₦airaland Forum

2elliot:
In one line, you said that the Igbos are not smart, but attacking the British is were there stupidity ends. We have all seen the results of those who voted without hate in their hearts and their emotions on checked and how their choices have moved the country to Eldorado. It is in your nature to dodge the truth, even when it comes from your own kinsmen. https://punchng.com/akintola-travelled-ambulances-protection-wild-wild-west-crisis-ayo-adebanjo/

DMerciful:
Igbos are not responsible for Nzeogwu's actions. He took those actions as a military man, nobody voted for him so has no mandate

PressMyButton:
This old lies is stale..
If they wanted to free Awolowo, why couldn't they fly all the way to Calabar where Awolowo was being locked up in jail?. At least,they would have been successful in Calabar than Lagos. The intention was not Awolowo ( it was an afterthought of having failed in their coup attempt) but for Ibos to be in power and dominate others .

stuffs2002:
Nzougwu is your kinsman from Delta who are desperate to become Igbos and like you, he is willing to ass lick real Igbos

stuffs2002:
Nzougwu is your kinsman from Delta who are desperate to become Igbos and like you, he is willing to ass lick real Igbos

stuffs2002:
Nzougwu is your kinsman from Delta who are desperate to become Igbos and like you, he is willing to ass lick real Igbos

2elliot:
Nothing I have writen is out of place. Giving you a little background of myself was to enable you understand me better and my points.
I don't see anyone have vested interest in the history and also the future of Nigeria more that as I do. And that is because my resources are used to run this fraud of a country that is destined for doom only.
If the names I have mentioned whose character I admire do not tickle your fancy, then that tells a lot about you.
Well, I appreciate the fact that we both agreed that the coup was not an Igbo coup. There is no greater truth in this matter than this.

Arapmoi22:
Nnamdi Azikiwe was on a long vacation in the Carribean.
Premier of Eastern region was not killed - Michael Okpara
Senate president, Author Orizu was not killed.
Most Senior Military Man Aguiyi Ironsi was not killed.

You know why? they were all lucky because of the igbo blood in their veins.

Deadlytruth:
Did Murtala Muhammad kill soldiers from other parts of Nigeria and left soldiers from his own tribe untouched?

Sleekfingers:
How I wish I was born during that time.....I will kill any Okoro without thinking twice..... including children and wives.

I remember what one of my uncle told me , who was a friend of black scorpion......he said , he regretted not killing Igbo children and women , during the civil war.
I asked him why ......he said , oka bi omo , o bi Oro, ologbo bi omo , o bo ole, .....

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.

codemaniacs:
there are no exceptions to any rule.
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Odingo1:
Instead of Nigerians to fix their country they are focusing on the event of 60 years ago, imagine if Germany keep on dwelling on the event of Second World War. Mad People.

casualobserver:
I actually believe the coup was not an Ibo coup as such. I sincerely beleive they were a bunch of overzealous immature, deluded misguided but sincere young men who saw themselves as patriots. The problem is that it failed and as a result of its failure, all we witnessed was the unintended effects.

I also believe there has always existed and still exist a band of Ibo expansionists whose views are represented by the Dady Onyeama declaration at the Ibo conference and unfortunately for the coup plotters, they are the ones who took over after the failed coup and started to act in an Ibo centric manner for instance by not trying their coup plotting kinsmen and enacting laws that suggested an Ibo supremacy/conquering agenda.

1: Whether by commission or by omission, the major actors in the coup were Ibos.

2: whether by commission of by omission the major causalities were non Ibos.

3: whether by commission or omission those who got away were the Ibos. Not only were Ibo politicians spared but the Ibo coup plotters were not tried.
4: if my brother kills your brother and I do not offer my apologies for or distance myself from his behavior then it is natural for you to conclude he had my approval.

5: the nature of some of the deaths/murders are unconscionable.

6: the fact that Ibos have never dissociated themselves from the coup but more importantly apologized and also carry on today like a people intent on conquering others only serves to perpetuate the idea that it was an Ibo coup.

