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emapeteum:
It's not propaganda but the truth. Own up to your error and other people will relate with you with trust. What would you conclude if 90% of the coupists were from a particular region? Your argument is like the grooming gang in the UK who are mainly Pakistani, where the Muslim cries when they are called Pakistani committing the grooming.

oyebanji:
Please mention prominent Igbos that were murdered during the coup...

A nation that is ready to heal will confront her errors...

Did you read my comment at all?

I am not saying that Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba political leaders and military officers were not killed by the coupists who were mostly Igbo military officers.


I already acknowledged that huge mistake and also made mention that it was a fatal mistake done by young, naive and overzealous Igbo military officers and some of their military friends who were not only Igbos.


My point is, those Igbo military officers like Kaduna Nzeogwu and co never consulted any Igbo group or sociocultural group or went on igbo communities townhall meetings to seek for their approval and backing to carry out a coup to help Igbos for it to be termed an Igbo coup, instead it was a costly and dangerous military adventure ventured into by mostly Igbo military officers who felt they could use commando style to reset Nigeria then but still they allowed their ethnic sentiment or so to derail their original mission whereby they spared prominent Igbos like Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe who was never loved by most Igbos back then cos he was pan African man more than pro Igbo.


So tagging it Igbo coup just to target innocent unarmed Igbo civilians living in the north for massacre was the biggest mistake the Northern guys did. They ought to have stopped at the counter coup where they killed Ironsi and hundreds of other Igbo military officers then and not extend the madness to innocent Igbo civilians living peacefully in the North thinking they were living with people they called country men. That is my argument.


And if you check, after that coup, other coups still happened in Nigeria and were spearheaded by Hausa-Fulanis or Middlebelt soldiers but none was tagged Hausa-Fulani or Middlebelt coup even when Dimka killed Muritala Mohammed and his Aide, and even when Gideon Okar carried out the bloodiest coup against IBB, so why must Igbo case be different all the time?


Check how Yorubas twisted Peter Obi's emergence to tag it Igbo candidate but in 1993 when the two national parties fielded two Yoruba men as Presidential candidates, Igbos did not go on rampage accusing Yorubas of trying to dominate Nigeria or The South, rather Igbos happily picked one of the Yoruba candidates; Obasanjo and supported him massively after supporting MKO Abiola in 1993 still though Yoruba media lied to Yorubas that Igbos didn't vote MKO but the election result showed that MKO won Anambra state and got more than 40% of total votes cast in the remaining 3 Igbo states as at that time, making Tofa to win MKO in those 3 Igbo states with just slight margin less than 10% yet Yoruba media kept lying against Igbos, inciting ignorant Yorubas against Igbos that Igbos hate Yoruba and have never voted a Yoruba Presidential candidate even when the results are there to disprove them but you guys never look at the results u rather take the lies your political elites use media to spread every election year just as they have gradually started again to discredit Peter Obi ahead of 2027.



So in summary, I acknowledged the error and grave mistake of the naive young Igbo military officers that carried out that January 1966 coup that led to the death of prominent Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba politicians and soldiers but that does not make it an Igbo coup cos those soldiers did not consult Igbo unions or do a community consultation to get Igbo people's support before embarking on the coup, so tagging it Igbo coup just to tarnish the image of Igbos and to target innocent civilian Igbos for massacre was inhumane and abominable and deserve an official apology.


Also remember that Igbos have paid more than enough price for that January 1966 coup carried out by mostly Igbo military officers; the counter coup led to the death of Igbo military head of state, and hundreds of Igbo military officers, it led to a heartwrenching Northern pogrom against civilian Igbos living in the North in which thousands of civilian Igbos living in the North were murdered in cold blood, which led to the declaration of Biafra and the invasion of Old Eastern Nigeria by Nigerian soldiers to forcefully return Biafra back to Nigeria, and in the process millions of Igbo children, women and aged lost their lives to malnutrition due to a brutal blockade policy proposed by a Yoruba man, Obafemi Awolowo to force Biafra government led by Ojukwu to surrender.


All these are heavy prices Igbos paid for that January 1966 coup and even after the end of the civil war in 1970, Igbos have continued to suffer political persecution as Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas ganged up against Igbos to ensure no Igbo person rose to become President or Chief of Army Staff or IG of Police or Chief Justice of Nigeria, etc and also intentional neglect of Southeast infrastructures and federal government organizations as a way of sabotaging Igbos economically to still punish them for the civil war they lost everything yet you guys dont see your own wrongs and wickedness but believe that Yorubas are saints who never did bad.


Make una no worry sha, time will teach u guys the bitter lesson about life, una go pay for all the wickedness against Igbos, not from Igbos but by nature.


You think the insecurity happening in Northern Nigeria is ordinary? It's a reward of their decades of killing innocent Igbos and Christians living in the North in the name of Islam and Sharia. So make una no worry, Yorubas are blameless, very righteous and spotless tribe, time will tell

franchasofficia:
They have started again.


The coup was not carried out by only Igbos. There was Yoruba, Middlebelt, and today Niger Delta soldiers among the coupists but you unscrupulous elements always make it look like it was just done by only Igbos soldiers.


You guys also intentionally ignore to tell the world why Michael Opkara the Eastern Premier at Enugu at that time was spared; Archbishop of Canterbury visited him that day and the coupists didn't want to attract British wrath, so they spared him.


Nnamdi Azikiwe the President was marked for killing but unfortunately as it was, his cousin, Ifeajuna who happened to be among the coup leaders leaked the coup information to him and Zik sneaked out to the Carribeans on health vacation grounds.


You guys also forgot to tell the world that Akintola was told about the coup weeks before and he communicated to Sir Ahmadu Bello his best friend whom he aligned with to persecute Obafemi Awolowo which was the main thing that even angered the young soldiers to carry out a coup to stop the political turmoil in Western Nigeria today Yoruba region between Awolowo and Akintola in which they unjustly jailed Awolowo that angered most of the young soldiers that carried out the coup.



Go and read "Why we struck" by a gallant Yoruba soldier that was part of the coup planners and leader.


When Akintola learnt about the coup, he said went and purchased a pistol swearing to kill anybody that near his residence thinking it was a child's play while Ahmadu Bello laughed it off believing his juju would save him.


