₦airaland Forum

Shivisee1:
The region that lost nearly half of their populations are responsible for the coup, And God made sure they are were justifiably made to face the consequences of the desperation of their tactless idiotic leaders!

So, if it is found that members of your tribe were (at least) partially responsible for that coup, does that mean you guys should have half of your population wiped out?

Ngozi123:
So, if it is found that members of your tribe were (at least) partially responsible for that coup, does that mean you guys should have half of your population wiped out?

If my tribe majorly took part in a coup and turn around to spin it and blame it on an innocent person,then half of my population deserved to be wiped out!

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

This is the irony of all your revisionism

After denigrating all yoruba newspapers and labelling them liars till date
Its still a yoruba newspaper that is your evidence of what led to awolowo death.....
The same yoruba newspapers you say lie all the time? Definitely the news item should be a lie according to you
Stop confusing yourself like many of your tribesmen since IBB book came out

ElSudani:
Yes, that is why Olusola Azikiwe heard about the coup and didn't warn his Prime Minister that a bloody coup was coming.
He conveniently ran away and let his friends die. What betrayal is more than this? These Yoruba people sef.
Should we talk about the relationship between the Sardauna and Nzeogwu? Did you say betrayal?

They were homosexual partners...Nzeogwu was taking the Sardauna's pipe

pazienza:
From Lt Walbe account and ADC Nwankwo account, we can rationally deduce the following:

1. Fajuiyi was marked to be killed by the North because they reckoned that he was the one who trained all the boys who participated in the coup, he ran a course which all those who were involved did.
Infact the only reason Fajuiyi wasn't personally involved in the coup was because he went on overseas course during the execution, but he supported the coup fully. So much for an Igbo coup.


2. The Western region media lied about the circumstances surrounding Fajuiyi death because that's all they always do, lie! Twist truths sell falsehood.
It was easier to do that that admit that Hausa-Fulani came to their region and killed their military governor in Fajuiyi! They didn't want to confront the implications of that, they were more interested in looking for ways to sell Igbo coup agenda and to pin Akintola( the same man who distablized their region and led to Awolowo imprisonment) death on the Igbo and push on with that agenda.
Their modus operandi hasn't changed till today.

3. If they could lie about Fajuiyi death, what else can they not lie about?


My Questions though:

Could it be that Fajuiyi was Awolowo link to the coup, could it be he was working for Awolowo incognito. He allegedly trained the boys involved in the coup, a coup that conveniently killed all Awolowo enemies!
Remember Awolowo has history of coup before, he was imprisoned for the crime of financial misappropriation and treasonable felony! Balewa accused him of hatching plans to overthrow his government.

Also remember that Awolowo actually was accused by IBB of trying to overthrow his government after Jakande ratted him out, and he was given the option of going to prison or exile by IBB government?
https://www.legit.ng/1169589-what-led-death-chief-obafemi-awolowo.html

Every other regional leader was killed , except those not reachable. Zik was outside the country, Okpara was entertaining international visitors and couldn't be reached without harming them. But Awolowo was most vulnerable he was in prison and easily reachable, yet he wasn't killed, why was that?
Could it be he was the masterminder of this coup and had Fajuiyi as his agent who brainwashed young soldiers like Nzeogwu and co into a suicide mission?

Why has this aspect of history not been explored before now? What was Awolowo role in this coup?

Your post is another of your highly insidious, rambling historical inconsistencies and conjectures you are known for. I once debunked your FALSE account years back that it was Awolowo and Yakubu Gowon that teamed up to create states on May 27, 1967,
BUT Chief Harold Dappa-Biriye (who hailed from Bonny Island) media interviews which I still have CLEARLY stating that it was he and other Rivers State leaders of thought including Ken Saro-Wiwa and more that visited Lagos Island several times (where Nigeria's administrative capital was located) and impressed it on General Yakubu Gowon from 1966 to 1967 to create states and move away from regions to reduce the alleged domination of the larger ethnic groups especially from the Igbo in the Old Eastern Region. That 12 new states creation of May 27 1967 by General Yakubu Gowon was effectively carried out after due consultations with the indigenes of those new states contrary the claims you made on that thread post years back.

Second, Ibrahim Babangida NEVER accused Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN (who passed on in 1987 at the age of 78) of trying to overthrow him in any coup! YOU are spreading a recycled FAKE old story here. I was alive and a young adult as of the time Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo passed on and Babangida himself and many world leaders eulogised Awolowo who was given a grand state burial in Ikenne, Ogun State. IBB came into power in August 1985 till 1993, so, he didn't overthrow Awolowo or Jakande directly. Awolowo was a septuagenarian then (so how can an old man of 76 to 78 between 1985 to 1987 be plotting to overthrow IBB?). It's ONLY mentally deranged minds that would sit down in one little dingy corner, fabricate and then spread such defamatory conspiracy theories online!

