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Why are they leaving out the part where the coupists planned to hand over to Chief Awolowo?

voortrekker966:
The '66 coup was a grave mistake. I don't usually agree with infantile brained FFK but I really sympathise with him on that childhood horror. I'm not surprised that northerners are still to this day finding it hard to forgive the Igbos. That coup was a stain on our oneness as black people and as humans at large.

I wish a leader will arise in Nigeria who will find a way to reconcile everyone just like the Rwandans did after 1994.

As in ehn, the coup forced us apart and sowed this seed of distrust amongst us.

For country polarized and made up of different ethnic groups, everything has to be done with fairness to EVERYONE otherwise some groups will find it difficult to accept resulting outcomes.

All the coup plotters needed to do was to take out Azikiwe and others from East as well for the coup to seen as "FAIR" against corruption that has no tribe. But juveniles like Ifeajunana ruined it by letting Azikiwe and others from his side breathe because they were from his "TRIBE"

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.

You mean those coup plotters wanted to free Awolowo and make him prime minister? 🤣 Why didn't they do it?

For those who understand Yoruba, This was the 1964 campaign speech of Akintola. If you listened to it, you will realize why he was killed


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNPzWW3kXVg&t=37s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErVSJKMRyhM&t=13s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk83xIRwI2o&t=35s

Umuinyioku:
FFK was six years old when the coup was carried out. A six year old boy can't be so descriptive of events that transpired that day.

His narrative is hearsay and don't represent what exactly happened that day.

The coup was justified because western region was boiling under Awolowo's administration. The Prime Minister,Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa,was out of the country and in London to proffer solutions to constitutional crisis in Northern Rhodesia,now modern Zimbabwe. He failed to quench the political crisis in western region but rather playing the ostrich.

This angered Nigerians and military establishment.

And they struck to put an end to the inferno almost consuming the nation. Unfortunately, centrifugal Forces set in and put paid the ambition of the young military officers who risked their lives to establish a new political order. But misconstrued by a section of Nigerian population that it was Igbo Putsh. Even though Major Adewale Ademoyega,a Yoruba,was among the putschists.

The failure of the coup and pogroms that followed it was a watershed in the evolution of Nigerian state that defined the polity. Nigeria has never been the same since then.

FFK was economical with the Truth and can't be taken seriously on his account of the event of January 15,1966.

Naptu2 can you give us broader perspective of the coup for enlightenment of All? You are historian and seasoned journalist.

You this boy, you're just yapping rubbish to justify the satanic act of your kinsmen. To you, a six year old is a dummy who can't recollect what happened under his nose?. How old were you when you started school?
Also, was Awolowo in charge when the coup happened?.study your history, ignorance is not bliss, boy.

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For how many years now,no day goes by without these agbadorians "masssabating" over the Igbos while the Igbos are busy making all the money and buying away all their lands and houses and marrying away all their beautiful girls while leaving the mullikat,tawa,bilikis wey never baff and change pant for days for their koneheaded structured mukailas snd mufutaus to manage according to adolfhitlerxxx and omoawoke,BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sirheny007:
Why are they leaving out the part where the coupists planned to hand over to Chief Awolowo?

Why hand over, when the coup against corruption is yet to be complete with the sparing of leaders from the East?? How did you think other ethnic groups will feel about that especially when they see the leaders from their region killed and some from other region who are present in the government spared?


Coup plotters fvcked up.. they only needed to take out Azikiwe for their coup to be seen as "FAIR" but they messed up and result was... A counter coup

Godwin4444:
for every Ilorin that yorubas lose u Igbos lost all d south south

Meaning for everything we lost u Igbos lost 4

Hope your forefathers told u about abandoned properties?

Hahahaha which South South? that's some delusion there bruh! How did Igbos lose south south?

Yet, shame still allowed you to mention 'abandoned properties'? You that didn't abandon properties are selling all your properties to japa from your region and guess who you are selling all your properties to The same abandoned property owners are your space occupants lol....... aren't you ashamed that the abandoned property owners have already overtaken you that didn't abandon any property? The joke is on you, continue selling your properties, it's your curse tho not your fault

NSK4U:
Which they forever pay the price? Are you better off than them? If you are, why selling all your land to them to japa? The same people that you claim are paying price bounced back to compete with you that never lost any property to war and you don't think you are holding yourself down trying to hold the moving train down?

The ship of progress has left, it's sailing safely for the Igbos, those who think they are better off should first free themselves of almajiri and 'uncle please give me money to eat voices echoing in every corner of their streets'.

You're an ingrate, when people in PH chased igbos away and seized their properties, they ran to another region who opened their arms to receive them and accommodated them. Today, you're taking that empathy for granted.