Tafawa Belewa was not marked for killing because the young soldiers liked him, they only believed that Ahmadu Bello and Akintola were misleading Belewa but when the coupists discovered that the coup was already failing in parts of Nigeria like Enugu, etc, they angrily shot Belewa, a very huge mistake they made cos Belewa was a nice man




The coup was a military affair but they made sure it was turned to an Igbo people affair even when civilian Igbos were never carried along nor consulted.



And why will Igbos who controlled most sectors of Nigeria carry a coup; Igbo man was the President though with less power which he did willingly by allowing Belewa to become Prime Minister after winning the election while he became President which has more foreign influence while PM ran the day to day activities of the nation, Igbo man was the Senate President (Nwafor Orizu), Igbo man was the Chief of Army Staff (Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), a man loyal to the Igbos, who also came from Eastern Nigeria then was the IG of Police, Igbo man was the documented richest man in Nigeria then (Sir Louis Ojukwu, Ojukwu's father).


Igbos dominated even Northern civil service because they were the most learned and qualified then which made Bello to issue a statement that they will stop hiring Igbos and start hiring foreigners if they can't find Northerners to fill the position, and also made Awolowo to start free education in Western Nigeria to enable them catch up with Igbos occupying virtually all positions including in Western Nigeria.



So there was no need for Igbos to carry out coup, the coup was entirely carried out by young, naive soldiers of which majority were Igbos from today Southeast and South South/Niger Delta in their foolish effort to rescue Nigeria from the hands of corrupt Nigerian politicians the British people handed power to.



But due to the already brewing envy against Igbos for cheerleading in most sectors in Nigeria then by the Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas, the coup was conveniently tagged an Igbo coup just as Yorubas conveniently tagged Peter Obi an Igbo Presidential candidate despite Obi winning massively outside Igbo states including in Lagos, Middlebelt, Northeast and Abuja.


Una go tire sha.



We will keep exposing you guy's lies and hatred for Igbos, all thanks to social media and Internet, so gone are the days of spreading dangerous propaganda against Igbos using Lagos-Ibadan expressway brown envelope newspapers

Continue your chest beating and lying ,why was no ibo man killed if what you are trying to portray is the truth,why is there need for a coup if the ibos were doing as well as you claimed ,I know for certain that every development started from the West ,the northern regions complaint then was that they employ easterners into their civil service but the easterners would not reciprocate such that's what he is saying that the ibos are the most bigoted tribe in Nigeria ,azikwe chose an ibo man to be the VC of University of ibadan ,now you are claiming they get more admittion into the uni than the other two regions it's just to show you that the hausa and Yoruba are more accommodating,that is what the northern people were saying then ,the coyp is still a reflection of the bigoted animalistic behavior of ibos

Very Correct

Ojukwu was part of the Coup
Col Shodeinde's wife saw Ojukwu on the Staircase of the murdered Ademuleguns when she went to report the murder of her husband col Sodeinde to Brig Ademulegun as the phone lines had been cut off by the Coup plotters

Also the British intelligence confirmed that Ojukwu was in Kaduna while the murders were going on in Kaduna that morning

Ojukwu was supposed to be at his Battalion in Kano where he was the GOC

The British Intelligence papers confirmed that Ojukwu didn't get back from Kaduna until after 8am that morning after the massacre in Kaduna had been well completed

The Problem with Ojukwu was that too many Northern Soldiers saw him not too know he was part of the coup


Ojukwu later went to Kano Airport with Soldiers boarded the Plane from Lagos that was going to London and arrested a man who he thought was prime minister Balewa's brother.
Why would he have done that if he was not part of the Coup?

franchasofficia:
They have started again.


The coup was not carried out by only Igbos. There was Yoruba, Middlebelt, and today Niger Delta soldiers among the coupists but you unscrupulous elements always make it look like it was just done by only Igbos soldiers.


You guys also intentionally ignore to tell the world why Michael Opkara the Eastern Premier at Enugu at that time was spared; Archbishop of Canterbury visited him that day and the coupists didn't want to attract British wrath, so they spared him.


Nnamdi Azikiwe the President was marked for killing but unfortunately as it was, his cousin, Ifeajuna who happened to be among the coup leaders leaked the coup information to him and Zik sneaked out to the Carribeans on health vacation grounds.


You guys also forgot to tell the world that Akintola was told about the coup weeks before and he communicated to Sir Ahmadu Bello his best friend whom he aligned with to persecute Obafemi Awolowo which was the main thing that even angered the young soldiers to carry out a coup to stop the political turmoil in Western Nigeria today Yoruba region between Awolowo and Akintola in which they unjustly jailed Awolowo that angered most of the young soldiers that carried out the coup.



Go and read "Why we struck" by a gallant Yoruba soldier that was part of the coup planners and leader.


When Akintola learnt about the coup, he said went and purchased a pistol swearing to kill anybody that near his residence thinking it was a child's play while Ahmadu Bello laughed it off believing his juju would save him.


Tafawa Belewa was not marked for killing because the young soldiers liked him, they only believed that Ahmadu Bello and Akintola were misleading Belewa but when the coupists discovered that the coup was already failing in parts of Nigeria like Enugu, etc, they angrily shot Belewa, a very huge mistake they made cos Belewa was a nice man




The coup was a military affair but they made sure it was turned to an Igbo people affair even when civilian Igbos were never carried along nor consulted.



And why will Igbos who controlled most sectors of Nigeria carry a coup; Igbo man was the President though with less power which he did willingly by allowing Belewa to become Prime Minister after winning the election while he became President which has more foreign influence while PM ran the day to day activities of the nation, Igbo man was the Senate President (Nwafor Orizu), Igbo man was the Chief of Army Staff (Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), a man loyal to the Igbos, who also came from Eastern Nigeria then was the IG of Police, Igbo man was the documented richest man in Nigeria then (Sir Louis Ojukwu, Ojukwu's father).


Igbos dominated even Northern civil service because they were the most learned and qualified then which made Bello to issue a statement that they will stop hiring Igbos and start hiring foreigners if they can't find Northerners to fill the position, and also made Awolowo to start free education in Western Nigeria to enable them catch up with Igbos occupying virtually all positions including in Western Nigeria.