Third. This same shameless strand among the Igbos are rewriting history by spreading criminal falsehoods that Awolowo plotted the January 1966 coup when the rest of the sane world knows from documented historical facts right from the early 1960s (1962) that Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, Chief Ayo Adebanjo (the lawyer and factional Afenifere member passed on last week), Chief Anthony Enahoro and other leaders of the iconic Action Group Party totalling 17 people were all imprisoned in 1963 on FALSE charges by the NPC/Zik alliance structure which later floundered. Awolowo and the 17 others imprisoned in 1963 for 10 years NEVER committed treason OR plotted from prison ANY Ifeajuna-led coup of January 15, 1966 as irresponsibly being alleged and pushed around by ill-informed young Igbo posters on multiple online platforms.


Chief Obafemi Awolowo Arriving For Sentencing | Jailed For 10 Years For Treason | September 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d-PGsQqNJk?si=dr3-tsQC7WZtpf46
Adeyinka Makinde • Sep 25 2019

Nigeria Chief Awolowo Released From Prison 1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMNa4671Yuw?si=W_YUQiN6YZ78W1xR
John Doe • Nov 21 2019

Obafemi Awolowo: The Best President Nigeria Never Had

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWXWTJC8MPw
HistoryVille • Oct 8 2022


Fourth. It's the same historical FACT that Ibrahim Babangida NEVER said "Yorubas are cowards" in any 1993 interview whether in Hausa or English languages. It's again another defamatory and asinine Igbo fabrication that gained momentum from ipob propaganda websites that I have visited for years now and that FAKE news is being relentlessly spread online by ONLY Igbos even right till last week. Babangida has a lot of Yoruba friends and associates over the years, so, he NEVER spoke condescendingly about Yorubas in any 1993 interview. All these highly offensive fables are being spread by you and other Igbos online and I have said it before that you are particularly known for engaging in sophistry on this website and your insidious falsehoods and half-truths will be debunked and much more. This place is not an ipob website where you can blatantly spread disinformation.

5] The MAJOR reasons why that January 15, 1966 coup has been termed an "Igbo coup" or "Igbo-dominated coup" since the 1966 in publications around Nigeria (NOT your so-called Western Nigeria media you falsely alluded to here) is simply because it was "hijacked" by Igbo officers who the Okpanam-born Kaduna Nzeogwu accused of in his interview he granted after the coup of TRIBALISM due to the fact that they did NOT carry out any killings in the Eastern Region while political and military leaders from other regions of Nigeria were killed.

Historically, ALL the Igbo officers who opened direct gunfire and KILLED the senior politicians and military leaders from the Northern, Western, and Mid-West Regions are all known by name right BELOW. NOBODY from other ethnic group killed Northern, Western and Mid-West leaders... ONLY the Igbos opened gunfire! Then MOST of the officers who took part that infamous coup were Igbos despite a few non-Igbos such as the naive Major Ademoyega and 2nd Lieutenant John Atom Kpera being mentioned. John Atom Kpera later fought as a veteran during the exactly 30 months Nigerian Civil War of July 1967 to January 1970 and rose to become a General from Benue State after it was clearly shown that he knew NOTHING about the coup and he and other non-Igbos in his squadron were drafted to take part in the military exercise by the largely Igbo officers who knew about the coup (without their knowledge of any coup plot!). General John Atom Kpera (rtd) is still alive and granted several interviews and reaffirmed that the 4 non-Igbo officers knew nothing about that irresponsible coup until after it occurred.

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/


6] Last but NOT least, (as an older man here with a vast knowledge for decades now of the geopolitical events before and after the EXACTLY two-and-half years Nigerian Civil War) the perception of that highly irresponsible January 15, 1966 ALL over Nigeria is that it was an "Igbo-dominated coup" OR "Igbo coup" because of the CLEAR FACTS I stated above even though that wasn't the ORIGINAL intention when Nzeogwu and co were selling that vision to some officers, BUT it was later hijacked, gullible officers like Ademoyega were cut off from the real goings on, and the killings MAJORLY occured in the Northern, Western and Mid-West Regions. This is the MAJOR reason why a counter coup or REPRISAL attacks by Northern Region military officers such as Theophilus Danjuma and more against largely Igbo officers took place 6 months later and civil unrests laced with deep public anger targeting ONLY Igbos took place in the Northern Region of Nigeria because that coup which was ORIGINALLY supposed to be a nationalistic coup unfortunately got hijacked and metamorphosed into grand "Igbo coup."


So, DON'T try to rewrite history here.

There is absolutely NOWHERE in IBB’s book where he said that the coup of January 15, 1966, was NOT an Igbo coup.

In fact, he alluded to the contrary in the book excerpt right BELOW, when he said the coup had taken on an ‘unmistakable ethnic coloration. (Meaning the coup which was supposed to be nationalistic was hijacked by "OUTSIDERS" or Igbo officers. IBB was simply being diplomatic or charitable in NOT using harsher words than he did in his book on those Igbo-dominated coup plotters).



He (Ibrahim Babangida) wrote:

"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.



The Ethnic Profiles of the Killer Officers and Military Logistics of the January 15, 1966 Coup Assassinations:

1] Ifeajuna led the Lagos faction that went to Sir. Tafawa Balewa’s residence… He is Igbo-speaking

2] Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu led the Northern faction that killed Sir. Ahmadu Bello and his wife in Kaduna … He is Igbo-speaking.

3] Nwobosi led the faction that went to Ibadan and killed Aare Samuel Ladoke Akintola… He is Igbo-speaking.