2elliot:
...I am on the side of truth, as your kinsman did here. https://punchng.com/akintola-travelled-ambulances-protection-wild-wild-west-crisis-ayo-adebanjo/

Your attempts to appear knowledgeable make you appear very ignorant. Everybody who is a student of Nigerian history knows the background of the coup. So I don’t see what you are trying to achieve by telling me about what happened in the west before the coup.

Do you think you are talking to a millennial who doesn’t know history?

Ayo Adebanjo is somebody I knew very well when I was young. Even though my late parents were not politicians, a lot of the political gladiators of the time were friends of my parents. There is nothing you can educate me on the matter. Trust me!

LA 2191D green Mercedes’ Ben 200 with white interior. That’s the official car given to him in 1977 by the party.

If you have anything intelligent to offer, either facts or opinion backed with critical thinking do so, but nobody cares about all the nonsense you just wrote. Those are weak attempt by someone who is learning his history in 2025 on the internet.

I have already told you I don’t believe it was an ibo coup but unfortunately for them they failed and power fell into the hands of ibo expansionists who then acted in typical ibo fashion.

BTW:

1) if you have to start mentioning your tribe or referencing mine in making a point, you have no point. A truth is truth irrespective of where you, myself or anyone comes from.
2) your choice of heroes shows you are likely just radical for the sake of radical and don’t think through things. The kind of person that changes a government for the sake of it because you don’t like the current state of affairs and plunges the country into a crisis. Kinda the same thing the 15th January coup plotters did.

2elliot:
I am an Ijaw. I and the SE are one.

I know, that's why Ijaws are celebrating their liberation from biafran rebel every year. Better not be ashamed of your identity.

zero8zero:
You're an ingrate, when people in PH chased igbos away and seized their properties, they ran to another region who opened their arms to receive them and accommodated them. Today, you're taking that empathy for granted.

Which part of history are you reading or you are writing your own?

Accommodators my foot! Please call it what it is "Unity beggers!" They can't stay without thinking of attachment of other tribes. Every other tribe making up Nigeria has at different times called for their independent country, we know those who can't try make the call out of fear of their survival should the rest separate..... that's some parasites leeching on others dude.

Reading this write up only opens up old wounds even though I wasn't even born in that era.

Lessons we should learn
1. Blood calls for more blood.
2. As a nation, we need to forgive but not forget.
Winston Churchill's quote - "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it".

Conspiracies
1. The Igbo mutineers claimed they acted because they wanted to free and install Awolowo as the PM.
2. However, none of the Igbo leaders were murdered on their side.
3. The Aguiyi Ironsi led government foot dragged and did not prosecute the mutineers.

In summary, let us eschew greed, intolerance, entitlement and deceit from our national conscience as a people.
I find that a region have a high tendency for this traits and it is rubbing off on the entire populace which is destroying the entire fabric of Nigerian society.

Let us live in Peace and Love.
This is the only way to assure Unity and Progress.

God help Nigeria!

NSK4U:
Which part of history are you reading or you are writing your own?

Accommodators my foot! Please call it what it is "Unity beggers!" They can't stay without thinking of attachment of other tribes. Every other tribe making up Nigeria has at different times called for their independent country, we know those who can't try make the call out of fear of their survival should the rest separate..... that's parasites leeching on others.

And you that's drawing minority SS into a dubious map are what?, Unity givers? . dey play

maasoap:
Their coup distabilised Nigeria, set Nigeria on a downward spiral. That's a huge difference.

Ghana had multiple coups, but Ghana is now rated more than Nigeria

Egypt had multiple coups, Nigeria is no where close to Egypt on any level

South Korea had multiple coups, it is now one of the richest countries in the world.

Almost evey country in Africa has had multiple coups. A country that will do well, will do well despite coup. Those that would never have done well will be blaming coup

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.

If it was about Awolowo, according to your self-serving narrative, why was he not released by Ironsi immediately power was handed over to him by his power hungry Igbo kinsmen? Why was it left until Gowon took over government before Awo was released?

The other tribes in Nigeria are very much aware of the Igbo domineering attitude and nepotism, and are wary of you taking over governance in this country. Because you people will only selfishly and greedily take over every sector of the economy with impunity, with total disregard to other tribes' feelings or complaints.

Besides your people never love the country, but yourselves alone, and we all know that you are only praying for the destruction of the country, so why should we hand it over to you?

2elliot:
The coup failed and so they couldn't release him, and an opportunist called Ironsi took over. What don't you understand here?

the coup did not fail..

the coup plotters only allowed a senior igbo military officer called ironsi take over..

and ironsi could have released Awolowo in the 6 months he ruled for if the lie that Awolowo was the reason for the coup was true.. because i:gbos have herd mentality just like the obi:dient movement that made them focus on 1 goal.

the goal of the coup was to stop igbos from losing federal jobs the british gave them.

zero8zero:
So you expect Nigeria to honor a rebel alongside Murtala who fought gallantly for Nigeria?. Are you alright?. Is there FG infrastructure named after Ojukwu a rebel?