7: I draw parallels with the Obidient movement, where you have probably sincere naive young non Ibos who genuinely think Obi will bring the change they desire but haven’t thought it through. IMHO if they succeed they will unleash probably the worst regime in Nigerias history because the real agenda of the Obidient movement will take ove but they will be blamed. The only difference between the Obidient movement and the coup plotters is 1) the coup plotters were in the army and controlled weapons and 2) the failure of the 1966 coup brought negative consequences while the failure of the Obidients is a blessing.

Like I said, with what I know now. I have 98% certainty it was not an Ibo coup. It was just a series of unfortunate coincidences by young revolutionaries and Yorubas at the time looked down on joining the army, so naturally there would be more Ibos involved.

It was not who staged the coup that continues to be the problem but the actions thereafter.

gidgiddy:
Murtala Mohammed was put on your N20 note, had Airports and highways named after him, even though his coup was far more brutal that of Nzeogwu

Nzeogwu's coup killed less than 20 people, Murtalas coup killed over 300 people

Where are the Airports named after Nzeogwu? Or is it because he was an Igbo man and not a Northerner like Murtala Mohammed?

DMerciful:
Delta is a state, being Igbo has to do with ethnicity

kettykin:
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?

Curious345:
we need more Igbo coup . Summary executions should return . Lots of criminals in agbada today. Killers , extortionists, bribe takers , tribalists, ethnic jingoist and divisionist, terrorists , . Thugs , agbero, an Igbo coup can cleanse them out of the system in one night

DaddyJapan:
I am largely in agreement with this view.



You have a point. I think every ethnic group in Nigeria has a cohort of expansionists, irrendentists and ethnocentrists, who subscribe to the notion of exceptionalism. From time to time, the intersection of discrete and disparate events allows this vocal and well-organised minority to seize centre-stage and proclaim to speak for the larger group.

Question: is it fair to taint everyone else with the actions of an unaccountable and often self-serving minority element?



It was a coup led by Majors. At that time, 66% of all Majors were from the Eastern region; 22% were from the Western region.
The effort was led by a group of "revolutionary" officers, ethnic group was a secondary consideration in my opinion.
What is more, the likes of Victor Banjo were in full support of the coup.



Its execution was poor, particularly in the East and the South - yes.
But there are many independent observers, including some of the participants of the July coup, who testify to Nzeogwu's unwavering patriotism and put him beyond reproach when it comes to ethnic parochialism.



You are absolutely correct to point out Aguiyi Ironsi's seeming duplicity here. Some say he was beholden to the South where the January coup was popular, and I am inclined to go with this view. What is also on record, however, is that not only were all his key advisers at the time Igbo but that he made faulty decisions which could easily be given an ethnic-colouration.



Agreed. Although the same can be said about any needless killing.



Why should Igbo people dissociate themselves from a military coup when they were never all consulted in the first place?
What kind of logic is this?

More to the point, does your own initial argument not negate the view that it was an Igbo coup?
You need to hold a line and defend it bro - and damn the consequences.



This is conflation of the worst kind; and it detracts from some of the sensible arguments you put forward earlier.
I am no Obidient but I think you are comparing apples and oranges here.

How many states do we have in Nigeria today?
How is legislature passed into law?



Thankfully you have decided to undermine your own argument yet again.
You mean well bro. It is clear you are just as conflicted about the events of that period as are many Nigerians.



Agreed.

casualobserver:
On the contrary you have just proven that there are indeed exceptions to every rule. For instance the belief that the Yorubas are educated and enlightened. You’ve just spoken like a man who has never left his village or seen the 4 walls of a school.

My father always told me the minute you realize you are arguing with an eediot, exit the conversation or you become the eediot.

An eediot just wants to be an eediot and is not interested in evidence, facts or probabilities.

Your time is up.

Gajagojo:
Another stupid Igbo statement

The revenge coup was not Murtala's coup .

