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seunmsg:
Seems you can’t read and understand very well. Please read again slowly “ From that moment the putsch was infiltrated by "outsiders" to its supposed original intention and it took on an unmistakable ethnic coloration compounded by the fact that there were no related coup activities in the Eastern Region”

The part in bold is IBB’s conclusion that it was clearly an Igbo coup.

Of course we all know the outsiders that labelled it an Igbo coup. They are the same people that starved millions of Biafrans to death.

You still don't want to point out the fact that it was Igbo people that scuttled Awolowo's coup. How can an Igbo man scuttle an Igbo coup.
Awolowo's coup will remain so, thanks to Babangida.

The major point is still the fact that Awolowo eliminated all his political opponents and those who were responsible for imprisoning him, in that coup

seunmsg:
President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, 'A Journey In Service: An Autobiography', February 2025.

Of course Awo did not plan for any killings in Eastern Nigeria because he was in a political alliance with NCNC, and there wouldn't have been any reason killing his political allies. But he made sure to eliminated all his political enemies.

Yet again I have to thank Babangida for pointing out that Awolowo was to be the main beneficiary of that coup.

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richie240:
Hehehehehehe...... when last did an igboman do the 'Fajuyi' - die for others?
Thanks for making.me laff ds hot afternoon.

Three million Igbos and other Biafrans died for Awolowo's coup.

Your question satisfactorily answered

seunmsg:
Awo’s number one political enemy as at that time was Nnamdi Azikiwe. So, how convenient was it for Awo who was in prison to recruit Igbo officers including Azikiwe’s cousin to help him kill all his political enemies except Azikiwe? Ehn Omo Ibo, make it make sense please.

Also, are you saying Ademulegun, Maimalari, Ralph Sodeinde, James Pam, Unegbe etc were all enemies of Awolowo?

Finally, Special Branch headed by the British investigated the coup. In fact, they knew about the coup long before it was carried out. So, how come they missed the fact that Awolowo was the brain behind the coup? How come it was an IBB who was a rank and file officer in 1966 that uncovered what Special Branch couldn’t uncover?

As at that time, Zik and Awo were in an alliance, so Awo had no real reason to send his coupists to exterminate Zik.

Ademulegun, Unegbe e.t.c were not politicians, so Awo's coupists only killed them as they could stand in the way of the coup being successful.
Also those few Yoruba officers could have been Akintola's people, so Awolowo may have marked them down for elimination, as he wouldn't want any pro-Akintola officer raising dust.
Awolowo's coupist also killed an Igbo officer named Lt. col Unegbe. I wonder why they did that.

Babangida was already an officer in 1966. He even took part in the so-called revenge coup of July 1966, so Babangida was a front row observer of what happen then.

Babangida's book is a huge testimony that exonorates Igbos. As a former head of state, he must also be privy to highly classified intelligence reports of the happenings of that period. Awolowo's coup was an evil that befell Nigeria.

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aribisala0:
So Biafra is only Eboes?
Eboes fought the whole Nigeria?

Why then did Ojuiku lun away and leave Effiong to surrender
Why were Eboes too cowardly to finish what they started? Leaving it to Effiong?
Any fool can repeat folly again and again .That will not make it wisdom

Brigadier Ogundipe, the highest ranking Yoruba army officer ever, already showed the world what cowardice looked like.

Babangida did a good job to expose cowards in Nigeria, and revealing that the 1966 coup was Awolowo's
Awolowo who couldn't claim a coup that he masterminded in Jan 1966, but only did so many years afterwards, joined Ogundipe in that cowardice trail.

Today Igbos are being vindicated. Kudos to Ojukwu, Efiong and the rest who stood for justice and fought a good fight.

seunmsg:
Awolowo who was in prison planned a coup using 95% of Igbo soldiers to execute the coup. Somehow, he forgot to plan his own rescue from prison. And the Igbo soldiers he used to plan the coup killed everyone except Igbo military and political leaders. They then handed over power to another Igbo leader instead of Awolowo. And for six months, the new Igbo leader of Nigeria refused to release Awolowo who planned everything from prison.

Wawu, what a story. The only thing more ludicrous than this story is Nnamdi Kanu telling his fellow Obingooos that Buhari died and was replaced by a clone from Sudan. The fact that same set of cretins pushing the Awolowo coup rubbish were the same set of people that believed the Jubril from Sudan story says it all.

