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Deadlytruth:
What mattered most was that any military officer regardless of rank knows that a coup plot is always meant to topple the government and distabilize the country and possibly come with bloodshed of innocent people. So Ironsi didn't need to know the names of the coup plotters from his intelligence report before deploying troops to the residences of those at the top power echelons for protection. So the troubling question remains: what exactly stopped Ironsi from beefing up security around the prime minister, the Senate president, the president and the four regional premiers immediately he received that intelligence report despite knowing fully well that those occupying those offices must be the prime targets of any attempt by anyone or group, be they civilians or soldiers, to topple the government of the day? Why warn the civilian prime minister and civilian regional premiers about a coup about to happen? What exactly was he expecting them to do about it better than he himself the overall GOC of the very soldiers, whether he knew them or not, who were 100% under his authority as GOC?

Can Ironsi just wake up and order a change of military formation across the country without checks and balances in place?

Saao:
so you don't know the meaning of foster?

? 🤷

kettykin:
There are even Igbo Sierra Leoneans who even became president of Sierra Leone. Yahaya Kanu and Christopher Okoro.

Aguiyi Ironsi's father passed on very early and he grew up with his elder sister who married a Sierra Leonean who adopted him.

Interesting.

kettykin:
Thank you for this piece, you have either read a good number of books or versed in history. But let me ask bluntly: even if Aguiyi Ironsi had a Sierra Leonean father, does that make him any less deserving or diminish his legacy in any way? Is there truly anything wrong with that?

Nope, nothing wrong with that.

IbnB rightly pointed out his brother in law was the Sierra Leonan not his biological father.

IbnB:
Don't be stupid, that was his foster father, his sister's husband who raised him

🥱

Educate yourself

The Inside Story of Nigeria’s first military coup - By Max Siollun.

https://www.scribd.com/document/711543949/THE-INSIDE-STORY-OF-NIGERIA-S-FIRST-MILITARY-COUP-PART-1-BY-MAX-SOLLIUM

Edit: You’re right, ‘‘twas his brother in law. I’ve updated the OP.

Another interesting piece of information.

APCHaram:
Oh my God you Ibo people are incredibly insane and evil.

So the personal safety and protection of highly placed public leaders was down top their own chagrin and not the responsibility of your useless Ironsi whom you foolishly claimed knew about the coup plot but at the same time did nothing to avert it by fixing his dysfunctional army ?

Are you normal?

You are again now blaming the victims of that dastardly coup for their own murder in the hands of your evil criminal Ibo officers whom Ironsi did nothing to prevent them going ahead with a coup that you are lying through your dirty cannibal teeth that Ironsi had informed the PM of before hand.

How can Ironsi inform the PM but did nothing to thwart the coup ?

Same Ironsi that refused to court martial same coupists ?

You can keep lying to yourselves in that your yeast but no matter how you want to spin it, the Jan 15 coup was an Ibo coup to eliminate the leadership of other ethnic groups, bring a halt to Nigeria's regional setup and foist Ibo leadership over everybody in the polity and their resources.

It failed woefully and you are still suffering the backlash from that stupid and greedy motivated Zikist agenda.

Continue lying to yourselves . After we now know you defend , celebrate and make excuses for your criminals so who is Ironsi that you won't want to elevate to Sainthood and that lunatic and coward ojukwu that you all see as a sage and brave warrior.

Everything about you guys is inverted.

Awwwn, another round of pointless emotional outbursts.

Oya take these pills (screenshot below) from Max Siollun to ease your tribal urge.

Read his book - The Inside Story of Nigeria

By the way, you keep barking that Ironsi was part of the coupists. Are you ready to show us EBranch information where Ironsi was listed as part of the coupists? 🤷

APCHaram:
Oh my God you Ibo people are incredibly insane and evil.

So the personal safety and protection of highly placed public leaders was down top their own chagrin and not the responsibility of your useless Ironsi whom you foolishly claimed knew about the coup plot but at the same time did nothing to avert it by fixing his dysfunctional army ?

Are you normal?

You are again now blaming the victims of that dastardly coup for their own murder in the hands of your evil criminal Ibo officers whom Ironsi did nothing to prevent them going ahead with a coup that you are lying through your dirty cannibal teeth that Ironsi had informed the PM of before hand.

How can Ironsi inform the PM but did nothing to thwart the coup ?

Same Ironsi that refused to court martial same coupists ?