Let us assume it was for argument sake

Coup's by definition are treason

The only remedy is to succeed . If you fail you die

Nzeogwu failed

so asking for something to be named after is him can only come from a brainless person from there

PressMyButton:
The President has reintroduced history in schools and made it compulsory, so shall we talk history?.
The irony is that those people who struck FIRST without any provocation are the ones crying to be the victims today. According to FFK, let's forget the past, let's move on and forgive but then again, have the perpetrators ever sought for forgiveness?.
Okay, let's move on, but are the perpetrators till date not persistent with same agenda of occupation of all minorities of SS and their lands without respect for their respective identity, drawing them into a map and calling all of them Biafrans as against their wish, should we move on?
Okay, let's move on but have they moved on from the election loss?, till today, they wish the country burn except their own is in power. They can't move on but FFK is asking those whose leaders, families, fathers, mothers, grandparents, great grandparents, families were murdered in cold blood should forget the past when the closure they are seeking for has not been granted them. FFK is lucky, his family was spared, he could have been different if his father was equally murdered before his very own eyes as a little boy. FFK has changed with age, we know what he could have said 5, 10 years ago.
The perpetrators are still holding firm to the 1966 agenda of domination, so, how do we move on?.

Validated:
Cheerleaders of Nigeria, led by FFK. When are we going to remember the pogrom in Northern Nigeria that followed this coup?

stuffs2002:
I dey tell you... Another Igbo coup would be very good.

But hope you will not start crying upandan when the consequences set it.

The revenge coup of 1966 saw the death of Aguyi-Ironsi and over 300 Igbo officers in a single night.
This lead to the slaughter of thousands of Igbos in the north which eventually lead to a civil war that lead to the death of over 3 million Igbos and destruction of the entire South East.

Even till this day, Igbos (including you) are still paying the crimes of the January 15th, 1966 coup and they will continue to pay forever.

happney65:
FFK is a Blantant Liar. He didnt say what his father and the nonesense Akintola did to Awolowo and the entire Western Region. One of the major reason why the coup took place.

The failed coup was plannend and executed by three majors

Kaduna Nzegwu
Adewale Ademoyaga
Emmauel Ifejuana.

And they brought in others to see to the success of the coup

The Entire Western Region was in turmoil. In connivance with the North, This nonesense FFK's Father who he was deputy to Akintola rigged the 1965 election with impunity and people were killed here and there. Awolowo was locked up on trumped up charges of treason by the North and Akintola and Remi Kayode. Men who were desperate for nothing but power at the expense of the people they claimed they were serving.

Akintola's Aides at a Time even told him to resign but in Akintola's word "It is only death that van take the position away from him" And so it happened

FFK who was trying to claim his father isnt a coward.

When the Soldiers got to Agodi Ibadan and called him out telling him he was under arrest, Dude threw his hands in the air and begging the soldiers not to kill him. They were even surprised and asking themselves if this was truly the Fani Power. Got to Akintola's house where he shot back at the soldiers and they killed him when he ran out of ammo.

All the People that were killed were those who resisted arrest. Remi wasnt killed because he didnt resist arrest.

By the time they got to Lagos around 7AM with Remi,The coup had already failed and Ironsi boys had them all rounded up and Remi Kayode released.

Whenever I see FFK ranting,I remember his father. He is nothing but a coward like his father..

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.

Austineva2:
The wayree should talk about how thousands of innocent Biafrans living in the North and Southwest were massacred in their cold blood in June 1966 which they called counter coup. Counter coup by killing thousands of innocent Biafran civilians for coup that was strategically planned by young military officers across the acclaimed zoogeria republic called Nigeria. And besides, the 15 January coup was strategically planned by all the young military officers across all tribes within the Zoological republic called Nigeria for the betterment of the irredeemable Zoological republic, only for them to map out Igbo Biafrans for total annihilation. E no go ever better for anybody still campaigning for one Zoogeria called Nigeria. Tufia

God keep blessing The United States Of Biafra 🙏
God bless General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
God bless General Philip Effiong
God bless Maazi Nnamdi Kanu
God bless Prime Minister Simon Ekpa
God bless all Biafrans
Iseeee 🙏

Musrataman:
The worst scenario for Igbo yet not to come, you guys are senseless that is the reason why you don't know what is happening in Nigeria.