Those Igbo officers killed all of Awolowo's enemies

Those Igbo officers did not kill Awolowo, even though he was a sitting duck in prison in Nigeria

aswani:
I knew that was were you and your ilk were heading, starvation and £20.

Of course that had nothing to with the return match.

The ones that said the coup was for Awo, did they tell you they discussed with him and he consented?

Awolowo's coupists did not tell me they did not discuss the coup with him before they carried it out.

By the way, Awolowo was then in jail for planning a coup, so planning coups was not new to Awolowo.

Awolowo planned a coup when he was free. He would definitely plan a coup, when he was in jail. The whole coup plot was within Awolowo's capabilities

LegendHero:
Exactly, Ojukwu also planed the extermination of 3 million biafrans because he is a cannibal that need to be well fed.

If you doubt me, show me where the 3million deceased were buried to discountenance my face.

I even heard the 1966 counter coup was planned by the Northerners to restore Azikiwe as president. They had to kill 30k Ibos so people can feel sympathy for them and they can bring in Azikiwe to placate them.

Regarding the bolded, it was Awo that starved millions of Biafrans to death. He even admitted it by claiming that starvation was an instrument of war which he was happily using to eliminate victims of his 1966 coup.

Unfortunately for you Babangida did not validate your last paragraph. Babangida only validated the suspicion that the 1966 coup was Awolowo's coup.

casualobserver:
Awolowo was in jail

That was why he planned the coup. He didn't like being in jail. He wanted to take over the leadership of Nigeria rather than sitting in jail.

I hope this makes sense now

aswani:
How did Ndigbo go from fighting the whole of Nigeria to cowering in fear when an idiot in Finland is insisting they sit at home every Monday?

Azikwe and Okpara had the coup leaked to them by a fellow tribesman, people protecting their own people.

Shame.

As regards the bolded, that's because the idiot in Finland is more powerful than Yorubas, Hausas and Fulanis combined.

Regarding your last paragraph, Awolowo was imprisoned in the eastern region, so I greatly suspect that he leaked his coup to Okpara and Azikiwe who were from the eastern region.

aribisala0:
So Biafra is only Eboes ? Thanks for confirming
But when it was time to surrender you left the dirty work to Major General Philip Effiong
How come ?

You say Eboes fought the whole NIgeria


Was Effiong Eboe?

You must think the Ijaws , Ibibio and Efik are stupid an do not see you for what you really are
You have to come clean
Was Biafra an Eboe agenda

What is the place of Ijaws and Ibibio in Biafra?
Uncomfortable question?

To the best of my knowledge, Adaka Boro and Edwin Clark who remain the greatest leaders of the Ijaw nation, fought against Igbos/Biafra.
Ken Saro Wiwa, the greatest Ogoni leader also fought against Biafra.

It was Igbo properties in PH that was seized. Not Ijaw or Ibibio properties. So Igbos have every right to use the word BIAFRA, as synonymous to the nation that Igbos belong in. It is left for the other groups to claim it. As I am an Igbo, I claim the word BIAFRA for the Igbos. But as an Igbo, I cannot claim the word for Ijaw of Ibibio people. It is only Ijaw and Ibibio people that can claim it, and when they claim it, no one will have the power to deny them the use of that word.

So I repeat again, that Igbos fought the whole of Nigeria, something that Yorubas, Hausas, Fulanis can never do.

The word BIAFRA, applies to all the ethnic groups of the old eastern region

Beautifulday:
who recorded the telephone conversation, and who sent it to IBB?

Awolowo maybe

Ojuntana:
You mean Awolowo used you guys to plan a coup and still made you guys take the fall for it?
I agree that you should insult him
He practically turned you guys to sanitary pad

Don't forget an Igbo man imported the rat poison he drank as his last meal

aswani:
Your new hero cowardly tortured and killed lots of Ndigbo officers in cold blood in Kaduna, even those that had nothing to do with the January coup, bear that in mind.

Did he bring any proof of who was to benefit or is this another aspersion he casted on the dead that can't defend themselves?

Babangida was not the first person that stated that Awolowo was to be the chief beneficiary of that coup. Other senior coup insiders have made the same allegation. Babangida was just the last person to accurately repeat that allegation.

