AntiMarxist:
Operation Araba was the major motive by the Murtala led mutineers composed mainly of northern officers.

The mutineers wanted to avenge on behalf of the north on the Ironsi Igbo led dictatorship that had supplanted itself following the Jan 15 coup.

Their main agenda was to leave Nigeria .

This was opposed by the northern Christian officers who were rightly weary of being overwhelmed in a future Arewa Islamic state.

Gowon prevailed on Murtala and told him there was no money in the north to support an independent northern Nigerian state. The icing that made Murtala rescind his seccesionist bid was when Gowon told Murtala and his co mutineers that it will be better if the north remains in the new centrist Nigeria fashioned by the Igbo coupists as there was now a bright future with the discovery of oil in the Niger Delta.

Now ,imagine if Murtala and his co northern officers had gone ahead with Operation Araba .

For one, there was a political vacuum in both the current SW and SS owing to the execution of their leaders by the Igbo coupists in 1966. Awolowo was serving a prison sentence for treason and the Yoruba nation was in total dissaray following both the lack of leadership and almost zero presence in the new military setup.

The Yorubas were mute through these turbulent times because there was no way they could challenge either the Igbo dictatorship or the Northern one that succeeded it.

With a scenario that Murtala left with the north, I can bet Ojukwu would have rolled over both the Midwest and western region and southern Nigeria would have been a totally different place with Igbos ruling over the SW and SS people.

The Igbos planned for that coup decades prior as they were silently enlisting in the Military and Zik was packing the officer cadre with his Zikist students .

The north found out very late in 1959 about this lopsided domination of the military by the Igbo and the Sarduna began recruiting young secondary school students in the north to enlist into the military college.

The likes of IBB and Abacha were inspired by Sarduna visiting their schools with a young sharp looking Gowon in his smart officer suit.

While the north was playing catch up with the Igbo , the SW and SS people were oblivious on the future shift in our political landscape from that of an intelligenstia led democratic leadership to brute military rule .

This is one reason why I believe that the unfortunate Jan 15 coup was no accident but the outcome of a long standing ambition by the Igbo Marxist to infiltrate the military and seize power from there on.

In summary, if not for Gowon ,the Igbo would have entrenched themselves as rulers above their betters in both the SS and SW.

Thank God, Gowon intervened.


Can you see how mentally poor you are?
Can you also notice the porosity of your write up?
Tribal chauvinist like you.

AntiMarxist:
Operation Araba was the major motive by the Murtala led mutineers composed mainly of northern officers.

The mutineers wanted to avenge on behalf of the north on the Ironsi Igbo led dictatorship that had supplanted itself following the Jan 15 coup.

Their main agenda was to leave Nigeria .

This was opposed by the northern Christian officers who were rightly weary of being overwhelmed in a future Arewa Islamic state.

Gowon prevailed on Murtala and told him there was no money in the north to support an independent northern Nigerian state. The icing that made Murtala rescind his seccesionist bid was when Gowon told Murtala and his co mutineers that it will be better if the north remains in the new centrist Nigeria fashioned by the Igbo coupists as there was now a bright future with the discovery of oil in the Niger Delta.

Now ,imagine if Murtala and his co northern officers had gone ahead with Operation Araba .

For one, there was a political vacuum in both the current SW and SS owing to the execution of their leaders by the Igbo coupists in 1966. Awolowo was serving a prison sentence for treason and the Yoruba nation was in total dissaray following both the lack of leadership and almost zero presence in the new military setup.

The Yorubas were mute through these turbulent times because there was no way they could challenge either the Igbo dictatorship or the Northern one that succeeded it.

With a scenario that Murtala left with the north, I can bet Ojukwu would have rolled over both the Midwest and western region and southern Nigeria would have been a totally different place with Igbos ruling over the SW and SS people.

The Igbos planned for that coup decades prior as they were silently enlisting in the Military and Zik was packing the officer cadre with his Zikist students .

The north found out very late in 1959 about this lopsided domination of the military by the Igbo and the Sarduna began recruiting young secondary school students in the north to enlist into the military college.

The likes of IBB and Abacha were inspired by Sarduna visiting their schools with a young sharp looking Gowon in his smart officer suit.

While the north was playing catch up with the Igbo , the SW and SS people were oblivious on the future shift in our political landscape from that of an intelligenstia led democratic leadership to brute military rule .

