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Zionbel:
Stop lying!!!
The January 15th 1966 coup was led by Majors Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Timothy Onwuategwu, Chris Anufuro and Wale Ademoyega (the only non Igbo). All them killed except Major Wale Ademoyega.

Virtually everyone killed are from other tribes except Arthur Unegbe (quarter master general in charge of amour) who was killed because he refused to give them access to the amours.

Those killed are Tafawa Balewa, Ladoke Akintola, Ahmadu Bello and his wife Hafsah, Col Ademulegun and his 8th month old pregnant wife by Owuategwu, Chief Okotie Eboh, Brigadier Maimalari, Lt-Col Pam, Lt-Col Kur Mohammed, etc are all none Igbos and their killers are Igbo officers.

Worse still the, these predominant Muslim politicians and officers were killed during Ramadan.

The coup was given an ETHNIC COLOURATION because while the coup was led by Igbo officers, it targeted political leaders of other tribes only and their officers.

For instance, after the coup, Nwafor Orizu an Igbo man who was the Senate President became the acting President while President Nnamdi Azikiwe was abroad.

Nwafor Orizu handed power to another Igbo man Maj-General Aguyi Ironsi who fired virtually all none Igbos in the central government, replaced with IGBOS and was worse still, he refused to sanction the coup plotters. The only two high profile non IGBOS were Brigadier Ogundipe (CGS) and Yakubu Gowon (CAS).

That was what led to the counter coup where he too was killed July 29th, 1966.

Now my question! Was Obafemi Awolowo released? It was General Yakubu Gowon who released him after he became Head of State after the death of Aguyi Ironsi.

The core Igbo officers who led the coup lied that they wanted to free Awolowo who was jailed by Azikiwe/Balewa Government for treason.

They obviously used Awolowo as pawn to gain support from other tribe's soldiers but their execution of the coup proved otherwise.

Read the attached from IBB who knows better and stop regurgitating the fairytale by junk journalists you were fed with. You were not there so stop talking authoritatively.

Go and read accounts of those who played a part from Ademoyega, Gbulie, OBJ, Ojukwu even Awolowo and now IBB and cure your anti Igbo propaganda filled head. You were brain washed to hate Igbos.

Did ever hear of Obienu in your long junk propaganda all these while? Did they ever mention to you that an Igbo man quashed the coup?

Why was Awolowo imprisoned for coups?
How come he was in prison yet knew about the coup (he confirmed in his book that the coup was meant to make him president)
How come those who imprisoned him got killed in the coup?

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IBB's book is telling us how he tried to make a non-northerner win but the South-East didn't want it. Nzeribe the rich man started the ABN movement that clamoured for military rule to continue, while the South-East stood behind Northerner Tofa so that Abiola the man with the muslim-muslim ticket would not win. History unfortunately finds a way to sickly repeat itself.

Cowards. Tell us who took over from IBB in the name ofninterim govt, a fellow betrayer, Tell us how.many fellow betrayer from.your region worked with Abacha who MKO languished in jail?

See how all the cowards avoided attacking the North, they said SE made IBB a.military general and head of state annull election, shame on your cowardice

LegendHero:
An election will be conducted. Then Awo will just stroll into office as president because the Northerners wey dem mud their entire leadership go dey look like mumu?

Awo campaign go be like, I am Awolowo, na me send my Ibo soldiers wey be my slave go mud Saraduana and Balewa. I want to be your president, vote for me. Then they will say nagode.

I don’t know who is more fuulish. Ojuku who sacrificed 3 million of his people or his brethren yarning nonsense in 2025.

So why was Awolowo jailed for plotting coup in 1963? You should also ask him these question or was he not jailed for 10 whole years for coup plotting?

iamnotillicit:
Which coup has ever produced a civilian head of state in Nigeria...?

Did Awolowo even know that bloodthirsty demons?

How will Awolowo leave prison to lead the country when the Ceremonial president, the Senate President, the GOC at all Ibos and they are alive, don't you think he would have them murdered if all you are saying even makes any sense?

Abeg dey think

You can also ask why was a civilian Awolowo jailed for plotting a coup against Tafawa Balewa? Do civilians carryout coup?

You are thinking like a pawn

iamnotillicit:
You don't seem to know what a coup means...

Shagari and Obj won elections they didn't get there because of a coup

Are you normal at all?

So they just won election and walked into bother room to take over power from military men? See wacked thinking.

Why didn't MKO that won in 1993 take over from IBB?

iamnotillicit:
Which coup has ever produced a civilian head of state in Nigeria...?

Did Awolowo even know that bloodthirsty demons?

How will Awolowo leave prison to lead the country when the Ceremonial president, the Senate President, the GOC at all Ibos and they are alive, don't you think he would have them murdered if all you are saying even makes any sense?

