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Then, Murtala was killed. I think it is public knowledge that Obasanjo fled on the day Murtala Muhammed was killed. He remained in hiding until the coup was aborted and he reached out, first, to M.D Yusuf (Inspector-General of Police), who then called him and he came out of hiding, and joined us in Dodan Barracks. We discussed the funeral of Muhammed and made arrangement as to who would accompany his remains to Kano, so on and so forth.

At the end of the meeting, Obasanjo asked M.D Yusuf and I to stay with him in the chambers (Dodan Barracks). After everybody had left, Obasanjo told M.D Yusuf and I that what had happened had destroyed his faith in the loyalty of the Nigerian Army. That he had decided that after the funeral, he would retire, leave the Army and go home. But before that he would name me as the successor to Murtala. I told him that, that amounted to desertion and that he could not run away. He was number 2, number 1 had been killed in battle; he as number 2 would take over.

He said no, no, no; that he didn’t think he should stay; that he wanted to go. We argued that. In the end, Yusuf said, “look, let’s all sleep over this matter; tomorrow we will decide.” I said, “look, there’s no question of sleeping over it; the point now is we should be looking for who is going to take Obasanjo’s seat as number 2 because there is no way we are going to allow him to chicken out and leave at this time; we must all stay and face the future together.” So, we left and I went home. By this time, we had called all the members of the Supreme Military Council to Lagos.

The following day, he (Obasanjo) started to talk in the same vein and I cut in. I said that Obasanjo could not leave; he had to stay and be the Head of State and we should be looking for the number 2 man. I had, over night, considered the consequences of what had happened and came to the conclusion that if we were not careful; we would end up with a religious conflict on our hands. Already, that evening – the evening that it became public knowledge that Murtala had been killed – Dimka had made a broadcast in which he said, “good tidings” among other things. He had imposed a curfew – from dawn to dusk (laugh) and said all sorts of things using the expression, “good tiding.”

Abubakar Gumi, in the North, said that the coup that killed Murtala was a Christian coup because of the utterances of the coup leader, who said, “good tidings” because it is an expression of Christians. Already, there was tension in the North. The governor of Kaduna State, an air force officer, Usman, had to contain him: that it had nothing to do with Christians, that it was a purely military affair.

I knew that if we were not careful, as time went on, we should be consumed by religious strife in the country. I decided that the new Chief of Staff must come from the North preferably, a Hausa/Fulani man. From my knowledge, I had two candidates – (Muhammadu) Buhari, who was really my number one candidate for that post and the late Shehu Yar’Adua. Shehu was not in the country; he was abroad as Minister of Transport. You would remember we had inherited a cement armada in the Lagos and Port Harcourt (ports) and his (Shehu’s) first assignment was to decongest the Lagos port and get rid of all the vessels that were clogging Nigerian waters, and attracting huge demurrages from our government. He (Shehu) was abroad attending to that problem when Dimka struck.

So, they were the two candidates. Buhari, at that time, and even today, is one of the most upright Army officers that the Nigerian Army has produced – very clean, a very strict officer. Unfortunately for him, he served under me for a short time in Port Harcourt and I observed that he was a very inflexible person. I reasoned that Buhari, any day, could be a first class Chief of Army Staff. Why waste him in a political post? Why shorten his career because if he became Chief of Staff, he would have to leave at the end of the tenure. Why waste him there?

Besides, I observed that he was too rigid; he was too inflexible to hold a political post. If you are in politics, you must be flexible; you must compromise from time to time. In politics, they call it pragmatism. But in the military, if you are pragmatic, it is regarded as a weakness. I said no, not Buhari. Shehu, I didn’t know him well except that I knew that, of all the officers of his rank, he was the most politicised. So, sending a politicised Army Officer to a political post, I thought, was a good thing. That was how I named Shehu the next Chief of Staff.

When we came to the Supreme Military Council and Obasanjo started singing the same tune that he had sung to me and M.D Yusuf the previous night, I said no, that was not the issue; he was the most senior person and he had to stay there. He had to stay in office. He made some feeble resistance but I think he had slept over our discussion and concluded that if we insisted, he would stay.

There were a few voices of dissent. The first came from the Chief of Air Staff, Isa Doko, who said that the problem we were facing was an Army problem and that the Army boys had confidence in me. That we had just crushed an attempted coup, and we should not put somebody there that the Army didn’t have confidence in. A few other officers supported him but I overruled them. And so, I imposed Obasanjo on my colleagues in the Supreme Military Council.