This is one reason why I believe that the unfortunate Jan 15 coup was no accident but the outcome of a long standing ambition by the Igbo Marxist to infiltrate the military and seize power from there on.

In summary, if not for Gowon ,the Igbo would have entrenched themselves as rulers above their betters in both the SS and SW.

Thank God, Gowon intervened.

AntiMarxist:
What was the basis Ojukwu invaded Mid West and unanimously declared it an independent nation and from there launched an attack on the Western region if not an igbo expansionist agenda to colonize their betters.

demmie1:

He even installed an ibo dictator for the Midwest

AntiMarxist:
Operation Araba was the major motive by the Murtala led mutineers composed mainly of northern officers.

The mutineers wanted to avenge on behalf of the north on the Ironsi Igbo led dictatorship that had supplanted itself following the Jan 15 coup.

Their main agenda was to leave Nigeria .

This was opposed by the northern Christian officers who were rightly weary of being overwhelmed in a future Arewa Islamic state.

Gowon prevailed on Murtala and told him there was no money in the north to support an independent northern Nigerian state. The icing that made Murtala rescind his seccesionist bid was when Gowon told Murtala and his co mutineers that it will be better if the north remains in the new centrist Nigeria fashioned by the Igbo coupists as there was now a bright future with the discovery of oil in the Niger Delta.

Now ,imagine if Murtala and his co northern officers had gone ahead with Operation Araba .

For one, there was a political vacuum in both the current SW and SS owing to the execution of their leaders by the Igbo coupists in 1966. Awolowo was serving a prison sentence for treason and the Yoruba nation was in total dissaray following both the lack of leadership and almost zero presence in the new military setup.

The Yorubas were mute through these turbulent times because there was no way they could challenge either the Igbo dictatorship or the Northern one that succeeded it.

With a scenario that Murtala left with the north, I can bet Ojukwu would have rolled over both the Midwest and western region and southern Nigeria would have been a totally different place with Igbos ruling over the SW and SS people.

The Igbos planned for that coup decades prior as they were silently enlisting in the Military and Zik was packing the officer cadre with his Zikist students .

The north found out very late in 1959 about this lopsided domination of the military by the Igbo and the Sarduna began recruiting young secondary school students in the north to enlist into the military college.

The likes of IBB and Abacha were inspired by Sarduna visiting their schools with a young sharp looking Gowon in his smart officer suit.

While the north was playing catch up with the Igbo , the SW and SS people were oblivious on the future shift in our political landscape from that of an intelligenstia led democratic leadership to brute military rule .

This is one reason why I believe that the unfortunate Jan 15 coup was no accident but the outcome of a long standing ambition by the Igbo Marxist to infiltrate the military and seize power from there on.

In summary, if not for Gowon ,the Igbo would have entrenched themselves as rulers above their betters in both the SS and SW.

Thank God, Gowon intervened.

AdaojoTheUrchin:


I was looking for your usual 'Jews-chook-hand-for-my- nyash' narrative. I no see am.

You sure say your article dey complete so?

AntiMarxist:


I am happy you recognise my post.

AntiMarxist:
What was the basis Ojukwu invaded Mid West and unanimously declared it an independent nation and from there launched an attack on the Western region if not an igbo expansionist agenda to colonize their betters.

Sltp:


Tell me why Ojukwu can't attack Yorubaland when Yoruba people were in biafraland commuting genocide?

AntiMarxist:


Victimhood again.

How did Ojukwu plan an offensive in the Midwest and the SW if his Biafra was facing genocide ?

You invaded Midwest first before Nigerian troops invaded your rogue Biafra .

You drove Ejoor out of the Midwest and staged a failed attack to take the SW.

This is despite Ejoor refusing Nigerian troops passage through the Midwest to attack your rogue Biafra .

Same Ejoor and Midwest people who gave your refugee grand parents unhindered free passage through their region as they fled from the SW.

But instead, you guys got Bendel Igbos to kill him and when he got word and fled , your Ojukwu then declared Midwest an independent nation.

This was the turning point for the Midwest people against you who were once the only ones advocating for peace on your behalf .

You drew first blood from Jan 15 .

You are no victims but the real villains

AntiMarxist:


Victimhood again.

