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OkCornel:
Option A - Yoruba Officers
Option B - Igbo Officers
Option C - Hausa Fulani Officers
Option D - Others

Patiently awaiting your answers

OkCornel:
Option A - Yoruba Officers
Option B - Igbo Officers
Option C - Hausa Fulani Officers
Option D - Others

Patiently awaiting your answers

Godwin4444:
the coup was not foiled but it achieve its aim which is to kill leaders from other tribes n install an Igbo

They killed all other tribes leaders n made an igbo president so they achieved their aim

OkCornel:
Were Aguiyi-Ironsi and Ojukwu part of the coup plotters?

OkCornel:
Were Aguiyi-Ironsi and Ojukwu part of the coup plotters?

NoIgboSoundTueh:
no correct option
in fact the coup was successfully carried out and Igbo coup plotter handed power to Igbo

T9ksy:
Arguable but they sure had foreknowledge of the coup.

OkCornel:
Were Aguiyi-Ironsi and Ojukwu part of the coup plotters?

danvon:
According to Ademoyega, Ojukwu was aware there was a coup but he adopted a 'wait-and-see' stance, then once it looked like the coup wasn't going to be successful he turned against it.

It was coup within a coup within a coup.

OkCornel:
Uncertain they had foreknowledge of the coup.

Who arrested the coup plotters?

As for Aguiyi Ironsi, he really messed up by being tribal with the whole stuff. An immediate execution of the coup plotters would have placated the Northern officers to an extent.

Roger3D:
One individual on the SMC consistently opposed the trial of the January 15 plotters, and the name of that individual was Lt.Col Francis Fajuyi. Fajuyi knew about the coup but couldn't lend his support as he wasn't at his post when it happened

OkCornel:
Could you shed more light on this please?

I’m wondering why Fajuyi opposed the trial of the January 15 coup plotters.

Godwin4444:
the coup was not foiled but it achieve its aim which is to kill leaders from other tribes n install an Igbo

They killed all other tribes leaders n made an igbo president so they achieved their aim

LegendHero:
The coup achieved the aim. Change the demographics of power and that was exactly what happened.

OkCornel:
Tribalism

Nwafor Orizu was meant to handover power to Dipcharima, a Northerner from Borno state.

However, he handed it over to his tribesman Aguiyi Ironsi.

Aguiyi Ironsi should have ordered an immediate execution of the coup plotters, but he soft pedalled.

I also learnt he constituted a cabinet without Northerners or South Westerners (I stand corrected on this).

Nwafor Orizu and Aguiyi Ironsi worsened the mess on ground.

OkCornel:
Uncertain they had foreknowledge of the coup.

Who arrested the coup plotters?

As for Aguiyi Ironsi, he really messed up by being tribal with the whole stuff. An immediate execution of the coup plotters would have placated the Northern officers to an extent.

helinues:
Here we go

Foiled coup. Who got killed then? arrogant and ego won't just let some people accept their mistakes

DMerciful:
There is nothing like collective punishment. The coup plotters were long dead before most Easterners were born. They were soldiers and had zero vote to represent anybody.

Why should people who knew nothing about the military take responsibility for military actions?

Even if we wanted to stop them, we do not have the power. There is absolutely no reason to hold the generality of Igbos accountable for action of few military officers

helinues:
So if the event did happen, why are you guys pretending as if it never happened? What's the big deal in relaying the history on the remembrance day?

DMerciful:
You guys are narrating it to look like Igbos sent officers to kill Northern leaders.

Is this what happened?

helinues:
How come no other Igbo leaders was killed while leaders from other regions was massacred?

Tagging the coup Igbo coup is what some of you are having issue with which is the best description. It was an Igbo coup. Simple as Abc

DMerciful:
The officers might be sympathetic to Igbo leaders or someone failed to carryout his mission however they acted on their own.

Saying its an Igbo coup holds the entire Igbos responsible. This would have been the case if they were voted for and given mandate.

helinues:
Okay, who benefited from the coup, who became head of states after the coup?

Did the emerge head of state made any attempt of punishing the coup plotters?

DMerciful:
You guys are narrating it to look like Igbos sent officers to kill Northern leaders.

Is this what happened?

pquaver:
I am igbo but e get Somethings WE Do that are provocative..was IT the Military igbos WHO Made Songs and bread to taunt the northerners? Was IT Military igbos WHO gloated with the murder of the sarduana.. If IT was northerners WHO did what happened in 1966 will u Take the Same stand U r talking today? Nna abeg come Off IT..let truth be told..ndigbo Made mistake.. Accept IT..

LegendHero:
The coup achieved the aim. Change the demographics of power and that was exactly what happened.

pquaver:
I am igbo but e get Somethings WE Do that are provocative..was IT the Military igbos WHO Made Songs and bread to taunt the northerners? Was IT Military igbos WHO gloated with the murder of the sarduana.. If IT was northerners WHO did what happened in 1966 will u Take the Same stand U r talking today? Nna abeg come Off IT..let truth be told..ndigbo Made mistake.. Accept IT..

DMerciful:
So you can punish the Kanuri people for Abacha sins?

You think the reprisals attacks were because of songs? What about the killings of the 40s and 50s of Igbos in the North? You're naive

DMerciful:
The coup cannot be undone but this unworkable union can be undone.

Lets push for this!