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seunmsg:
Awolowo who was in prison planned a coup using 95% of Igbo soldiers to execute the coup. Somehow, he forgot to plan his own rescue from prison. And the Igbo soldiers he used to plan the coup killed everyone except Igbo military and political leaders. They then handed over power to another Igbo leader instead of Awolowo. And for six months, the new Igbo leader of Nigeria refused to release Awolowo who planned everything from prison.

Wawu, what a story. The only thing more ludicrous than this story is Nnamdi Kanu telling his fellow Obingooos that Buhari died and was replaced by a clone from Sudan. The fact that same set of cretins pushing the Awolowo coup rubbish were the same set of people that believed the Jubril from Sudan story says it all.

Every easterners know the truth but the fear that the north will keep reminding them of the attrocities and greediness of their fathers is what is motivating them to think they can pin it on an innocent person ! this is going to be their biggest mistake !

seunmsg:
Awo’s number one political enemy as at that time was Nnamdi Azikiwe. So, how convenient was it for Awo who was in prison to recruit Igbo officers including Azikiwe’s cousin to help him kill all his political enemies except Azikiwe? Ehn Omo Ibo, make it make sense please.

Also, are you saying Ademulegun, Maimalari, Ralph Sodeinde, James Pam, Unegbe etc were all enemies of Awolowo?

Finally, Special Branch headed by the British investigated the coup. In fact, they knew about the coup long before it was carried out. So, how come they missed the fact that Awolowo was the brain behind the coup? How come it was an IBB who was a rank and file officer in 1966 that uncovered what Special Branch couldn’t uncover?

As at that time, Zik and Awo were in an alliance, so Awo had no real reason to send his coupists to exterminate Zik.

Ademulegun, Unegbe e.t.c were not politicians, so Awo's coupists only killed them as they could stand in the way of the coup being successful.
Also those few Yoruba officers could have been Akintola's people, so Awolowo may have marked them down for elimination, as he wouldn't want any pro-Akintola officer raising dust.
Awolowo's coupist also killed an Igbo officer named Lt. col Unegbe. I wonder why they did that.

Babangida was already an officer in 1966. He even took part in the so-called revenge coup of July 1966, so Babangida was a front row observer of what happen then.

Babangida's book is a huge testimony that exonorates Igbos. As a former head of state, he must also be privy to highly classified intelligence reports of the happenings of that period. Awolowo's coup was an evil that befell Nigeria.

Pazienza
Bkayy
Ekealterego

Hehehehehehe...... when last did an igboman do the 'Fajuyi' - die for others?
Thanks for making.me laff ds hot afternoon.

OfoIgbo:
Those Igbo officers killed all of Awolowo's enemies

Those Igbo officers did not kill Awolowo, even though he was a sitting duck in prison in Nigeria

richie240:
Hehehehehe.......I must've touched a nerve!


Na comprehension issue u get my boy.
I was referring to those of you trying so hard to rewrite history. Not to u in particular ....... except u are among those perpetrating such acts.

Go back and read that post, this time slowly.

Okay stewpid man

OfoIgbo:
As at that time, Zik and Awo were in an alliance, so Awo had no real reason to send his coupists to exterminate Zik.

Ademulegun, Unegbe e.t.c were not politicians, so Awo's coupists only killed them as they could stand in the way of the coup being successful.
Also those few Yoruba officers could have been Akintola's people, so Awolowo may have marked them down for elimination, as he wouldn't want any pro-Akintola officer raising dust.
Awolowo's coupist also killed an Igbo officer named Lt. col Unegbe. I wonder why they did that.

Babangida was already an officer in 1966. He even took part in the so-called revenge coup of July 1966, so Babangida was a front row observer of what happen then.

Babangida's book is a huge testimony that exonorates Igbos. As a former head of state, he must also be privy to highly classified intelligence reports of the happenings of that period. Awolowo's coup was an evil that befell Nigeria.