How did Ojukwu plan an offensive in the Midwest and the SW if his Biafra was facing genocide ?

You invaded Midwest first before Nigerian troops invaded your rogue Biafra .

You drove Ejoor out of the Midwest and staged a failed attack to take the SW.

This is despite Ejoor refusing Nigerian troops passage through the Midwest to attack your rogue Biafra .

Same Ejoor and Midwest people who gave your refugee grand parents unhindered free passage through their region as they fled from the SW.

But instead, you guys got Bendel Igbos to kill him and when he got word and fled , your Ojukwu then declared Midwest an independent nation.

This was the turning point for the Midwest people against you who were once the only ones advocating for peace on your behalf .

You drew first blood from Jan 15 .

You are no victims but the real villains

Sltp:


Shut the Bleep up, I'm from the mid West. Yoruba fought on the Nigerian side and the Nigerian army were committing genocide in Biafraland. Y'all are just too dangerous in this country. Even facts that's known by everyone will still be refabricated and twisted in broad day light. Y'all should just calm down

Vinnie2000:


Stop saying Things you don't know. 😏

Ojukwu NEVER attacked Midwest out of Spite or to Conquer them. 😕

He did so to Provoke the Enemy I e. The FG. Same with the Attempt to Invade Lagos.

It's a simple War strategy.

Nothing Personal.

AntiMarxist:


So he drew first blood then .

End of discussion.

This is despite all efforts by Ejoor blocking Nigerian troops from invading through the Midwest .

Provocations, if I must remind you, is what leads to war.

A simple case of : fck around and find out

Igbos fcked around and they found out

AntiMarxist:


You are either a bastard or an 0koro impostor .

Go and read how Bendel Igbos attempted to kill Ejoor before you spew nonsense.

Go and ask why Ejoor fled from the Midwest after getting hint that his own officers who were mainly Bendel Igbo were planning to kill him.

Go and ask how Ojukwu declared Midwest a separate nation and from there moved his cannibal orcs into Midwest and started killing , raping and cannibalising young men in the Midwest.

Go and read how in Warri , young men stormed a Biafran cantonment to free their brothers that were rounded up by Igbo troops .

You know nothing.

I will refer you to Professor Akpan's book exposing the artrocities committed by Igbo troops on the Niger Delta during the occupation .

As I said, you are either a bastard or an 0su impostor to spew such trash

Or can you explain what led to Ejoor fleeing his post as MILAD of the Western region ?

Can you tell us why and how Biafran soldiers invaded and occupied the Midwest ?

Can you deny that it is from this same Midwest that Biafran troops launched their assault on the SW?

Even after being beating back at Ore, Igbo troops made sure to pillage every settlement in their retreat to which ethnic minorities in the Midwest suffered the brunt before Biafran troops got to Onitsha and blew the Niger Bridge .

Ewu

Sltp:


You can believe your lies, I won't answer you after this.

Nigeria declared war on Biafra and kept invading and capturing biafrian cities and villages. They captured these villages and were committing genocides. These Nigerians were made up of lots of people from the Midwest and South West. So Igbo's are not required to retaliate?

Who is Ejoor? Is he an enemy soldier or not? Igbo's were on the defensive and it's necessary to do whatever it takes to survive - including attacking your attackers.

They invaded South West and Midwest and so what? When our people were busy commiting war crimes against the Biafrans. Hatred has so beclouded your thinking that all your views are skewed, biased and prejudiced. I personally have issues with Igbo's but I will always stand for the truth. What the Igbo's did was what they thought best . they were fighting for survival. Y'all killed millions of them

Vinnie2000:


Ok, can you now Rest?

Igbos I know do NOT remember the Civil war or even 2023 elections again. 🙂

They are going on with their Business/Entrepreneurship lifestyle.

Nairaland Jobless Mofos like you just dey carry their Matter for Head. 😕😏

AntiMarxist:
Operation Araba was the major motive by the Murtala led mutineers composed mainly of northern officers.

The mutineers wanted to avenge on behalf of the north on the Ironsi Igbo led dictatorship that had supplanted itself following the Jan 15 coup.

Their main agenda was to leave Nigeria .

This was opposed by the northern Christian officers who were rightly weary of being overwhelmed in a future Arewa Islamic state.