So there was no need for Igbos to carry out coup, the coup was entirely carried out by young, naive soldiers of which majority were Igbos from today Southeast and South South/Niger Delta in their foolish effort to rescue Nigeria from the hands of corrupt Nigerian politicians the British people handed power to.



But due to the already brewing envy against Igbos for cheerleading in most sectors in Nigeria then by the Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas, the coup was conveniently tagged an Igbo coup just as Yorubas conveniently tagged Peter Obi an Igbo Presidential candidate despite Obi winning massively outside Igbo states including in Lagos, Middlebelt, Northeast and Abuja.


Una go tire sha.



We will keep exposing you guy's lies and hatred for Igbos, all thanks to social media and Internet, so gone are the days of spreading dangerous propaganda against Igbos using Lagos-Ibadan expressway brown envelope newspapers

Bro where you dey make I buy you drink?

franchasofficia:
They have started again.


The coup was not carried out by only Igbos. There was Yoruba, Middlebelt, and today Niger Delta soldiers among the coupists but you unscrupulous elements always make it look like it was just done by only Igbos soldiers.


You guys also intentionally ignore to tell the world why Michael Opkara the Eastern Premier at Enugu at that time was spared; Archbishop of Canterbury visited him that day and the coupists didn't want to attract British wrath, so they spared him.


Nnamdi Azikiwe the President was marked for killing but unfortunately as it was, his cousin, Ifeajuna who happened to be among the coup leaders leaked the coup information to him and Zik sneaked out to the Carribeans on health vacation grounds.


You guys also forgot to tell the world that Akintola was told about the coup weeks before and he communicated to Sir Ahmadu Bello his best friend whom he aligned with to persecute Obafemi Awolowo which was the main thing that even angered the young soldiers to carry out a coup to stop the political turmoil in Western Nigeria today Yoruba region between Awolowo and Akintola in which they unjustly jailed Awolowo that angered most of the young soldiers that carried out the coup.



Go and read "Why we struck" by a gallant Yoruba soldier that was part of the coup planners and leader.


When Akintola learnt about the coup, he said went and purchased a pistol swearing to kill anybody that near his residence thinking it was a child's play while Ahmadu Bello laughed it off believing his juju would save him.


Tafawa Belewa was not marked for killing because the young soldiers liked him, they only believed that Ahmadu Bello and Akintola were misleading Belewa but when the coupists discovered that the coup was already failing in parts of Nigeria like Enugu, etc, they angrily shot Belewa, a very huge mistake they made cos Belewa was a nice man




The coup was a military affair but they made sure it was turned to an Igbo people affair even when civilian Igbos were never carried along nor consulted.



And why will Igbos who controlled most sectors of Nigeria carry a coup; Igbo man was the President though with less power which he did willingly by allowing Belewa to become Prime Minister after winning the election while he became President which has more foreign influence while PM ran the day to day activities of the nation, Igbo man was the Senate President (Nwafor Orizu), Igbo man was the Chief of Army Staff (Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), a man loyal to the Igbos, who also came from Eastern Nigeria then was the IG of Police, Igbo man was the documented richest man in Nigeria then (Sir Louis Ojukwu, Ojukwu's father).


Igbos dominated even Northern civil service because they were the most learned and qualified then which made Bello to issue a statement that they will stop hiring Igbos and start hiring foreigners if they can't find Northerners to fill the position, and also made Awolowo to start free education in Western Nigeria to enable them catch up with Igbos occupying virtually all positions including in Western Nigeria.



So there was no need for Igbos to carry out coup, the coup was entirely carried out by young, naive soldiers of which majority were Igbos from today Southeast and South South/Niger Delta in their foolish effort to rescue Nigeria from the hands of corrupt Nigerian politicians the British people handed power to.



But due to the already brewing envy against Igbos for cheerleading in most sectors in Nigeria then by the Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas, the coup was conveniently tagged an Igbo coup just as Yorubas conveniently tagged Peter Obi an Igbo Presidential candidate despite Obi winning massively outside Igbo states including in Lagos, Middlebelt, Northeast and Abuja.


Una go tire sha.



We will keep exposing you guy's lies and hatred for Igbos, all thanks to social media and Internet, so gone are the days of spreading dangerous propaganda against Igbos using Lagos-Ibadan expressway brown envelope newspapers

Probably you think everyone here is a teenager with this gibberish your poured out from your thinking anus!

ntyce:
You will keep suffering in silence, making your land inhabitable for you, forcing you to other regions to live as second class citizens.
Buhari called you guys "dot in a circle", Tinubu said you're "minority that never matters"

That's enough to torment you.
YOU DON'T MATTER

The East isthe most secured region in the nation. During UGM, all you rot heads were saying that those guys would use the gun on the inhabitants and we told you that Igbo's are not so. We will continuou to deal with you people on that "Igbo coup". Your children will read the Igbo coup but will not try nothing with our children, even your children children will read the Igbo coup and can never in their life do anything

Next year Jan. 15, you will cry again, and it will sound to me that we are dealing with you on that day

It gives me joy

franchasofficia:
They have started again.


The coup was not carried out by only Igbos. There was Yoruba, Middlebelt, and today Niger Delta soldiers among the coupists but you unscrupulous elements always make it look like it was just done by only Igbos soldiers.


You guys also intentionally ignore to tell the world why Michael Opkara the Eastern Premier at Enugu at that time was spared; Archbishop of Canterbury visited him that day and the coupists didn't want to attract British wrath, so they spared him.


Nnamdi Azikiwe the President was marked for killing but unfortunately as it was, his cousin, Ifeajuna who happened to be among the coup leaders leaked the coup information to him and Zik sneaked out to the Carribeans on health vacation grounds.


You guys also forgot to tell the world that Akintola was told about the coup weeks before and he communicated to Sir Ahmadu Bello his best friend whom he aligned with to persecute Obafemi Awolowo which was the main thing that even angered the young soldiers to carry out a coup to stop the political turmoil in Western Nigeria today Yoruba region between Awolowo and Akintola in which they unjustly jailed Awolowo that angered most of the young soldiers that carried out the coup.



Go and read "Why we struck" by a gallant Yoruba soldier that was part of the coup planners and leader.