4] Timothy Onwuatuegwu led the faction that went to Ademulegun’s house and killed him and his pregnant wife... He is Igbo.

5] Timothy Onwuatuegwu again led the faction that went to Ralph Sodeinde’s house in Kaduna... He is Igbo.

6] Ezedigbo led the faction that went to the Itsekiri leader Okotie- Eboh’s house and killed him… He is Igbo

7] Chris Anuforo led the faction that went to Col. Kur Mohammed’s house… He is Igbo

8] Donatus Okafor led the faction that went to Maimalari’s house... He is Igbo.


9] Lt. Oguchi was sent to the East to kill the Eastern Region Premier Sam Okpara… He spared his life… He was Igbo.


As can be seen from ALL the evidence right ABOVE EVERYONE (from the former Northern, Western and Mid-West Regions who got brutally killed by gunfires in the highly irresponsible January 15, 1966 coup were killed by Igbo-speaking officers.

To irresponsibly deny and think that the January 15, 1966 coup was NOT an Igbo-dominated affair is criminal and a BIG insult by some Igbos on the memory of those who lost their lives in that coup and their surviving loved ones. Period.

Konquest:
Your post is another of your highly insidious, rambling historical inconsistencies and conjectures you are known for. I once debunked your FALSE account years back that it was Awolowo and Yakubu Gowon that teamed up to create states on May 27, 1967,
BUT Chief Harold Dappa-Biriye (who hailed from Bonny Island) media interviews which I still have CLEARLY stating that it was he and other Rivers State leaders of thought including Ken Saro-Wiwa and more that visited Lagos Island several times (where Nigeria's administrative capital was located) and impressed it on General Yakubu Gowon from 1966 to 1967 to create states and move away from regions to reduce the alleged domination of the larger ethnic groups especially from the Igbo in the Old Eastern Region. That 12 new states creation of May 27 1967 by General Yakubu Gowon was effectively carried out after due consultations with the indigenes of those new states contrary the claims you made on that thread post years back.

Second, Ibrahim Babangida NEVER accused Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN (who passed on in 1987 at the age of 78) of trying to overthrow him in any coup! YOU are spreading a recycled FAKE old story here. I was alive and a young adult as of the time Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo passed on and Babangida himself and many world leaders eulogised Awolowo who was given a grand state burial in Ikenne, Ogun State. IBB came into power in August 1985 till 1993, so, he didn't overthrow Awolowo or Jakande directly. Awolowo was a septuagenarian then (so how can an old man of 76 to 78 between 1985 to 1987 be plotting to overthrow IBB?). It's ONLY mentally deranged minds that would sit down in one little dingy corner, fabricate and then spread such defamatory conspiracy theories online!

Third. This same shameless strand among the Igbos are rewriting history by spreading criminal falsehoods that Awolowo plotted the January 1966 coup when the rest of the sane world knows from documented historical facts right from the early 1960s (1962) that Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, Chief Ayo Adebanjo (the lawyer and factional Afenifere member passed on last week), Chief Anthony Enahoro and other leaders of the iconic Action Group Party totalling 17 people were all imprisoned in 1963 on FALSE charges by the NPC/Zik alliance structure which later floundered. Awolowo and the 17 others imprisoned in 1963 for 10 years NEVER committed treason OR plotted from prison ANY Ifeajuna-led coup of January 15, 1966 as irresponsibly being alleged and pushed around by ill-informed young Igbo posters on multiple online platforms.


Chief Obafemi Awolowo Arriving For Sentencing | Jailed For 10 Years For Treason | September 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d-PGsQqNJk?si=dr3-tsQC7WZtpf46
Adeyinka Makinde • Sep 25 2019

Nigeria Chief Awolowo Released From Prison 1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMNa4671Yuw?si=W_YUQiN6YZ78W1xR
John Doe • Nov 21 2019

Obafemi Awolowo: The Best President Nigeria Never Had

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWXWTJC8MPw
HistoryVille • Oct 8 2022


Fourth. It's the same historical FACT that Ibrahim Babangida NEVER said "Yorubas are cowards" in any 1993 interview whether in Hausa or English languages. It's again another defamatory and asinine Igbo fabrication that gained momentum from ipob propaganda websites that I have visited for years now and that FAKE news is being relentlessly spread online by ONLY Igbos even right till last week. Babangida has a lot of Yoruba friends and associates over the years, so, he NEVER spoke condescendingly about Yorubas in any 1993 interview. All these highly offensive fables are being spread by you and other Igbos online and I have said it before that you are particularly known for engaging in sophistry on this website and your insidious falsehoods and half-truths will be debunked and much more. This place is not an ipob website where you can blatantly spread disinformation.

5] The MAJOR reasons why that January 15, 1966 coup has been termed an "Igbo coup" or "Igbo-dominated coup" since the 1966 in publications around Nigeria (NOT your so-called Western Nigeria media you falsely alluded to here) is simply because it was "hijacked" by Igbo officers who the Okpanam-born Kaduna Nzeogwu accused of in his interview he granted after the coup of TRIBALISM due to the fact that they did NOT carry out any killings in the Eastern Region while political and military leaders from other regions of Nigeria were killed.

