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helinues:
See justification

It is not justification. That is history. For decades, you south westerners through your Lagos-Ibadan media have lied to Nigerians, especially concerning the coup and all that followed it. For once, accept the truth.

Buccalcavity2:
And the beneficiary,Ironsi, coincidentally was reluctant to punish the "coupist".....but speedily promulgated Unitary decree.
What a series of coincidences!

But Gen Ironsi was very happy to have Adaka Boro given the Capital Punishment for declaring Niger Delta Republic about 6 weeks after the Jan 66 Coup

What does that already tell you ?

Gen Ironsi's case is very Complex

Left to himself
Ironsi was not a desperate or Ambitious Person he was Just happy being an Officer

It was Azikiwe's and others and scheming right from independence that Pushed Ironsi
Into the Problem that took his life and the lives of many others.


Gen Ironsi was not supposed to be the head of the Nigerian Army
It was Wellington Bassey who was Gen Ironsi's senior by over 3 years in the officer
Corp that the British had been preparing to take over the Nigerian Army because he was the most Senior Nigerian Officer

Azikiwe played a very Nasty Tribal game to side Track Wellington Bassey and
get Gen Ironsi to emerge at the Head of the Nigerian Army instead of Bassey

Azikiwe couldn't handle the fact that Wellington Bassey from Calabar was destined
to head the Nigerian Army so he did everything to hold Basseys Army Career back
Wellington Bassey's Trainings and Promotions were all delayed until after Gen Ironsi his junior had emerged as the head of the Army

The Story of what Azikiwe did to hold bassey back so as to stop bassey from emerging as the First head of the Nigerian Army is almost unbelievable

Azikiwe committed atrocities to make sure Gen Ironsi overtook bassey
It was wellington bassey that the British had been preparing to take over as the First Nigerian Head of the Army because he was the most Senior Officer

wellington bassey had commanded the independence day Parade but his ordeal with Azikiwe who wanted to get rid of him for Ironsi's sake began immediately after The British Empire got back on the boat to London

bassey was even on the list of Officers to be assasinated in the Jan Coup 1966 but he managed to Escape

bassey was from Calabar and if you know History you know that Calabar People and Azikiwe didn't exactly see eye to eye to the extent that Azikiwe removed the Capital of the Eastern Region from Calabar to.Enugu despite being advised not to do so by the British

helinues:
Because leaders from other regions were killed except the Igbo leaders.

And eventually after the coup, it was an Igbo man , Aguiyi Ironsi who benefited from the coup.

So it's Igbo's coup

It be like some of una missed history class in secondary school

so a Fulani man can still lead an igbo coup?

Christistruth00:
But Gen Ironsi was very happy to have Adaka Boro given the Capital Punishment for declaring Niger Delta Republic about 6 weeks after the Jan 66 Coup

What does that already tell you ?

Gen Ironsi's case is very Complex

Left to himself
Ironsi was not a desperate or Ambitious Person he was Just happy being an Officer

It was Azikiwe's and others and scheming right from independence that Pushed Ironsi
Into the Problem that took his life and the lives of many others.


Gen Ironsi was not supposed to be the head of the Nigerian Army
It was Wellington Bassey who was Gen Ironsi's senior by over 3 years in the officer
Corp that the British had been preparing to take over the Nigerian Army because he was the most Senior Nigerian Officer

Azikiwe played a very Nasty Tribal game to side Track Wellington Bassey and
get Gen Ironsi to emerge at the Head of the Nigerian Army instead of Bassey

Azikiwe couldn't handle the fact that Wellington Bassey from Calabar was destined
to head the Nigerian Army so he did everything to hold Basseys Army Career back
Wellington Bassey's Trainings and Promotions were all delayed until after Gen Ironsi his junior had emerged as the head of the Army

💯 On point.

2elliot:
At the time the coup happened, the Eastern region was easily the most peaceful region, and there was no good reason to kill anybody from the east. That coup happened basically because of the crisis in the south western region caused by the Awolowo and Akintola politics, and the seemingly biased actions of Balewa who favoured Akintola and had Awolowo imprisoned, who was loved by the majority. Those soldiers were sympathetic to Awolowo.

The bolded is the reason Igbo boys in the military then shouldn't have any business planning and participating in a coup against the government ndi Igbo was well represented in.That coup was anti Igbo in every ramifications and they shouldn't be seen as heroes.

