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phantom:
😂 😂.. yorubas have been running kita kata like sluts in post war Berlin on this issue for the past 3 days

Make una go rest... e don cast... IT WAS NOT AN IGBO COUP!!

I am still looking for the soft copy of Adewale Ademoyega's "why we struck" so i can post it here for these clueless bigots to read and instantly go mute.

In actual fact, Ademoyega was the mastermind of that coup. NZEOGWU was the face!

Ademoyega did the recruiting of officers into the plan. In addition to the fact he was the most senior in age, he appeared to be the most educated and strategic.

He it was that drafted Major Theophilus Nzegwu, the first igbo air force officer to organise the aircraft that would bring Awo from Calabar prison after the success of the coup.

I will find the soft copy of "why we struck".. I lost my physical copy unfortunately but I'll definitely find it and have it posted here.

PS: Nzeogwu is an igbo man in one breath and his people in delta state are not igbos in another according to these cursed ronu twats 😂... keep spinning your double mouthed selves into a corner.

PSS: Maybe we should also term the obasanjo coup as a yoruba coup and the Buhari/Abacha coups as fulani coups 🤦🏾‍♂️

go and read the book first before running your mouth here

I just downloaded a free copy of the IBB's book online. Let me quickly read what he said about the coup before I come back to comment.

Sulele04:
Why can't we shun tribalism & preach unity.
How will the country move forward with all these stupid arguments in 2025 ?

Is this what dey argue about in the UK or China ?
If is not religious psychosis it is tribalism brain-rot
Why ?

It may seem like a stupid argument to you not to others
This is about writing history accurately to me
Those places you mention are centuries old
They have had their own arguments too
They did not just become great by magic.
Our nation must know the truth of our history so we learn from it not live in denial or falsehood

Felimax:
Who is IBB in the coup to say what is and what is not?
Can the so called igbos answer the so many pressing questions that needed answers?

You should have your brain checked if you think it was no an Igbo coup.

I am not saying anything about this nonsense topic again. Instead of us to be talking about how to make IBB pay for his many atrocities we kept talking about irrelevant issue.

Can the so called Yorubads answer the questions I asked them on why they are working against the Igbos?

Yorubads have proven they are blackmailers.

Awolowo was the coup plotter.

1966 coup was a Yoruba coup.

ValarDoharis:
You're deflecting. Tinubu rigging election was done by him and his supporters. Tinubu has actual voters who mandated him. Nzeogwu wasnt even know in the East before the coup. He had zero votes and zero mandate and as such represented nobody.

I know you badly want it to be an Igbo coup but no, it was a military coup

Doesn't add anything to me if it is an igbo coup or a yoruba coup or hausa coup. The coup had ethnic colouration like IBB said, i will leave it as that.
However, One man or a group of people can not speak for an entire tribe. Tinubu rigged election with the support of people that rigged for him, not the people that voted for him(i didnt vote for him but i wouldnt attack the ones that did). His enabler is INEC and maybe the judiciary.

aribisala0:
It may seem like a stupid argument to you not to others
This is about writing history accurately to me
Those places you mention are centuries old
They have had their own arguments too
They did not just become great by magic.
Our nation must know the truth of our history so we learn from it not live in denial or falsehood

What is the relevance of this "truth" ?
How does it help the country move forward ?

In 2025 our conversations are, Sharia Law, Igbo coup, where is the depth or quality in these conversations.

The country has been regressing since 1960 cause we keep doing the same thing, again in China does their political conversations revolve around such ?

Is there any serious country that is making any decent progress & they revolve their politics around tribe & religion the way Nigeria does ?

Wait but is nzeogwu and igbo man?

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

Come stop lying through your teeth. IBB never said it was an Igbo coup. He even provided statement to buttress the fact that it was not an Igbo coup. He talked about the killing of Lt Col Arthur Unegbe and don't make that stupid talk that it was because he refused to handover the keys to the armoury, because Quartermaster Generals of the army do not hold armoury keys.
Concentrate on your freestuffs business and stop this lying and bigotry. Let God bot curse you.

Felimax:
Who is IBB in the coup to say what is and what is not?
Can the so called igbos answer the so many pressing questions that needed answers?

You should have your brain checked if you think it was no an Igbo coup.

I am not saying anything about this nonsense topic again. Instead of us to be talking about how to make IBB pay for his many atrocities we kept talking about irrelevant issue.