Pazienza
Bkayy

"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 [b][/b]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.



Let me emphasize what IBB said again “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”.

richie240:
Hehehehehehe...... when last did an igboman do the 'Fajuyi' - die for others?
Thanks for making.me laff ds hot afternoon.

Three million Igbos and other Biafrans died for Awolowo's coup.

Your question satisfactorily answered

seunmsg:
President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, 'A Journey In Service: An Autobiography', February 2025.

Of course Awo did not plan for any killings in Eastern Nigeria because he was in a political alliance with NCNC, and there wouldn't have been any reason killing his political allies. But he made sure to eliminated all his political enemies.

Yet again I have to thank Babangida for pointing out that Awolowo was to be the main beneficiary of that coup.

Pazienza
Bkayy
Ekealterego

OfoIgbo:
Of course Awo did not plan for any killings in Eastern Nigeria because he was in a political alliance with NCNC, and there wouldn't have been any reason killing his political allies. But he made sure to eliminated all his political enemies.

Yet again I have to thank Babangida for pointing out that Awolowo was to be the main beneficiary of that coup.

Pazienza
Bkayy
Ekealterego

Seems you can’t read and understand very well. Please read again slowly “ 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”

The part in bold is IBB’s conclusion that it was clearly an Igbo coup.

seunmsg:
Seems you can’t read and understand very well. Please read again slowly “ 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”

The part in bold is IBB’s conclusion that it was clearly an Igbo coup.

Of course we all know the outsiders that labelled it an Igbo coup. They are the same people that starved millions of Biafrans to death.

You still don't want to point out the fact that it was Igbo people that scuttled Awolowo's coup. How can an Igbo man scuttle an Igbo coup.
Awolowo's coup will remain so, thanks to Babangida.

The major point is still the fact that Awolowo eliminated all his political opponents and those who were responsible for imprisoning him, in that coup

Na so una like awo reach??

OfoIgbo:
Three million Igbos and other Biafrans died for Awolowo's coup.

Your question satisfactorily answered

ScamHunter:
Eliminated all his political enemies and sowed an eternal discord by keeping mum when the British tagged it an Igbo coup.Talk of chameleonic double-facedness. No wonder hell gets hotter and hotter for him.

So Awolowo single-handedly conquered the c0wardly Ibo tribe like Tinubu?

Shows Yoruba became your Colonial Masters after the British left.

ScamHunter:
Eliminated all his political enemies and sowed an eternal discord by keeping mum when the British tagged it an Igbo coup.Talk of chameleonic double-facedness. No wonder hell gets hotter and hotter for him.

All these Igbo people with lies and propaganda are 5 & 6 ....

nairalanda1:
He had nothing to do with the 1966 coup. He was in prision, and the coupists had no way of contacting him without triggering the suspicions of Special Branch.

Plus the coupists' inspiration was from other African coups, not from any politican, as sympathetic to UPGA as they were.

MUMU! YOU ARE BEING RATIONAL WITH PEOPLE WHINING YOU?? DID YOU ASKED HIM WHY THE NORTHERNERS DEEMED IT FIT TO DECLARED A GENOCIDE ON THEM AND ALMOST WIPED THEM FROM THE SURFACE OF NIGERIA??you think they don’t know the truth?? All these whining na gaslighting zik used all his life that failed him woefully then transfer the enviness to their generations!

That's ok my boy!

nairalanda1:
Okay stewpid man

Shivisee1:
MUMU! YOU ARE BEING RATIONAL WITH PEOPLE WHINING YOU?? DID YOU ASKED HIM WHY THE NORTHERNERS DEEMED IT FIT TO DECLARED A GENOCIDE ON THEM AND ALMOST WIPED THEM FROM THE SURFACE OF NIGERIA??you think they don’t know the truth?? All these whining na gaslighting zik used all his life that failed him woefully then transfer the enviness to their generations!