When Akintola learnt about the coup, he said went and purchased a pistol swearing to kill anybody that near his residence thinking it was a child's play while Ahmadu Bello laughed it off believing his juju would save him.


Tafawa Belewa was not marked for killing because the young soldiers liked him, they only believed that Ahmadu Bello and Akintola were misleading Belewa but when the coupists discovered that the coup was already failing in parts of Nigeria like Enugu, etc, they angrily shot Belewa, a very huge mistake they made cos Belewa was a nice man




The coup was a military affair but they made sure it was turned to an Igbo people affair even when civilian Igbos were never carried along nor consulted.



And why will Igbos who controlled most sectors of Nigeria carry a coup; Igbo man was the President though with less power which he did willingly by allowing Belewa to become Prime Minister after winning the election while he became President which has more foreign influence while PM ran the day to day activities of the nation, Igbo man was the Senate President (Nwafor Orizu), Igbo man was the Chief of Army Staff (Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), a man loyal to the Igbos, who also came from Eastern Nigeria then was the IG of Police, Igbo man was the documented richest man in Nigeria then (Sir Louis Ojukwu, Ojukwu's father).


Igbos dominated even Northern civil service because they were the most learned and qualified then which made Bello to issue a statement that they will stop hiring Igbos and start hiring foreigners if they can't find Northerners to fill the position, and also made Awolowo to start free education in Western Nigeria to enable them catch up with Igbos occupying virtually all positions including in Western Nigeria.



So there was no need for Igbos to carry out coup, the coup was entirely carried out by young, naive soldiers of which majority were Igbos from today Southeast and South South/Niger Delta in their foolish effort to rescue Nigeria from the hands of corrupt Nigerian politicians the British people handed power to.



But due to the already brewing envy against Igbos for cheerleading in most sectors in Nigeria then by the Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas, the coup was conveniently tagged an Igbo coup just as Yorubas conveniently tagged Peter Obi an Igbo Presidential candidate despite Obi winning massively outside Igbo states including in Lagos, Middlebelt, Northeast and Abuja.


Una go tire sha.



We will keep exposing you guy's lies and hatred for Igbos, all thanks to social media and Internet, so gone are the days of spreading dangerous propaganda against Igbos using Lagos-Ibadan expressway brown envelope newspapers

Thanks for this addition bro.
Our history is very interesting!!!! But have we learn anything? Are we doing differently now?

Obaaderemi2:
She's lying.

Let us tell you more

Kemi Olunloyo's mother is the immediate Junior Sister of Col Fajuyi's wife and her Maternal Grandfather was the Commissioner of Police of the Western Region who sent the Police Helicopter that arrived just late to rescue both Col Fajuyi and Gen Ironsi from the State House

The Police Helicopter landed in the State House Garden but by then Gen Ironsi and Col Fajuyi had already been taken away

Oh yes!!

Aunty Kemi is just still warming up
A ship load more is coming
She is an insider

SporaD8:
I would rather we stop opening fresh wounds where one is already healing.
However, the determination of some people to rewrite history - believing that the louder they scream concocted lies about, the more history will be rewritten - will only force more people to come out and set the record straight!

Whether you're wounded or healing, the history must continue to go on. It is up to an individual to purchase the book or believe the content of the book. To move forward to great things, one must continue to discover his or her history.
If you have nothing to hide, let the history go on.

I'm still very shocked to recently discover the hopeless group that senselessly killed Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa, Akintola and many others. For this reason, everything is starting to make sense; I now know why folks from all angles resent this classless and selfish group.
I can't wait to get my hands on this very interesting book.. Sister Kemi, abeg carry on...NOTHING DO YOU!

My dad was with him while I was in the backseat of the car and told Akintola to leave! He said I will be an "Omo Akin" his last words meaning BRAVE TILL THE END. Akintola reportedly exchanged gunfire with the soldiers. MY FATHER AND I HAD JUST LEFT HIS HOUSE THAT MORNING minutes before the army arrived !! They could have killed him too considering they were sparing the children that morning and letting us witness TRAUMA.

This is my favorite part, "Omo Akin" his last words meaning BRAVE TILL THE END.
I also discovered that Ahmadu Bello said the same thing when he was advised to leave the country.

Now guess the name of a warrior that abandoned his people in the middle of the war and escaped out of the country?
Answer: Ojukwu
The man did not think twice, before he quickly escaped from the country..

Before he was captured with his side kick, I believe Koward Kanu also did exactly the same thing (abandoned his people and escaped out of the country)

bentenny:
Any sensible person who has studied the recent trend of event in the political sphere would ask this simple questions.....

What's the importance and purpose of this 1966 narrative that happened more than 50 years ago?

How will it help or assist an average Nigerian to access 247 electricity,reduced transport cost,affordable housing,jobs,better security system,cheaper food, education and effective health system?

Make we try get sense oh

But you people are always asking for History to be reintroduced back to school curriculum in Nigeria

franchasofficia:
Being that you lack wisdom, you were not supposed to ask some of the senseless questions you asked.


Nnamdi Azikiwe was informed about the coup by his cousin who happened to be one of the coup leaders; Ifeajuna. Mind you there was no Telephone to call international immediately then, only Telegram I guess which took days and Zik was in the Carribeans on medical vacation. So who phoned and told him?


Of course the young, naive Igbo officers may have been tribalist with tribal sentiments in their hearts, that was purely their own decision and not all Igbos decision. That they decided to spare Igbo officers and politicians was their own individual decisions, they never consulted Igbo communities to get their approval to do so, so it was purely a military affair that ought to have ended within the military and politicians.


Igbos even wished Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was killed in the coup cos most Igbos then never liked him cos he was more of pan African than Pan Igbo, so most Igbos didn't even liked him, so him being spared was based on the coupists volition and not from generality of Igbos.



No Igbo condemned the counter coup that killed Ironsi the then head of state and also led to death of hundreds of Igbo military officers, it was justified, one one, no issue, where the issue arose was Yorubas and Hausa-Fulanis tagging the coup an Igbo coup and extending the madness to innocent Igbo civilians living peacefully in the North out of the collective envy Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas had for Igbos even before the January 1966 coup just because of Igbo people's success and dominance in most sectors then which was purely on merit, that was why it was tagged Igbo coup to use the opportunity to wipe Igbos out nothing more or less.


