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nairalanda1:
Ironsi was on the coupists kill list. Had they been more successful, he would have been a dead man too....in the purges that would have followed the coup succeding.

Also Unegbe was killed. And he was a general, and he was killed in his bed by a targeted unit, not at his office.

Nzeogwu basically stated that had they been more succesful, there might have been a wider purge that would have touched every tribe in the country. That was their plan.

Infact, Ifeajuana's plan during the civil war, was to eventually caputre Lagos, and then cooperate with symphatetic elements in the Nigerian and Biafran Army to remove Gowon and OJukwu and achieve the goals of the 66 coup. That failed, and the failure of the Midwestern invasion led to his execution by Ojukwu alongside others (one of whom was a Marxist ideologue).

And while they may have been symphatetic to Awo, I doubt they were going to let him rule.

Also, most of the soldiers were not Igbo. The rank and file were mainly middle belters and northerners. The officer cadre was middle belter and Igbo mostly then.

pazienza:
Awolowo later in life was also accused by IBB of trying to overthrow his government, ie another coup attempt!
He was given the option of exile or jail, Awolowo decided to take his own life to save face.
It was Jakande who leaked Awolowo secret meetings he attended to IBB and for this Awolowo felt betrayed by Jakande and indeed did lay a curse on Jakande, Yorubas try to mute this ugly history!

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.

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.

kolaaderin:
do we need to say it over and over again? Flat skull is an obvious missing vital brain cells. This lot were born with infused flat skulls and they are genetically missing that part of brain completely.

pazienza:
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

aswani:
Per the text in bold, I am genuinely interested, where or when did IBB say this?

Of course it should be in this book he has Just published, shouldn't it?

He wouldn't have left something so important out, would he?

pazienza:
Awolowo tried to overthrow IBB government, he called meetings which Jakande attended and ratted him out to IBB who played the tape to Awolowo!

Do you deny these?

aswani:
How can I deny what there's no proof of?

I guess it would come out in his book soon assuming it was true if course.

pazienza:
https://www.legit.ng/1169589-what-led-death-chief-obafemi-awolowo.html

aswani:
And a non descript website like that is your proof?

A website that provided zero proof and where the writer uses the words "self murder" apart from other grammatical and typographical errors.

You should be ashamed to reference that website, I wrote better English at primary school.

Shane truly catch me for you!

pazienza:
And you are not ashamed of the lies your demonic people have heaped and continue to heap on Ndiigbo since 1960?

How do you breath?