si=96vGBzKswAjEotsO

The insincere ones amongst you attempt to play smart by naming Nzeogwu from Delta North as the leader of the coup in order to place the tag of 'Igbo coup' on the people of Delta North who have always made it clear they are not Igbos , but of various ethnic groups.

Ifaejuna from Anambra was the mastermind and leader of the coup!

Ojiofor:
Anioma is the one aspiring to join SE they submitted a bill in national assembly and senate to be carved into SE region.

This is a Chief in Delta North.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArfQ4zv4Ql4?si=Ieyy_M-XgVTimVa0