You can keep lying to yourselves in that your yeast but no matter how you want to spin it, the Jan 15 coup was an Ibo coup to eliminate the leadership of other ethnic groups, bring a halt to Nigeria's regional setup and foist Ibo leadership over everybody in the polity and their resources.

It failed woefully and you are still suffering the backlash from that stupid and greedy motivated Zikist agenda.

Continue lying to yourselves . After we now know you defend , celebrate and make excuses for your criminals so who is Ironsi that you won't want to elevate to Sainthood and that lunatic and coward ojukwu that you all see as a sage and brave warrior.

Everything about you guys is inverted.

Exactly how you conclude I’m Igbo without any shred of evidence is exactly the same way you can conclude the January 1966 coup is an “Igbo coup” without tangible evidence.

Perhaps Max Siollun that wrote the book I’m quoting from is also Igbo.

Keep on entertaining the viewers of this thread.

Poverty stricken tribalists will soon come and defend their oppressors.

Nothing on the FBI files or Trump’s position on drug dealers as terrorists?

Ok

More information dispelling the myth of an “Igbo coup”

More evidence that top politicians were aware of an impending coup.

They had ample time to either make security arrangements or flee for their lives.

Balewa never acted on the intelligence report given to him.

Ahmadu Bello didn’t act on Ladoke Akintola’s warning.

And Ladoke Akintola thought it best to arm himself with a rifle rather than flee the nation to save his life and return later.

Smart moves, very very smart.

Deadlytruth:
But he himself who received the intelligence report and was at the same time the chief security officer of the entire country was the one supposed to act. Why warning the politicians about an intelligence report about which he, as number one security officer of the country, was supposed to deploy his men all around the residences of those very politicians immediately he got the intelligence report? Why wait till the boys struck before suddenly realizing that he was the chief security officer of the country hence the need to rise up and "stop" the boys? His reactiveness as against his supposed proactiveness earlier on indicates a kind indulgence with the coup plotters. Moreover, the intelligence report was about a pending act of lawlessness by boys who were members of the very institution he was heading, so why expect the politicians to be the ones to take an action which he himself was more supposed to take?

Did the intelligence report mention the names of the coup plotters?

Was Ironsi identified as part of the coup plotters in the intelligence report?

christistruth01:
It was Azikiwe who got him that post and it was Ogundipe And others who actually ran the show

The man who it should have gone to was Col Wellington Bassey who was from Calabar but for Tribal Political reasons Azikiwe did all he could to frustrate Basseys Career so his Junior Ironsi who was also Azikiwe's kinsman could overtake him

Col Wellington Bassey was more than 3 years Ironsi's senior in the Army

Even from the way Ironsi handled the accurate police intelligence on the Coup you could see Ironsi was not competent or rather unloyal

1. Did the police communicate the names of the coup plotters to Ironsi?

2. Was Ironsi part of the coup plotters?

I’m asking because a certain someone on this thread is claiming Ironsi was involved in the coup.

APCHaram:
The British Major General wrote a brief on every potential candidate for the position and he dismissed Ogundipe for being too politically exposed for the position.

The brief written for Ironsi was far from flattering and it detailed him being a mor0n.

🥱

Meanwhile, this is from Max Siollun’s book - The Inside Story of Nigeria. Ironsi was the most decorated of all the officers vying for the post of GOC

He was the first ever African to take command of the UN peacekeeping force in the DRC civil war. He was a Major General there, but reverted to Brigadier General on his return to Nigeria.

The CDS has claimed the Nigerian military will be a superpower in production of weapons in a few years.

https://www.nairaland.com/8325951/nigeria-superpower-military-equipment-production

Hopefully this is not another political statement.

The real independence of Subsaharan Africa depends on this.

Another reason the January 1966 coup flopped was a difference in ideology among the coup plotters.

There were participants who were moderate that favoured a bloodless coup and jailing the corrupt politicians. However there were extremists who preferred outright elimination of the corrupt politicians.

The bloodthirsty villains that stood out were:

1. Anuforo
2. Onwuategwu
3. Nzeogwu (described as an incorruptible idealist even by his detractors)
4. Ifeajuna*

*to confirm his kill counts.

christistruth01:
Gen Ironsi was not Competent for the Position

It was Politics

Balewa was only trying to please his Coalition Partner Azikiwe

Ogundipe,Ademulegun , Maimailari were infantry Officers

Ironsi's career was in Clerical dept

Who do you think was more qualified?

