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LibertyRep:
So Baba too been wan japa

T.Y Danjuma has been a kingmaker for ages.

No wonder the wealth.

Odin13:
Odin is god of war and wisdom

Am not your regular human..

Softmirror:
Lol 😂. Such seniority didn't apply after Abacha died otherwise Abubakar Abdulsalam wouldn't have been Head of State.

Bluffly:
Spits over foolishness and bereftness.

Odin13:
Reason I hate imps and fools

God bless Nigeria

chidi2003:
Jeremiah Oseni, was the most Senior Officer after the death of Abacha.

Jlow2:
With all dimka s bravery na woman and beer make them catch am for Afikpo

SerpentAWOLOWO:
Yoruba

Shame shame shame

Tueh

AndroBlaze:
Lol, like we say about you people, your hubris and pride will always be why you will struggle to lead in a nation as dynamic and multi faceted as Nigeria, as you will keep falling into obvious traps set for you.

First of all, in what you read from the original post, who was it that everybody unanimously agreed should lead the country, clearly IBB said it was his Boss General Danjuma. Now why are you not calling Danjuma a coward for refusing to accept the clear nomination of everyone... were all the officers their not trained properly and suppose to know that OBJ was the number 2 and suppose to automatically take over?

In fact, not only did Danjuma refuse to be HOS, he even refused to serve as no 2, going as far to look for a much junior officer to come and lord it over him! I will post what Danjuma had to say after this and you will realise that this your pride and uncompromising spirit has always been the reason una struggle for this country. In fact I am almost certain that if President Yaradua's vice had been from the SE, he would have struggled to successfully succeed him the manner GEJ was able to and win over a nation, at least temporarily.

Anyway, to cut the long story short, a bloody coup had just been commited against a Northern Muslim Head of state again, and this time not by the "imagined" traditional rivals of the North, you Igbos, but by what would come to be termed as "Christian" Middle belt officers (who (middlebeltans) in fact were always the ones spearheading coups in Nigeria after learning from una). The Northerners as usual were tagging the coup as a "christian coup" again to benefit the middlebelt and ensure another middle belter in the shape of Gowon or something like that takes over. Now do you expect Danjuma, to be stupid enough to fall for this trap??

As for OBJ, he had been a political officer for a while after his exploits in defeating Biafra. He had no troops under his command and it very obvious that he understood he was at an obvious disadvantage when his main rival was not only the same rank as him, but had the backing of most of the troops who were also mainly from his part of the country. Another thing you people forget, that most of the NCOs have always been from the middlebelt anyway. Anyway there was no way he could force his claim without complete loyalty of the troops or at least a guarantee of it, which only the person who holds their loyalty can give (Danjuma in this case).

This was a similar scenario that Ogundipe faced and tried unfortunately to paint and get into the head of Ojukwu, but Ojukwu was to stubborn and not listening. People should learn from history (especially recent history), but its clear some certain people in this country struggle with this.

Even the revenge counter-coup of 1966, Gowon was not the one that started it or was interested in it; it was the likes of Murtala Mohammed, Danjuma and other middle belt soldiers as usual. The coup plotters unanimously agreed they wanted Muritala who they knew and was their co-conspirator, but he cleverly insisted that it would be wrong for them to copy there predecessors and benefit from it directly, lets allow a "Christian" Northern gentleman lead, someone that would be acceptable to many other Nigerians, and probably more importantly to the British. Murtala made Gowon head of state, and when he got tired of waiting, took it back from him in his own coup.....but within 8 months he suffered the consequences of behaving like you people.

Kudos needs to be given to the likes of the Danjumas, OBJs and Ogundipes for living long enough to tell their tale and not being taken down by careless bullets all so they could foolishly boast they were brave, uncompromising and courageous soldiers.... and by the way 99.9% of people lose their bravery when they face a barrel and know certain death awaits them, by now you should be old enough to know that only happens in Hollywood and Bollywood movies. If you don't believe me, listen to the way Danjuma tells the story of how General Ironsi and co were begging him and mere soldiers with him just before they murdered them.

ScamDemicEra:
.... Danjuma said the same thing IBB said in several interviews :

it wasn't an "Igbo coup" but quickly became "Igbo coup" afterwards with taunting and chest beating by Igbo officer's wives in the barrack and some music record dissing Bello and praising Igbo officers and some gruesome pictures of Bello. Madiebo's in his book said some Igbo officers were alarmed and were sure a reprisal coup was inevitable.