2elliot:
At the time the coup happened, the Eastern region was easily the most peaceful region, and there was no good reason to kill anybody from the east. That coup happened basically because of the crisis in the south western region caused by the Awolowo and Akintola politics, and the seemingly biased actions of Balewa who favoured Akintola and had Awolowo imprisoned, who was loved by the majority. Those soldiers were sympathetic to Awolowo.

Thank you for schooling them.

Is SS or Delta a nationality? Why are you behaving like an uneducated person?

OredoPikin:
The 1966 coup in Nigeria was led by a delta man, born and brought up in kaduna.
Why still tag it igbo coup instead of South south coup or delta coup?

Is there a collective agenda to paint the igbo tribe bad?

Stop this nonsense, there was nowhere where the coup plotters had meetings with Igbos.

These were military men without mandate that were around 30yrs old. How can you place the wrong trajectory of a country that has had 13 presidents and heads of state after Ironsi yet the country continues to decline?

What does 30yrs old boys do today? Chasing women and yahoo yahoo

Godwin4444:
don’t mind them

U did something that hurt everyone n only u benefitted n u also mocked people about it but u don’t want them to believe u are d one

U think others are stupid abi

Igbos even mocked d north more, imagine the label on a bread

2elliot:
At the time the coup happened, the Eastern region was easily the most peaceful region, and there was no good reason to kill anybody from the east. That coup happened basically because of the crisis in the south western region caused by the Awolowo and Akintola politics, and the seemingly biased actions of Balewa who favoured Akintola and had Awolowo imprisoned, who was loved by the majority. Those soldiers were sympathetic to Awolowo.

The only thing that saved Awolowo was because he was locked up in jail. Those Zikist Ibo boys would have killed him too.

OredoPikin:
The 1966 coup in Nigeria was led by a delta man, born and brought up in kaduna.
Why still tag it igbo coup instead of South south coup or delta coup?

Is there a collective agenda to paint the igbo tribe bad?

This unfortunate event was tagged an "igbo coup" by other ethnic groups in the country based on some chains of coincidences :

i. The Killing patterns - only one of the 22 casualties is of Igbo origin, while notable Igbo politicians like the Premier of Eastern region (Michael Okpara) and military personnel like Ironsi were unharmed.

ii. The handing over of the government to Ironsi by Orizu (the acting president and the senate president who could have called for the formation of another civilian government) made it look like it was planned out all along.

iii. The unification decree of May 1966 promulgated by Ironsi, leading to the abolition of regional system of government. Historically speaking, the West and North have always believed in the regional system of government as the best form of government for a multiethnic like Nigeria, however this was taken away by Ironsi, leading to a massive outrage and pogrom in the North.

iv. The coup plotters, though kept in jail but were not sentenced.

v. Ironsi surrounded himself with Igbos to enact policies. This was after sacking non-igbos in top government civil service positions.

E.g. At the early stage of his tenure, he appointed a three-man advisory team made up of Chief Francis Nwokedi, a Permanent Secretary, Dr. Pius Charles Nwabafor Okigbo (1924-2000) and Colonel Patrick Anwunah, who later became Chairman and Head of the Orientation Committee at that time.

He replaced the then Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Taslim Olawale Elias (1914-1991) with Chief Gabriel Chike Michael Onyiuke (SAN), former Director, Public Prosecution, Eastern Nigeria (1960-1965) from Nimo in the present Anambra state.

Christistruth00:
But Gen Ironsi was very happy to have Adaka Boro given the Capital Punishment for declaring Niger Delta Republic about 6 weeks after the Jan 66 Coup

What does that already tell you ?

Gen Ironsi's case is very Complex

Left to himself
Ironsi was not a desperate or Ambitious Person he was Just happy being an Officer

It was Azikiwe's and others and scheming right from independence that Pushed Ironsi
Into the Problem that took his life and the lives of many others.


Gen Ironsi was not supposed to be the head of the Nigerian Army
It was Wellington Bassey who was Gen Ironsi's senior by over 3 years in the officer
Corp that the British had been preparing to take over the Nigerian Army because he was the most Senior Nigerian Officer

Azikiwe played a very Nasty Tribal game to side Track Wellington Bassey and
get Gen Ironsi to emerge at the Head of the Nigerian Army instead of Bassey

Azikiwe couldn't handle the fact that Wellington Bassey from Calabar was destined
to head the Nigerian Army so he did everything to hold Basseys Army Career back
Wellington Bassey's Trainings and Promotions were all delayed until after Gen Ironsi his junior had emerged as the head of the Army

