wirinet:


Nigeria just have to survive, else it will spell disastrous consequences on all of us. Nigeria is like an arrangee marriage of strange bedfellows. The marriage had been very tumultuous and painful, sometimes abusive. But, it have produced many children and numerous grand children. The family fortune has been so interwoven and intertwined and it is very difficult determining who owns what and the contributions of each member of the family. Such a divorce though possible would be extremely difficult and tumultuous. It cannot be achieved by fiat, or by threats and violence. It can only be achieved through the civil and political process.

I think a new political structure akin to parliamentary system can be achieved. It will take sincerity on the part of the political class. Whether igbo, fulani, yoruba or igala. The political class is just too insincere and manipulative. They are the ones that don't want Nigeria to unite, else yet lose their relevance.

gidgiddy:


Thats a lie, no part of decree 34 said anything about revenue

Fejoku:

What was Ojukwu's mistake before the Biafran war?

Skyview01:


You are a good student of history.

TechW:
So Nzeogwu is not from Anambra state or SE?
I learned that he was brought up in Kaduna.

I guess their sin here is that they are the first to execute coup because, there were records of other coups that happened thereafter, even after the civil war.
Why are other perpetrators not been vilified too, some have been rewarded with presidential seat even?

Curious345:
Quite important to note that ,uptil today , Igbos in Delta State claim they're not Igbo ..

Isn't that funny?

Same way ikwerre claim they're not Igbo

TechW:
So Nzeogwu is not from Anambra state or SE?
I learned that he was brought up in Kaduna.

I guess their sin here is that they are the first to execute coup because, there were records of other coups that happened thereafter, even after the civil war.
Why are other perpetrators not been vilified too, some have been rewarded with presidential seat even?

gidgiddy:
Okpanam is an Igbo town on the outskirts of Asaba, capital of Delta State. Years ago, the indigenes erected a statue in memory of Chukwuma Nzeogwu, their famous son who led Nigeria's first coup

People of Okpanam still believe that Nzeogwu led more than a coup, they believe he led a revolution

Dreal1247:
The earlier the masses understand the Divide-and-rule system being used to weaken the supposed be one voice, the, they will cease to be manipulated by the common enemies, the politicians. Every four years, they hire an individual to defend them and sell them to the people. Imagine APC that has left every Nigerian trying to japa is promising to be the hope of Nigerians. And people are coming out to campaign for them. Let the Presidential candidate and his Vice organise a town hall meeting with the youths as Mr Peter Obi has been doing. Let the people ask them the fundamental questions. Imagine with the evidence of Shettima hands in Boko Haram, terrorism, they are pushing him to become the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. GOD FORBID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

omoadeleye:




You are so fucking dumb and retard at same time. You should see "one particular people" but, your stvpidity and fcclishness won't stop shaming you every where.

Slimm01:
He was one of the rotten eggs back then. So he had to be killed. Ogbomoso will feel nothing because he was selfishly eating ogbomoso and iits ndigenes national cake.

gidgiddy:
Okpanam is an Igbo town on the outskirts of Asaba, capital of Delta State. Years ago, the indigenes erected a statue in memory of Chukwuma Nzeogwu, their famous son who led Nigeria's first coup

People of Okpanam still believe that Nzeogwu led more than a coup, they believe he led a revolution

codemaniacs:


His dislike of igbos started and ended in the north.

So there won't have been any war.. the only people who took hatred beyond their region were Igbos.

joefelin2345:
Definitely you are a bastard & beast of no gender. So other politicians then we're Saints abi? Complete bastard.

YeeboMuslim:

Osu..these events happened less than 60 years ago for God sake
Why are you revising history nah.

So Samuel Ladoke Akintola , a proper Christian was a Jihadist
By the way, Azikwe with his Fulani masters jailed Awolowo .
The unbridled greed of your ancestors led us here

RussellRutherfo:


People like him were already fanning the flames of hate and believe me. It was inevitable. The distrust and hate was already sewn into the foundation of Nigeria as a nation by hateful individuals like the Sarduana of Sokoto.

It was not just him. In 1945. There was a riot where many Igbos was first killed. Then, there was the 1953 riot organised by a Northerner named Mallam Inua Wada of the Northern People’s Congress {N.P.C}. As a result of the anticipated visit of Chief Akintola's visit to Kano. Akintola was a member of the South West, Action Group Party which irritated the Northern NPC party.