I also doubt whether Babangida alleged that the July coup was not a northern coup, so if he took part in it, I won't be surprised that he killed innocent Igbos.

The major point is that Awolowo was the main reason those innocent Igbos were killed.

He doubled down on this move by making starvation an instrument of war, which he gleefully used to try exterminate the Igbos.
As though that wasn't enough, he was the chief architect of giving Igbos 20 pounds in exchange for whatever thousands they may have in the banks.

Basically, with Babangida's book, a clearer picture is being drawn, of Awolowo and his wickedness

aswani:
Babangida can call Ndi Yoruba cowards, shame he won't put his reasons forward but that's ok too.

Regardless, Ndigbo Obidients can not call anyone cowards with the way Simon Ekpa was controlling them until the Finnish authorities put a stop to it.

Also, Nnandu Kanu has been in jail going 3 years now, when are these non-cowardly Ndigbo Obidients going to do something about it by way of breaking him out of jail?

Speck of dust, log of wood, their eyes, your eyes.

You are obviously writing from your refugee camp in Benin republic.

Babangida correctly named the person who was to benefit from the 1966 coup, and you are here foaming in the mouth.

Thank God Babangida's book will go quite far and a lot of people will read it to make sense of what has been happening in Nigeria

aswani:
The ones that were not killed, it was leaked to them by their kinsman. How can you say Zik wasn't an opponent of Awo.

They have been going at it since pre-independence when Zik took over NCNC from Herbert Maccaulay..

Stop this conflation, it's a nonsense and lacks any logic.

Awo was more an opponent of Balewa than he was of Zik. Balewa was the prime minister of the regime that prosecuted and imprisoned Awolowo.

Awo's party was in alliance with Zik's party when the coup took place, so you cannot bring that issue up.

A major pointer though, was the fact that Awo's coupists also killed Akintola, who was a major opponent of Awolowo in Western Nigeria.

aswani:
Sir, Zik and Okpara were told about the coup, that is why they were spared, why are you trying to rewrite history to fit your weird narrative, stop that?

You claim Ndi Yoruba are cowards. Two things:

1) How is it that a reprobate in Finland could shut down aligbo every Monday, I am certain that would never happen in Ala Yoruba. The idiot has a son that was going to school steady in Finland on Monday o, yet your own children were being brutalised and not allowed to.

2) Achuzia the hannibal himself said Ndigbo were the most cowardly in the Biafran army. He used to turn up at the rear of missions and shoot stragglers dead. In his own admission and to his admitted shame, he was having to kpai a lot of Ndigbo soldiers. Go and read his book.

When cowards are mentioned, same as with drug running in Asia and fake medicines, Obidients should mechionu and look away in embarrassnent.

I really have to thank Babangida for his discoveries on the Yoruba.
I believe it was Babangida that introduced the saying that IF YOU ARE SLEEPING AND SOMEONE WOKE YOU UP TO TELL YOU THAT YORUBAS ARE REVOLTING, JUST GET BACK TO SLEEP AND SLEEP SOUNDLY.
The significance of this saying being that Yorubas are known cowards. We thank Babangida was seeing what Igbos are seeing.

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

NaijaCowFarm:
If other politicians from other regions, except SE were killed, why was Awolowo spared
Just asking for a friend.

Not just that. Why were all the civilians that were killed in that coup, Awolowo's opponents, including his opponent in Western Nigeria?

aswani:
You for call am President Tinubu coup sef.

It is not president Tinubu's coup.

In that coup, all the civilians that were eliminated were staunch opponents of Awolowo.

Even Awolowo's opponent in Yorubaland was eliminated, and all his northern opponents that he must have been blaming for his incarcerations.

Awolowo definitely did not blame Michael Okpara, Azikiwe and Joseph Tarka for his imprisonment and they were all spared.

Igbo people are known for their likeliness to speak against injustice, which is why it's not a surprise that they took part in that coup.
Yoruba people are not really known for being brave, which is why most of the deadly acts of that coup were carried out by troops led by brave Igbo soldiers.

Legendhero

aswani:
You for call am President Tinubu coup sef.

It is not president Tinubu's coup.

In that coup, all the civilians that were eliminated were staunch opponents of Awolowo.