Christistruth00:
The Story of what Azikiwe did to hold bassey back so as to stop bassey from emerging as the First head of the Nigerian Army is almost unbelievable

Azikiwe committed atrocities to make sure Gen Ironsi overtook bassey
It was wellington bassey that the British had been preparing to take over as the First Nigerian Head of the Army because he was the most Senior Officer

wellington bassey had commanded the independence day Parade but his ordeal with Azikiwe who wanted to get rid of him for Ironsi's sake began immediately after The British Empire got back on the boat to London

bassey was even on the list of Officers to be assasinated in the Jan Coup 1966 but he managed to Escape

bassey was from Calabar and if you know History you know that Calabar People and Azikiwe didn't exactly see eye to eye to the extent that Azikiwe removed the Capital of the Eastern Region from Calabar to.Enugu despite being advised not to do so by the British

I always look forward to reading your posts. It's interesting to see that Bassey had the most seniority not just in Nigeria but the whole of West Africa.

chopnaira:
This unfortunate event was tagged an "igbo coup" by other ethnic groups in the country based on some chains of coincidences :

i. The Killing patterns - only one of the 22 casualties is of Igbo origin, while notable Igbo politicians like the Premier of Eastern region (Michael Okpara) and military personnel like Ironsi were unharmed.

ii. The handing over of the government to Ironsi by Orizu (the acting president and the senate president who could have called for the formation of another civilian government) made it look like it was planned out all along.

iii. The unification decree of May 1966 promulgated by Ironsi, leading to the abolition of regional system of government. Historically speaking, the West and North have always believed in the regional system of government as the best form of government for a multiethnic like Nigeria, however this was taken away by Ironsi, leading to a massive outrage and pogrom in the North.

iv. The coup plotters, though kept in jail but were not sentenced.

v. Ironsi surrounded himself with Igbos to enact policies. This was after sacking non-igbos in top government civil service positions.

E.g. At the early stage of his tenure, he appointed a three-man advisory team made up of Chief Francis Nwokedi, a Permanent Secretary, Dr. Pius Charles Nwabafor Okigbo (1924-2000) and Colonel Patrick Anwunah, who later became Chairman and Head of the Orientation Committee at that time.

He replaced the then Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Taslim Olawale Elias (1914-1991) with Chief Gabriel Chike Michael Onyiuke (SAN), former Director, Public Prosecution, Eastern Nigeria (1960-1965) from Nimo in the present Anambra state.

So he should have appointed those he knows nothing about so that they will kill him abi🤣🤣
We are practising democracy now and most of Tinubu appointees are from south west. imagine if its military 🤣
Tinubu wont have appointed anyone not from SW

DMerciful:
Is SS or Delta a nationality? Why are you behaving like an uneducated person?

Who be this ozuor
So SE na nationality 🤣🤣

Congregation of liars, tribalists and propaganda pigs

They all have no reference whatever just empty propaganda


1967 coup have nothing much to do with Igbos it's all Yoruba lies and deceit igbos had a lot to lose

it was Nigerian Coup by soldiers across the country Triggered by Western Nigeria crisis of akintola and awolowo during thier INFAMOUS " OPERATION WETIE"

Yorubas then knew Tafawa Belewa was Sarduana puppet in Lagos and Tafawa Belewa was fighting Awolowo had cult following then.. Everyone knew the coup was to make Awo one of Nigeria First Treasonable felon prime minister
many officers confirmed it including fellow Yorubas..

many of us forget quickly that Lagos Which is in western Nigeria was capital then. And deeply in an Unstable region then where they were at eachother neck doing operation wetie


the main aim of the coup was to bring stability in Nigeria and makw Awolowo a Treasonable felon prime minister

no be cho cho

read these articles

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/01/awolowo-coup-of-january-1966/amp/


https://punchng.com/1966-coup-plotters-planned-make-awolowo-head-state-olutoye/


https://dailypost.ng/2016/10/07/nzeogwu-coup-meant-install-awolowo-prime-minister-nigeria-dr-ezeife/



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/awolowo-and-the-forgotten-documents-of-the-civil-war-by-odia-ofeimun-2/

You mentioned Igbos then mention SS and Delta as comparison. Thats f00lishness

OredoPikin:
Who be this ozuor
So SE na nationality 🤣🤣

OredoPikin:
So he should have appointed those he knows nothing about so that they will kill him abi🤣🤣
We are practising democracy now and most of Tinubu appointees are from south west. imagine if its military 🤣
Tinubu wont have appointed anyone not from SW

So why do Obidients cry when Tinubu appoints his kinsmen or Buhari employing northerners or GEJ dashing his south south people appointments.