Historically, ALL the Igbo officers who opened direct gunfire and KILLED the senior politicians and military leaders from the Northern, Western, and Mid-West Regions are all known by name right BELOW. NOBODY from other ethnic group killed Northern, Western and Mid-West leaders... ONLY the Igbos opened gunfire! Then MOST of the officers who took part that infamous coup were Igbos despite a few non-Igbos such as the naive Major Ademoyega and 2nd Lieutenant John Atom Kpera being mentioned. John Atom Kpera later fought as a veteran during the exactly 30 months Nigerian Civil War of July 1967 to January 1970 and rose to become a General from Benue State after it was clearly shown that he knew NOTHING about the coup and he and other non-Igbos in his squadron were drafted to take part in the military exercise by the largely Igbo officers who knew about the coup (without their knowledge of any coup plot!). General John Atom Kpera (rtd) is still alive and granted several interviews and reaffirmed that the 4 non-Igbo officers knew nothing about that irresponsible coup until after it occurred.

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/


6] Last but NOT least, (as an older man here with a vast knowledge for decades now of the geopolitical events before and after the EXACTLY two-and-half years Nigerian Civil War) the perception of that highly irresponsible January 15, 1966 ALL over Nigeria is that it was an "Igbo-dominated coup" OR "Igbo coup" because of the CLEAR FACTS I stated above even though that wasn't the ORIGINAL intention when Nzeogwu and co were selling that vision to some officers, BUT it was later hijacked, gullible officers like Ademoyega were cut off from the real goings on, and the killings MAJORLY occured in the Northern, Western and Mid-West Regions. This is the MAJOR reason why a counter coup or REPRISAL attacks by Northern Region military officers such as Theophilus Danjuma and more against largely Igbo officers took place 6 months later and civil unrests laced with deep public anger targeting ONLY Igbos took place in the Northern Region of Nigeria because that coup which was ORIGINALLY supposed to be a nationalistic coup unfortunately got hijacked and metamorphosed into grand "Igbo coup."


So, DON'T try to rewrite history here.

There is absolutely NOWHERE in IBB’s book where he said that the coup of January 15, 1966, was NOT an Igbo coup.

In fact, he alluded to the contrary in the book excerpt right BELOW, when he said the coup had taken on an ‘unmistakable ethnic coloration. (Meaning the coup which was supposed to be nationalistic was hijacked by "OUTSIDERS" or Igbo officers. IBB was simply being diplomatic or charitable in NOT using harsher words than he did in his book on those Igbo-dominated coup plotters).



He (Ibrahim Babangida) wrote:

"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.



The Ethnic Profiles of the Killer Officers and Military Logistics of the January 15, 1966 Coup Assassinations:

1] Ifeajuna led the Lagos faction that went to Sir. Tafawa Balewa’s residence… He is Igbo-speaking

2] Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu led the Northern faction that killed Sir. Ahmadu Bello and his wife in Kaduna … He is Igbo-speaking.

3] Nwobosi led the faction that went to Ibadan and killed Aare Samuel Ladoke Akintola… He is Igbo-speaking.

4] Timothy Onwuatuegwu led the faction that went to Ademulegun’s house and killed him and his pregnant wife... He is Igbo.

5] Timothy Onwuatuegwu again led the faction that went to Ralph Sodeinde’s house in Kaduna... He is Igbo.

6] Ezedigbo led the faction that went to the Itsekiri leader Okotie- Eboh’s house and killed him… He is Igbo

7] Chris Anuforo led the faction that went to Col. Kur Mohammed’s house… He is Igbo

8] Donatus Okafor led the faction that went to Maimalari’s house... He is Igbo.


9] Lt. Oguchi was sent to the East to kill the Eastern Region Premier Sam Okpara… He spared his life… He was Igbo.


As can be seen from ALL the evidence right ABOVE EVERYONE (from the former Northern, Western and Mid-West Regions who got brutally killed by gunfires in the highly irresponsible January 15, 1966 coup were killed by Igbo-speaking officers.

To irresponsibly deny and think that the January 15, 1966 coup was NOT an Igbo-dominated affair is criminal and a BIG insult by some Igbos on the memory of those who lost their lives in that coup and their surviving loved ones. Period.

What do you expect him to say, 🤣you actually believe he participated in the coup blindfolded, funny you , even your fellow Yorubas participated in the coup, I’m sure they were blindfolded too according to your logic 😃

keep writing long epistle but it won’t change the fact that the coup was not an Igbo coup, Yorubas make una rest small, why do you guys carry this matter for head like gala. Spit

Wahabfuture:
What do you expect him to say, 🤣you actually believe he participated in the coup blindfolded, funny you , even your fellow Yorubas participated in the coup, I’m sure they were blindfolded too according to your logic 😃

keep writing long epistle but it won’t change the fact that the coup was not an Igbo coup, Yorubas make una rest small, why do you guys carry this matter for head like gala. Spit

