₦airaland Forum

OkCornel:
Arthur Unegbe, an Igbo military officer who was in charge of the armoury was shot dead by the coup plotters for not handing over the keys.

Hmmm…an Igbo coup indeed.

I guess Unegbe is part of the coup plotters since he’s Igbo too right?

By the way like I mentioned earlier, the politicians were warned by Ironsi on January 12 by an impending coup.

Governments in other African countries (DRC, Togo, Dahomey, Central African Republic) were toppled before that of Nigeria. But what did the politicians do?

Ahmadu Bello did nothing to secure himself.
Tafawa Balewa did nothing to secure himself.
Ladoke Akintola was forming Incredible Hulk instead of escaping to save his life.

But hey, let’s blame Ironsi for tipping off the politicians and let’s also blame the politicians that acted on the tip off.

I still have my grouse with Nwafor Orizu though. The right thing to do after the coup was aborted was to hand over power to Zanna Dipcharima to continue as the prime minister rather than his fellow Igbo man in the military. Poisonous seed of tribalism.

OkCornel:
Ok, he was right to ignore Ironsi’s coup warning 3 days before his death.

Smart move.

OkCornel:
Ok, he was right to ignore Ironsi’s coup warning 3 days before his death.

Smart move.

iamnotillicit:
Why didn't ironsi protect him, that's the army chief of staff. Why were the plotters not attested before D-day, why were they not executed after the coup failed...?

Why allow Azikwe to travel

There are so many questions but I don't need any answers...

raumdeuter:
This Ironsi warning, what did the Ibo politicians do about it?

raumdeuter:
What did Okpara Orizu, Mbadiwe Osadebey etc do to secure themselves? Why is it that its the non Ibo politicians who needed to secure themselves and not the Ibo ones?

You have indirectly told us that its the non Ibo politicians that were the target

OkCornel:
Fled for their lives.

But Ladoke Akintola just had to form Incredible Hulk despite being tipped off.

Intelligent move I must say.

OkCornel:
Arthur Unegbe, a patriotic Igbo officer who was in charge of the armoury was killed by the coupists in an “Igbo coup”

Ironsi warned top politicians of an impending coup on January 12. But hey, let’s pretend the non Igbo politicians were deaf and dumb and it’s Ironsi’s fault for not using sign language to communicate.

raumdeuter:
Where did they flee to? Where did Okpara Osadebey Orizu, Mbadiwe flee to

raumdeuter:
Tell us the exact thing Ibo politicians did when they got this warning that the non Ibo politicians did not do

Balewa Akintola Bello were in their house just like Okpara Osadebey Orizu and Mbadiwe

Only the non Ibo politicians were hunted in their homes, the Ibo ones who were in their homes were all left alone

OkCornel:
Please read

https://www.afritondo.com/afritondo/the-shot-that-shook-the-nation-an-overview-of-the-1966-nigerian-coup-detat

I’m patiently waiting for you to call Ademoyega a liar

raumdeuter:
You havent told us what the Ibo politicians did differently from the non Ibos killed

They all went to their house but only the non Ibos were hunted down into their bedroom not the Ibos

raumdeuter:
You havent told us what the Ibo politicians did differently from the non Ibos killed

They all went to their house but only the non Ibos were hunted down into their bedroom not the Ibos

raumdeuter:
You havent told us what the Ibo politicians did differently from the non Ibos killed

They all went to their house but only the non Ibos were hunted down into their bedroom not the Ibos