I wasn't there but this is true to type of some Igbos as noted by Achebe (RIP) and Igbo superiority hubris littered all over nairaland comments:

"Igbo as a group are not without their flaws. Their success can and did carry deadly penalties: the dangers of hubris, overweening pride, and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or, even worse, that can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness."

jaxxy:
Good review but why the generalisation of "u people" U can counter him without u people statement.

He quoted IBB and u didn't respond to IBB as U people?

Odin13:
Fact ..

TY Danjuma said same … long time ago.


But question . Why are Yoruba Generals always scared

No be mean joke but reality .. when IBB said in Lagos .. that if they beating war drum .. he will go and sleep

Something with this people

Bobloco:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/obasanjo-opted-to-leave-army-when-asked-to-succeed-murtala-%e2%80%95ibb/

Softmirror:
Lol 😂. Such seniority didn't apply after Abacha died otherwise Abubakar Abdulsalam wouldn't have been Head of State.

It was Al Mustapha's doings that made a one time Court Marshalled Abubakar Abdulsalam who was convicted of embezzlement, tempering with Soldiers Salaries in the early 70s Nigeria's Head of State after Abubakar died.

And Abubakar Abdulsalam made sure he looted almost every dime Abacha saved in Nigeria's Treasury to reinforce his one time conviction embezzlement as true.

Mrexcell:
How did he even end up was he later tried and executed?

AndroBlaze:
Lol, like we say about you people, your hubris and pride will always be why you will struggle to lead in a nation as dynamic and multi faceted as Nigeria, as you will keep falling into obvious traps set for you.

First of all, in what you read from the original post, who was it that everybody unanimously agreed should lead the country, clearly IBB said it was his Boss General Danjuma. Now why are you not calling Danjuma a coward for refusing to accept the clear nomination of everyone... were all the officers their not trained properly and suppose to know that OBJ was the number 2 and suppose to automatically take over?

In fact, not only did Danjuma refuse to be HOS, he even refused to serve as no 2, going as far to look for a much junior officer to come and lord it over him! I will post what Danjuma had to say after this and you will realise that this your pride and uncompromising spirit has always been the reason una struggle for this country. In fact I am almost certain that if President Yaradua's vice had been from the SE, he would have struggled to successfully succeed him the manner GEJ was able to and win over a nation, at least temporarily.

Anyway, to cut the long story short, a bloody coup had just been commited against a Northern Muslim Head of state again, and this time not by the "imagined" traditional rivals of the North, you Igbos, but by what would come to be termed as "Christian" Middle belt officers (who (middlebeltans) in fact were always the ones spearheading coups in Nigeria after learning from una). The Northerners as usual were tagging the coup as a "christian coup" again to benefit the middlebelt and ensure another middle belter in the shape of Gowon or something like that takes over. Now do you expect Danjuma, to be stupid enough to fall for this trap??

As for OBJ, he had been a political officer for a while after his exploits in defeating Biafra. He had no troops under his command and it very obvious that he understood he was at an obvious disadvantage when his main rival was not only the same rank as him, but had the backing of most of the troops who were also mainly from his part of the country. Another thing you people forget, that most of the NCOs have always been from the middlebelt anyway. Anyway there was no way he could force his claim without complete loyalty of the troops or at least a guarantee of it, which only the person who holds their loyalty can give (Danjuma in this case).

This was a similar scenario that Ogundipe faced and tried unfortunately to paint and get into the head of Ojukwu, but Ojukwu was to stubborn and not listening. People should learn from history (especially recent history), but its clear some certain people in this country struggle with this.

Even the revenge counter-coup of 1966, Gowon was not the one that started it or was interested in it; it was the likes of Murtala Mohammed, Danjuma and other middle belt soldiers as usual. The coup plotters unanimously agreed they wanted Muritala who they knew and was their co-conspirator, but he cleverly insisted that it would be wrong for them to copy there predecessors and benefit from it directly, lets allow a "Christian" Northern gentleman lead, someone that would be acceptable to many other Nigerians, and probably more importantly to the British. Murtala made Gowon head of state, and when he got tired of waiting, took it back from him in his own coup.....but within 8 months he suffered the consequences of behaving like you people.