People from all over Nigeria (Old Northern, Old Westy, Old Mid-Western, parts of Old Eastern Regions) know full well since 1966 that the events of January 15, 1966 coup turned into an Igbo coup OR Igbo-dominated coup of about 95% Igbo officers despite the fact that it was originally meant to be a "bloody nationalistic" coup which even Major Adewale Ademoyega who willingly took part in that coup states so (I have Ademoyega's book among several books on the Nigerian Civil War such as Olusegun Obasanjo, Godwin Alabi-Isama, Alexander Madiebo and Hilary Njoku, that I started reading and buying for my home library collection since 1981), BUT that Igbo-dominated coup of 1966 was hijacked by a group of Igbo officers as rightly NOTED in Ibrahim Babangida's book which I quoted ABOVE in my last post, and even in an interview by Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu before he died who accused some of the Igbo coup plotters of TRIBALISM in the way they allowed the coup to FAIL in the Eastern Region and Michael Okpara was left unharmed while the military and political leaders of other non-Igbo ethnic groups in the Northern Western and Mid-West Regions of Nigeria were KILLED by ONLY Igbo officers.

Despite the fact that CLEAR FACTS of evidence and references were given in my post, you are still denying that it was NOT an "Igbo coup" despite the CLEAR FACTs which you have quoted. Many older people of my generation have long moved on from the highly irresponsible January 15, 1966 coup and relate as best as possible with Igbos anywhere we meet around the world, BUT this satanic, highly demonic and relentless acts of telling LIES and denying the sequence of established historical events that (started from the days of the secessionist massob and ipob since the late 1990s) by you young Igbo ipob supporters is causing a lot of ANGER and offence among many Nigerian ethnic groups towards Igbos. If you go online, you will see very angryvideo reactions by men and women living in Nigeria and living in the Diasporans from Benin-Edos, Esan-Edos, Ibibios, Urhobos, Isokos, Ikwere, Ijaw, Igala, etc, over several video threats by highly irresponsible young Igbo ipob boys foolishly threatening to annex their ancestral homelands into a useless biafra. These acts of careless, condescending threats online are a declaration of WAR. It's not a joke because those irresponsible ipob videos are not bluffing too. So this is not about Yorubas alone who you people like to attack in your infantile blames game unknown to you, you have deeply offended people from many ethnic groups from Nigeria over this overbearing Igbo attitude and threats of Igbo invasion of their ancestral homelands for inclusion in a biafra. You Igbos are ALSO fabricating FAKE history on this thread and others claiming that the irresponsible January 1966 coup was an "Awolowo coup." That is madness and NOBODY of conscience will accept that. Let me warn you all, the Internet is not anonymous. Obinwane Okeke (The so-called invictus obi), the international fraudster was arrested by the FBI for international fraud with his gang running into millions of USD based on his footprints of his activities on Nairaland.

The reason why a lot of historically knowledgeable people are correcting you these young Igbos who troll online posting misleading information is to guide against leaving a LIE to spread and be told again and again. When NOT challenged, it becomes the truth. I will end my warning and comment of this thread topic here. Period.

Konquest:
Your post is another of your highly insidious, rambling historical inconsistencies and conjectures you are known for. I once debunked your FALSE account years back that it was Awolowo and Yakubu Gowon that teamed up to create states on May 27, 1967,
BUT Chief Harold Dappa-Biriye (who hailed from Bonny Island) media interviews which I still have CLEARLY stating that it was he and other Rivers State leaders of thought including Ken Saro-Wiwa and more that visited Lagos Island several times (where Nigeria's administrative capital was located) and impressed it on General Yakubu Gowon from 1966 to 1967 to create states and move away from regions to reduce the alleged domination of the larger ethnic groups especially from the Igbo in the Old Eastern Region. That 12 new states creation of May 27 1967 by General Yakubu Gowon was effectively carried out after due consultations with the indigenes of those new states contrary the claims you made on that thread post years back.

Second, Ibrahim Babangida NEVER accused Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN (who passed on in 1987 at the age of 78) of trying to overthrow him in any coup! YOU are spreading a recycled FAKE old story here. I was alive and a young adult as of the time Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo passed on and Babangida himself and many world leaders eulogised Awolowo who was given a grand state burial in Ikenne, Ogun State. IBB came into power in August 1985 till 1993, so, he didn't overthrow Awolowo or Jakande directly. Awolowo was a septuagenarian then (so how can an old man of 76 to 78 between 1985 to 1987 be plotting to overthrow IBB?). It's ONLY mentally deranged minds that would sit down in one little dingy corner, fabricate and then spread such defamatory conspiracy theories online!

Third. This same shameless strand among the Igbos are rewriting history by spreading criminal falsehoods that Awolowo plotted the January 1966 coup when the rest of the sane world knows from documented historical facts right from the early 1960s (1962) that Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN, Chief Ayo Adebanjo (the lawyer and factional Afenifere member passed on last week), Chief Anthony Enahoro and other leaders of the iconic Action Group Party totalling 17 people were all imprisoned in 1963 on FALSE charges by the NPC/Zik alliance structure which later floundered. Awolowo and the 17 others imprisoned in 1963 for 10 years NEVER committed treason OR plotted from prison ANY Ifeajuna-led coup of January 15, 1966 as irresponsibly being alleged and pushed around by ill-informed young Igbo posters on multiple online platforms.