Abeg dey think

Go and read Awolowo's personal account and stop this trash.

Abdulsalami Abubakar handed over to Obj in less than a year in 1999. Obj himself willingly handed over power to a civilian Shagari

CodeTemplar:
An evil genius has played the desperate tribe again and they fell yakata.

Have you read Awolowo's personal account ?

He confirmed this himself, but like a typical African, we don't read

Tafawa Balewa, Ahmed Bello and Akintola Imprisoned Awolowo in 1962 for organising a coup against the young govt of Tafawa Balewa

Another coup to save Awolowo from prison was organised in 1966 and Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa and Akintola were killed. This coup was led by an Igbo man (Nzeogu) but also stopped by another Igbo man (Major Obienu)

Could Awolowo have been angry that an Igbo man foiled the 2nd coup?

But they turned around to call it Igbo coup and this led to Biafran war

Make of this whatever you wish

You mean the coup to make Awolowo president?

The usual suspects are at it again.

The double faced cowards who will laugh with you in the day and snitch at night

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For God's sake, can't you read? i did not say it! The man said it himself in his book. i attached it but you probably did not care to read. Somehow, i cannot attach images again but you can check it again on my post that you quoted. Or get the IBB book(SMH). It is on page 40 and i quote again.

You questioned the reasonableness of a 25yeard old soldier to give an account of a coup. When Gowon was just 32 at the Head of state so stop twisting it.

He stated his age but you questioned his sense of judgement

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Why on earth do you need to believe me when the man wrote it himself and i attached it?

How old was Gowon when he became the Head of state?

How old were those who carried out the coup at the time?

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really? A 25 year old new army officer's views? He clearly mentioned that he was speculating and that events that unfolded afterwards tended to support that the rumours may be true afterall. Anyway, let bygones be bygones.

Yes, we should.believe you that have never won an army cap in your life.

I should believe your Lagos Ibadan journalists that runs at the sound of a banger instead of believing IBB.

I should believe your parents that might have been in the village during the event but regurgitated the fairytale tonyou and you believe.

sounds like comparing the decision making and performance of an MIT and Harvard Graduate to Uniosun graduate.

Listen to both of them talk and you will answer your question yourself

Alaska90:
Stop deceiving yourself about what Babangida said. Banbagida never spoke any truth in his life. 1966 coup was an Igbo coup by execution. They killed fulani/hausa /Yoruba people and spared Igbo people. its was not about set freeing Awolowo. Get a book WHY WE STRUCK and read it to have understanding. Stop listening to radio biafra propaganda.

But the hypocrite you believed him when he said MKO won the election?

Your double facedness is nauseating. You and IBB who should.know better, was you father in the Army at the time?

AustineE1:
MODs will intentionally avoid bringing to the frontpage the news of extracts of IBB's biography which clearly stated that the 1966 coup is not an Igbo coup as narrated by the Lagos Ibadan Parapo press and the idea was to free Awolowo from prison to come and take over governance.
Sometime in January when Reno Omokri (Wendell Simlin),Fani Kayode and all other paid agents where writing on the 1966 coup to score a cheap point and to make sure that Igbos and northerners are kept apart from each other against any anticipated alliances against the government of the day,the nairaland frontpage was constantly been bombarded with events of the 1966 coup and the narratives that it is an Igbo coup.
Now,IBB whom was active in the army at that time and was in the picture of what happened,have spoken out on it but the tribal MODs,just like the Lagos Ibadan Parapo media houses,will avoid the news like a Plague.

As.big as the news is, they will avoid it, that's how tribalistic they are.

Maybe we are expecting the biggest beneficiary ans propagandists of the so called "Igbo coup" to move it to front page.

If IBB had echoed their usual propaganda, you would have 30 different versions of it on front page

This is what Obama should have done

But he sent his wife to carry bring back our girls placard, as if placard does.anything.

Oh sorry, he wanted Jonathan out and Buhari in at all cost

Softmirror:
Oga ask yourself why IBB's narrative of Kaduna Nzwegu being more Hausa than Igbo couldn't rally a single Hausa Fulani Solider as a fellow coup plotters?!

The picture you are not seeing is the BETRAYAL if truey the North, the Hausas actually accepted him as one of theirs but he still went ahead to shed the blood of their most beloved ones they hold in highest esteem in cold blood without being able to convince a single ORIGINAL Hausa/Fulani Solider to join him in the Coup to murder his own kinsmen while sparing Igbo elders.

If it wasn't an Igbo coup the counter coup would have had Igbos as participants and not mainly a Northern extraction.

It is because it was a Igbo coup that didn't go well at the end that is the reason why we had an aftermath called BIAFRAN WAR. It is simple Logic and very straightforward.

IBB and manipulation. Why do you think he is called MARADONA?!