This one is too loud.

richie240:
Hehehehehehe...... when last did an igboman do the 'Fajuyi' - die for others?
Thanks for making.me laff ds hot afternoon.

Another lie. Fajuyi never died for Ironsi. At least, TY Danjuma is still alive and hopefully will release his own memoir soon. It beats me how Lagos-Ibadan expressway media cook up these lies. Fajuyi, a man marked for death by the coup plotters who even tried negotiating away Ironsi just for the coup plotters to spare him ended up being portrayed as "died for Ironsi"

Hehehehehe..... is that the version of the lie ur progenitors told u?

I feel for una Sha. I understand una plight. The weight and stigma of that 1966 coup nor be beans.

ScamHunter:
Another lie. Fajuyi never died for Ironsi. At least, TY Danjuma is still alive and hopefully will release his own memoir doon. It beats me how LagosoIbadan expressway media cook up these lies. Fjuyi, a man maeked for death by the coup plotters who even tried negotiating away Ironsi just for the coup plotters to spare him ended up being portrayed as "died for Ironsi"

richie240:
Hehehehehe..... is that the version of the lie ur progenitors told u?

I feel for una Sha. I understand una plight. The weight and stigma of that 1966 coup nor be beans.

Read agin wht I typed. Carefully this time.

richie240:
Hehehehehe..... is that the version of the lie ur progenitors told u?

I feel for una Sha. I understand una plight. The weight and stigma of that 1966 coup nor be beans.

Read again wht I typed. Carefully this time.

No need to argue with u my boy.
Ngwa, take am!
vvvvv

https://thesun.ng/adekunle-fajuyi-a-soldier-of-peace/?amp

ScamHunter:
Read again wht I typed. Carefully this time.

richie240:
No need to argue with u my boy.
Ngwa, take am!
vvvvv

https://thesun.ng/adekunle-fajuyi-a-soldier-of-peace/?amp

The Sun? Pathetic.

Just tell us the sun belongs to 'lagos-ibadan' media, and as such 'isn't credible' enuff 4 u.

ScamHunter:
The Sun? Pathetic.

richie240:
Just tell us the sun belongs to 'lagos-ibadan' media, and as such 'isn't credible' enuff 4 u.

Not necessarily, but they only shared their lies like traditionally lazy Nigerian journalists. Just the way most print media post the lie that Fajuyi died for Ironsi

ScamHunter:
Eliminated all his political enemies and sowed an eternal discord by keeping mum when the British tagged it an Igbo coup.Talk of chameleonic double-facedness. No wonder hell gets hotter and hotter for him.

He also masterminded operation python dance as well as the heist of dragging Kanu back from Kenya.

Exactly!
There's no lie too big for desperate people to tell.

aswani:
He also masterminded operation python dance as well as the heist of dragging Kanu back from Kenya.

FFK and some people go explain tire🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩. IT WASN'T IGBO COUP✅
IBB saw a movie and explained what happened in the movie but FFK that was sleeping when the movie was going on is now telling us that he understands the movie more than IBB.

FFK doesn't have fear of God.

OfoIgbo:
As at that time, Zik and Awo were in an alliance, so Awo had no real reason to send his coupists to exterminate Zik.

Ademulegun, Unegbe e.t.c were not politicians, so Awo's coupists only killed them as they could stand in the way of the coup being successful.
Also those few Yoruba officers could have been Akintola's people, so Awolowo may have marked them down for elimination, as he wouldn't want any pro-Akintola officer raising dust.
Awolowo's coupist also killed an Igbo officer named Lt. col Unegbe. I wonder why they did that.

Babangida was already an officer in 1966. He even took part in the so-called revenge coup of July 1966, so Babangida was a front row observer of what happen then.

Babangida's book is a huge testimony that exonorates Igbos. As a former head of state, he must also be privy to highly classified intelligence reports of the happenings of that period. Awolowo's coup was an evil that befell Nigeria.

