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MasterJayJay:
1966 came first before 1945?

Go and read about Jos riot 1945 where they massacred Igbo people.

Kano riot of 1953..

Back then Akintola planned to your northern Nigeria, Wada planned to attack him and gathered youths
Akintola cancelled his visit. When they saw that Akintola wasn't coming again, they started killing Igbo people in the north.

Excerpts "Here, Mallam Inua Wada, a former Federal Minister and an honourable man, recalls: “It was the booing and jeering experienced by the Northern members of parliament at the hands of Lagos crowds in Lagos”. So, on Saturday, 16th May 1953, despite the fact that Chief Akintola team’s did not even turn up, red-eyed organised mobs and hoodlums went into action and killed innocent citizens from the South, especially those from the Eastern part of the country."

All these happened before 1966.

See how Akintola a Yoruba man cancelled his visit and Igbo people have to suffer for it.

Badassniggga:
LMAO no mind them. Them think say Dem wise pass other Nigerians and don't want everyone else to see the obvious they've done. . Glad we're in the internet age now and it'll be pretty difficult to distort or withhold information

We agree for a fair coup. You, kill the leaders in the North. you, kill those in the East. You, kill those in the West.

I killed those in the West and North but almost no leader from the East was maimed and somehow, the officers that carried out the heinous crime that resulted in those fatalities were from one certain region.

E reach Ifeajunana turn to do the do, e turn philosopher and couldn't do it because the leaders are from his ethnic group. So na only Northern and Western leaders una like kpai abi? ..

I'm just so glad the Northern officers didn't let it slide and carried out their own bloody counter coup. They drew first blood and results were unfair in the eyes of everyone which led to serious retribution, now Dem dey shout say the civil war they brought upon themselves and Nigeria as a whole was too much for them

raumdeuter:
Was already shaky is putting it mildly it already failed was to put it correctly

The 1964 election was an Alliance of AG(Awolowo) NCNC(Azikwe) NEPU and UMBC to form the UPGA versus NPC(Balewa and NNDP (Akintola)
to form the NNA
After the election which NNA won, Azikwe and most of the NCNC were effectively out and in opposition. Azikwe initially refused to form a govt but they prevailed on him that there will be a form of Govt of Unity which will pull people from NPC, NNDP and NCNC (which lost)

This meant the power of the NCNC Azikwe party was reduced in favor of the new Akintola party and I guess this was too big to swallow for the coupists

Godwin4444:
y is it that every region leader was killed except d Igbos?

gbemishile:
Ure a blatant and despicable retarded brain to history.
If tge plan was to release awolowo from prison,then y didnt aguiyi ironsi decree tge order immediately when he assumed power.
Spits

2elliot:
That period in history was a time when young men and women had revolutionary ideas, not now that 50yrs old men and women are without any ideology or direction like pussies and woke feminists. That period was when boys and girls of 18–30 acted like real men with balls, and girls with intellect, not affected by flouride in their paste and water that diminishes their manliness and brains.
The idealogy of the time was pan Africanism and liberation movements. Those young soldiers saw a need to stop the chaos in the south western region–with Awolowo's freedom as their rallying point. This is very important note. If you miss this aspect, then you will miss all.

Deadlytruth:
Did Awolowo ever beg anyone to unlawfully intervene in his travails and free him at the expense of so much of innocent blood? Even the Yorubas who owned Awolowo and were therefore most pained about his imprisonment didn't ever think of taking up arms to kill innocent civilians and innocent high ranking army officers. So why on earth should any other ethnicity think they loved Awolowo more than his own people even to such an extent of shedding innocent blood here and there in the name of trying to free him which they still ended up failing to do? If those Igbo officers truly so loved Awolowo, then they shouldn't have minded killing even their own innocent politicians and army officers all in a bid to free him.
Please fabricate another excuse for the coup. This Awolowo centered excuse does not make common sense at all.