Atleast, unlike the Ibo coup plotters, Buhari, Tinubu or GEJ did not kill or overthrow the government so as to install their own people.

chopnaira:
So why do Obidients cry when Tinubu appoints his kinsmen or Buhari employing northerners or GEJ dashing his south south people appointments.

Atleast, unlike the Ibo coup plotters, Buhari, Tinubu or GEJ did not kill or overthrow the government so as to install their own people

Awo

chopnaira:
So why do Obidients cry when Tinubu appoints his kinsmen or Buhari employing northerners or GEJ dashing his south south people appointments.

Atleast, unlike the Ibo coup plotters, Buhari, Tinubu or GEJ did not kill or overthrow the government so as to install their own people.

Ozuor
This one nor even know military vs democratic govt🤣
Even northerners dey overthrow their fellow northerners
Buhari overthrown a democratically elected shagari govt to rule in the 80s as military head of state
Na children self full here self.

Nigeria had about 5 military coups. Majority of those coups happened among fellow northerners to northerners. The only one coup by a delta man born and brought up in the same North is now labelled igbo coup because u are afraid of the North and u hate the igbos🤣🤣

DMerciful:
You mentioned Igbos then mention SS and Delta as comparison. Thats f00lishness

Comparison 🤣🤣
Who be this olodo na

The question remain, why tag a coup carried out by a delta man born and brought up in kaduna as an igbo coup?
Same delta people will come out and same they are not igbos and u all will back them.
But labelled a coup done by them as igbo coup.

Emefiele is a delta man, Nduka of ariseTv is a delta man but whenever dey do what u dont like, igbos will take the insults
Whenever dey do what u like, instead of to praise the igbos, you will remember that delta is SS and not igbo land 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm also a delta man but delta is not a tribe or ethnicity. Nzeogwu is from Anioma like me, that makes him Igbo.

The coup is not an Igbo coup because Igbos did not vote for those military young guys, they did it by themselves.

Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna had zero votes from Igbos

OredoPikin:
Comparison 🤣🤣
Who be this olodo na

The question remain, why tag a coup carried out by a delta man born and brought up in kaduna as an igbo coup?
Same delta people will come out and same they are not igbos and u all will back then.
But labelled a coup done by them as igbo coup.

Emefiele is a delta man, Nduka of ariseTv is a delta man but whenever dey do what u dont like, igbos will take the insults
Whenever dey do what u like, instead of to praise the igbos, you will remember that delta is SS and not igbo land 🤣🤣🤣🤣

2elliot:
At the time the coup happened, the Eastern region was easily the most peaceful region, and there was no good reason to kill anybody from the east. That coup happened basically because of the crisis in the south western region caused by the Awolowo and Akintola politics, and the seemingly biased actions of Balewa who favoured Akintola and had Awolowo imprisoned, who was loved by the majority. Those soldiers were sympathetic to Awolowo.

Nice lies....😆 🤣
So Okpara,Azikiwe,Orizu,Ironsi and Ojukwu were institutions that deserved to be protected and preserved because they were saints while leaders from the other regions deserved to be slaughtered?

There is no tribe in Nigeria with the ability to turn black to white like the Ibo. Their propensity to use propaganda and falsehood to justify their wickedness while still playing themselves as victims is unrivalled.

Listen to the callous way Nzeogwu describes the cold blooded murder of the Sardauna and his wife.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2pcLO9HSc?si=jjEmvReGuAzpOrtv

DMerciful:
I'm also a delta man but delta is not a tribe or ethnicity. Nzeogwu is from Anioma like me, that makes him Igbo.

The coup is not an Igbo coup because Igbos did not vote for those military young guys, they did it by themselves.

Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna had zero votes from Igbos

So what are u now saying
The northerners call it igbo coups
The Yorubas also out of hypocrisy and hatreds call it an igbo coup because the top igbos in the military outsmart them
Same coup that was made to install Awolowo as prime minister

DMerciful:
I'm also a delta man but delta is not a tribe or ethnicity. Nzeogwu is from Anioma like me, that makes him Igbo.

The coup is not an Igbo coup because Igbos did not vote for those military young guys, they did it by themselves.

Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna had zero votes from Igbos

Don't forget that in that same 1966, an Hausa man called Murtala Mohammed led a coup, killed over 300 people including leaders and high ranking military officers from other parts of Nigeria except the North

Not only was Murtala Mohammeds coup never called a 'Hausa coup', Nigeria went on to honour the man by putting him on the N20 note, named Airports and buildings after him

So why are people talking about Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna when others that did coup like Murtala Mohammed, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, were honoured by Nigerian society?

confusedlady:
Nice lies....😆 🤣
So Okpara,Azikiwe,Orizu,Ironsi and Ojukwu were institutions that deserved to be protected and preserved because they were saints while leaders from the other regions deserved to be slaughtered?

There is no tribe in Nigeria with the ability to turn black to white like the Ibo. Their propensity to use propaganda and falsehood to justify their wickedness while still playing themselves as victims is unrivalled.

Listen to the callous way Nzeogwu describes the cold blooded murder of the Sardauna and his wife.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2pcLO9HSc?si=jjEmvReGuAzpOrtv

Lolz
I understand ur hatred and bitterness

Ironsi wasn't even in the original plan. He was among the top military generals pencilled down to be killed.
Awolowo was the main man in that coup. The coup plotters were supposed to make him the prime minister after they have successfully killed all the top military generals
But grace and luck shine on ironsi, he was not at home when dey came around to kill him.

Go and read books about military coups in Nigeria
I will recommend if u are interested

That should not make us deny our people. They are Igbos 100% but they were in the military too. We did not go into an election to elect them as our representatives so cannot take responsibility for their actions.

If we elected them, we would have taken responsibility for their actions

OredoPikin:
So what are u now saying
The northerners call it igbo coups
The Yorubas also out of hypocrisy and hatreds call it an igbo coup because the top igbos in the military outsmart them
Same coup that was made to install Awolowo as prime minister

OredoPikin:
Lolz
I understand ur hatred and bitterness

Ironsi wasn't even in the original plan. He was among the top military generals pencilled down to be killed.
Awolowo was the main man in that coup. The coup plotters were supposed to make him the prime minister after they have successfully killed all the top military generals
But grace and luck shine on ironsi, he was not at home when dey came around to kill him.

Go and read books about military coups in Nigeria
I will recommend if u are interested

😆 🤣 😂 Lol....
Where my historical knowledge of the Nigeria/Biafra war starts is where your own knowledge ends...
I am asking you why leaders of other tribes/regions were killed while the Ibo leaders were all preserved. It has been proven beyond doubt that Ifeajuna who was the mastermind and brain behind the Ibo coup of January 1966,tipped off Azikiwe and Ironsi of the intentions of the coup plotters.
The coup was NEVER meant to install Awolowo as a prime minister. This Awolowo as Prime Minister propaganda was a LIE and Falsehood spread by Ibo intelligentsia after the coup was thwarted in order to justify the lopsidedness of the killings during the coup.
There is no tribe in Nigeria that uses propaganda as evilly as the Ibo man and you had a lot of propagandists in Chinua Achebe,Cyprian Ekwensi, and Uche Chukwumerije.
While you are going on about history I suggest you research the history of the relationship between Ifeajuna, Azikiwe and Ironsi.....

confusedlady:
Nice lies....😆 🤣
So Okpara,Azikiwe,Orizu,Ironsi and Ojukwu were institutions that deserved to be protected and preserved because they were saints while leaders from the other regions deserved to be slaughtered?

There is no tribe in Nigeria with the ability to turn black to white like the Ibo. Their propensity to use propaganda and falsehood to justify their wickedness while still playing themselves as victims is unrivalled.

Listen to the callous way Nzeogwu describes the cold blooded murder of the Sardauna and his wife.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ2pcLO9HSc?si=jjEmvReGuAzpOrtv

It's also instructive to note that Major Donatius Okafor, one of the leaders of the coup (in conjunction with Major Ifeajuna & Capt. Oji), ostensibly participated in the "revolutionary coup" to rid the country of corruption and nepotism was himself morally bankrupt, as he was found guilty of stealing army funds barely few weeks before the coup.

Senate president Nwafor Orizu who handed power to Ironsi was convicted of fraud with his brother Joseph Onyekusi Orizu . He (Senate presido) was later jailed for 7 years. On Tuesday 22nd September 1953, he arrived at the Lagos Prison by train under escort to serve his term.


Source: The News Magazine, June 19, 2016.[center]NWAFOR ORIZU: CROOK, CONVICT TURNED SENATE PRESIDENT
Link===========>British Secret Files On Nigeria’s First Bloody Coup, Path To Biafra.