Chief Obafemi Awolowo Arriving For Sentencing | Jailed For 10 Years For Treason | September 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d-PGsQqNJk?si=dr3-tsQC7WZtpf46
Adeyinka Makinde • Sep 25 2019

Nigeria Chief Awolowo Released From Prison 1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMNa4671Yuw?si=W_YUQiN6YZ78W1xR
John Doe • Nov 21 2019

Obafemi Awolowo: The Best President Nigeria Never Had

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWXWTJC8MPw
HistoryVille • Oct 8 2022


Fourth. It's the same historical FACT that Ibrahim Babangida NEVER said "Yorubas are cowards" in any 1993 interview whether in Hausa or English languages. It's again another defamatory and asinine Igbo fabrication that gained momentum from ipob propaganda websites that I have visited for years now and that FAKE news is being relentlessly spread online by ONLY Igbos even right till last week. Babangida has a lot of Yoruba friends and associates over the years, so, he NEVER spoke condescendingly about Yorubas in any 1993 interview. All these highly offensive fables are being spread by you and other Igbos online and I have said it before that you are particularly known for engaging in sophistry on this website and your insidious falsehoods and half-truths will be debunked and much more. This place is not an ipob website where you can blatantly spread disinformation.

5] The MAJOR reasons why that January 15, 1966 coup has been termed an "Igbo coup" or "Igbo-dominated coup" since the 1966 in publications around Nigeria (NOT your so-called Western Nigeria media you falsely alluded to here) is simply because it was "hijacked" by Igbo officers who the Okpanam-born Kaduna Nzeogwu accused of in his interview he granted after the coup of TRIBALISM due to the fact that they did NOT carry out any killings in the Eastern Region while political and military leaders from other regions of Nigeria were killed.

Historically, ALL the Igbo officers who opened direct gunfire and KILLED the senior politicians and military leaders from the Northern, Western, and Mid-West Regions are all known by name right BELOW. NOBODY from other ethnic group killed Northern, Western and Mid-West leaders... ONLY the Igbos opened gunfire! Then MOST of the officers who took part that infamous coup were Igbos despite a few non-Igbos such as the naive Major Ademoyega and 2nd Lieutenant John Atom Kpera being mentioned. John Atom Kpera later fought as a veteran during the exactly 30 months Nigerian Civil War of July 1967 to January 1970 and rose to become a General from Benue State after it was clearly shown that he knew NOTHING about the coup and he and other non-Igbos in his squadron were drafted to take part in the military exercise by the largely Igbo officers who knew about the coup (without their knowledge of any coup plot!). General John Atom Kpera (rtd) is still alive and granted several interviews and reaffirmed that the 4 non-Igbo officers knew nothing about that irresponsible coup until after it occurred.

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/


6] Last but NOT least, (as an older man here with a vast knowledge for decades now of the geopolitical events before and after the EXACTLY two-and-half years Nigerian Civil War) the perception of that highly irresponsible January 15, 1966 ALL over Nigeria is that it was an "Igbo-dominated coup" OR "Igbo coup" because of the CLEAR FACTS I stated above even though that wasn't the ORIGINAL intention when Nzeogwu and co were selling that vision to some officers, BUT it was later hijacked, gullible officers like Ademoyega were cut off from the real goings on, and the killings MAJORLY occured in the Northern, Western and Mid-West Regions. This is the MAJOR reason why a counter coup or REPRISAL attacks by Northern Region military officers such as Theophilus Danjuma and more against largely Igbo officers took place 6 months later and civil unrests laced with deep public anger targeting ONLY Igbos took place in the Northern Region of Nigeria because that coup which was ORIGINALLY supposed to be a nationalistic coup unfortunately got hijacked and metamorphosed into grand "Igbo coup."


So, DON'T try to rewrite history here.

There is absolutely NOWHERE in IBB’s book where he said that the coup of January 15, 1966, was NOT an Igbo coup.

In fact, he alluded to the contrary in the book excerpt right BELOW, when he said the coup had taken on an ‘unmistakable ethnic coloration. (Meaning the coup which was supposed to be nationalistic was hijacked by "OUTSIDERS" or Igbo officers. IBB was simply being diplomatic or charitable in NOT using harsher words than he did in his book on those Igbo-dominated coup plotters).



He (Ibrahim Babangida) wrote:

"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.



The Ethnic Profiles of the Killer Officers and Military Logistics of the January 15, 1966 Coup Assassinations:

1] Ifeajuna led the Lagos faction that went to Sir. Tafawa Balewa’s residence… He is Igbo-speaking

2] Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu led the Northern faction that killed Sir. Ahmadu Bello and his wife in Kaduna … He is Igbo-speaking.

3] Nwobosi led the faction that went to Ibadan and killed Aare Samuel Ladoke Akintola… He is Igbo-speaking.

4] Timothy Onwuatuegwu led the faction that went to Ademulegun’s house and killed him and his pregnant wife... He is Igbo.

5] Timothy Onwuatuegwu again led the faction that went to Ralph Sodeinde’s house in Kaduna... He is Igbo.

6] Ezedigbo led the faction that went to the Itsekiri leader Okotie- Eboh’s house and killed him… He is Igbo

7] Chris Anuforo led the faction that went to Col. Kur Mohammed’s house… He is Igbo

8] Donatus Okafor led the faction that went to Maimalari’s house... He is Igbo.


