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Putindbutt:
Dey play, why was he crying that IBB was double-tongued 🤣🤣
In one mouth, it's not an ibo coup, on the other mouth, it was an ethnic colouration 🤣🤣🤣 . The Maradona himself. Una go explain tire 🤣🤣🤣

https://www.nairaland.com/8350215/david-hundeyin-ibb-confirm-book/1#134274033

You are actually the one that's confused, to say the least. IBB said the coup took an ethnic colouration after it was hijacked by "outsiders", who benefited from the coup. Is that ambiguous or difficult to understand? The coup plotters, including your brother, were after regime change not ethnic cleansing.

Putindbutt:
Screenshot.

First off, it's brilliant you attached that screenshot up there because Hundeyin himself (who was born in 1990) CLEARLY stated that Ibrahim Babangida contradicted himself in the book.

It's highly irresponsible that some young people of Igbo origin in 2025 would go about rewriting the established historical FACTS that we already know right from the 1960s and even we conclusively thrashed this out in 2012 on this same Website with several CLEAR references when Achebe wrote that his infamous last book.

This is the major reason why the January 15,1966 coup was rightly termed an Ibo (Igbo Coup) because even though they recruited a few gullible people like Ademoyega who were NOT Igbo and a large number of the non-Igbo officers such as John Atom Kpera a Tiv man who rose to become a General in the military did NOT know that they were being illegally used during the 1966 coup until after the coup had ended. John Atom Kpera who is from Benue State CLEARLY stated this FACT in several interviews in the past. He said most of the officers in his military unit were Igbo-speaking and ONLY 4 of them were non-Igbos, and they non-Igbos were NEVER told that a coup was taking place despite being drafted out on operation.


Fourth, General John Atom Kpera (rtd) was a junior officer of the rank of 2nd Lieutenant from today's Benue State who was INNOCENTLY dragged into the senseless January 1966 coup plot BUT he and other non-Igbo officers didn't know it was a deadly coup that was ongoing. Majority of the officers in his Squadron were Igbos. He later got to know after that he was used in a coup and this is why he rose to the rank of a Nigerian Army General because the Army was satisfied that indeed he didn't know but only innocently joined the coup plotters thinking it was a normal military routine they were going for. He granted an interview on this issue in the media as well.

BELOW is the EXCERPT of the 2017 interview publication about the Nigerian Civil War veteran General John Atom Kpera. He is still alive in Benue State.

"Role I Played in 1966 Coup – General atom kpera"
Published on December 31, 2017
By John Owen Nwachukwu


“That is why I said I participated in it blindfolded. I wasn’t the ONLY one; ALL our officers, probably ONLY the Igbo officers knew that it was a coup. In that squadron, we were four that were non-Igbo, every other person was an officer of Igbo extraction. That was how it went.”
=>https://dailypost.ng/2017/12/31/role-played-1966-coup-general-atom-kpera/


So, due to the FACT that the notorious January 15 1966 coup was hijacked by some tribalistic elements among the Igbo officers, it was indeed an "Igbo-dominated coup" OR an "Igbo Coup." This is why 6 months later, the mostly Northern Region officers took a massive revenge against the Igbo officers including Aguiyi Ironsi who irresponsibly shielded them from a quick trial. If he had organized their trial, events would definitely have taken a different turn.

fuckingAyaya:
This revelation pain some people enter bone marrow, imagine Reno the loony that wasn't born then telling some miscreants to disregard what IBB wrote in his book.

That were called Reno na real manipulator. He lies a lot to his gullible praise singers. When he see the truth from your write ups, he blocks you.

kokomilala:
@Sirheny007, you know it's a black man problem- we don't read. Those saying it wasn't an Igbo coup, how many accounts on the coup have they put together, even if it's piecemeal by piecemeal?

In a multi ethnolinguistic set up as Nigeria, every act that tilt towards tribalism, favouritsm or selective justice is viewed with suspicion.

The slaughtering of northerners and Yorubas cannot be explained away. These people were killed whilst the Igbos were spared, or in some cases, were asked to flee the country.

Six months later, the brutal reprisal was justified because the Head of State refused to bring the malefactors of the coup to justice.

Ojukwu's argument for declaring war in 1967 was that the north had killed a lot of Igbos in a counter coup six months later. If January 15 1966 coup wasn't an Igbo coup, why the reprisal attack on officers of Igbo extraction six months later, given it had never happened like that before?

What the north did was to give them the north of Fulani treatment. What followed- still follows- is wolf cry of victim hood.