Even Awolowo's opponent in Yorubaland was eliminated, and all his northern opponent that he must have been blaming for his incarcerations.

Awolowo definitely did not blame Michael Okpara, Azikiwe and Joseph Tarka for his imprisonment and they were all spared.

Igbo people are known for their likeliness to speak against injustice, which is why it's not a surprise that they took part in that coup.
Yoruba people are not really known for being brave, which is why most of the deadly acts of that coup were carried out by troops led by brave Igbo soldiers.

Shivisee1:
Even ibos knows it’s pure Igbo coup!

I'm a pure Igbo and witt Babangida's biography, I can safely say the coup was Awolowo's

LegendHero:
Yes, spared in prison. Na everyone you think mumu like una.

They spare him in prison, Ironsi took power and never deem it fit to release him for over 6months until Gowon eventually released the man.

So Ibo go do coup to put Yoruba man in power, even Ojuku will laugh you in his grave.

Awoloowo the chief beneficiary spared, using prison as his cover to remove every suspicion from himself. Typical coward.

Thank God Babangida has helped to shed light on this episode, as a major actor in that era

LegendHero:
Yoruba soldiers are also coward for not avenging the death of our premier.

The foolish “Yoruba But” Ademoyega was used by Ibo people to murder his own leader while they spare their own.

It is the same way “Yoruba But” in Labor party look on while Ibos allocated all electoral position to non-Yoruba under labor party. Same thing happened during EndSars, burn Lagos and spare Enugu as proclaimed by Kanu.

Ironsi — Next in command; spared
Azikiwe — Excecutive President; spared
Nwafor Orizu — Senate President; Spared
Eastern Region premier — Spared

Awolowo, the alleged coup beneficiary spared

Ozigbo just kissed his political career in Anambra state good bye.

What a huge shame

CoronaVirusPro:
What is this morbidly obese orange turd up to!

He is so desperate to become Putin and Kim Jon Hun.

Damn! A lunatic in power!

1000 executive orders and his administration keeps getting worse!

The low wage illiterate morafvckers who voted him in will regret their decision for the next four years!

He is getting rid of LGBTQ-supporting prosecutors.

Hopefully this will also rid the US system of Islamic terrorist supporting, Bokoharam supporting prosecutors.

I am happy with the mass sack

Mvnster:
Where did you get that story from?
You all have still not answered the question, where is the origin of this your hate for yorubas, and where is the end point?
You just hate for the sake of it, not like a yoruba man offended you so much personally, but its all about your love for propaganda.
Yorubas are bad people to be hated, yet your brothers are living peacefully in yoruba lands. Think for yourselves.

They are no living in peace in Yorubaland, especially as they are being restricted from carrying out their civic rights of voting in elections in the SW, combined with moves by LSG to demolish Igbo properties in Lagos.

Igbos have also not forgotten that it's their turn to provide the presidency for Nigeria, but that Yoruba tribalists teamed up with the north to ensure a Yoruba drug dealer is rigged in.

History is beginning to pile up in ways that will make it impossible for Igbos and Yorubas to be in the same country.

Nwokem do your job and stop all these talking

Typical Yoruba economic policy.

If this idiot is not careful, Diasporans may mobilise touts to burn down this idiot's properties in Nigeria.

LegendHero:
Netflix ain’t leaving Nigeria. Also, even without Netflix, Yoruba movies gross the highest number at the box office and no amount of tears from people like you will stop the fact.

Even ordinary Benin get level pass Ibo people. Yoruba is way above your league.

Just be kidding yourself.
Why haven't you asked yourself how come Igbo films are leading on Youtube and AfricaMagic EPIC channel? What it means is that Igbo films have huge potentials, which will start showing in a huge way in a few months time. I know things you don't know about the industry. Let's leave it at that.

How come Netflix is about to leave Nigeria?

Will the departure of Netflix seriously affect Yoruba films which have massively benefitted from Netflix sponsorship due to the Lagos effect, to the detriment of other geopolitical zones that are too further afield from the Lagos-Netflix ecosystem.

This your chest-beating is coming at the wrong time ooh. You may regret it in a matter of months.

In a few months time, you may be replacing Yoruba with Nigeria, in your attempt to hide your nepotism

Armaggedon, LegendHero