43Ronin:
FFK, your snitching father & akintola aided by tafawa balewa rigged western election that awolowo won, leading to crisis & subsequent jail term for awolowo.
Yet the bitter truth is that if the new head of state, General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, who himself happened to be Igbo, had done the right thing and actually prosecuted the ringleaders of the coup namely Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, Major Anufuro, Major Ademoyega, Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu, Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi, Captain Okafor, Captain Ben Gbulie and all the other young officers that planned and executed the mutiny of January 15th 1966 after it was crushed, there would have been no northern revenge coup six months later.
You said he did nothing, but later said he imprisoned the couple plotters You also carefully forgot to say that the coup-plotters were being tried by a military tribunal & that major nzeogwu still had control of the military in the north(basically breaking away the north) & it was only after negotiations that he surrendered.

kettykin:
No Igbo is crying here. What we’re witnessing is pure selective amnesia, FFK. You’ve conveniently jumped into the middle of the book, ignoring the critical beginning.

Let’s set the record straight: Awolowo was rotting in prison, serving time for treasonable felony—a lost cause in every sense of the word. Western Nigeria was under a state of emergency, chaos engulfed the region, and no one was weeping for him. Yet, here you are, fast-forwarding to a chapter where a group of military officers stepped in to restore order, conveniently skipping the blood-soaked prologue.

Even more hypocritical is your silence on Awolowo’s eventual forced suicide, a tragic culmination that elicited no national mourning. Or the thousands slaughtered during Operation Wetie, victims of unspeakable violence. Where were the tears then?

And now, you dare shed crocodile tears when soldiers tear each other apart but turn mute when the same horrors are inflicted on innocent civilians? Spare us the double standards. This is not selective memory—it’s deliberate hypocrisy.

kettykin:
A fascinating story, but let’s dig deeper. What truly triggered this coup? Wasn’t its original intention to free Awolowo from prison and install him as prime minister? If so, why has history been distorted to present only one side of the story?

As usual, the one sides story seeks but to scapegoat the igbos. No one talks about another group of igbos led by Aguiyi Ironsi and Odumegwu Ojukwu that stepped in to restore government.


Please can you provide evidence(s) to this claim?

2elliot:
That coup was not a secret coup. Several military guys from the south west were informed but they declined to join. The crisis in the western regions, and another in the north, necessitated the coup. The likes of FFK's father were corruption personified and was remotely involved in the crisis. And besides, the muteeners' were sympathetic to Awolowo's plight. The coup was carried out to take those men out. It had nothing to do with all politicians or leaders at the time. Try to understand the history based on the context. Nnamdi Azikiwe or any other Igbo leader was not remotely involved in the political crisis of the western regions at the time.

Guestmale:
Whatever the reasons for the coup and what transpired that singular coup changed the destiny of Nigeria till today and which I'm not sure it can be reverted except by divine intervention.

diamond68:
But that akintola na gangsta oooo, that mane came out blasting 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 shooting off ears and fingers 😆😆

2elliot:
It is either you are lying, or your kinsman is lying here. Please read it and reply me. https://punchng.com/akintola-travelled-ambulances-protection-wild-wild-west-crisis-ayo-adebanjo/

codemaniacs:
stop spreading stupid lies..

if military guys from the SW were informed do you think they would have agreed to kill the Premier of Western Nigeria..

what concerns Eastern region with the politics of the Western region..

so there were no corrupt igbo politicians for the coup plotters to kill in the Eastern region?

to the you and the coup plotters only Western region and Northern region were filled corruption while the Eastern region was and is filled with angels.

happney65:
Was Ironsi a part of the coup? The same Ironisi that made the coup fail. You are an Olodo.

P.S. Ironsi who wasnt a part of the coup saw the failed coup as an opportunity for him to perpertuate himself in Power

Godwin4444:
it's u that your forefathers passed crying n wailing down to

My forefathers dealt with your forefathers n here I am today dealing with u, na u Igbos cry pass for Nigeria sote u have been nicknamed d wailing tribe of Nigeria or d cry cry babies

The evil u wish on others have become your own n u can see how u people are killing yourselves because of hate for fulani wey no send Una papa

See as Buhari nearly exterminate d Igbos

Python dance
Crocodile tears
Still waters
Golden dawn n co with each operation killing at least 500 Igbos

Don't forget burutai was d most popular chief of staff simply because he dealt with d Igbo beyond imagination

Hope u remember how wike slapped u Igbos in broad daylight in rivers election

Hope u know kanu n ekpa are locked up?