Kudos needs to be given to the likes of the Danjumas, OBJs and Ogundipes for living long enough to tell their tale and not being taken down by careless bullets all so they could foolishly boast they were brave, uncompromising and courageous soldiers.... and by the way 99.9% of people lose their bravery when they face a barrel and know certain death awaits them, by now you should be old enough to know that only happens in Hollywood and Bollywood movies. If you don't believe me, listen to the way Danjuma tells the story of how General Ironsi and co were begging him and mere soldiers with him just before they murdered them.

Jlow2:
he faced a military tribunal and confessed gowon , general bisalla (who cried more than murtala s family members) Josef gomwalk (governor of plateau state) all were executed except gowon whom was in England for studies since he was removed from office, obj who later became president after the death mutarla asked England to extradite gowon to face trial when the refused he was removed from his rank and also all privileges as former head of state. But ibb later restored everything to him.

AndroBlaze:
Lol, like we say about you people, your hubris and pride will always be why you will struggle to lead in a nation as dynamic and multi faceted as Nigeria, as you will keep falling into obvious traps set for you.

First of all, in what you read from the original post, who was it that everybody unanimously agreed should lead the country, clearly IBB said it was his Boss General Danjuma. Now why are you not calling Danjuma a coward for refusing to accept the clear nomination of everyone... were all the officers their not trained properly and suppose to know that OBJ was the number 2 and suppose to automatically take over?

In fact, not only did Danjuma refuse to be HOS, he even refused to serve as no 2, going as far to look for a much junior officer to come and lord it over him! I will post what Danjuma had to say after this and you will realise that this your pride and uncompromising spirit has always been the reason una struggle for this country. In fact I am almost certain that if President Yaradua's vice had been from the SE, he would have struggled to successfully succeed him the manner GEJ was able to and win over a nation, at least temporarily.

Anyway, to cut the long story short, a bloody coup had just been commited against a Northern Muslim Head of state again, and this time not by the "imagined" traditional rivals of the North, you Igbos, but by what would come to be termed as "Christian" Middle belt officers (who (middlebeltans) in fact were always the ones spearheading coups in Nigeria after learning from una). The Northerners as usual were tagging the coup as a "christian coup" again to benefit the middlebelt and ensure another middle belter in the shape of Gowon or something like that takes over. Now do you expect Danjuma, to be stupid enough to fall for this trap??

As for OBJ, he had been a political officer for a while after his exploits in defeating Biafra. He had no troops under his command and it very obvious that he understood he was at an obvious disadvantage when his main rival was not only the same rank as him, but had the backing of most of the troops who were also mainly from his part of the country. Another thing you people forget, that most of the NCOs have always been from the middlebelt anyway. Anyway there was no way he could force his claim without complete loyalty of the troops or at least a guarantee of it, which only the person who holds their loyalty can give (Danjuma in this case).

This was a similar scenario that Ogundipe faced and tried unfortunately to paint and get into the head of Ojukwu, but Ojukwu was to stubborn and not listening. People should learn from history (especially recent history), but its clear some certain people in this country struggle with this.

Even the revenge counter-coup of 1966, Gowon was not the one that started it or was interested in it; it was the likes of Murtala Mohammed, Danjuma and other middle belt soldiers as usual. The coup plotters unanimously agreed they wanted Muritala who they knew and was their co-conspirator, but he cleverly insisted that it would be wrong for them to copy there predecessors and benefit from it directly, lets allow a "Christian" Northern gentleman lead, someone that would be acceptable to many other Nigerians, and probably more importantly to the British. Murtala made Gowon head of state, and when he got tired of waiting, took it back from him in his own coup.....but within 8 months he suffered the consequences of behaving like you people.

Kudos needs to be given to the likes of the Danjumas, OBJs and Ogundipes for living long enough to tell their tale and not being taken down by careless bullets all so they could foolishly boast they were brave, uncompromising and courageous soldiers.... and by the way 99.9% of people lose their bravery when they face a barrel and know certain death awaits them, by now you should be old enough to know that only happens in Hollywood and Bollywood movies. If you don't believe me, listen to the way Danjuma tells the story of how General Ironsi and co were begging him and mere soldiers with him just before they murdered them.

AndroBlaze:
Lol, like we say about you people, your hubris and pride will always be why you will struggle to lead in a nation as dynamic and multi faceted as Nigeria, as you will keep falling into obvious traps set for you.

First of all, in what you read from the original post, who was it that everybody unanimously agreed should lead the country, clearly IBB said it was his Boss General Danjuma. Now why are you not calling Danjuma a coward for refusing to accept the clear nomination of everyone... were all the officers their not trained properly and suppose to know that OBJ was the number 2 and suppose to automatically take over?