---General TY Danjuma in an interview with THE GUARDIAN, February 17, 2008.

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Your hands are bloody sir...

Fajuyi is wailing

illicit:
Your hands are bloody sir...

Fajuyi is wailing

Which former Nigerian senior military officer's hands is not bloody?

Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari is wailing.
Saudana Ahmadu Bello is wailing.
Alhaji Tafa Balewa is wailing.
Victor Adedapo Kayode (FFK's father) is wailing.
Festus Okotie-eboh is wailing.

wirinet:
Which former Nigerian senior military officer's hands us not bloody?

Fajuyi was a fine officer...

Nigeria is just a big social media content filled with so much drama.

illicit:
Fajuyi was a fine officer...

Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari was a finer officer.

So the 1966 coup was an igbo coup but the 1976 was not a Christian coup.
You see why I tell people that Nigeria is living on borrowed time and it's seconds are numbered.

Abubakar Gumi, in the North, said that the coup that killed Murtala was a Christian coup because of the utterances of the coup leader, who said, “good tidings” because it is an expression of Christians. Already, there was tension in the North. The governor of Kaduna State, an air force officer, Usman, had to contain him: that it had nothing to do with Christians, that it was a purely military affair.

This Obj rejection Ebora owu was probably using his native intelligence to assess Danjuma's intention carefully,if he truly meant to make him head of state.

wirinet:
Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari was a finer officer.

It's not a competition...

wirinet:
Which former Nigerian senior military officer's hands us not bloody?

Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari is wailing.
Saudana Ahmadu Bello is wailing.
Alhaji Tafa Balewa is wailing.
Victor Adedapo Kayode (FFK's father) is wailing.
Festus Okotie-eboh is wailing.

Remi Fani Kayode was ffks dad

And he didn't die in a coup...

illicit:
Remi Fani Kayode was ffks dad

And he didn't die in a coup...

He is one of those idiots.ts that try to rewrite history with lies

illicit:
Remi Fani Kayode was ffks dad

And he didn't die in a coup...

FFK dad's full name is Chief Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode . He was taken away by the coupist right in front of FFK when he was 6, and his mother. He was brutally shot. FFK has talked about that traumatic experience in many interviews.
You can Google that name for more details.
That you guys are not appalled by the brutal murder of innocent people by blood thirsty coupist, but only obsessed with TY Danjuma remains a mystery to me.

wirinet:
Then, Murtala was killed. I think it is public knowledge that Obasanjo fled on the day Murtala Muhammed was killed. He remained in hiding until the coup was aborted and he reached out, first, to M.D Yusuf (Inspector-General of Police), who then called him and he came out of hiding, and joined us in Dodan Barracks. We discussed the funeral of Muhammed and made arrangement as to who would accompany his remains to Kano, so on and so forth.

At the end of the meeting, Obasanjo asked M.D Yusuf and I to stay with him in the chambers (Dodan Barracks). After everybody had left, Obasanjo told M.D Yusuf and I that what had happened had destroyed his faith in the loyalty of the Nigerian Army. That he had decided that after the funeral, he would retire, leave the Army and go home. But before that he would name me as the successor to Murtala. I told him that, that amounted to desertion and that he could not run away. He was number 2, number 1 had been killed in battle; he as number 2 would take over.

He said no, no, no; that he didn’t think he should stay; that he wanted to go. We argued that. In the end, Yusuf said, “look, let’s all sleep over this matter; tomorrow we will decide.” I said, “look, there’s no question of sleeping over it; the point now is we should be looking for who is going to take Obasanjo’s seat as number 2 because there is no way we are going to allow him to chicken out and leave at this time; we must all stay and face the future together.” So, we left and I went home. By this time, we had called all the members of the Supreme Military Council to Lagos.

The following day, he (Obasanjo) started to talk in the same vein and I cut in. I said that Obasanjo could not leave; he had to stay and be the Head of State and we should be looking for the number 2 man. I had, over night, considered the consequences of what had happened and came to the conclusion that if we were not careful; we would end up with a religious conflict on our hands. Already, that evening – the evening that it became public knowledge that Murtala had been killed – Dimka had made a broadcast in which he said, “good tidings” among other things. He had imposed a curfew – from dawn to dusk (laugh) and said all sorts of things using the expression, “good tiding.”