The civil war exposed a lot of things about the fragmentation of the Nigerian state. One, it showed that lumping the ethnic nations into one format or contraption would not work. Two, it exposed the ego, expansionist tendencies of the Igbos- for Ojukwu faced Lagos when he declared war instead of him to head towards Biafra.

The coup was an Igbo coup, but it waa unnecessary.

You mean Mr awaolowo coup.that other of his coul also failed and he drank rat poison 😂😂😂una go explain tire

Christlike01:
"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.

@Christlike01
The quote ABOVE is VERY apt!


In addition, General Atom Kpera (rtd) was a junior officer of the rank of 2nd Lieutenant from today's Benue State who was INNOCENTLY dragged into the senseless January 1966 coup plot BUT he and other non-Igbo officers didn't know it was a deadly coup that was ongoing. Majority of the officers in his Squadron were Igbos. He later got to know after that he was used in a coup and this is why he rose to the rank of a Nigerian Army General because the Army was satisfied that indeed he didn't know but only innocently joined the coup plotters thinking it was a normal military routine they were going for. He granted an interview on this issue in the media as well.

BELOW is the EXCERPT of the 2017 interview publication about the Nigerian Civil War veteran General John Atom Kpera. He is still alive in Benue State.

"Role I Played in 1966 Coup – General Atom Kpera"
Published on December 31, 2017
By John Owen Nwachukwu


“That is why I said I participated in it blindfolded. I wasn’t the ONLY one; ALL our officers, probably ONLY the Igbo officers knew that it was a coup. In that squadron, we were four that were non-Igbo, every other person was an officer of Igbo extraction. That was how it went.”
=>https://dailypost.ng/2017/12/31/role-played-1966-coup-general-atom-kpera/

dododawa1:
IBB should rest.



No igbo killed in d coup.



ONLY southwest,south south, and northern leaders die.


use your brain.

All people that was killed were all Awolowo's enemies, if Igbos weren't his enemy then why should the kill them?

phorget:
All people that was killed were all Awolowo's enemies, if Igbos weren't his enemy then why should the kill them?

Awolowo told you before death?

Something wey Mazi Nnamdi Kanu dey Hammer for radio biafra everytime.

maestroferddi:
Your mumu dey shame me...

Your hero David Hundeyin don dey cry🤣🤣🤣

Even Adegboyega said so in his book, " Why We Struck."

dododawa1:
IBB should rest.



No igbo killed in d coup.



ONLY southwest,south south, and northern leaders die.


use your brain.

Go and do your worst. It is an Igbo coup. Tell all your village people to go for revenge against Igbos.

fuckingAyaya:
This revelation pain some people enter bone marrow, imagine Reno the loony that wasn't born then telling some miscreants to disregard what IBB wrote in his book.

but what revelation is that? does that rewrite the fact that hausa and yoruba leaders where executedin the coup while igbo leaders were rescued.

what make it igbo perceived coup was the killings of only other tribes leaders and the 90% of participant to be of igbo. and no one can dispute that ever.

franudi:
Go and do your worst. It is an Igbo coup. Tell all your village people to go for revenge against Igbos.

noted.

SmartyPants:
I think this particular aspect of the IBB saga proves merely that the majority of Nigerians don't have a good working knowledge of English. There was no place where IBB said it wasn't an Igbo coup. He also never said it was, though he did say it eventually took on an ethnic coloration. He merely attempted to show both sides of the argument while finally hinting that those who saw it as an ethnic coup had good reasons to do so, but people have willfully or stupidly taken it out of context to further unnecessary agendas.

You are very correct. Even the law profession is not left out of this menace.
Imagine the 25% FCT status in the last post election debate.
Many people are not mischievous. They don't just comprehend the English language well.

It's pathetic that when a statement is an half-truth, it does more evil than a total untruth.
The historical fact is the coup wasn't planned as an Igbo coup ab initio but it ended up being considered so given events resulting from it. It is good to avoid aggravating the mutual distrust between major ethnicities in Nigeria which were involved all along till 1970 by stating the facts and drawing the lessons learnt. It doesn't make the Igbo worse than the Yoruba, or justify the evils of the North, etc.

If someone who was a major act in the coup and of different ethnicity says it's not an Igbo coup and people still think otherwise then it means their belief is fueled by something else other than the quest for facts and truth.

[quote author=FuckFuckPastor post=134273373][/quote]It's a coup against Nigeria unity

Freetech:
This useless and lazy boy, a drop-out

He make money exploiting the gullibility of the youths.

Ibb in his book said the coup was National at the begining but was converted to Igbo coup towards the end just like they highjacked labour party
Of the 21 killed only 1 was from the SE, so what's that.