You now see why there were some Yorubas involved in the 1966 coup. There was the 1965 wild wild West riot before then. The only thing is the Igbo officers as per the Nzogbu Nzogbu attitude of Igbos put in their all and were at the forefront of correcting this distrust and tribal hate already evident in the young Nigeria project so as the revolutionary coup failed. The rest pushed the narrative as an Igbo coup thing.

I bet you if the coup had succeeded. The other tribes won't have called it the Igbo coup.

Slimm01:
As the slowpoke that you are, was he the only one killed in that coup? Go back to your history and read about that coup. Ahmadu Bello was also killed. Olodo like you, Oponu. Illiterates like you only knows how to throw insults. No intellectual reasoning. For your information, I'm a YORUBA from Osun state. Fucking bastard!!!

Goodlady:
According to the most credible history from various facts and from Ojukwu himself, after Aburi Accord, he felt the FG were insincere. Being determined to damn their consequences, he announced secession which triggered reaction from govt.
What Ojukwu should v done was to wait for govt to fail in their promises after few months and label the govt as the ones who breached agreement.

joefelin2345:
If indeed you are from Osun, what you people are enjoying today as Osun State was started by Chief SLA. Ask experienced historians from Osun State. If Chief Akintola was your father or relation, would you have typed those nounsence about him. Let your conscience continue to judge you. BASTARD.

codemaniacs:


Normal and sane people don't correct distrust and tribal hate by killing the leaders of other ethnic nation's because that will make things worse..

The coup succeeded and it was an Igbo coup and it was taken over by another Igbo coup which Ironsi led..

The coup and Ironsi coup was about igbos taking over Nigeria and dominating the other ethnic nations which is why Ironsi created the unification decree to take all revenue from all the regions to the federal government because Ironsi and his fellow Igbos thought they will be military head of state forever.

That's also one of the reasons after Ironsi was killed in a counter coup Ojukwu did his own coup to take over Nigeria under the guise of seceding..

It was a Igbo vs north issue but Igbos transferred their aggression on the Western region and Yorubas.

gidgiddy:
Okpanam is an Igbo town on the outskirts of Asaba, capital of Delta State. Years ago, the indigenes erected a statue in memory of Chukwuma Nzeogwu, their famous son who led Nigeria's first coup

People of Okpanam still believe that Nzeogwu led more than a coup, they believe he led a revolution

dalass:


Ahmadu Bello in his interview with BBC did not support his northern soldiers to kill Igbos. Are they the only tribe in this country staying in the North? What did Akintola do to deserve being killed by Nzeogwu? Did he also say something about Igbos that Nzeogwu didn't like?

Having tribal sentiments which should never translate to taking arms against another tribe. Nzeogwu expressed his hatred for the north and SW by killing their leaders. Making a.statue of him is endorsing killing other people for saying their minds.

RussellRutherfo:



Your opening sentence which is "Normal and sane people don't......" Is no disrespect to you totally nonsense.

Read up the history of any nation. When there is a revolution especially one like that of 1966 that seemed like it was majorly targeted at non-igbos. It is the leaders that must catch the blow especially evil leaders like Sarduana of Sokoto that had Islamic Nazi behavior.

I am of the opinion that these youthful exburent officers of igbo origin was "over-forward" on a fight that was supposed to be between the Yoruba(Action Group) vs Hausa(NPC) as there was already a riot in 1953, 13 years before the 1966 revolution where a Northern political leader by name, Mallam Inua Wada of the Northern People’s Congress lead this riot in anticipation of Chief Akintola's visit to Kano over some perceived insult to some Northern political leader who was booed at the Lagos parliament. They were rival parties and Mallam Wada got ready 1000 men to retaliate this insult that happened in Lagos.

Guess what tribe was caught in this cross fire when Chief Akintola failed to show. It was the Igbos as always who were massacred in numbers. These young Igbo officers carried the matter to clear young Nigeria of all these corrupt politicians (if only they could see into the future and see that the corruption of those days politicians would be a joke compared to the ones of today). I believe they would have taken a different action.

This is where the Igbo people have to learn how to be cunning like the other tribes especially like the Yorubas which has always kind of helped them in this Nigeria arrangement. You see the Igbo man agrees to do something with you. He goes in bravely and most times do 120% when what you wanted from him was 80%. This is sometimes their undoing.


