₦airaland Forum

OkCornel:
Educate yourself and check out who Nowamagbe Omoigui is.

Abi na Igbo man too abi?

Putindbutt:
Is he an official source?, just a simple question o 🤣🤣

kettykings:
But if this coup had successful executed , the reverse would have been the case , we would have witnessed 100km long threads on how yorubas successful executed a coup with 5 majors from different part of the country to free Awolowo from prison and make him president. Something Ghana was to replicate later by bringing out Jerry Rawlings from prison and making him president.

OkCornel:
Read up on who he is.

Then reply me if you understand what the special branch report is.

Putindbutt:
When they say ipob should go to school, una say No 🤣🤣🤣🤣

NairalandVDM:
Nairalanders , abeg how many of una don read the book? Help us confam wetin ffk yarn abeg

ZombieDredd:
you really played yourself

Putindbutt:
Na like this ipob dey fail exams😂😂 Is he an official source?, Yes or No answer 😂😂😂😂

kettykings:
A former Chief of Army Staff, an expert in warfare and coups, and a former Head of State categorically stated that the 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup. Yet, individuals with no military, police, or security experience—nor any relatives in those fields—are now claiming otherwise. And, unsurprisingly, these revisionists all come from a particular region.

Are you disputing Babangida on what basis should be the question .


Northerner will write books, and some people will interpret the book to suit their interests. Tufiakwa.

BreconHills:
Try to read for yourself and stop following headlines.
IBB did not say the coup was NOT an Igbo coup. This is what FFK is saying. If you have a contrary opinion - quote the book.

Dpharisee:
This book really pain them

How come only Yorubas are disputing IBB over the coup not being an Igbo coup. Northerners seems to be understanding clearly now that it was Yorubas who sold the lie of calling the purely military action that claimed the lives of prominent northerners, Igbo officers and Western region Premier Akintola as "Igbo coup"

kettykings:
This is exactly their nature, they initiated #EndSARS, promoted it , lagosians carried it out and at the end of the day they turned it around that it was an attempt by igbos to burn down Lagos. #EndSARS that was carried out all over southern parts of Nigeria and Abuja was now labeled as an attempt by igbos to burn down Lagos.

Thescrutinyng:
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani Kayode on Monday says nobody should twist twist the words of former Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) regarding the 1966 military coup.

In a post on his Facebook page, Fani-Kayode said there was nowhere in IBB’s autobiography where he claimed that the 1966 was not an Igbo coup.

He wrote: “It was heinously callous for Nzeogwu to have murdered Sir Ahmadu Bello and his wife, Hafsatu, because not only were they eminently adored by many but also because they were said not to have put up a fight. From that moment the putsch was infiltrated by “outsiders” to its supposed original intention and it took on an unmistakable ethnic coloration compounded by the fact that there were no related coup activities in the Eastern Region”- President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, ‘A Journey In Service: An Autobiography’, February 2025.

I hate to burst your bubble but there is NOWHERE in IBB’s book that he said that the coup of January 15th 1966 was NOT an Igbo coup.

In fact he alluded to the contrary when he said the coup had taken on an “unmistakable ethnic coloration”.

That is what he wrote and that is the reality. The coup was an ethnic one and that ethnicity were the Igbo!

Those that have misinterpreted his words and have said that he wrote that the coup was not an Igbo coup are either misguided and misinformed or are being mischievous.

They have a poor understanding of the English language and in the main have not even read the book and instead are relying on erroneous social media qoutes and well crafted disinformation.

I suggest that they procure a copy of the book, read it from cover to cover and stop attempting to revise history by misinterpreting the words of the esteemed author.

IBB, in his characteristic manner, was charitable to the Igbos in his book but that does not give anyone licence to misinterpret his words and conclusions or use them in an attempt to revise history.

The facts are clear and they are as follows. 99% of the officers that planned and executed the Jan. 15th 1966 coup and that were involved in the mutiny were Igbo and 99% of those that were murdered by them were non-Igbo military officers and political leaders in some cases including their wives.

We owe it to the memory of those that were so callously slaughtered not to sugar coat the bitter truth, not to revise history and not to tell lies.

The coup was UNMISTAKEABLY an Igbo one and IBB made this very clear when he wrote about its “ethnic coloration”.

I urge all those that have a poor understanding of the English language and that cannot read more than three lines of any book or essay to stop using his words to establish their revisionist and patently dishonest narrative and their futile attempt to perpetuate an age-old lie.

The truth is that the Jan. 15th 1966 coup WAS an Igbo one and I am glad to say that IBB has confirmed it.

This is a FACT and as our journalist friends will tell you ‘facts are sacred and opinion is cheap”.
https://thescrutinyng.com/dont-twist-ibbs-words-1966-coup-is-an-igbo-coup-fani-kayode/

kettykings:
A former Chief of Army Staff, an expert in warfare and coups, and a former Head of State categorically stated that the 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup. Yet, individuals with no military, police, or security experience—nor any relatives in those fields—are now claiming otherwise. And, unsurprisingly, these revisionists all come from a particular region.

Are you disputing Babangida on what basis should be the question .


Northerner will write books, and some people will interpret the book to suit their interests. Tufiakwa.