Same pattern has continued till date where Yorubas try everything humanly possible to tag anything as Igbo agenda to incite other Nigerian tribes to join them hate and attack Igbos, which social media is gradually changing unlike before that there was no social media to counter Yoruba people's lies, propaganda and incitement of other tribes against Igbos like they did from 1966 to 2010 or thereabouts.


Peter Obi came out and Igbos massively supported him, first time Igbos ever united and supported an Igbo Presidential candidate, something they didn't even do during Nnamdi Azikiwe era, what did Yorubas do? They kept using every media channel to paint Peter Obi as an Igbo candidate as if there were no Yoruba, Hausa-Fulani, etc candidates.


See if una like learn, if una like dont learn and repent, na nature go settle una matter last last.


As for progress and success, Igbos will remain the most successful tribe in Nigeria whether una like am or not, na God do am. You guys need to have visited Southeast last December to know that Igbo people are 30much, anybody thinking he can stop Igbos is wasting his or her time, it's like hitting your bare hands on a tipper fully loaded with concrete and hoping that your bare hands would stop the tipper from moving, una no fit stop Igbos from shinning and progressing, its God's gift, if we survived the pogrom and the brutal civil war that followed plus the decades of federal political marginalization since 1970 to become a formidable force we are today in Nigeria and outside Nigeria, that should have made you wicked souls and haters of Igbos to give up and let Igbos be

You can only fooool yourself and not everybody. You igbos celebrated the kîlling of Ahmadu Bello and his pregnant wife, to the extent of waxing an album, depicting him as bleating like a goat.

Veggieseeddies:
The East isthe most secured region in the nation. During UGM, all you rot heads were saying that those guys would use the gun on the inhabitants and we told you that Igbo's are not so. We will continuou to deal with you people on that "Igbo coup". Your children will read the Igbo coup but will not try nothing with our children, even your children children will read the Igbo coup and can never in their life do anything

Next year Jan. 15, you will cry again, and it will sound to me that we are dealing with you on that day

It gives me joy

Lol, all those being killed weekly by Simon Ekpa are not your brothers abi.
Suffer no dey tire you....
Inasmuch as we remember Jan 15, so long you will remain 2nd class citizens in Nigeria.

Raf4:
But you people are always asking for History to be reintroduced back to school curriculum in Nigeria

If U cannot show me where I made this highlighted statement on nairaland,then your brain needs to be properly examined to know the level of inanity inside!
If U have nothing to contribute,just skip....No be everything U go put mouth!

Aunty Kemi Muulee,when would you stop all this ?....

DaddyJapan:
For posterity, a correction needs to be made.



Source: https://ogundemuseum.org/article07.html

. Good read. So akintola was a bad man

franchasofficia:
Yes we Igbos did condemned the coup and even wished Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was killed to assuage the North but unfortunately that did not happen.


Also Northerners carried out bigger revenge through the counter coup which was justified cos it was a military affair and they ought to have stopped their military coup madness there but they continued and started to massacre Igbos in that heartwrenching 1966 Northern pogrom in which Igbo civilians living in the North were being massacred in cold blood in all parts of Northern Nigeria and were even spearheaded by Middlebelt people today.


The pogrom was the imminent cause of the civil war. If the Northern military guys had stopped at the counter coup which removed Aguiyi Ironsi and death of hundreds of Igbo soldiers in just two nights, there wouldn't have been civil war. So Igbos paid more than enough price but still they must be blamed for what ordinary Igbos had no hand in but even after those first coup and the counter coup, Nigeria still witnessed several coups spearheaded by Hausa-Fulanis and Middlebelt guys but Nigerians never for once blamed Hausa-Fulanis and started mass killing of Hausa-Fulanis because their soldiers carried out a coup.



Northerners and Yorubas never rose up against Middlebelt civilians to massacre them because Dimka carried out a coup that killed Muritala Mohammed and neither did they do same when Major Gideon Okar carried out his own coup that also led to the death of many soldiers but Nzeogwu from today Delta state known as Niger Delta plus other Igbo soldiers, and some Yoruba soldiers, Middlebelt soliders carried a coup based on their volition, Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas turned around to tag it Igbo coup just because they were already envious of Igbos and looking for opportunity to destroy Igbos at all cost, of which the coup presented them with that barbaric opportunity but still after decades that Igbos lost virtually all they had in a preceding civil war, got politically marginalized by a gangup of Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas since the end of the war in 1970 to date, some senseless, inhumane, unscrupulous people from Yoruba tribe still have the conscience to be blaming Igbos for whatever happened in 1966 instead issuing apology to Igbos and seeking for complete reconciliation and full reintegration of Igbos into Nigeria's federal politics to foster real peace, togetherness, love and unity.




Both Kemi and Reno Omockery will never die well, they will end in shame and their generation will reap the reward of their inhumane act and wickedness towards Igbos.


Personally, I still believe that Middlebelt people are reaping the fruit of their unjustified actions against Igbos between 1966 to 1970 in which they allowed Hausa-Fulanis to deceive them and used them to massacre innocent civilian Igbos living peacefully in their region because of what happened among the military. It ought to teach other Nigerians a lesson but they refused to learn and I strongly believe that nature will definitely teach those that are stubborn to learn from that their own hard lessons.



Lastly, I want you all to note that majority of Igbos did condemned the coup, what I am saying is that Igbo civilians were never consulted by the young Igbo officers that decided to go on a commando job to topple the first civilian government for whatever reasons best known to them. It was purely on their own volition, they didn't go to Igbo people's community townhall meetings or Ogbakor Ndigbo or Ohanaeze Ndigbo to seek for Igbo peoples approval before carrying out the coup? So why blame the whole Igbos for the action of few young military officers even after you revenge and killed the Igbo head of state and hundreds of Igbo military officers which was more than enough revenge to serve as a warning, why involve innocent Igbo civilians by starting a pogrom to wipe out all Igbos?



That is the issue. Nobody, to the best of my knowledge, most Igbos I know then and now never supported the coup yet they are blamed and killed and being persecuted and blamed till today, does that make sense to you guys?