These young officers meant well for the nation but unfortunately did not execute the whole thing properly.

NimrodEndOfDays:
oga don't change the topic. And stop misrepresentation of facts. You make it look as if the Igbos waged war on others. These were officers who for whatever reason decided to plan and execute a coup. People like you who are easily brainwashed or maybe don't have a high IQ should endeavor to learn from those who know. We have several coups involving people from the same tribe but it's only the one that had igbos that has been magnified. Abeg make una rest with all these fabrications.

stuffs2002:


Nzeogwu's father was a servant (gardener) in late Ahmadu Bello's house so Chukwuma Nzeogwu was adopted by late Ahmadu Bello (Sarduana and the then Premier of Northern Nigeria) and was brought up in Ahmadu Bello's house in Kaduna.

Ahmadu Bello was the one that gave Nzeogwu the name Kaduna and it was Ahmadu Bello that educated and put him in the army.

But like all S/E Nzeogwu was a snake that can not be loved as he was the one that came back to kill his benefactor

codemaniacs:


dalass is 100% correct.

The part of your comment I put in bold is also what Igbos don't want to accept...

Igbos waged war on other ethnic nations that's the truth the other tribes have seen and accepted.. only Igbos don't accept it Igbos will call it mis-representation of facts.

codemaniacs:


1966 was a coup by hatred filled Nzeogwu who hated non-igbos with passion.


in the 1960s , nzeogwu exhibited such hatred towards Yorubas.


"According to a Nigerian Police Special Branch Report, nzeogwu executed at least 4 army and police security personnel including one of the men on his team (Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke). nzeogwu also participated in the execution of Col. Raph Shodeinde, his superior officer at the Nigerian Military Training College and is reported to have shot indiscriminately at fleeing women and children.."..

the statement above shows pure hatred for Yorubas and a lot of igbos all have this similar behavior towards Yorubas.

The Igbo coup leaders did not mean well for Nigeria and wanted to forcefully take over all regions in Nigeria and that's why they only targeted non-igbo leaders.

It's not the business of igbos if there's corruption in the northern region, mid West region and Western region..

Their business should start and end in the Igbo region and not the entire eastern region.

codemaniacs:


dalass is 100% correct.

The part of your comment I put in bold is also what Igbos don't want to accept...

Igbos waged war on other ethnic nations that's the truth the other tribes have seen and accepted.. only Igbos don't accept it Igbos will call it mis-representation of facts.

RussellRutherfo:


You are suffering the effect of that failed revolution today with the North dominating the Nigeria Political landscape. A people whose leaders didn't want Nigeria but wanted to secede. This distrust between the North and the South(Yorubas and Igbos) even goes back as far as 1922 when Clifford Constitution stipulated that a Legislative Council administer the East and Western regions.

From between the periods of 1945-1950. Oil just discovered in the Igbo dominated Eastern region. Do you know the Emirs of Katsina and Zaria demanded that they be given 50% of the seats in the newly formed Central Legislature.

The Emirs threatened to secede from Nigeria if their demands were not met. The acceptance of these demands signaled the beginning of northern domination of Nigerian national politics.

Prior to independence, the Ibo dominated the political, social, military and business institutions of Nigeria. After independence, the Ibo lost their privileged status, while the Hausa/Fulani gained affluence and controlled the federal government.

This shows you the hatred against the Igbos from the very founding days of the nation and the large scale corruption that this nation was built on. Imagine, as a young Army man living close to these corrupt Northern politicians like Sarduana of Sokoto whose agenda of hate against the Igbos ten years after from 1950 steamed from the fact that since some of their Emirs demanded 50% of seats as oil was discovered in the Igbos dominated Eastern region then his and other northern political evil Islamic leaders like him turned it into a hatred of Igbos and their seemingly control of the North by Northerners.

All these were personal agenda of greed and have a hand in the new oil pie. Imagine, as a young Igbo Army officer seeing all these massive corruption and realizing this was not the Nigeria of your dreams 6years after independence but a massive personal agenda to control Oil and Nigeria while using the vehicle hatred of Igbos to ride in. These revolutionaries struck as evident it was not just Igbos but other tribes like young Yoruba and middle belt officers.

Their only failure. This revolution failed to succeed as their Lagos counterpart didn't do what they plan to do. If they had succeeded. Nigeria would have gone on to success and probably the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War may not have happened.