9] Lt. Oguchi was sent to the East to kill the Eastern Region Premier Sam Okpara… He spared his life… He was Igbo.


As can be seen from ALL the evidence right ABOVE EVERYONE (from the former Northern, Western and Mid-West Regions who got brutally killed by gunfires in the highly irresponsible January 15, 1966 coup were killed by Igbo-speaking officers.

To irresponsibly deny and think that the January 15, 1966 coup was NOT an Igbo-dominated affair is criminal and a BIG insult by some Igbos on the memory of those who lost their lives in that coup and their surviving loved ones. Period.

Rambling of a demonic Yoruba man.

How does the above rubbish clear the fact that Fajuiyi was killed because all evidence pointed to the fact that he trained the boys involved in the coup and supported the coup?

How does it disprove the fact that your wicked Yoruba people invented a lie to try and cover Fajuiyi role in the coup so as to cover your loose end?

How does it change the fact that all that were killed were all Awolowo enemies, none were his friends.

How does it change the fact that Awolowo was imprisoned because he committed an act of treasonable felony which lends credence to the fact that he was more than capable of attempting to pull of a coup?
IBB being present at Awolowo funeral and eulogizing him means nothing, he was probably relieved the chronic power hungry man is dead.
Even Nigeria gave Nzeogwu befitting burial.

When will you wicked ones that have ruined Nigeria stop with the lies and bigotry, have you not done enough?

You invented an Igbo coup lie, hijacked Nigerian economy through Indigenization policy, ran all the foreign companies you stole down to bankruptcy through your financial incompetence and plunged the economy into recession.

You have repeated that same feat since 2015 just when it looked like Nigeria was finally getting to recover under Igbo financial prudence touch from 1999 to 2015. You ran an Igbophobic agenda against GEJ, invented lies and lies against the man, ousted him. And just like in 1967,
you have ran the country back to recession and shit hole! While still inventing and propagating your usual Igbophobia!

How can a people be this vile?

Difrent:
This is the irony of all your revisionism

After denigrating all yoruba newspapers and labelling them liars till date
Its still a yoruba newspaper that is your evidence of what led to awolowo death.....
The same yoruba newspapers you say lie all the time? Definitely the news item should be a lie according to you
Stop confusing yourself like many of your tribesmen since IBB book came out

Even liars can mistakenly spill the truth at times, especially when they start quarrelling within themselves.
That's certainly the case with Awolowos suicide, and his failed attempt at ousting IBB.

Wahabfuture:
What do you expect him to say, 🤣you actually believe he participated in the coup blindfolded, funny you , even your fellow Yorubas participated in the coup, I’m sure they were blindfolded too according to your logic 😃

keep writing long epistle but it won’t change the fact that the coup was not an Igbo coup, Yorubas make una rest small, why do you guys carry this matter for head like gala. Spit

Lol!
It's funny. Like a man mistakenly impregnating a lady he slept with without condom.
These lots brains are porous.
This was also how Gowon claimed he was deceived by Ojukwu at Aburi.
You sat down for days, did round table deliberations with someone, signed agreements under neutral observers from Ghana. Then get back home and lie that you were deceived and didn't understand what you were signing.

A joke of a country, that's the standard Yoruba and North brought to Nigeria since 1967.
These same people go abroad for bilateral agreements and sign them, you can as well guess they don't know what they signing judging by how they have ran the country down and signed away her future to neocolonial powers.
Only difference is that unlike in Biafra situation, they can't lie and decide not to honour things they signed up for with these global powers..


The worst thing that happened to Ndiigbo is sharing a country with these lots.

Shivisee1:
If my tribe majorly took part in a coup and turn around to spin it and blame it on an innocent person,then half of my population deserved to be wiped out!

Ok.

pazienza:
Rambling of a demonic Yoruba man.

How does the above rubbish clear the fact that Fajuiyi was killed because all evidence pointed to the fact that he trained the boys involved in the coup and supported the coup?

How does it disprove the fact that your wicked Yoruba people invented a lie to try and cover Fajuiyi role in the coup so as to cover your loose end?

How does it change the fact that all that were killed were all Awolowo enemies, none were his friends.

How does it change the fact that Awolowo was imprisoned because he committed an act of treasonable felony which lends credence to the fact that he was more than capable of attempting to pull of a coup?
IBB being present at Awolowo funeral and eulogizing him means nothing, he was probably relieved the chronic power hungry man is dead.
Even Nigeria gave Nzeogwu befitting burial.

When will you wicked ones that have ruined Nigeria stop with the lies and bigotry, have you not done enough?

You invented an Igbo coup lie, hijacked Nigerian economy through Indigenization policy, ran all the foreign companies you stole down to bankruptcy through your financial incompetence and plunged the economy into recession.

You have repeated that same feat since 2015 just when it looked like Nigeria was finally getting to recover under Igbo financial prudence touch from 1999 to 2015. You ran an Igbophobic agenda against GEJ, invented lies and lies against the man, ousted him. And just like in 1967,
you have ran the country back to recession and shit hole! While still inventing and propagating your usual Igbophobia!

How can a people be this vile?