Hi jacked Labour Party indeed
Because an Igbo man is the flag bearer abi..smh

Why is Labour party relevant today 🤔
Is the answer not SUPER OBVIOUS 🤔

But why tell the truth when lying is more convenient 😒🙄

If you people told me it was sunny I'd grab an umbrella

franchasng:
Yorubas select their history. They select what they want to hear at any point in time to pacify their troubled hearts.


Their son Ademulegun who happens to be one of the main coup plotters of the 1966 coup made it clear in his book titled:

"why we struck" that the 1966 coup was never an Igbo coup but Yorubas brushed it aside, hated that Yoruba gallant soldier and his book because the book wasn't telling them what they wanted to hear.


The same reason they hate Obasanjo; because he didn't align with their Yoruba egbe tribalism, treachery and hatred for Igbos.


Tinubu haven studied and understood his Yoruba tribe now took a twist after his stint as Lagos Governor and started cheerleading Igbo hatred and all Yorubas embraced him as their next Awolowo. Sense will not kill Bola Tinubu

You mentioned ADEMULEGUN. ADEMULEGUN was a Brigadier. Samuel Ademulegun was commander of the 1st Brigade during the January 1966 coup. He was killed. He was assassinated. May his soul rest in peace. I got several strange calls with strange numbers yesterday. Armoury was not opened according to what a fool said when all their brothers escaped but ammunition was available when Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Maimalari were killed.

Softmirror:
Like David Hundeyin like IBB both have one thing in common. Telling LIES........

Out of all of David Hundeyin's allegations against Tinubu none turned out to be true. Not even in the court of law in the United States of America.

IF THINGS DIDN'T GO WRONG ACCORDING TO PLAN, AND THE IGBO 95% DOMINATED COUP PLOTTERS CONTINUED SUCCESSFUL, RUNNING OBVIOUSLY AN IGBO GOVERNMENT. EVERY IGBO WILL BE PROUD TODAY LIKE THEY WERE PRIDEFUL WHEN MAKING MOCKERY OF OTHERS AND NOT SEEK TO DENY 'THEIR OWN COUP' AN IGBO COUP WHICH WAS THEIR PRIDE BEFORE THE COUNTER COUP THAT HUMBLED AS WELL AS HUMILATED THEM. AND EVER SINCE, AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY THE IGBO MAN TRIES TO FREE HIMSELF OF THIS HUMILIATION. THAT IS WHAT IBB'S BOOK MEANS TO THEM, DESPITE CONTRADICTORY IN IBB'S OWN ACCOUNT, WHICH IS VERY OBVIOUS IN HIS BOOK.

It is interesting how IBB didn't write about the counter coup which he also participated fully. One which purpose was to kill Igbo officers, of which they actually did kill them simply because of the obvious perception that the coup, one which needs no arguing was an Igbo coup. Else why were the running after Igbo officers to kill them? Was it simply because Igbo officers wives and Igbos in the North were making a mockery of Tafawa Balewa, Sardauna and others who were not Igbos?! Why the mockery by Igbos?! It was because even Igbos themselves saw it as 'OUR COUP' an Igbo coup and so they were jubilating the intial success of the coup, an Igbo coup.

Am not trying to change your mind about igbos, but here is one more fact you must know.
Did you know that about 60% of all the majors in nigeria millitary as at January 1966 are igbos ? While the rest of the country share the remaining percentage.
If you factor this in, you will understand why most of them are igbos

givedemwotowoto:
Ademoyega himself admitted this.

[b]By the way, if the Awolowo story didn’t have substance to it, he wouldn’t have mentioned it in the book, because coincidentally, all the people that ended up dead were Awolowo’s enemies. Even Ademoyega admitted that Nnamdi Azikiwe wasn’t part of their strike plan.