History is a very important subject and it helps to shape the future. Comprehension is also a very key concept and lots of people lack it. IBB stated it clearly that the coup of 15th January, 1966 was not an Igbo coup and he was very right. That coup was a revolutionary coup. There were silent Yoruba officers in that coup plan.. Why did this revolutionaries planned to install Awolowo as the president after the coup? If it was an igbo coup. The British sold this blatant lie as a narrative then and it went viral. IBB was part of those who planned the counter coup of 29th January that finally snow balled to the civil war. What was the agenda of those housa officers that planned and executed the counter coup? Most of those officers have become military heads of state in Nigeria at one point or the other. Starting from Murtala Mohammed, IBB, Abacha, Buhari . It was only TY danjuma who did not become a military head of state and he was part of the counter coup and he was the one who shot and killed Ironsi in Ibadan. IBB spoke the truth in his book and that is a fact!

tunapawizzy:
Doesn't add anything to me if it is an igbo coup or a yoruba coup or hausa coup. The coup had ethnic colouration like IBB said, i will leave it as that.
However, One man or a group of people can not speak for an entire tribe. Tinubu rigged election with the support of people that rigged for him, not the people that voted for him(i didnt vote for him but i wouldnt attack the ones that did). His enabler is INEC and maybe the judiciary.

In Nigeria, everything is tainted by ethnic bias. The #EndSARS protests, initiated, championed, and executed by Lagosians across Lagos and the southern regions, were no exception. What began as a movement led by Yoruba celebrities was later twisted into a supposed Igbo conspiracy to destroy Lagos. Even something as fundamental as voting has been poisoned by small-minded tribalism. The Lagos State governorship election became another battleground, framed as an Igbo scheme to seize control of the state through Gbadebo.

The only thing that has no ethnic colours are when hard working igbo men and women take their hard earned resources as tithes, seeds ,offerings , pledges in yoruba churches

Sulele04:
What is the relevance of this "truth" ?
How does it help the country move forward ?

In 2025 our conversations are, Sharia Law, Igbo coup, where is the depth or quality in these conversations.

The country has been regressing since 1960 cause we keep doing the same thing, again in China does their political conversations revolve around such ?

Is there any serious country that is making any decent progress & they revolve their politics around tribe & religion the way Nigeria does ?

It's History and it helps to reshape people's mindset.

muykem:
They can't read for themselves. IBB is wiser than all their ancestors.

You don't have sense that is why you are dodging the fact that IBB made a case why it was not an Igbo coup with the killing of Lt Col Arthur Unegbe

Felimax:
Ode! Which brown roof are you talking about? The one that is almost bigger that your five Eastern street called states put together.

No part of the East is as developed as almost the worst part of the west. Besides I am from Delta state. Anu!

Fool!
You are suffering from identity crisis!
Who asked you where you came from?
Do I give a Bleep about your state!
Why are you ashamed of mentioning the fact that you were bred in a barracks in Lagos by good Samaritans.
Eeeediot!

aribisala0:
He speaks as a victim
His father was arrested and his family brutalized
But the issue here is
WHAT DID BABANGIDA WRITE in his book
not opinion or debate

JUST FACTS

That
the coup took on an UNMISTAKABLE ETHNIC coloration when they killed the Sardauna and there was NO COUP RELATED ACTIVITY IN THE EASTERN REGION

Those are his words
Nothing to argue about

Did you actually find out why there was no coup activity in the east? Try and have sense. Go and watch the interview of Col Sani Bello rtd on YouTube where he stated that there actually a coup attempt in Enugu. He even stated that the coup plotter had given directives to soldiers who had positioned themselves at various points in the town. Ejoor who was the battalion commander had escaped Ifeajuna in Lagos was given orders by Ironsi to go to Enugu.
He was the one who ordered soldiers back to the barracks and arrested those who gave the order. But Ejoor out of political expediency never talked about his.role in squashing the coup in Enugu.

Putindbutt:
What did you know?, small boy. Can't you read that IBB called it an ethnic colouration and an unmistakable Ibo coup 🤣🤣😂😂
Your hero David Hundeyin has told you not to buy the book 🤣🤣

You lack comprehension..may be they would have translated "unmistakable" in your language for you to understand the meaning..truth has been said and there's nothing you can do about it

renderme:
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/02/24/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode/

We will not forget January 15, 1966.

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

aribisala0:
UNMISTAKABLY IBO COUP
UNMISTAKABLE

Keep dying about it, Igbos own Delta state.
The book is there for the public, nairaland mor0ns cannot change the fact.
Thank God Hausa and Yoruba writers wrote the book😁😆

PDPdestroyer:
Why are we even having this discussion? Call it anything you like but the undisputable facts of the coup remains:
*Non-Igbo political leaders were gruesomely murdered
*Somehow none of the political leaders from the SE got killed
*Majority of the coupists were from the SE
*An Igbo man(Ironsi) became the HoS after the coup
*Ironsi failed to try the coupists
*The revenge coup targeted mainly Igbo officers
....why did they target mainly Igbo officers in the revenge coup? There lies the clue

Because the British media sold the narrative that it was an Igbo coup and they all believed it hook line and sinker. Those officers were revolutionaries. Did you also know that some igbo officers took part in the counter coup that was basically a major counter coup from the northern extract? History is so very important and comprehension too.

renderme:
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/02/24/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode/

Finally, ffk setting the records straight

phantom:
Adewale Ademoyega said it clearly in his book "why we struck" as early as 1981 but the yoruba lagos/ibadan print media mafia have done everything in their power to revise history 😂

Today, the same yorubas who started this madness have carefully rewritten history and painted themselves saints.