Gowon prevailed on Murtala and told him there was no money in the north to support an independent northern Nigerian state. The icing that made Murtala rescind his seccesionist bid was when Gowon told Murtala and his co mutineers that it will be better if the north remains in the new centrist Nigeria fashioned by the Igbo coupists as there was now a bright future with the discovery of oil in the Niger Delta.

Now ,imagine if Murtala and his co northern officers had gone ahead with Operation Araba .

For one, there was a political vacuum in both the current SW and SS owing to the execution of their leaders by the Igbo coupists in 1966. Awolowo was serving a prison sentence for treason and the Yoruba nation was in total dissaray following both the lack of leadership and almost zero presence in the new military setup.

The Yorubas were mute through these turbulent times because there was no way they could challenge either the Igbo dictatorship or the Northern one that succeeded it.

With a scenario that Murtala left with the north, I can bet Ojukwu would have rolled over both the Midwest and western region and southern Nigeria would have been a totally different place with Igbos ruling over the SW and SS people.

The Igbos planned for that coup decades prior as they were silently enlisting in the Military and Zik was packing the officer cadre with his Zikist students .

The north found out very late in 1959 about this lopsided domination of the military by the Igbo and the Sarduna began recruiting young secondary school students in the north to enlist into the military college.

The likes of IBB and Abacha were inspired by Sarduna visiting their schools with a young sharp looking Gowon in his smart officer suit.

While the north was playing catch up with the Igbo , the SW and SS people were oblivious on the future shift in our political landscape from that of an intelligenstia led democratic leadership to brute military rule .

This is one reason why I believe that the unfortunate Jan 15 coup was no accident but the outcome of a long standing ambition by the Igbo Marxist to infiltrate the military and seize power from there on.

In summary, if not for Gowon ,the Igbo would have entrenched themselves as rulers above their betters in both the SS and SW.

Thank God, Gowon intervened.

franchasofficia:
OGUNDIPE IN DISTRESS

Following the murders of 200-300 Igbo soldiers (names, ranks, units and numbers are listed in Hilary Njoku’s: "A Tragedy Without Heroes" and the Eastern Ministry of Information’s "January 15th: before and after", Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe (a mild mannered Yoruba officer with no political ambition) was now the most senior surviving officer. When the British handed over command of the Nigerian army to indigenous soldiers in 1965, the outgoing General Officer Commanding, Major-General Welby-Everard had recommended Ogundipe as his replacement without success. However, as mayhem ensued following the mutinies across the country, Ogundipe could not assert his authority over the northern troops.


Via telephone, Ogundipe informed the military governor of the Eastern region; Lt-Col Ojukwu, that northern troops had stated their conditions for a “ceasefire”: the killings of Igbos would continue until the northern region seceded from the federation, and northerners and southerners were repatriated to their respective regions of origin. Ojukwu replied "if that is what they want, let them go" and replaced the receiver (see N U Akpan - "The Struggle For Secession".


The Ikeja cantonment became the undeclared Headquarters of the mutineers. Ogundipe dispatched a platoon from the Federal Guard to Ikeja cantonment. However the northern troops refused to accept their orders and turned them away. Ogundipe’s own orders received a similar response. The “limit" came for the Brigadier when a northern Sergeant quipped to him: "I do not take orders from you until my (northern) captain comes". To a seasoned professional soldier like Ogundipe (accustomed to unquestioning obedience of his orders during a military career spanning over 20 years), such disobedience was beyond comprehension. A northern private similarly refused to obey orders from the Military Governor of Lagos State; Major Mobolaji Johnson.


The exasperated Ogundipe sent the Chief of Staff (Army), Lt-Col Yakubu Gowon to bargain with the mutineers. Gowon like other senior northern officers Lt-Col Hassan Katsina, and Lt-Col Mohammed Shuwa was not personally involved in the mutiny. However, when the smoke temporarily cleared, they gave their assent to the fait accompli and were brought in to participate in the Ikeja negotiations. When Gowon arrived, it appears that he was not a free agent and was held in circumstances amounting to arrest (see Ruth First: “The Barrel Of A Gun”). The northern officers were joined by a number of federal secretaries, two Judges, prominent northern civil servants and by British and American diplomats who asked the northern soldiers to drop their plan to secede from the federation. As negotiations continued in Ikeja, the explosive Lt-Col Murtala Muhammed was the most vociferous and uncompromising advocate of northern secession. The civilian participants managed to persuade the northern soldiers to drop their secessionist plan, and their most senior member; Lt-Col Gowon was appointed Head of State.