I see. So Nnamdi Azikiwe who, amongst many other Igbo people, ‘miraculously’ escaped the onslaught was Awolowo’s best friend according to your nonsensical bolded statement.
Una just dey mad freely for this forum.
Now, let’s turn the tables and assume that the FIRST-EVER coup in the history of Nigeria was perpetrated by IBB and many other Fulani soldiers to kill Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe (prime minister), Ojukwu, Obi of Onitsha, Ooni of Ife, Oba of Benin, Alake of Egba and many other prominent leaders from the East and SW while sparing the lives of equally ‘corrupt’ Tafawa Balewa (the president at the time, Emir of Kano, Ahmadu Bello (and also assuming the fulanis were the majority in the government then)
Subsequently after the coup, the Hausas and the Hausa soldiers’ wives were seen celebrating the killings on the streets and a Fulani/Hausa man was installed to replace the slaughtered Nnamdi Azikiwe and he (The Hausa man) refused to punish his coup plotter brothers as the head of State. Now I ask you Chinedu and I want you to be sincere or remain cursed by the universe till the end of time, would you not call it a Fulani coup?
Would you agree if someone told you everybody in govt was marked for killing but all the Hausas/fulanis just miraculously and COINCIDENTALLY escaped?
What happened then was an attempt at dominating other tribes by the igbos but as fate would have it, they were checked, tamed and still remain tamed to this day.
Igbos are never going to be trusted ever again. If you could do that as minority, then one wonders what you would do if you were powerful.
Kaduna was an Ibo boy trusted by the North to an extent that only a few knew he was not a northerner. He knew the private residence and room of the then Sardauna of Sokoto but what did the North get in return? Betrayer but today, you igbos want to give that betrayers tag to the Yorubas.
It would have been fair if ALL the leaders in power then were killed without sparing a single soul (including Azikiwe) and if soldiers of northern extractions were carried along and also if an Igbo man wasn’t the best person deemed worthy of taking over the mantle of leadership following the carnage
Be very careful next time and let the sleeping lions lie in peace. Let’s stop opening this old wound.

SmartyPants:
I think this particular aspect of the IBB saga proves merely that the majority of Nigerians don't have a good working knowledge of English. There was no place where IBB said it wasn't an Igbo coup. He also never said it was, though he did say it eventually took on an ethnic coloration. He merely attempted to show both sides of the argument while finally hinting that those who saw it as an ethnic coup had good reasons to do so, but people have willfully or stupidly taken it out of context to further unnecessary agendas.

Do you have the book? If so drop the relevant part here let's all read and judge for ourselves

SmartyPants:
I think this particular aspect of the IBB saga proves merely that the majority of Nigerians don't have a good working knowledge of English. There was no place where IBB said it wasn't an Igbo coup. He also never said it was, though he did say it eventually took on an ethnic coloration. He merely attempted to show both sides of the argument while finally hinting that those who saw it as an ethnic coup had good reasons to do so, but people have willfully or stupidly taken it out of context to further unnecessary agendas.

People don't know that Babangida is and remain a maradona. He has a way of creating confusion.

I've made up my mind not to read his book bcoz he hasn't changed from his maradonic ways of life.

One would expect him at 88 years to speak the truth at quarter to his grave but he would never.

Imagine him saying that it was Abacha that annulled the election. Of course it's convenient for him to say that bcoz most of the AFRC members are dead now. So, let him continue to lie.

Babangida summoned AFRC meeting that June 23 at Abuja and Abacha and others were at the Lagos airport when the annulment was announced. Abacha, Diya, others heard the annulment at the airport.

Why's he deceiving and confusing people? I was 25 years old then. IBB remain a liar and I'm very sorry for him. I don't know what he's afraid of. All the trash he wrote in his book aren't new.

Watch out how God will make him to remain alive until he rewrite that book and tell Nigeria and Nigerians the truth. It's after that that death will take him. For now, he would remain indoor.

IBB would not die until he rewrite the book and tell us the truth. All these Abacha this, Supreme military council that, he would not die.

dododawa1:
IBB should rest.



No igbo killed in d coup.



ONLY southwest,south south, and northern leaders die.


use your brain.

Col Unegbe was Igbo tho

Great0ne1:
Am not trying to change your mind about igbos, but here is one more fact you must know.
Did you know that about 60% of all the majors in nigeria millitary as at January 1966 are igbos ? While the rest of the country share the remaining percentage.
If you factor this in, you will understand why most of them are igbos

Wow, I love this but you should as well explain to us why and how the tribe (the Igbo) having the most people in power and in the military at the time ended up being the least affected in the coup when it’s supposed to be the opposite. It should be the “more the number, the more the probability of getting affected”.
Since igbos were more, it’s naturally expected that they should be the most affected (just common sense but I understand that it’s not and can never be common)
Why didn’t they kill any prominent Igbo leader? Also, since their motive was to kill everyone making up the ‘corrupt’ government of which Azikiwe was a part of, were all the igbos in power then corruption-free? Were they saints? So, it’s only the Yoruba and Fulani leaders that were corrupt, right?
Chinedu, do well to explain to us just the same way you explained why the perpetrators were majorly Igbos.
Now tell us why the victims were 99.9% prominent non-Igbos.
You start a silly fight then come out to play victim later😏. They launched a counterattack on you and have made sure you remained suppressed and away from power ever since but you’re here crying about marginalization as if you did nothing to warrant it.

Freetech:
This useless and lazy boy, a drop-out

He make money exploiting the gullibility of the youths.

Ibb in his book said the coup was National at the begining but was converted to Igbo coup towards the end just like they highjacked labour party
Of the 21 killed only 1 was from the SE, so what's that.