Bro… a “clerk” was dispatched for a UN peacekeeping operation in the DRC civil war Congo?

That being said, Ogundipe appeared most qualified for the role based on the British commanders recommendation.

However, the army being strictly hierarchical favoured Ironsi for the role given he was the oldest in service amongst the candidates.

If he wasn’t qualified for that role, he wouldn’t even be in the running to start with.

Meanwhile, this is from Max Siollun’s book - The Inside Story of Nigeria. Ironsi was the most decorated of all the officers vying for the post of GOC

Ironsi’s father was even a Sierra Leonan. Lol.

Isn’t it interesting that a “clerk” was the first ever African to take command of the UN peacekeeping force in the DRC civil war? He was a Major General there, but reverted to Brigadier General on his return to Nigeria.

christistruth01:
Read this

You see how we are having a civil discussion devoid of tribal sentiments and focused on the facts on ground?

Let’s maintain that decency, unlike a certain somebody on this thread.

I don’t give a damn about anyone’s tribe. Nobody chose the tribe they were born into. I’m only concerned with the truth.

christistruth01:
Read this

Very good. He never said Aguiyi Ironsi was incompetent as APCHARAM alleged.

1. Ironsi was out of Nigeria the past 3 years, as a military adviser in London and also heavily involved in the UN peacekeeping efforts in the DRC civil war.

2. As a result of the above, was out of touch with recent developments in the Nigerian Army.

3. Never served directly under that British dude. So couldn’t be in a position to evaluate Ironsi’s suitability for the post.

christistruth01:
Pure Politics

Ironsi was Azikiwe's Candidate being from his Tribe
And Zik was the Coalition partner in Balewa's FG

Read this

APCHaram:
Ademoyega was an idiot and a useful one at that .

Ademoyega's memoirs only detailed his naive revolutionary ideals that drove him to join the coup not knowing there was a deeper ethnic agenda behind it.

The real motive for the Jan 15 coup was to prevent the creation of COR region and to have the newly discovered oil wells in the Niger Delta secured under a centrist Ibo civilian and military dictatorship .

The coup had the then head of the British MI6 and owner of Royal Dutch Shell, Baron Victor Rothschild as its main sponsor. And it all began in 1965 when Rothschild sent one of his thugs (Ronnie Kray) to Enugu to fine tune the plot.


At the end of the day Rothschild got to fund the war on both sides for his own benefits . Who ended up owing Nigeria's oil wells due to the huge debt incurred in protracting that war? The Rothschild banking family. Who ended up dumping their excess obsolete WW2 equipment in return for securing oil slots and revenue ? The British government through its state owned BP. BP and Shell will later form a merger in the form of Shell BP.

It's sad to see how the greed of Ibo politicians like Zik saw to a once promising debt free nation end up owing huge debts merely ten years after independence.


This is why I will continue to say the coup of 1966 was a civilian coup ochestrated by Enugu to secure the oil wells for themselves under the current quasi Marxist centrist system.

You know nothing.

Buhahaha, keep it coming.

1. Segun Johnson is an Okoro from Upper Iweka
2. Ademoyega who was one of the coup plotters is now a useful idiot and naive.

Because their narratives doesn’t align with yours.

Oya, show us the screenshot from Siollun’s book where the EBranch

A) Communicated the names of the coup plotters to the PM.

B) Identified Ironsi as part of the coup plotters


We are patiently waiting.

christistruth01:
It was Ogundipe that was most Qualified because of his good knowledge of Military Matters and he was well respected in the Army.
Maimailari was good but too young and needed more years of experience

Why wasn’t Ogundipe selected?

APCHaram:
The E-Branch dossier had notified the PM of an impending coup and had penciled down those who were to carry it out .


Other than the Generals Coup that ousted Shagari,every other coup prior and that to come were carried out by junior and mid ranking officers.

The coup that saw to Gowon seizing power from Ironsi was carried out by junior northern officers led by Murtala.

The coup that ousted Gowon was carried out by mid ranking officers led by Shehu Yaradua.

The coup that ousted Murtala was led by colonel's led by Dinka and the aim of the Dimka Middle belt Christian officers was to see to Gowon being reinstated as HoS. The only coup that was carried out solely for the benefits of those who orchestrated and carried out the plot was the mid ranking officer coup led by Gideon Okah that sought to displace the northern Muslim hegemony in the military .

Every coup in Nigeria outside the Generals coup had at its core an ethnic agenda and it all started with the divisions caused in the military by the Jan 15 Ibo coup

Did the EBranch identify Ironsi as one of the coupists? Yes or No.