Convinced that he was to be the next target of the northern soldiers, Brigadier Ogundipe departed with his pistol, to emerge in London as Nigeria's High Commissioner in the United Kingdom.

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Please stop fabricating history to massage your ego and to deceiver your tribesmen into seeing Igbos as the devil. If you don't know the true story, read books on the topic written neutral foreign journalists please. Some of them are quoted in the write up I copied and pasted here from popular books written by foreigners

AntiMarxist:
Operation Araba was the major motive by the Murtala led mutineers composed mainly of northern officers.

The mutineers wanted to avenge on behalf of the north on the Ironsi Igbo led dictatorship that had supplanted itself following the Jan 15 coup.

Their main agenda was to leave Nigeria .

This was opposed by the northern Christian officers who were rightly weary of being overwhelmed in a future Arewa Islamic state.

Gowon prevailed on Murtala and told him there was no money in the north to support an independent northern Nigerian state. The icing that made Murtala rescind his seccesionist bid was when Gowon told Murtala and his co mutineers that it will be better if the north remains in the new centrist Nigeria fashioned by the Igbo coupists as there was now a bright future with the discovery of oil in the Niger Delta.

Now ,imagine if Murtala and his co northern officers had gone ahead with Operation Araba .

For one, there was a political vacuum in both the current SW and SS owing to the execution of their leaders by the Igbo coupists in 1966. Awolowo was serving a prison sentence for treason and the Yoruba nation was in total dissaray following both the lack of leadership and almost zero presence in the new military setup.

The Yorubas were mute through these turbulent times because there was no way they could challenge either the Igbo dictatorship or the Northern one that succeeded it.

With a scenario that Murtala left with the north, I can bet Ojukwu would have rolled over both the Midwest and western region and southern Nigeria would have been a totally different place with Igbos ruling over the SW and SS people.

The Igbos planned for that coup decades prior as they were silently enlisting in the Military and Zik was packing the officer cadre with his Zikist students .

The north found out very late in 1959 about this lopsided domination of the military by the Igbo and the Sarduna began recruiting young secondary school students in the north to enlist into the military college.

The likes of IBB and Abacha were inspired by Sarduna visiting their schools with a young sharp looking Gowon in his smart officer suit.

While the north was playing catch up with the Igbo , the SW and SS people were oblivious on the future shift in our political landscape from that of an intelligenstia led democratic leadership to brute military rule .

This is one reason why I believe that the unfortunate Jan 15 coup was no accident but the outcome of a long standing ambition by the Igbo Marxist to infiltrate the military and seize power from there on.

In summary, if not for Gowon ,the Igbo would have entrenched themselves as rulers above their betters in both the SS and SW.

Thank God, Gowon intervened.

franchasofficia:
The de facto leader and co-coordinator of the north's revenge coup was the Inspector of Signals; Lt-Col Murtala Muhammed. Having finalised arrangements for their coup, northern officers twice postponed it because of last minute changes of heart and logistical problems. An opportunity arose when the Head of State, Maj-Gen Ironsi decided to undertake a nationwide tour. On the first leg of this tour, gunshots were heard while Ironsi was at Kaduna airport. Nothing further than this occurred on the northern lap of Ironsi's tour, thanks largely to the personal intervention of the Emir of Kano. Northern traditional rulers had cautioned against spilling Ironsi's blood on northern soil. Thus northern soldiers decided to deal with Ironsi when he arrived in Ibadan (where a large contingent of northern soldiers was based, and which had an indifferent local population) for the western leg of his nation-wide tour.



After addressing an assembly of western traditional rulers on July 28th, Ironsi decided to spend the night in the Ibadan State House with the members of his entourage.


In an effort to prove that he was not heading an "Igbo regime", Ironsi had with great courage entrusted his personal security to northern soldiers (including Major Yakubu Danjuma, Lieutenants William Walbe, Titus Numan and Sani Bello). One of his ADCs was the younger brother of Lt-Col James Pam (who had been murdered during the January coup). By surrounding himself with northern soldiers, Ironsi sealed his own fate.