Is it only him that fought for Nigeria? He was is even removed from the war because he was a failure
No I expect Nigeria to be honouring a murderous coup plotter and military dictator by putting him on its N20 note because he is a Northerner

2elliot:
The fact remains that some others were informed but they declined. Besides, that period was a period when young boys and girls were very vibrant and revolutionary, when the movement for pan Africanism and liberation was louded. Not now that we have pussy niggas like you who only argue on the internet without the balls to effect any changes. At that time, tribe and language was primary focus.

2elliot:
They were informed and they rightful refused to join. So, what is your point?

if I inform you that people are coming to kill your parents would you stand and watch them kill your parents?

Do you know that Nigeria gave Nzeogwu a national burial but did not give Awolowo? Use your tongue to count your teeth

Biodun556:
It was a brutal coup, even wives were not spared. Kaduna Nzegwu was boasting of how killed Ahmadu Bello in a video

Deadlytruth:
How come they stepped in to restore government yet their stepping in put in place a military junta as against the democratic government that was in place? What then is the meaning of restoration?

Good question. Those folks can't stop justifying nonsense

nairalanda1:
Actually, the above is not true.

1. Nzeogwu's father...James Nzeogwu ....worked for the precusor of NEPA. He never worked under or directly for the Sardauna as a gardener or in any capacity.

2.Nzeogwu was born in Kaduna, and that was why he was called Kaduna. He was not named by the Sardauna or any prominent Northerner (His brother Peter Nzeogwu in his biographical sketch of his older bro gives another Hausa name that he was given by the Hausa neighbours.)

3. He did not know nor was he on any name basis with the Sardauna.

Infact, read a good biography of Nzeogwu...one was written by his brother, the other by Obasanjo.

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It's well with Nigeria's history!

DMerciful:
Do you know that Nigeria gave Nzeogwu a national burial but did not give Awolowo? Use your tongue to count your teeth

Awolowo was not a military. He was accorded his respect and honoured with the highest title in the country, GCFR.

NSK4U:
Which they forever pay the price? Are you better off than them? If you are, why selling all your land to them to japa? The same people that you claim are paying price bounced back to compete with you that never lost any property to war and you don't think you are holding yourself down trying to hold the moving train down?

The ship of progress has left, it's sailing safely for the Igbos, those who think they are better off should first free themselves of almajiri and 'uncle please give me money to eat voices echoing in every corner of their streets'.

Keep on deceiving yourself, your people who the same Almajiris recently kidnapped along Enugu Nsukka road, have you rescued them?

Igbos are the most successful groups in Nigeria. Nigerians are paying far more price than Igbos

NoIgboSoundTueh:
January 15, 2025, marks 59 years since Igbos, driven by greed, carried out a coup, murdering leaders from other ethnic groups while sparing their own. This act, forever created a stigma of distrust for which they continue to forever pay the price.

Pakute:
That's why I laughed at some people's gullibility, especially those from other ethnicities who are stupidly pleading for ibo Presidency. Look the carnage these guys committed with guns in their hands, imagine how emboldened and deadlier they would be if you foolishly hand them power through constitutional means. The beastly DNA is inherent.

You mean the same way armed Fulani herdsmen were massacaring Nigerians in all 6 geopolitical zones but the same Nigerias had no problem electing and re-electing a Fulani man called Buhari as President?

Yeah I see your point

kettykin:
..igbos formed the officer Corp of the Nigerian military at that time.

Even igbos are the only ones in the Army mess
Clown.

codemaniacs:
if I inform you that people are coming to kill your parents would you stand and watch them kill your parents?

You were already killing one another during the wild wild west, so what's your point?
If that coup had succeeded and Awolowo brought to power, things would have been different today and not all these accusations.

If the North and West hated what Nzeogwu did, why was he given a national burial despite fighting on the side of Biafra?

zero8zero:
Awolowo was not a military. He was accorded his respect and honoured with the highest title in the country, GCFR.

Even before meeting the Igbos, before almagamation, you were bowing to the Fulanis. Ilorin comes to mind

Godwin4444:
yes

We prefer to bow down to fulanis than having anything doing with the igbos

Northerners,their elders and even their youths are currently engaging the presidency over the tax reform bill.
They are using all their mighty, associations,their NASS members and youth organisations to tackle the president.. but in the south,yoruba people will never allow for any reasonable or useful thing to materialize!!!! They are even worse than the real parasites in their crab mentality in keeping everyone down

Their own is that,as long as the dog in the manger that is keeping the donkeys away and making them uneasy is not Igbo, no wahala.

A people who will give grounds for unprogressive retrogressive people to hold everyone to ransom and hostage is the worst enemy in life.