You highlighted betrayal in bold

But betrayal is when you carried out a coup at the expense of your life to release a man from prison.
The man turns around to strategise starvation of your people and 20 pound policy to annihilate your own people.

Finally

Those cowards who hates anything Igbo, who were not born during the coups, had no relative who was among the coup plotters, never lived in the barracks during the era will still argue to high heavens.

The only source of joy in their igbophoc hate is to continue the tales by moonlight their parents and propagandists drummed into their ears.

BreconHills:
We are talking about annulment and you are talking about votes. Who were the principal characters in the efforts to see that the election did not hold? Who did the forces against the election use?

Arthur Nzeribe (ABN) and Clement Akpamgbo (Att-Gen) The judge who gave the midnight ruling Justice Ikpeme had worked in Clement Akpamgbo's chambers. These were the troika supported by Abacha that provided the foundation for the annulment of the 1993 election.

This is our history. These are facts. The blood of those that died during this period demands that history should not be twisted.

You can disavow these three people but you cannot say that they did not do what they did.

I am sorry but I won't continue this. IBB's book is there. There are also very useful extracts from the book on NL. Maybe you should read them.

We don't have to like our history, but we shouldn't be revising it. Yes there were noble men from across Nigeria who stood for democracy across all the regions but regarding the troika - history is history. We have to accept and learn it's lessons.

Who are the "we"? Check the title of the thread?

SE gave Abiola 740k votes and gave Tofa 790k votes even though an Igbo was a VP to Tofa but ingrate like you will open your mouth wide to talk trash. You mentioned 3 names supporting the govt but discounted hundreds of thousands of Igbos that supported Abiola, isn't that stupid to say? How about the Yorubas that supported the govt against Abiola? How about those Yoruba that accepted to serve in Abacha's govt, isnt that betrayal? How about Shonekan that shouldnhave handed over to Abiola? Have you ever voted an Igbo man in any election since you were born?

This is not the era of revising history

BreconHills:
I think you should simply say which is correct that the SE will usually not vote for a Muslim- Muslim ticket - which is the case. If you want to start naming igbo, yoruba, hausa for and against Abiola - your point will fail. The AG who did not want the election to hold was Igbo, the ABN founder who got the ruling at night was an igbo man and the judge that ruled on the midnight ruling had worked in the chambers of the AG.

Let's not go there.

Just lets sit with the Christian ethos of the SE voter.

Safer ground for everyone.

And those thousands of votes from the Eastern States were by ghosts from your village right? They were not Igbos giving over 40% to Abiola and 57% in Anambra

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Tribal gas/petrol/diesel lighting. Why must you vote on tribe?

Go and ask Tinubu that said its Yoruba turn and his turn.

I can bet you have never voted an Igbo man in your life for tribal reasons

iwaeda:
Funny enough, only Anambra voted for Abiola from the East. Kaduna's vote was more than Kano.

Do you know VP for Tofa was an Igbo man??

Have you ever voted for an Igbo man in your life? Hypocrite.

You should also add that funny enough, the man who conducted the election and declared Abiola winner against military threat was an Igbo man

Peterobiisathie:
Them put am for back sit

So it's no longer that he didn't attend? Cameleons changing positions and opinions like a woman changes her pants

beerfraud:
says someone who believed that Buhari was cloned

Same measure of low IQ.

Do you have any iota of evidence on the trash you just posted? You just open your mouth early in the morning to regurgitate nonsense because it makes a bunch of low IQs like you happy and fulfilled in your redundancy.

beerfraud:
you will never see prominent Ibos in gathering like this
Most of their leaders lack charisma

You
You saw few pictures and started running your mouth, 1.2 IQ level. That's why politicians easily use ur brain

As usual, South East missing.

Tomorrow, the children of fallen demons will ask you why are you playing victim

fuckJones:
the summary of it is that David Hundeyin is fighting to survive with all this attention

You are a very poor thinker.

The summary is if a privileged man with golden spoon can't stand on principle, how much more poor men. It has nothing to do with David as a person

You mean a democrat appointed Ambassador?

Obama's wife carried bring back our girls placard but Obama banned GEJ from buying weapons to fight same Boko Haram at same time

ChiefJusticeFuc:
you see why no one likes you guys ?

If this happened to you, you would have opened several threads here lamenting and would have gone all out to report the matter to the police.

I guess the "no one" is you and your family. I can imagine how important you think of yourself to think anyone cares who you like or hate. Does your existent affect or impact us in anyway?

When will these hide and seek game stop?

Release the guy or jail him and stop all these unfair games

So difficult to trust some of these Ronu people

In The morning...Ambode is the best leaders in this country and the best in Lagos history. Vote him or leave awa Lagos
In the evening ...Sanwo-Olu or no other person. Ambode is useless

Obasa has been in that house of Assembly for over 20years but they just realised he is not their family member