Reminder: You are yet to provide the screenshot from Siollun's book where the EBranch communicated names of the coup plotters to the PM.

Meanwhile, see screenshots from Segun Johnson’s book again. Read the first two paragraphs.

APCHaram:
Now you are cherry picking .


David Ejoor was a target for elimination on D-day of the coup . He narrowly escaped being murdered in Lagos and he escaped to Enugu to find another conspiracy to have him arrested by the civilian police and from there eliminated. He returned back to Lagos to meet a hostile Ironsi who by then knew Ejoor had come to a conclusion on what the coup was all about and who were being targeted. Ejoor also suffered a mutiny in Benin by officers under his command who were loyal to Ojukwu in Biafra and not him as Military Governor of the Midwest.

Ademoyega was a useful idiot cajoled into joining a coup that had at its core an ethnic agenda. Ademoyega was out of the picture after Jan 15 and only came to realise his own folly like that of Banjo while sitting in a shared prison cell with ifeanjuna while Ejoor was out there thwarting the coup between Lagos and Enugu .

As for your foolish thread that seeks to wash off the stink of an ethnic agenda by claiming that the murder of one lone Ibo man who refused to go along with the coup and the lie that it was Ironsi who notified the PM of an impending coup while doing nothing whatsoever within his powers and authority as the Head of the army to reign in the mutinous officers ,this is pure bullshit. Who in the top military heriachy did Ironsi share his inteligence report with? Was it the two other most senior officers who were murdered on the early hours of January 15?

Also ,how come Ironsi who benefited from the same dastardly coup did nothing to have the main coupists court martialed, convicted and duly sentenced for high treason? Rather your Ironsi kept them safely in relative comfort in prison with no inkling to have them face justice? When you compare the speed and brutality at which Ironsi deployed in clamping down on the Adaka Boro led seccesionist movement and how same Ironsi secured his death conviction for daring to leave Nigeria while the murderers of Jan 15 were being held in prison with no inkling of being brought to face justice, then maybe it's high time you begin to see Ironsi as not the innocent benevolent character who stepped in to prevent Nigeria's collapse after the coup.

At the bolded, I’ve faulted Ironsi for his tribalism, alongside Nwafor Orizu, and the Igbos in the North on these threads.

https://www.nairaland.com/8318912/foiled-january-15-1966-coup

If Ironsi was part of the coup plotters;

1. Why didn’t the EBranch identify him as one of the coup planners?

2. If the EBranch divulged the names of the coup plotters to the PM as you alleged and Ironsi was part of them, how does it make any iota of sense for the PM to inform Ironsi of a coup he’s involved in?

Use your brain, even if it’s for a little bit.

APCHaram:
Now you are cherry picking .


David Ejoor was a target for elimination on D-day of the coup . He narrowly escaped being murdered in Lagos and he escaped to Enugu to find another conspiracy to have him arrested by the civilian police and from there eliminated. He returned back to Lagos to meet a hostile Ironsi who by then knew Ejoor had come to a conclusion on what the coup was all about and who were being targeted. Ejoor also suffered a mutiny in Benin by officers under his command who were loyal to Ojukwu in Biafra and not him as Military Governor of the Midwest.

Ademoyega was a useful idiot cajoled into joining a coup that had at its core an ethnic agenda. Ademoyega was out of the picture after Jan 15 and only came to realise his own folly like that of Banjo while sitting in a shared prison cell with ifeanjuna while Ejoor was out there thwarting the coup between Lagos and Enugu .

As for your foolish thread that seeks to wash off the stink of an ethnic agenda by claiming that the murder of one lone Ibo man who refused to go along with the coup and the lie that it was Ironsi who notified the PM of an impending coup while doing nothing whatsoever within his powers and authority as the Head of the army to reign in the mutinous officers ,this is pure bullshit. Who in the top military heriachy did Ironsi share his inteligence report with? Was it the two other most senior officers who were murdered on the early hours of January 15?

Also ,how come Ironsi who benefited from the same dastardly coup did nothing to have the main coupists court martialed, convicted and duly sentenced for high treason? Rather your Ironsi kept them safely in relative comfort in prison with no inkling to have them face justice? When you compare the speed and brutality at which Ironsi deployed in clamping down on the Adaka Boro led seccesionist movement and how same Ironsi secured his death conviction for daring to leave Nigeria while the murderers of Jan 15 were being held in prison with no inkling of being brought to face justice, then maybe it's high time you begin to see Ironsi as not the innocent benevolent character who stepped in to prevent Nigeria's collapse after the coup.