Badassniggga:
I'll ask just one question:

Why were leaders in the North and South killed but ABSOLUTELY no leader from the East extraction was killed??

I'm waiting... Patiently waiting for you to come tell me there was no one from the Igbo extraction amongst those calling the shots in leadership at that time..

I'm still waiting for you to reply me intelligently and not with jargons that holds no water.

diamond68:
But that akintola na gangsta oooo, that mane came out blasting 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 shooting off ears and fingers 😆😆

And am sure if he did not run out of ammo he would have blasted them all

AfonjaConehead:
Those guys brains na correct peanut size 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

raumdeuter:
Ladoke Akintola omo Loogun, Ajalaagbe omo kulodo, yagboyaaju omo kara was an Aare Ona Kakanfo from Ogbomoso the place that produced Aare Toyeje Akanni, Ojo Aburmaku and the legendary Benjamin Babamaja Adekunle (Black Scorpion)

Eso Ikoyi won kii gbofa leyin, iwaju ni won fii gbota. Agba Ikoyi to gbojo iku toree gbalu. Ikoyi Eso, arogun yo- (Ikoyi warriors/generals dont receive arrows in the back, they face on coming bullets heads on. Elders of Ikoyi that heard of his day of death and went to get drummers rejoicing, Ikoyi generals that delight in wars.)

gbemishile:
He made d coup fail??
U need history lessons
And when he got into power,he did not do what his tribe went to war for.

gidgiddy:
Oh I see, Murtala Mohammed was honoured for killing over 300 people in his own coup by putting him on the N20 note, naming your busiest Airport after? Then you should have no problem with Nzeogwu. If Nzeogwu had been a Northerner, he might have been on the N10 note today

Godwin4444:
who wants presidency or death today?

Who wants Biafra or death today?

Who are those people that shout secession pass today?

Who are those people whose so called freedom fighter's are locked up in different jails today?

Your answer to that shows those people who are crying

2elliot:
They were the people remotely involved in the crisis at the time. Why didn't Awolowo's or his key men affected? Why didn't the coup plotter go after Awolowo in prison if he was a person of interest to them? It was for his benefit the coup was planned for. The northem leaders who became victims had connections with Akintola faction. And besides, there were issues even the north at the time the south west was experiencing wild wild west. The eastern region was not experiencing any political crisis at the time to necessitate involving them.

2elliot:
Why wasn't Awolowo or his major supporters killed? You need to understand the events of those times to understand what played out. https://punchng.com/akintola-travelled-ambulances-protection-wild-wild-west-crisis-ayo-adebanjo/

flokii:
That's true Yoruba spirit.. never to run from battle. Had it been he had enough ammo, I'm sure he'd have killed all the Igbo coupisits that came for him even if it meant inevitable death.
Yorubas have grown weak.

codemaniacs:
stop spreading stupid lies..

if military guys from the SW were informed do you think they would have agreed to kill the Premier of Western Nigeria..

what concerns Eastern region with the politics of the Western region..

so there were no corrupt igbo politicians for the coup plotters to kill in the Eastern region?

to the you and the coup plotters only Western region and Northern region were filled corruption while the Eastern region was and is filled with angels.

Okpollo:
500 is not even close to millions of our people that died during the civil war so what are you crying for ? How can you claim to be beating me and still crying imaging relying on the norther to have and edge over people whom their land mass is not even up to one state in your region and your population is 5 times theirs? Aint you ashamed that you get jealous of the people you claim you and your fathers dealth with why are you always crying every 15 January of every fucking year? Are you not a fool to be crying while boost about victory? Yoruba vs igbos i swear we dont need a single shot to chase you aways if that is our desire. We just want to make you less of your self in your state you dont want igbo to have king in your land , you dont want igbo masquerade in your land, see how useless you have become? We will mess with your lives in your land i swear before its clear you wont believe what hit you. Now you claim victor then you claim victim .