That the Igbo soldiers that carried out the coup decided in their own heart to spare the Igbo officers and politicians is still their case which they later paid for via the counter coup that removed and killed the Igbo head of state and other top Igbo military officers.


Even Ojukwu never supported the coup as he never liked Major Kaduna Nzeogwu and also worked with Ironsi to ensure the coup was foiled.

Well, ibo set the stage and others followed. For all we know, there might have never been a coup if the ibo soldiers didn't start one.

They started the game, too bad such games don't come with rules.

epainos:
The truth is the truth. FFK first wrote this, and Kemi is supporting his story. I had written about this war before. The fact is that Igbo will NEVER take responsibility of their actions. Lol.

And I have said it several times, Igbo will not be allowed to rule NIGERIA again. Zik, an Igbo man was the first Nigerian president, and will be the last. The only way there will ever be an Igbo president is an Igbo president of an Igbo nation. Yoruba will keep playing Igbo around, and the north (Hausa and Fulani) will keep saying it to the face of Igbo that it will never happen. And I strongly believe that it will not happen.

My advice to this generation is that Igbo should find a way to develop their region, so they can be ready to diplomatically cut away from Nigeria. But they are all in Lagos and PH fighting there that they developed both places. Lol. Main while, there hosts have keep them tight there like how Pharoah kept Israelites in bandage in Egypt. Lol.

Even their savior Obi ruled Anambra, but ran to Lagos after 8 years of governing the state. Lol. Did we hear Elrufai ran out of Kaduna after ruling it? Where did Buhari return to? What about OBJ? Obj returned to his Otta farm in Ogun. Lol. How many Igbo ruled their states and returned there? Even Soludo will return to Lagos after his tenure. Lol.

So, Igbo isn't ready to be independent. They wanted to take Nigeria out of greediness in the 60s, but they met their calamity and stagnation.

It's ONLY a Yoruba, Fulani, or Hausa that will split this nation if it will happen. And I see it happening soon after Tinubu because the signals are already there. My advice to Igbo is to be smart and find means to start developing their region. Infrastructural development happening in south-west is massive and road networking region going on are the signals I am seeing. Those networks are there for Lagos to keep raking income from sea importation. From Lagos, you pay and they move your goods via road. Wike is following the same pattern in Rivers. Borders will soon be erected in strategic positions. Mark my words.

Let us be real to ourselves? How many people want to live in Igboland? Be real? Even Igbos themselves are running away. More Igbos are born in Lagos and PH.....are those kids the ones you expect to return to their region? But when it happens, they will be forced to leave. So, why can't they just be smart for once and start doing what is right instead of constituting nuisance on social media platforms?

These articles serve as both reminders of the past and prophecies for what is to come. He who has ears, let such use it well. A foretold war cannot kill a wise lame.

after that governor of anambra signed out of office he went straight to the airport and flew back to his home in Texas after governing anambra for 8 years. Lmaoooo that mAne was on the next flight smoking out of igboland. Now the nigga in Texas walking his poodle

JoeyNaza:
E don run.. Bigots.

Thank God SW was not at the receiving end of the Civil War, who knows who they would have blamed for not rebuilding themselves.

I know you guys want subservient people to dobale but you won't find that in Igbos especially through cheap blackmail. Because it gets funnier by the day. Igbos and Northerners say nothing about this topic all year round because it is clearly a dead man's tale but every year the same set of people renarrate and reiterate so passionately as if there were there or most affected.

But for you to spew the bs about people trying to rewrite history which you know is untrue and can't prove is absurd. Are you guys looking for who to pass the blame of this country's failure to ? Igbos have been away from the main corridors of power for over 40 years yet a coup in the 60s is what is holding you back ? Then it is clear you and Nigeria should go for deliverance of generational curse.

They will just open their mouths waaaaaaaa and say whatever comes out

Sporad8, question still stands,mention just two of such.

franchasofficia:
And why will Igbos who controlled most sectors of Nigeria carry a coup; Igbo man was the President though with less power which he did willingly by allowing Belewa to become Prime Minister after winning the election while he became President which has more foreign influence while PM ran the day to day activities of the nation, Igbo man was the Senate President (Nwafor Orizu), Igbo man was the Chief of Army Staff (Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), a man loyal to the Igbos, who also came from Eastern Nigeria then was the IG of Police, Igbo man was the documented richest man in Nigeria then (Sir Louis Ojukwu, Ojukwu's father).


Igbos dominated even Northern civil service because they were the most learned and qualified then which made Bello to issue a statement that they will stop hiring Igbos and start hiring foreigners if they can't find Northerners to fill the position, and also made Awolowo to start free education in Western Nigeria to enable them catch up with Igbos occupying virtually all positions including in Western Nigeria.


spapers

Then today you scream of nepotism?


Anyways was it only azikiwe that traveled out?


Moreover why the call for Biafra after the counter coup ?

Why wasn’t it the northerners staging the coup since the igbos dominated all major sectors?


The coup was clear and definitely spelt out in the meaning of IBO which is I Before Others.

What lead to the greed was because of the power handed the north so the only way was to kill all the northern leaders and their Yoruba counterparts.



Period.


You can’t rewrite history we already know.

happney65:
I know Aunty Kemi has kolo mental. But I didnt know her kolo mentality has gone worst to the extent of throwing out blantant lies.

How was her father able to go give Akintola a Letter in the middle of the Night when the soldiers came? The soldiers came 2AM and not morning. By Morning Akintola was already Dead and Nwobosi had driven to Lagos with Remi Kayode,but by then the coup had already failed and Ironsi's boys had them arrested.

Lagos was their rendevous point and the very place fellow coup plotter Adewale Ademoyaga should annouce the actual takeover of the entire country if Ironisi hadnt missed them by the whizkers. Because Ironsi was among the people penciled down for arrest.

2. Akintola never lived at the Government House,at Agodi. He lived at Iyanganku. In a House abadoned by the British when they left. The House was later turned to the former court of Appeal at Iyanganku before being moved to Ring Road,Ibadan

So Aunty Kemi now wants to add lies to her kolomentality is very wrong.