Christistruth00:
The Story of what Azikiwe did to hold bassey back so as to stop bassey from emerging as the First head of the Nigerian Army is almost unbelievable

Azikiwe committed atrocities to make sure Gen Ironsi overtook bassey
It was wellington bassey that the British had been preparing to take over as the First Nigerian Head of the Army because he was the most Senior Officer

wellington bassey had commanded the independence day Parade but his ordeal with Azikiwe who wanted to get rid of him for Ironsi's sake began immediately after The British Empire got back on the boat to London

bassey was even on the list of Officers to be assasinated in the Jan Coup 1966 but he managed to Escape

bassey was from Calabar and if you know History you know that Calabar People and Azikiwe didn't exactly see eye to eye to the extent that Azikiwe removed the Capital of the Eastern Region from Calabar to.Enugu despite being advised not to do so by the British

Very wicked people.

T9ksy:
It's also instructive to note that Major Donatius Okafor, one of the leaders of the coup (in conjunction with Major Ifeajuna & Capt. Oji), ostensibly participated in the "revolutionary coup" to rid the country of corruption and nepotism was himself morally bankrupt, as he was found guilty of stealing army funds barely few weeks before the coup.

Senate president Nwafor Orizu who handed power to Ironsi was convicted of fraud with his brother Joseph Onyekusi Orizu . He (Senate presido) was later jailed for 7 years. On Tuesday 22nd September 1953, he arrived at the Lagos Prison by train under escort to serve his term.


Source: The News Magazine, June 19, 2016.[center]NWAFOR ORIZU: CROOK, CONVICT TURNED SENATE PRESIDENT
Link===========>British Secret Files On Nigeria’s First Bloody Coup, Path To Biafra.

The way the Eastern politicians like Azikiwe and Okpara used the money in now dedunct Africa Continental Bank(ACB) like their pocket money was well documented. There were several cases against Azikiwe and how he corruptly enriched himself severally from the ACB coffers but because he and Ifeajuna were cousins,Azikiwe was forewarned of the impending coup and was able to travel out.
It has also been suggested that Ifeajuna was easily able to escape to Ghana after the failure of the January 1966 coup because Azikiwe put in a word for him to Dr Kwame Nkrumah and as such Nkrumah accepted Ifeajuna as a political exile instead of returning him to Nigeria as a war criminal.

confusedlady:
The way the Eastern politicians like Azikiwe and Okpara used the money in now dedunct Africa Continental Bank(ACB) like their pocket money was well documented. There were several cases against Azikiwe and how he corruptly enriched himself severally from the ACB coffers but because he and Ifeajuna were cousins,Azikiwe was forewarned of the impending coup and was able to travel out.
It has also been suggested that Ifeajuna was easily able to escape to Ghana after the failure of the January 1966 coup because Azikiwe put in a word for him to Dr Kwame Nkrumah and as such Nkrumah accepted Ifeajuna as a political exile instead of returning him to Nigeria as a war criminal.

Very wicked people

chopnaira:
This unfortunate event was tagged an "igbo coup" by other ethnic groups in the country based on some chains of coincidences :

i. The Killing patterns - only one of the 22 casualties is of Igbo origin, while notable Igbo politicians like the Premier of Eastern region (Michael Okpara) and military personnel like Ironsi were unharmed.

ii. The handing over of the government to Ironsi by Orizu (the acting president and the senate president who could have called for the formation of another civilian government) made it look like it was planned out all along.

iii. The unification decree of May 1966 promulgated by Ironsi, leading to the abolition of regional system of government. Historically speaking, the West and North have always believed in the regional system of government as the best form of government for a multiethnic like Nigeria, however this was taken away by Ironsi, leading to a massive outrage and pogrom in the North.

iv. The coup plotters, though kept in jail but were not sentenced.

v. Ironsi surrounded himself with Igbos to enact policies. This was after sacking non-igbos in top government civil service positions.

E.g. At the early stage of his tenure, he appointed a three-man advisory team made up of Chief Francis Nwokedi, a Permanent Secretary, Dr. Pius Charles Nwabafor Okigbo (1924-2000) and Colonel Patrick Anwunah, who later became Chairman and Head of the Orientation Committee at that time.

He replaced the then Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Taslim Olawale Elias (1914-1991) with Chief Gabriel Chike Michael Onyiuke (SAN), former Director, Public Prosecution, Eastern Nigeria (1960-1965) from Nimo in the present Anambra state.

Very wicked people