Abubakar Gumi, in the North, said that the coup that killed Murtala was a Christian coup because of the utterances of the coup leader, who said, “good tidings” because it is an expression of Christians. Already, there was tension in the North. The governor of Kaduna State, an air force officer, Usman, had to contain him: that it had nothing to do with Christians, that it was a purely military affair.

I knew that if we were not careful, as time went on, we should be consumed by religious strife in the country. I decided that the new Chief of Staff must come from the North preferably, a Hausa/Fulani man. From my knowledge, I had two candidates – (Muhammadu) Buhari, who was really my number one candidate for that post and the late Shehu Yar’Adua. Shehu was not in the country; he was abroad as Minister of Transport. You would remember we had inherited a cement armada in the Lagos and Port Harcourt (ports) and his (Shehu’s) first assignment was to decongest the Lagos port and get rid of all the vessels that were clogging Nigerian waters, and attracting huge demurrages from our government. He (Shehu) was abroad attending to that problem when Dimka struck.

So, they were the two candidates. Buhari, at that time, and even today, is one of the most upright Army officers that the Nigerian Army has produced – very clean, a very strict officer. Unfortunately for him, he served under me for a short time in Port Harcourt and I observed that he was a very inflexible person. I reasoned that Buhari, any day, could be a first class Chief of Army Staff. Why waste him in a political post? Why shorten his career because if he became Chief of Staff, he would have to leave at the end of the tenure. Why waste him there?

Besides, I observed that he was too rigid; he was too inflexible to hold a political post. If you are in politics, you must be flexible; you must compromise from time to time. In politics, they call it pragmatism. But in the military, if you are pragmatic, it is regarded as a weakness. I said no, not Buhari. Shehu, I didn’t know him well except that I knew that, of all the officers of his rank, he was the most politicised. So, sending a politicised Army Officer to a political post, I thought, was a good thing. That was how I named Shehu the next Chief of Staff.

When we came to the Supreme Military Council and Obasanjo started singing the same tune that he had sung to me and M.D Yusuf the previous night, I said no, that was not the issue; he was the most senior person and he had to stay there. He had to stay in office. He made some feeble resistance but I think he had slept over our discussion and concluded that if we insisted, he would stay.

There were a few voices of dissent. The first came from the Chief of Air Staff, Isa Doko, who said that the problem we were facing was an Army problem and that the Army boys had confidence in me. That we had just crushed an attempted coup, and we should not put somebody there that the Army didn’t have confidence in. A few other officers supported him but I overruled them. And so, I imposed Obasanjo on my colleagues in the Supreme Military Council.

---General TY Danjuma in an interview with THE GUARDIAN, February 17, 2008.

From Olatunde Michael Epebinu's wall

Culled from the Social Media and shared by
Etsu Usman Bida
etsuusman@yahoo.com

Danjuma made the right call this time...........in 1966 he made the wrong call by allowing northerners to muder ironsi and kill igbos who knew nothing about ab Mi5 sponsored ifeajuna coup!

wirinet:
FFK dad's full name is Chief Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode . He was taken away by the coupist right in front of FFK when he was 6, and his mother. He was brutally shot. FFK has talked about that traumatic experience in many interviews.
You can Google that name for more details.
That you guys are not appalled by the brutal murder of innocent people by blood thirsty coupist, but only obsessed with TY Danjuma remains a mystery to me.

LoL



Chief Remilekun Fani Kayode was not shot in any coup...

Eboofa:
Danjuma made the right call this time...........in 1966 he made the wrong call by allowing northerners to muder ironsi and kill igbos who knew nothing about ab Mi5 sponsored ifeajuna coup!

I don't believe he made the wrong call in the murder of Ironsi. I am honestly not aware he was involved in the killing of innocent igbo civilians. If you have proof or links please show us.

Now T Y Danjuma was a military officer. Many of his colleagues and close friends were murdered in cold blood without any warning. Naturally you would expect him to be angry and seek revenge on the perpetrators. General Ironsi did not do the appropriate thing by swiftly trying the murderers and executing them. He was more interested in protecting the murderers and pursuing political agenda. So you cannot blame Danjuma for hating General Ironsi with a passion.

illicit:
LoL

Where is the "Adedapo"

Remilekun Fani Kayode was not shot in any coup...