List of people killed

1. Sir Ahmadu Bello-Fulani from Northern Region.
2. Sir Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa-Gere from Northern Region.
3. Samuel Ladokr Akintola-Yoruba from Western Region.
4. Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh-Itsekiri from the Midwest Region.
5. Hafsatu Bello (wife of Sir Ahmadu Bello)-Fulani from Northern Region.
6. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun (Brigadier Ademulegun's wife, who was eight months pregnant)-Yoruba from Western Region.
7. Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun-Yoruba from Western Region.
8. Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari-Kanuri from Northern Region.
9. Colonel Kur Mohammed-Kanuri from Northern Region.
10. Colonel Ralph Shodeinde-Yoruba from Western Region.
11. Lt. Colonel Abogo Lagerma-Marghi from Northern Region.
12. Lt. Colonel James Pam-Jos native from Northern Region.
13. Lt. Colonel Arthur Unegbe-Igbo from Eastern Region.
14. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke-Yoruba from Western Region.
15. Police Constable Philip Lewande-Minority from Northern Region.
16. Police Corporal Akpan Anduka-Efik from Eastern Region.
17. Police Corporal Hagai Lai-Minority from Northern Region.
18. Police Corporal Yohana Garkawa-Minority from Northern Region.
19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo-Minirity from Northern Region.
20. Ahmed Pategi-Minority from Northern Region.
21. Zarumi Sardauna-Minority from Northern Region.

Now, out of a total of 21 people killed by the January 15, 1966 coup plotters, only Lt. Colonel Arthur Unegbe was an Igbo, and the reason he was killed was because he was the QuarterMaster-General, Army Headquarters, Lagos, and therefore was in charge of the armoury.

When Major Chris Anuforo went to his house to demand the keys to the armoury, he refused and was shot. He was NOT on the original list of people to be killed.

ntyce:
Nothing was twisted...
You forefathers killed leaders of every other tribe but spared yours....

I don't like to address certain issues, the leaders who annulled June 12were mostly from the north I don't see you guys calling it a northern affair but rather a military affair, several other coups took place in Nigeria's history yet there is always an attempt to gaslight a particular ethnic group, Tinubu is leading Nigeria astray with corruption, and nepotism, Tinubu is being criticized as an individual mostly but if Tinubu were igbo, you folks would have rubbed his leadership on the entire igbo ethnic group, I don't think it is a coincidence that Nigeria has had several dark events in his history but only the 1966 coup is being used to revisit history, several coups occured after that they will tell you that that one was an igbo coup, why everyother one was a military coup how convenient. I am not igbo btw, because the default thinking of the bigots is anyone with contrary opinion is igbo.

Always playing the victim card. Envious of others and destroying progress. A shameful tribe 3rd rated always.

MICHEALADEX:
Then today you scream of nepotism?


Anyways was it only azikiwe that traveled out?


Moreover why the call for Biafra after the counter coup ?

Why wasn’t it the northerners staging the coup since the igbos dominated all major sectors?


The coup was clear and definitely spelt out in the meaning of IBO which is I Before Others.

What lead to the greed was because of the power handed the north so the only way was to kill all the northern leaders and their Yoruba counterparts.



Period.


You can’t rewrite history we already know.

junior military officers carried out a coup and then you blame the entire ethnic group who weren't consulted before the coup, so by your thinking the entire yoruba ethnic group should be blamed and punished for whatever decision Tinubu makes? Furthermore by your list the north was majorly at the receiving end but the north does not carry this issue on their head the way the south west does, and the only reason why you came to that conclusion is because you are already a bigot and your thinking will always be prejudiced, would you hold the same ethnic colouration on the people ( north) who annulled june 12 or who imprisoned MKO guess not, the military staged a coup, ordinary igbos paid for it with the lives civillians who weren't in the military who had no idea of a planned coup, children were starved to death by the Nigerian govt and for some reason the Ronu folks still think they are the victims, recently we saw the killings by the military in okuama community, the army is controlled by a yoruba, same with the presidency, now if the people of that community of okuama decide to go and attack youruba communities in the south west would hold the same opinion, it's crazy how grown men think.

bentenny:
If U cannot show me where I made this highlighted statement on nairaland,then your brain needs to be properly examined to know the level of inanity inside!
If U have nothing to contribute,just skip....No be everything U go put mouth!

Dafty, are you now saying history should be removed again because it doesn't favour you? Nattering nitwit!

A 1966 Revolution for a better Nigeria movie will make a great box office hit.
1966 was the year a great change took place, but tribalism made it a stillbirth.
With what Nigeria has been made to become, I am sure the bigots would now agree that 1966 was a momentous and epoch-making year in our history we missed an opportunity to possess.

franchasofficia:
They have started again.


The coup was not carried out by only Igbos. There was Yoruba, Middlebelt, and today Niger Delta soldiers among the coupists but you unscrupulous elements always make it look like it was just done by only Igbos soldiers.


You guys also intentionally ignore to tell the world why Michael Opkara the Eastern Premier at Enugu at that time was spared; Archbishop of Canterbury visited him that day and the coupists didn't want to attract British wrath, so they spared him.


Nnamdi Azikiwe the President was marked for killing but unfortunately as it was, his cousin, Ifeajuna who happened to be among the coup leaders leaked the coup information to him and Zik sneaked out to the Carribeans on health vacation grounds.


You guys also forgot to tell the world that Akintola was told about the coup weeks before and he communicated to Sir Ahmadu Bello his best friend whom he aligned with to persecute Obafemi Awolowo which was the main thing that even angered the young soldiers to carry out a coup to stop the political turmoil in Western Nigeria today Yoruba region between Awolowo and Akintola in which they unjustly jailed Awolowo that angered most of the young soldiers that carried out the coup.



Go and read "Why we struck" by a gallant Yoruba soldier that was part of the coup planners and leader.


When Akintola learnt about the coup, he said went and purchased a pistol swearing to kill anybody that near his residence thinking it was a child's play while Ahmadu Bello laughed it off believing his juju would save him.


Tafawa Belewa was not marked for killing because the young soldiers liked him, they only believed that Ahmadu Bello and Akintola were misleading Belewa but when the coupists discovered that the coup was already failing in parts of Nigeria like Enugu, etc, they angrily shot Belewa, a very huge mistake they made cos Belewa was a nice man




The coup was a military affair but they made sure it was turned to an Igbo people affair even when civilian Igbos were never carried along nor consulted.