Pazienza
Bkayy
Ekealterego

Nice one. Awo and zik rivalry happened before independence. By 1966 Awolowo was romancing zik for alliance against the north which installed akintola to finish Awolowo kpatakpata

I understand ur plight Nwokem.
You had rather believe the lies passed down to u by ur progenitors.
I gerrit!

ScamHunter:
Not necessarily, but they only shared their lies like traditionally lazy Nigerian journalists. Just the way most print media post the lie that Fajuyi died for Ironsi

nairalanda1:
Awo had nothing to do with the coup (and the coup was not an Igbo coup, it was a socialist coup carried out by leftists in the Army).

Achebe's book 'Man of the people' did not predict that Awolowo would carry out the coup.

Infact this is the exact quote from the book
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The coupists were certainly symphatetic to Awo's socialist leanings and may have eyed him as the leader of a future government , but at the end had they succeded it would have been a troika of Ifeajuana and two others, and many more executions , including of Igbo politicans would have happened.

Nzeogwu alluded to what was to have happened in his last media interview where he observed that the people asked to handle the coup in the East had messed up. Had they done what they were supposed to do, many would have died there too.

That January 15, 1966 coup was originally supposed to be a nationalistic coup but it was hijacked by some Igbos especially from the East of River Niger who Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu accused of tribalism in his interview before he passed on and these "school boy" mentality coup plotters proceded to execute the civilian and military leaders of other regions in the North, West, and Midwest WITHOUT killing any of their own. This is the reason why the irresponsible largely Igbo-led coup has been termed right from the late 1960s as an Igbo coup till date!

ScamHunter:
Another lie. Fajuyi never died for Ironsi. At least, TY Danjuma is still alive and hopefully will release his own memoir doon. It beats me how LagosoIbadan expressway media cook up these lies. Fjuyi, a man maeked for death by the coup plotters who even tried negotiating away Ironsi just for the coup plotters to spare him ended up being portrayed as "died for Ironsi"

Fajuiyi was Awos recruitment officer for the coup..
He recruited all the boys involved in the coup and trained them in a course in Abeokuta before the coup where he brainwashed all of them.
This was why he was penciled down for murder by the Northern boys.
Lieutenant Walbe already explained this in an interview in the book "Gowon" by professor Isawa Elaigwu.

Isawa Elaigwu: On 29th July, Lt Walbe and Major Danjuma were in effective contact at the State House after the change of guards. It was then that both officers walked up to Ironsi, saluted, and brought both Ironsi and Fajuyi downstairs. they were handed over to Lt Walbe(by Major Danjuma) to take charge. Lt Walbe and his troops took the two men to an area of bush at Ibadan where they subjected Ironsi to questions about the January coup and the Northern leaders and officers who died then. From the accounts of those who were there, Ironsi played the part of a very good soldier. Contrary to many publications suggesting that he made confessions, there seem to be no evidence of such confessions.
Similarly there was no evidence that Fajuyi was killed because he interceded for his host or that he refused to 'abandon his guest,' as reported by some publications.
. He was reported to have been very scared, and had been one of those marked down for elimination. By the time Major Akahan phoned Gowon in Lagos and received instructions to ensure that nothing happened to Ironsi, it was late. Even Major Akahan and Major Danjuma(then at Ibadan) had lost control over their boys."

Excerpts from the book "Gowon" by J. Isaka Elaigwu

Lt Walbe:
"As far as I am concerned it was a lie(Yoruba publications). We arrested him as we arrested Ironsi. We suspected him of being party to the January coup. You remember the Battle Group Course which was held at Abeokuta . . . Fajuyi was Commander of the Battle Group course. He ran the course. All those who took part in the January coup were those who had taken part in that course. It gave us the impression that the Battle Course was arranged for the January Coup, so he had to suffer it too. I am sorry about that but that is the nature of the life of the military man".

Excerpts from the book "Gowon" by J. Isawa Elaigwu