This is from FFK's page
https://femifanikayode.org/january-15th-1966-a-night-of-blood-and-slaughter/

wirinet:
This is from FFK's page
https://femifanikayode.org/january-15th-1966-a-night-of-blood-and-slaughter/

Remilekun Fani Kayode was never shot in any coup...

That’s why TY is a billionaire

illicit:
Remilekun Fani Kayode was never shot in any coup...

My error. I admit my error. I thought he was among those brutally murdered on January 15 1966 coup.
Festus Okotie-eboh was murdered that day though.

tommy589:
This Obj rejection Ebora owu was probably using his native intelligence to assess Danjuma's intention carefully,if he truly meant to make him head of state.

No.
He was a coward.

Just like his kinsman Diya, they remain the only Generals to plead & cry for their lives.


Disgusting.

wirinet:
Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari was a finer officer.

lol
Funny but true
He was Sanhurst’s number one product of Nigeria
He had other tribes as his 2ic and helped them climb
But they helped to kill him

Maimalari was the first Nigerian regular combatant commissioned into the officer Corps of the Nigerian army

Don't rewrite the history, 1966 coup was purely Igbo coup

kettykin:
So the 1966 coup was an igbo coup but the 1976 was not a Christian coup.
You see why I tell people that Nigeria is living on borrowed time and it's seconds are numbered.

LivingSage:
Don't rewrite the history, 1966 coup was purely Igbo coup

Atom kpera is not igbo.
Adewale Adegboyega is not igbo

While the rest are Igbos.

The coup leaders, Kaduna Nzeogu, Ifeajuna and others were Igbo. These two non Igbos were not aware of what the coup leaders were up to that's why thesame Adewale Adegboyega was eventually killed by this same set of coupist

kettykin:
Atom kpera is not igbo.
Adewale Adegboyega is not igbo

LivingSage:
While the rest are Igbos.

The coup leaders, Kaduna Nzeogu, Ifeajuna and others were Igbo. These two non Igbos were not aware of what the coup leaders were up to that's why thesame Adewale Adegboyega was eventually killed by this same set of coupist

Adewale Adegboyega already told his part of the story in a book.

adewale ademoyega why we struck

Whay did he say that indicated it wasn't Igbo coup? Tell us

kettykin:
Adewale Adegboyega already told his part of the story in a book.

adewale ademoyega why we struck

LivingSage:
Whay did he say that indicated it wasn't Igbo coup? Tell us

You can make some effort and get the book and read . I Don't need to go that whole hog over nairaland forum posts

LivingSage:
Whay did he say that indicated it wasn't Igbo coup? Tell us

Why We Struck by Adewale Ademoyega addresses the events of the January 15, 1966 coup in Nigeria. Ademoyega, one of the key participants, argues that the coup was not an "Igbo coup," as it has often been characterized. Instead, he asserts that the coup was planned and executed by a group of idealistic young officers from diverse ethnic backgrounds, united by their desire to address the corruption, mismanagement, and nepotism plaguing the country at the time.

He specifically emphasizes that the coup's objectives were not ethnically motivated but focused on national reform, though its execution and aftermath led to perceptions of Igbo favoritism, largely because key political leaders from other regions were killed, while Igbo leaders were relatively unaffected. This perception, Ademoyega argues, distorted the intentions of the coup plotters and contributed to the ethnic tensions that followed.

This Nigeria Sha.

Just bcus Buka Suka Dimka was a Middle Belt man from Plateau state and he used the words 'Good Tidings',
some Northerners wanted to claim that It was a Christian Coup.

Just they claim Nzeogwu 1966 was an Igbo Coup and Y0rubas blindly followed them to take it as Fact!

But TY Danjuma was smart.

He did NOT take the Head of State position, bcus he knew he would be KILLED like Aguiyi Ironsi which he himself KILLED.

This country have been messed up since 1950 s we can never be one.

Ethnic, religion and otherwise.

wirinet:
Which former Nigerian senior military officer's hands us not bloody?

Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari is wailing.
Saudana Ahmadu Bello is wailing.
Alhaji Tafa Balewa is wailing.
Victor Adedapo Kayode (FFK's father) is wailing.
Festus Okotie-eboh is wailing.

Lagerma and Akintola too. The former being the reason the middle belt supported the North.

You cannot kill others and leave your own. No one will accept it.

History is interesting