In fact, not only did Danjuma refuse to be HOS, he even refused to serve as no 2, going as far to look for a much junior officer to come and lord it over him! I will post what Danjuma had to say after this and you will realise that this your pride and uncompromising spirit has always been the reason una struggle for this country. In fact I am almost certain that if President Yaradua's vice had been from the SE, he would have struggled to successfully succeed him the manner GEJ was able to and win over a nation, at least temporarily.

Anyway, to cut the long story short, a bloody coup had just been commited against a Northern Muslim Head of state again, and this time not by the "imagined" traditional rivals of the North, you Igbos, but by what would come to be termed as "Christian" Middle belt officers (who (middlebeltans) in fact were always the ones spearheading coups in Nigeria after learning from una). The Northerners as usual were tagging the coup as a "christian coup" again to benefit the middlebelt and ensure another middle belter in the shape of Gowon or something like that takes over. Now do you expect Danjuma, to be stupid enough to fall for this trap??

As for OBJ, he had been a political officer for a while after his exploits in defeating Biafra. He had no troops under his command and it very obvious that he understood he was at an obvious disadvantage when his main rival was not only the same rank as him, but had the backing of most of the troops who were also mainly from his part of the country. Another thing you people forget, that most of the NCOs have always been from the middlebelt anyway. Anyway there was no way he could force his claim without complete loyalty of the troops or at least a guarantee of it, which only the person who holds their loyalty can give (Danjuma in this case).

This was a similar scenario that Ogundipe faced and tried unfortunately to paint and get into the head of Ojukwu, but Ojukwu was to stubborn and not listening. People should learn from history (especially recent history), but its clear some certain people in this country struggle with this.

Even the revenge counter-coup of 1966, Gowon was not the one that started it or was interested in it; it was the likes of Murtala Mohammed, Danjuma and other middle belt soldiers as usual. The coup plotters unanimously agreed they wanted Muritala who they knew and was their co-conspirator, but he cleverly insisted that it would be wrong for them to copy there predecessors and benefit from it directly, lets allow a "Christian" Northern gentleman lead, someone that would be acceptable to many other Nigerians, and probably more importantly to the British. Murtala made Gowon head of state, and when he got tired of waiting, took it back from him in his own coup.....but within 8 months he suffered the consequences of behaving like you people.

Kudos needs to be given to the likes of the Danjumas, OBJs and Ogundipes for living long enough to tell their tale and not being taken down by careless bullets all so they could foolishly boast they were brave, uncompromising and courageous soldiers.... and by the way 99.9% of people lose their bravery when they face a barrel and know certain death awaits them, by now you should be old enough to know that only happens in Hollywood and Bollywood movies. If you don't believe me, listen to the way Danjuma tells the story of how General Ironsi and co were begging him and mere soldiers with him just before they murdered them.

Antoeni:
My Igbo brothers make una dey active oo, anywhere u see Yoruba person post anything pls read it and make sure there’s a confirmation that lies is not hiding under coz it’s seems like this people has Bleep us up with lies to the outside world … time to expose them

franvincoop:
Is this quote from " There was a country"?

Igbo as a group are not without their flaws. Their success can and did carry deadly penalties: the dangers of hubris, overweening pride, and thoughtlessness, which invite envy and hatred or, even worse, that can obsess the mind with material success and dispose it to all kinds of crude showiness.

Germi9:
Danjuma has never been a Coward as a matter of fact Danjuma was the finest Military officer Nigeria had back in the days.. his capacity was second to non and that is why the likes of IBB feared him. Again.. he led the squard that unlived Aguyi ironsi. Danjuma don’t like to operate from an open space infact he rejected so many opportunities of becoming a civilian President

tishbite43:
Epistle of cowardice.
For the records, Ojukwu outlived Ogundipe by a mile.
Ironsi never begged anyone.
He died gallantly.
Ask Sani Bello and Theophilus Danjuma.

tishbite43:
Epistle of cowardice.
For the records, Ojukwu outlived Ogundipe by a mile.
Ironsi never begged anyone.
He died gallantly.
Ask Sani Bello and Theophilus Danjuma.