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Stop lying against Igbos if not you will pay a deadly price from nature. Say the truth, stop twisting history.


[b]Ironsi was killed because he wanted one Nigeria [/b]and entrusted his security in the hands of Northerners without listening to Igbo officers like Col. Ojukwu that forewarned him about that.



Ironsi wasn't part of the January 1966 coup (go and read the famous book written by a Yoruba Officer among the main coup plotters of that coup, the title of the book is "Why We Struck" by a Yoruba military officer that participated in the coup). Ironsi only made mistake by not executing those coupists who were mostly Igbo officers and by entrusting his security to Northern military officers. These were his two most dangerous mistakes. Stop lying against the dead, it comes with deadly consequences.

AntiMarxist:

Ogundipe was supposed to head the military as recommended by the outgoing British Maj General but your useless Zik chose the incompetent Ironsi who was a glorified NCO elevated to an officer during the Nigerianation of the army .

Zik chose Ironsi over Ogundipe and that of a Sandhurst trained northern officer whom the outgoing British chose ahead of Ironsi who was third on the list .

For some reason the senior northern officer whom Zik ignored for Ironsi (I can't remember his name) was on the list of those to be executed by the Igbo coupists to which they did kill in cold blood so as to pave way for Ironsi's ascent to power.

Ogundipe was a professional soldier with no political ambitions and since the Igbo coup had resulted into a north Vs East war and with hardly any Yoruba officers and troops in the military, how was he to take control ?


Ask yourself why Ironsi will see his natural superior officer, Ogundipe and still went ahead to declare himself HoS?

Later , your Ojukwu will be claiming superiority over Gowon as reasons why he did not respect his authority as HoS after Ironsi was despatched with.

You see, everything you accuse others of, you are a hundred times guilty of and you even set the prescedence.

Since then , you have been complaining of all the rubbish you did and caused because you lost out in your own game.

AntiMarxist:


At the bolded .

That's the point.

You unity begging pigs died for one Nigeria and will do so s thousand times and that's why I can never believe an igbo tout spewing trash about Biafra

franchasofficia:
Stop telling lies you this boy.



Ironsi was the highest ranking military officer when British handed over to indigenous politicians. Welby only recommended Ogundipe based on his personal relationship with him because he worked under him while Ironsi held higher rank, in Military then you follow rank not by mere recommendation.



Ironsi was the first Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff based on him being the highest in rank, so I don't know the Northern officers you were talking about.


Mai Malari or Col Pam or which of them held a higher rank than Ironsi?


Learn to stand on the truth, stop listening to hearsay, read books written by keyplayers then who are neutral people to learn the truth.

franchasofficia:
Ojukwu told Ogundipe to grant Northern Mutineers headed by Muritala Mohammed their request to secede Northern region from Nigeria, it was the British Diplomats and some topranking Northern Civil Servants at the negotiation meeting at Ikeja that persuaded Muritala Mohammed and co Northern Mutineers to drop their push for secession. No Igbo man dead or alive refused or opposed them. The leader of Eastern Nigeria then was Col. Ojukwu and he granted them their request to secede for peace to reign since they said that was the only thing they wanted.




Please I warn you again, try and stand on the truth and stop being misled by fabricated histories concocted by treacherous men like Reno Omokri and co. This is a matter of life and death, such things attract consequences, try and stand on truth and nothing but the truth. Where you are confused, seek for more knowledge through reading neutral books written by neutral players then.

AntiMarxist:


The outgoing British Maj General nominated three senior officers to replace him and wrote a brief on each of them.

Top of his list was the northern officer (the most junior of all of them )to which Welby wrote glowingly of and cited him as the only professionally trained officer . For the love of God, I can't remember his name but same officer became a staff officer in the first Republic and was murdered by the Igbo coupist.

Ogundipe became second on the list.

Ironsi was only added because he was the most senior but his humble beginnings as an NCO and later an apprenticed officer did not get any glorifying notes from the outgoing British Maj General.

It was then up to Zik as the President and commander n chief to select whom to choose and he chose Ironsi over what can be described as based on ethnic sentiments.

The northern officer got the highest recommendation but was ignored by Zik for Ironsi.

That alone exposes the Igbo agenda early on prior to the Jan 15 coup.