There’s nothing like cherry picking.

Between Ademoyega who was an insider and part of the coupists OR David Ejoor who was a potential victim of the coup, who is better placed to give an account of what happened in the January 1966 coup?

Use your brain.

Very soon you will tell us Ademoyega is an “Okoro” from upper Iweka because his narrative doesn’t align with the lies you’ve been spoon fed.

You go bark tire.

APCHaram:
The entire interview was posted here in a thread .

I will search for the link.

And reply to you again with it.

One thing I can recall from that thread was how many of you IP0B rats were insulting Chief David Ejoor .


The man survived three assassination attempts in Lagos , Enugu and later as Midwest military Governor in Benin.


Funny thing is that Ejoor as Military Governor of Midwest excerscing his full authority under Gowon's short lived Decree 8 that rescinded Ironsi's decree 34, that saw to regional armies, refused to have Northern troops invade Biafra through the Midwest. This was despite Gowon warning Ejoor that most of the Anioma officers under his command were sympathetic to Enugu and for this reason Gowon refused to arm the Midwestern region with weapons. Ojukwu sensing this weakness ordered officers under Ejoor to seize power from him and have him killed. It was after escaping from being killed by same Anioma officers loyal to Enugu that Ojukwu sent his Biafran troops to occupy the Midwest and instal the buffon Maj Okonkwo as a stooge puppet ordering him to declare Republic of Benin.

As we all know it's from the Midwest Ojukwu who had claimed to have secceded from Nigeria began his putsch to capture Lagos and the entire Western region.

It was idiocy fueled madness starting from Jan 15 till the end of the war in January 1970.

Between Major General David Ejoor who was a near victim of the January 1966 coup and Ademoyega who was one of the coup plotters… who has a more accurate narrative of what transpired hmmm?

It’s pretty obvious who amongst the two had insider knowledge on how the coup was planned and the objectives of the coup.

Let’s go by APCHARAM’s narrative.

If EBranch divulged the coup plot and the names of the coup plotters to the PM - Tafawa Balewa and Ironsi was part of the coup plotters.

Does it make any iota of sense for Tafawa Balewa to inform Ironsi of a coup plot he is involved in?

Common sense can detect bullshit theories from miles away.

APCHaram:
You are because only your lot can defend lies and dearest truth.

Same way you can believe I’m Igbo without any shred of evidence is exactly the same way you can conclude Siollun wrote something about Ironsi knowing the name of the coup plotters, and yet can’t provide us with screenshots from the same Siollun’s book.

I applaud your thought process.

You wise gaan.

APCHaram:
Whose Segun ? The latest upper iweaka best selling author ?

David Ejoor has since spoken of the entire coup events . His words are more than truthful than one 0koro writing under a pseudonym to sell his cheap lies.

Maybe Siollun is another “Okoro” from Upper Iweka when he wrote this:


In Max Silloun’s book, “Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria’s Military Coup Culture” (page 54), he wrote:

“Contrary to popular myth, a coup was attempted in Enugu (East) and Benin (Mid-west). Overnight Major Ifeajuna sent orders to the first battalion in Enugu asking them to deploy soldiers to take over key installations and arrest government ministers in Enugu and Benin. As there was no military formation in the Mid west, no soldiers could be deployed directly from the region. For several hours the officers mulled over the strange but seemingly legitimate order (my explanation: operationally, the first battalion was under the command of the Lagos-based second brigade commanded by Brigadier Maimalari. Ifeajuna was the brigade major and could pass off instructions in that capacity, but they must be approved by Maimalari, a no-nonsense officer who trusted his brigade major. Alas, he was not aware of the illegality Ifeajuna was perpetrating in his official capacity). Finally, they took position at the Enugu airport in the early hours of the morning. A different company of soldiers under Captain Joseph Ihedigbo also headed to the Mid west region’s capital of Benin. The Igbo premier of the region Dennis Osadebey subsequently speculated that the life of the Eastern region’s premier, Dr. Michael Okpara, was spared because the head of state of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, was his guest at the time of the coup. A more plausible reason for Okpara’s survival is that the officer assigned to arrest him (Lieutenant Oguchi) was one of those who advocated a bloodless coup. As soon as Makarios departed to return to Cyprus, Okpara was arrested.”