Una go de make noise but small small history una no sabi....Ojukwu outlived Ogundipe because he learnt how to runaway like a "Yoruba General" when OBJ and death came calling for him naaa, finally proving that all the early years of education his father gave him in the Southwest was not actually wasted

As for your new hero Danjuma, this is what the old man said recently about your brave General Ironsi, even after all these years he still can't even pretend to respect the man after leading murderers to him (funny fact is that it was also Ironsi that invited Danjuma to escort him on his trip, talk about using your own hand to do yourself....chaiiii pride )

{Journalist}So, he (Adjutant) didn’t create the problem?

{Danjuma} I don’t think you people know what happened. What would you do when you went to bed and woke up and found that all the people from your area in the Army, innocent people were killed in their beds, some of them even with their wives – all done by Igbo officers? We bottled up this for six months from January to July. Then, the opportunity came for revenge.

In the Army, you are taught that when you are fired upon, you take cover and return fire. We didn’t return fire immediately. We gave Ironsi a chance to deal with the people who killed our seniors. He did not. We couldn’t understand! If politicians were corrupt, why didn’t you confine yourself to killing politicians? If it was necessary that the Army should take over, why was it that this same Army should eliminate the cream of that Army and leave us with absolutely useless people, like Ironsi who was a desk-clerk Head of State? We couldn’t understand it. But we bottled this up till July and when the opportunity came, we decided to revenge. This is what happened…

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/i-lost-control-after-we-arrested-aguiyi-ironsi-danjuma/

Softmirror:
Lol 😂. Such seniority didn't apply after Abacha died otherwise Abubakar Abdulsalam wouldn't have been Head of State.

It was Al Mustapha's doings that made a one time Court Marshalled Abubakar Abdulsalam who was convicted of embezzlement, tempering with Soldiers Salaries in the early 70s Nigeria's Head of State after Abacha died.

And Abubakar Abdulsalam made sure he looted almost every dime Abacha saved in Nigeria's Treasury to reinforce his one time conviction embezzlement as true.

AndroBlaze:
Una go de make noise but small small history una no sabi....Ojukwu outlived Ogundipe because he learnt how to runaway like a "Yoruba General" when OBJ and death came calling for him naaa, finally proving that all the early years of education his father gave him in the Southwest was not actually wasted

As for your new hero Danjuma, this is what the old man said recently about your brave General Ironsi, even after all these years he still can't even pretend to respect the man after leading murderers to him (funny fact is that it was also Ironsi that invited Danjuma to escort him on his trip, talk about using your own hand to do yourself....chaiiii pride )

masseratti:
died after a Yoruba man sacrificed his life for him ...dey play .

obaidan:
i see why OBJ dash danjuma Oil Block

EmperorCaesar:
So, you don turn against OBJ again
Na who no know una dey think say una like other people wey no be from una tribe


Spits

tishbite43:
Danjuma can't be my hero.
Where did Ironsi beg anyone?! I've read this interview many times.
Ojukwu fought a way. Ironsi took over power when the lot fell on him. I hope you can say this about Ogundipe.
Ojukwu had a state burial. How about that?!

AndroBlaze:
[b] Uncle you were the one that started it by claiming Ironsi died some sort of heroic gallant death by being harassed and dieing in the bushes by bullets of NCOs nobody even knows the name of till today. They took his stick, beat him with it, stripped him half naked and told their senior officer to shutup while they dealt with him. Do you know what it means in the Army for a real General to be treated that way by his troops, NCOs ooo not even officers....I'm sure you don't have a military backround like some of us do, so you can't understand the level of ignominy. That's why Danjuma still has the effrontery to call him useless till today.

And as for Ojukwu.....you are truly making me speechless. Ogundipe died a christian peaceful death in London knowing nobody shed unnecessary blood on his behalf and he did not shed anybody's blood in vain either.

Ojukwu on the other hand led 3 million largely innocent people to their early graves mainly because he could not stomach the indignity of being a Nigerian and reporting to his mate!! When it was time to pay ultimate price like the rest of them (Nzeogwu did, Banjo and Ifeajuna kind of did too), he ran away faster than Usain Bolt to enjoy the company of loose Abidjan women. He later came back to Nigeria, married a beauty Queen, had another set of children and lived a full life praising Nigeria....and you see nothing wrong with this?!

This is what you call courage, that is exemplary leadership?! Anyway I know not all Igbos have this kind of shameless opinion like you do.

Its like saying Kanu dies in detention now and you will be celebrating the FG giving him a state burial instead of a Biafran one...... even I'd have to say that sounds disgusting. [/b]