Look at what is happening in Lagos and Osun today! It is a well known fact that when it comes to political rascality and thuggery the south west is UMATCHED!!!

These 5 majors saw all these in the polity and decided to put a stop to it.

Awolowo and Azikiwe must have been the only leaders they thought should have been at the helm and explains why they were spared.

You folks should go and read history and stop pushing nauseating propaganda.

You may know it All but so far you are just being clever by half

Yorubas- igbo rivalry dated back as far as 1937 nd it began with Nnamdi Azikiwe and Awolowo rivalry, this two prominent activist drifted in ideology and were known to clash over the competing values of national unity and ethnic diversity.

how do young boys coup intend to impose these two gladiators at the helms, already Nnamdi Azikiwe was the president as at january 1966 so which helms do they want him for again. make it make sense

what began in 1937 till date the rivalry is still on wrewritee write that

https://ojs.unm.ac.id/ijses/article/view/24386

renderme:
In fact IBB described in the book that after the coup, Igbo wives of Igbo officers in the barracks were insulting and mocking northern officers wives. And that the barracks became unbearable for northerners.

Dt betty akeredolus disgusting character na follow come.🤮

Imagine, a division in the Nigeria Army's wives association along ethnicity group...what a shame

renderme:
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Major. Chukwuma kaduna Nzoegwu who's parents are from Delta State was born and brought up in North precisely kaduna, named after the city of kaduna very fluent in Hausa. The only thing Igbo about him was his name but he was as Hausa as any other Hausa man. As Dele Farotimi put it "He was more Hausa than he was Igbo".

He was highly respected in the north so much even when he died fighting for the Biafran side the Northern military officers took his body back to kaduna and buried him with full military respect.

He was a patriot and a nationalist who was fed up with the corruption in government so he led the 1966 coup with the aim of making Awolowo President with the hope that Nigeria will be become a better country. He didn't do it for himself but for the love of God and Country.

Others involved in the coup are:

1. Major. Adewale Ademoyega (Yoruba) author of "why we struck"

2. Captain.G. Adeleke (Yoruba)

3. Major. Ifeajuna (Igbo)

4. Lt. Fola Oyewole (Yoruba) author of "Reluctant rebel"

5. Lt. R. Egbiko (Esan)

6. Lt. Tijani katsina (Hausa/fulanyi)

7. Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Yoruba)

8. Captain. Gibson Jalo (Bali)

9. Captain. Swanton (middle belt)

10. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Urhobo)

11. Lt. Dag Warribo (Ijaw)

12. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Hausa)

13. 2nd Lt. John Atom kpera (Tiv)

I deliberately put their tribes for bigots who bought and spread this falsehood fabricated by their foreign slave masters that it was an "Igbo coup".

They won't tell you Igbo officers where also killed by the coup plotters.

They won't tell you that Lt. Col. Arthur Chinyelu Unegbe was brutally gunned down by Major. Chris Anuforo his own Igbo brother.

They won't tell you Lt. Col. Ojukwu, General Ironsi and Major John Obienu all Igbo officers crushed the coup.

You won't even hear the names of all the other coup plotters because some divisive elements/ bigots want to continue their evil selfish agenda against Ndigbo even though the war ended 55 years ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Ethnic bigot how was this an "Igbo coup" especially when the biggest beneficiary was going to be Awolowo?

Igbo coup yet Igbo officers where k!lled and it was Igbo officers who crushed the coup.

Local champions since una like to bring tribe into everything make una answer nau. I noticed that since this IBB confirmed this in his book many Ronu's have gone quiet.

God forbid but If I was like one of you ethnic ret@rds I'd say it was a Yoruba coup after all most a lot of those involved where Yoruba's and a Yoruba man was going to be the biggest beneficiary.
Why didn't we call the Muritala Mohammed & Buhari coup fulanyi coups?

A responsible government needs to put systems in place to Identify , Name and shame those engaged in tribalism and even enact laws to punish them... Anyway it can't happen now because the most divisive elements are occupying the sit of power right now aided by the same people who manufactured the "Igbo coup" narrative but Going forward we have to outgrow this primitive ethno-religious bigotry and stone age mentality and most importantly we need to apologize to Ndigbo for starters to start the process of healing the wounds of the civil war.