YOU will NOT be allowed to continue to use this Website to spread toxic hate speech and gross disinformation against other Nigerian ethnic groups anymore. What you and your ilk are doing here, deliberately distorting long-established Nigerian history are officially frowned upon on NL and completely violates the major rules of Nairaland.

Nairaland was founded as an international discussion forum or Website by @Seun in 2005, (who is incidentally of Yoruba descent) in 2005 and this Website is NOT an ipob Igbo website where you can think you can use to concoct and deliberately spread volatile disinformation, and toxic hate speech. It will NEVER be tolerated!

I'm ONLY gonna respond to this post, so that the younger, uniformed readers are NOT deceived by the deliberate disinformation in all your warped posts here. Ordinarily, you do NOT deserve a response after being hit by the CLEAR FACTS in my earlier post debunking those criminal claims, only for you to resort to deflecting and bringing up totally unrelated vile topics and toxic hate speech here.

EVERYTHING you condescendingly wrote ABOVE about the Ado-Ekiti indigene, the late Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, MC, BEM, and Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN are purely figments of your "warped imagination" and will NOT be tolerated.

Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo attended the elite and prestigious "London School of Economics and Political Science" as a law graduate, eventually becoming a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and he was given the GCFR title as an octogenarian to show his distinct nationalistic service to Nigeria over several decades by former President Shehu Shagari (thereby making him the ONLY man in Nigerian history who never became a Nigerian President) to be given the GCFR award.

If Obafemi Awolowo truly committed treason or was a coup plotter along with the other 16 innocent Action Group Party officials such as Chief Ayo Adebanjo (He was a lawyer and the recently deceased Afenifere factional leader), and Chief Anthony Enahoro (A professional journalist and the FIRST EVER Nigerian to move the motion for Nigeria's independence from Britain) to name a few of those who were framed up by the then sitting NPC/NCNC alliance government and wrongly jailed for "treason" in 1963, BUT wisely released immediately by General Yakubu Gowon when he became Head-of-State in 1966, Obafemi Awolowo would NOT have been given the highest GCFR title years later.

The internet has NEVER been anonymous and it was right on this same NL Website that the digital footprints of that criminal and international fraudster who posed as a legit millionaire entrepreneur called Obinwane Okeke (the so-called invictus obi) who stole millions of USD from American businesses, were detected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, and this led to Obinwane Okeke's arrest along with his criminal gang in 2019 by the FBI right in the United States while he was trying to escape to Nigeria in order to evade justice.

Konquest:
YOU will NOT be allowed to continue to use this Website to spread toxic hate speech and gross disinformation against other Nigerian ethnic groups anymore. What you and your ilk are doing here, deliberately distorting long-established Nigerian history are officially frowned upon on NL and completely violates the major rules of Nairaland.

Nairaland was founded as an international discussion forum or Website by @Seun in 2005, (who is incidentally of Yoruba descent) in 2005 and this Website is NOT an ipob Igbo website where you can think you can use to concoct and deliberately spread volatile disinformation, and toxic hate speech. It will NEVER be tolerated!

I'm ONLY gonna respond to this post, so that the younger, uniformed readers are NOT deceived by the deliberate disinformation in all your warped posts here. Ordinarily, you do NOT deserve a response after being hit by the CLEAR FACTS in my earlier post debunking those criminal claims, only for you to resort to deflecting and bringing up totally unrelated vile topics and toxic hate speech here.

EVERYTHING you condescendingly wrote ABOVE about the Ado-Ekiti indigene, the late Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, MC, BEM, and Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN are purely figments of your "warped imagination" and will NOT be tolerated.

Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo attended the elite and prestigious "London School of Economics and Political Science" as a law graduate, eventually becoming a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, and he was given the GCFR title as an octogenarian to show his distinct nationalistic service to Nigeria over several decades by former President Shehu Shagari (thereby making him the ONLY man in Nigerian history who never became a Nigerian President) to be given the GCFR award.

If Obafemi Awolowo truly committed treason or was a coup plotter along with the other 16 innocent Action Group Party officials such as Chief Ayo Adebanjo (He was a lawyer and the recently deceased Afenifere factional leader), and Chief Anthony Enahoro (A professional journalist and the FIRST EVER Nigerian to move the motion for Nigeria's independence from Britain) to name a few of those who were framed up by the then sitting NPC/NCNC alliance government and wrongly jailed for "treason" in 1963, BUT wisely released immediately by General Yakubu Gowon when he became Head-of-State in 1966, Obafemi Awolowo would NOT have been given the highest GCFR title years later.

The internet has NEVER been anonymous and it was right on this same NL Website that the digital footprints of that criminal and international fraudster who posed as a legit millionaire entrepreneur called Obinwane Okeke (the so-called invictus obi) who stole millions of USD from American businesses, were detected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, and this led to Obinwane Okeke's arrest along with his criminal gang in 2019 by the FBI right in the United States while he was trying to escape to Nigeria in order to evade justice.

Empty chest beating of an evil mind.
You are crying that your lies will not be left unchallenged.
Keep crying.

pazienza:
Even liars can mistakenly spill the truth at times, especially when they start quarrelling within themselves.
That's certainly the case with Awolowos suicide, and his failed attempt at ousting IBB.

You just described yourself, well-done