And why will Igbos who controlled most sectors of Nigeria carry a coup; Igbo man was the President though with less power which he did willingly by allowing Belewa to become Prime Minister after winning the election while he became President which has more foreign influence while PM ran the day to day activities of the nation, Igbo man was the Senate President (Nwafor Orizu), Igbo man was the Chief of Army Staff (Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), a man loyal to the Igbos, who also came from Eastern Nigeria then was the IG of Police, Igbo man was the documented richest man in Nigeria then (Sir Louis Ojukwu, Ojukwu's father).


Igbos dominated even Northern civil service because they were the most learned and qualified then which made Bello to issue a statement that they will stop hiring Igbos and start hiring foreigners if they can't find Northerners to fill the position, and also made Awolowo to start free education in Western Nigeria to enable them catch up with Igbos occupying virtually all positions including in Western Nigeria.



So there was no need for Igbos to carry out coup, the coup was entirely carried out by young, naive soldiers of which majority were Igbos from today Southeast and South South/Niger Delta in their foolish effort to rescue Nigeria from the hands of corrupt Nigerian politicians the British people handed power to.



But due to the already brewing envy against Igbos for cheerleading in most sectors in Nigeria then by the Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas, the coup was conveniently tagged an Igbo coup just as Yorubas conveniently tagged Peter Obi an Igbo Presidential candidate despite Obi winning massively outside Igbo states including in Lagos, Middlebelt, Northeast and Abuja.


Una go tire sha.



We will keep exposing you guy's lies and hatred for Igbos, all thanks to social media and Internet, so gone are the days of spreading dangerous propaganda against Igbos using Lagos-Ibadan expressway brown envelope newspapers

You don't want us to believe the book written but will should believe your own gossip?


In your dumb sense Awolowo started free education because igbo are in northern civil service, what's the correlation of that with southwest education


Southwest are far more educated than the Igbo in the first republic. Christianity whose influence education in Nigeria started in west, so what rubbish are you writing

If Yorubas want to dwell on the past we no suppose have anything to do with Igbo

Raf4:
Dafty, are you now saying history should be removed again because it doesn't favour you? Nattering nitwit!

My comments were not for glorified clowns like you but U just had to prove that ur inanity is very high and now U are still proving that U have nothing but sawdust inside that head!
Zombified olodo!

franchasofficia:
They have started again.

Capt Ben Gbulie one of the Coup plotters already said Azikiwe was not on the list of the people to be killed .
Gbulie said so at the Oputa panel
He said as far as the coup plotters were concerned Azikiwe was "harmless"

franchasofficia:
They have started again.


The coup was not carried out by only Igbos. There was Yoruba, Middlebelt, and today Niger Delta soldiers among the coupists but you unscrupulous elements always make it look like it was just done by only Igbos soldiers.


You guys also intentionally ignore to tell the world why Michael Opkara the Eastern Premier at Enugu at that time was spared; Archbishop of Canterbury visited him that day and the coupists didn't want to attract British wrath, so they spared him.


Nnamdi Azikiwe the President was marked for killing but unfortunately as it was, his cousin, Ifeajuna who happened to be among the coup leaders leaked the coup information to him and Zik sneaked out to the Carribeans on health vacation grounds.


You guys also forgot to tell the world that Akintola was told about the coup weeks before and he communicated to Sir Ahmadu Bello his best friend whom he aligned with to persecute Obafemi Awolowo which was the main thing that even angered the young soldiers to carry out a coup to stop the political turmoil in Western Nigeria today Yoruba region between Awolowo and Akintola in which they unjustly jailed Awolowo that angered most of the young soldiers that carried out the coup.



Go and read "Why we struck" by a gallant Yoruba soldier that was part of the coup planners and leader.


When Akintola learnt about the coup, he said went and purchased a pistol swearing to kill anybody that near his residence thinking it was a child's play while Ahmadu Bello laughed it off believing his juju would save him.


Tafawa Belewa was not marked for killing because the young soldiers liked him, they only believed that Ahmadu Bello and Akintola were misleading Belewa but when the coupists discovered that the coup was already failing in parts of Nigeria like Enugu, etc, they angrily shot Belewa, a very huge mistake they made cos Belewa was a nice man




The coup was a military affair but they made sure it was turned to an Igbo people affair even when civilian Igbos were never carried along nor consulted.



And why will Igbos who controlled most sectors of Nigeria carry a coup; Igbo man was the President though with less power which he did willingly by allowing Belewa to become Prime Minister after winning the election while he became President which has more foreign influence while PM ran the day to day activities of the nation, Igbo man was the Senate President (Nwafor Orizu), Igbo man was the Chief of Army Staff (Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), a man loyal to the Igbos, who also came from Eastern Nigeria then was the IG of Police, Igbo man was the documented richest man in Nigeria then (Sir Louis Ojukwu, Ojukwu's father).


Igbos dominated even Northern civil service because they were the most learned and qualified then which made Bello to issue a statement that they will stop hiring Igbos and start hiring foreigners if they can't find Northerners to fill the position, and also made Awolowo to start free education in Western Nigeria to enable them catch up with Igbos occupying virtually all positions including in Western Nigeria.



So there was no need for Igbos to carry out coup, the coup was entirely carried out by young, naive soldiers of which majority were Igbos from today Southeast and South South/Niger Delta in their foolish effort to rescue Nigeria from the hands of corrupt Nigerian politicians the British people handed power to.



But due to the already brewing envy against Igbos for cheerleading in most sectors in Nigeria then by the Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas, the coup was conveniently tagged an Igbo coup just as Yorubas conveniently tagged Peter Obi an Igbo Presidential candidate despite Obi winning massively outside Igbo states including in Lagos, Middlebelt, Northeast and Abuja.


Una go tire sha.



We will keep exposing you guy's lies and hatred for Igbos, all thanks to social media and Internet, so gone are the days of spreading dangerous propaganda against Igbos using Lagos-Ibadan expressway brown envelope newspapers

Very well articulated.
Thank you for this piece of truth and God bless.

Lies can only travel far but the truth will catch up with it and outpace it.