Wickedlywicked:
.
Now tell us why the victims were 99.9% prominent non-Igbos.
You start a silly fight then come out to play victim later😏. They launched a counterattack on you and have made sure you remained suppressed and away from power ever since but you’re here crying about marginalization as if you did nothing to warrant it.

10 people were killed NOT 21. See the list below.
The coup failed because one of the main targets, Ironsi, survived

Great0ne1:
Am not trying to change your mind about igbos, but here is one more fact you must know.
Did you know that about 60% of all the majors in nigeria millitary as at January 1966 are igbos ? While the rest of the country share the remaining percentage.
If you factor this in, you will understand why most of them are igbos

I hope you know that you are actually reinforcing the fact of it being an Igbo while thinking you are making an excuse for it being an Igbo coup.

Konquest:
First off, it's brilliant you attached that screenshot up there because Hundeyin himself (who was born in 1990) CLEARLY stated that Ibrahim Babangida contradicted himself in the book.

It's highly irresponsible that some young people of Igbo origin in 2025 would go about rewriting the established historical FACTS that we already know right from the 1960s and even we conclusively thrashed this out in 2012 on this same Website with several CLEAR references when Achebe wrote that his infamous last book.

This is the major reason why the January 1966 coup was rightly termed an Ibo (Igbo Coup) because even though they recruited a few gullible people like Ademoyega who were NOT Igbo and a large number of the non-Igbo officers such as John Atom Kpera a Tiv man who rose to become a General in the military did NOT know that they were being illegally used during the 1966 coup until after the coup had ended. John Atom Kpera who is from Benue State CLEARLY stated this FACT in several interviews in the past. He said most of the officers in his military unit were Igbo-speaking and ONLY 4 of them were non-Igbos, and they non-Igbos were NEVER told that a coup was taking place despite being drafted out on operation.


Fourth, General John Atom Kpera (rtd) was a junior officer of the rank of 2nd Lieutenant from today's Benue State who was INNOCENTLY dragged into the senseless January 1966 coup plot BUT he and other non-Igbo officers didn't know it was a deadly coup that was ongoing. Majority of the officers in his Squadron were Igbos. He later got to know after that he was used in a coup and this is why he rose to the rank of a Nigerian Army General because the Army was satisfied that indeed he didn't know but only innocently joined the coup plotters thinking it was a normal military routine they were going for. He granted an interview on this issue in the media as well.

BELOW is the EXCERPT of the 2017 interview publication about the Nigerian Civil War veteran General John Atom Kpera. He is still alive in Benue State.

"Role I Played in 1966 Coup – General atom kpera"
Published on December 31, 2017
By John Owen Nwachukwu


“That is why I said I participated in it blindfolded. I wasn’t the ONLY one; ALL our officers, probably ONLY the Igbo officers knew that it was a coup. In that squadron, we were four that were non-Igbo, every other person was an officer of Igbo extraction. That was how it went.”
=>https://dailypost.ng/2017/12/31/role-played-1966-coup-general-atom-kpera/


So, due to the FACT that the notorious January 1966 coup was hijacked by some tribalistic elements among the Igbo officers, it was indeed an "Igbo-dominated coup" OR an "Igbo Coup." This is why 6 months later, the mostly Northern Region officers took a massive revenge against the Igbo officers including Aguiyi Ironsi who irresponsibly shielded them from a quick trial. If he had organized their trial, events would definitely have taken a different turn.

longtime mr Konquest. You're still here hiding in the background and spewing tribal garbage? A leopard never changes its spots as they say, or should I say, Chameleon?

Ademoyega was the most educated and oldest of the main plotters so its safe to assume he was the mastermind. Those targeted and eliminated were responsible for Obafemi Awolowo's imprisonment. It's possible they felt he was wrongfully convicted and wanted him released, IBB wouldn't put that in his book if there was no substance to it.

Ademoyega himself admitted Azikiwe wasn't on their target list. He published his book over 15 years after the coup, many years after the major players had passed, so he wasn't trying to please anyone, he knew these people and worked with them, and still saw what happened after the coup, and he still stamped his feet that it wasn't ethnic motivated, it failed due to miscommunication

I believe him. Young officers, didn't have a perfect plan, didn't have mobile phones, were about to do what hadn't been done before, something was bound to go wrong.

The actions of senior offices like Ironsi and Ojukwu, some of who were targets for elimination, eventually foiled the coup attempt, and the rest is history.

Don't you love documented history? Lovely.

[quote author=FuckFuckPastor post=134273373][/quote]Some ediots will not still believe because of their hatred.