Nefort:

Other Tribes are succeeding as well. Yorubas are succeeding as well. So why are Yorubas not getting the same hate?

One of the things I have noticed about igbos on Nairaland is the frequent bragging. Such bragging will certainly make others hate you.

BreconHills:
One of the realities of history is that everyone remembers it from their own vantage point. I urge everyone that truly wants to understand Nigerias history to read from as many sources as possible in order to obtain a balanced picture.

The best people to have told these stories were Gowons permanent secretary's- the so called super perm secs. My father was one of those men. Unfortunately those men took the secrets they knew to their graves. Those who wrote gave bland accounts - preserving the confidences they swore to maintain under the old official secrets Act.

Also unfortunately, and I say unfortunately, this left an empty space that is being filled by all sorts of stories.


May God bless Nigeria and uphold her.

Penguin2:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/08/murtala-mohammed-backed-coup-against-gowon-for-appointing-igbo-man-nnpc-gm-clark/amp/

VULCAN:
I don't take serious anyone who makes bold assertions without any attempt to validate them.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
That was a long & vital eyewitness account. Dis wan no be say dem say.


But i wonder why he's making it public @ this point in time?

theophorus:
History... They are all writing whatever 'lie' and claim its their 'Autobiography'.

They don't mind telling a lie to make a needless sale.

Sir, you mean Coup was planned against Gowon because He appointed someone from a particular region as GM of NNPC?

Was Agriculture not the mainstay of our Economy then? Was NNPC the main things then?

Sir, am not saying it's a lie ooo but this can never be True.

Penguin2:

And that makes you more knowledgeable of, and an authority in, history than Pa Edwin Clark that has been around for more than 8 decades and participated in the making of the history you have been taught?

richie240:
Major Chukwuma Nzeogu, a fulani man.

Rostikol:


Google it!

Go on Google and type “1966 coup”.

You will learn the actions of your kinsmen.

XXCASH:


Read and study people, dont shape your thoughts by what one person says. Open your mind and try to be objective, you will be shocked by what you can see

But feel free to also remain like this. Thanks and bye on this

garfield1:


Cc penguin2

Okhuadams:
How does a Kalahari man becomes an igbo Oga clerk withdraw, that lie

ejimatic:
. Till today the North is not ready to see any Igbo man leading this country. If I am lying ask Obi.
Until the fears of the Northerners are allayed, the Igbo presidency will be a mirage for years to come in Nigeria.

dbestuncle:
I thank God you got something from my first set of writeup. Which is the inconsistency.

How can you call a person you so much spoke supported in 2015 Election has the best candidate weak and lacking the political will to fight corruption the same year just after he lost the election and you were ready to jump into buhari's camp.
Don't forget the same man when celebrating Good luck said Obasanjo is the most corrupt president ever in Nigeria.
After Good luck lost na Goodluck whose tenure was the worst in terms of corruption becos the president was weak and lack political will.
Finally why is grandpa trying to divide us the more, will his speech move us forward or destroy us the more.
No doubt some northerners had issues with the easterner we all know that but can't be the reason for a coup sir.
Saying he was there doesn't validates the sincerity of the comment.

Dshocker:


Just as Edo state shares some names with the Yorubas, doesn't mean they are Yorubas.

Nzeogu is not from the Southeast.

garfield1:


According to most histories,murtala carried out the coup because Gowon was reluctant to handover to the civilian.he was supposed to handover in 1974 but postponed it.i will go with that rather than a jaundiced view from a senile oldie.this is the main trigger not your warped emotional reason.you need to stop seeing things from your ethnic viewpoint and start being liberal.look at Fergie001,very liberal and objective.how many times do you see me carry SS matter for head? It is all about personal survival

Favourchris:


If only u read ur history, u will know the guy who planned the first coup Kaduna nzeogu is not from SE, he is from Asaba delta state, grew up in the north.

But what do I know is easy to blame SE

Ewedegubbler:


Nzeogwu is not an Igbo man. He is Niger deltan south south

Penguin2:

You accuse me of being emotional and now you are accusing Pa Clark of being emotional too? Anyone who disagrees with your warped narrative is emotional, right, and you are the only one reasonable?

Let’s assume Murtala’s reason for taking power was because Gowon refused to handover power to a civilian government in 1974, why did he take power in 1975 and set 1979, a whole 4 years, as date for transition into a civilian government?

Men like Edwin Clark are called Sages because they are source of history that you won’t find anywhere. Only a full will availed of the historical repository of such a man and he would still be arguing.

Murtala gave the non transition to civilian rule as reason for overthrowing the government because that is what is most plausible. You wanted him to tell the world that he hated it that an Igbo man was made DG of NNPC?

And hey, your quest for personal survival should not be the reason you suspend reason, believe falsehoods and propagate same, all in the name of personal survival.

Ewedegubbler:


Nzeogwu is not an Igbo man. He is Niger deltan south south

loosecanon50:
For those who didn't attend history classes, the hatred against Igbos didn't just start today..

...but what have we achieved as a nation by marginalizing them? Nothing except exponential backwardness with the speed of Ferrari.

Deadlytruth:

That first coup was plotted by Ifeajuna a native of Onitsha in the present SE. Ojukwu himself confirmed this in his interviews.

juman:


Murtala was a good man.

Laple0541:
I don’t really blame Gen. Muritala if he truly did that. After seeing the Igbo coup and killings of the Northern and Southwest military officers and politicians in 1966, even a madman will think twice before he can appoint them as ordinary messenger not to talk of NNPC DG.

BALLOSKI:
Edwin Clarke is divisive and angry that Murtala took over from the coup that ended the government he was serving in. To further demonize Murtala, he had to use the igbo tag.

To know Edwin Clarke was lying, you'll have to read the part he said he confronted Murtala with those questions at the VIP lounge of Ikeja Airport(the same airport currently named after him) in front of those other people present. He dared not talk to a man of Murtala rank like that at the time the military men were everything. You sef know.

Deadlytruth:

That first coup was plotted by Ifeajuna a native of Onitsha in the present SE. Ojukwu himself confirmed this in his interviews.

AriyaTV:


Which tribe plan the first coup in Nigeria?