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femi4:
Imagine, a division in the Nigeria Army's wives association along ethnicity group...what a shame

Isn’t that what they do? Who marries into another ethnicity and starts doing parapo? What do they discuss in an association such as the one below? Surely not anything good about their Yoruba in-laws.

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Maradona don dribble them with words…

Major. Chukwuma kaduna Nzoegwu who's parents are from Delta State was born and brought up in North precisely kaduna, named after the city of kaduna very fluent in Hausa. The only thing Igbo about him was his name but he was as Hausa as any other Hausa man. As Dele Farotimi put it "He was more Hausa than he was Igbo".

He was highly respected in the north so much even when he died fighting for the Biafran side the Northern military officers took his body back to kaduna and buried him with full military respect.

He was a patriot and a nationalist who was fed up with the corruption in government so he led the 1966 coup with the aim of making Awolowo President with the hope that Nigeria will be become a better country. He didn't do it for himself but for the love of God and Country.

Others involved in the coup are:

1. Major. Adewale Ademoyega (Yoruba) author of "why we struck"

2. Captain.G. Adeleke (Yoruba)

3. Major. Ifeajuna (Igbo)

4. Lt. Fola Oyewole (Yoruba) author of "Reluctant rebel"

5. Lt. R. Egbiko (Esan)

6. Lt. Tijani katsina (Hausa/fulanyi)

7. Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Yoruba)

8. Captain. Gibson Jalo (Bali)

9. Captain. Swanton (middle belt)

10. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Urhobo)

11. Lt. Dag Warribo (Ijaw)

12. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Hausa)

13. 2nd Lt. John Atom kpera (Tiv)

I deliberately put their tribes for bigots who bought and spread this falsehood fabricated by their foreign slave masters that it was an "Igbo coup".

They won't tell you Igbo officers where also killed by the coup plotters.

They won't tell you that Lt. Col. Arthur Chinyelu Unegbe was brutally gunned down by Major. Chris Anuforo his own Igbo brother.

They won't tell you Lt. Col. Ojukwu, General Ironsi and Major John Obienu all Igbo officers crushed the coup.

You won't even hear the names of all the other coup plotters because some divisive elements/ bigots want to continue their evil selfish agenda against Ndigbo even though the war ended 55 years ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Ethnic bigot how was this an "Igbo coup" especially when the biggest beneficiary was going to be Awolowo?

Igbo coup yet Igbo officers where k!lled and it was Igbo officers who crushed the coup.

Local champions since una like to bring tribe into everything make una answer nau. I noticed that since this IBB confirmed this in his book many Ronu's have gone quiet.

God forbid but If I was like one of you ethnic ret@rds I'd say it was a Yoruba coup after all most a lot of those involved where Yoruba's and a Yoruba man was going to be the biggest beneficiary.
Why didn't we call the Muritala Mohammed & Buhari coup fulanyi coups?

A responsible government needs to put systems in place to Identify , Name and shame those engaged in tribalism and even enact laws to punish them... Anyway it can't happen now because the most divisive elements are occupying the sit of power right now aided by the same people who manufactured the "Igbo coup" narrative but Going forward we have to outgrow this primitive ethno-religious bigotry and stone age mentality and most importantly we need to apologize to Ndigbo for starters to start the process of healing the wounds of the civil war.

- Ryan Adams

phantom:
😂 😂.. yorubas have been running kita kata like sluts in post war Berlin on this issue for the past 3 days

Make una go rest... e don cast... IT WAS NOT AN IGBO COUP!!
🤦🏾‍♂️

Just quote the page and paragraph of the IBB's book that says it wasn't an Igbo coup

That it is Igbo coup or not. Is that why NIGERIA cannot rise from the ashes after more than 58 years. Is that why the Naira keep depreciating? Is that why unemployment is on the rise in Nigeria? Is that why there are many hungry and uneducated almajiris in the North? Is that why our leaders are incompetent in leadership. Nigerians why. Germany,Russia, Rwanda and many other nations has all risen from the ashes of war and crisis because they let the past remain in the past. But we are here debating about coup that took place when about the 70 % of the current population were not yet born. NIgeria ntoor!

Snowx:
You lack comprehension..may be they would have translated "unmistakable" in your language for you to understand the meaning..truth has been said and there's nothing you can do about it

Oya translate it🤣🤣

Some people will have you believe Nigeria has only had one coup

I wonder why 🤔🤔🤔

seunmsg:
Igbos planned a coup and wanted to blame everyone but themselves for it. IBB was even emphatic in his opinion that it was an Igbo coup.

You didn't read where he said Nzogwo has Igbo name but speak Hausa fluently, came from old Midwest, and all the plans was to release Awolowo from prison, that's the ethnic coloration he's talking about