₦airaland Forum

aribisala0:
All this nonsense is irrrelevant

The fact is there was a coup.

Who said or did what is of no consequence

Why did Ironsi accept to become Head of state in the First place ? Was he second in command

Since it was not an Ibo coup why not let the civilians sort it out?

There was no basis for him to become Head of State in the first place . That is the Genesis of our woes. If we accept that it was not an Ibo coup and that the coup had failed . Is Ironsi becoming Head of state the next logical step?

Ojukwu refused to accept that the coup was successful and was prepared to use force . He fought and lost terribly

simply22:
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Thank you for pointing this out. I was shocked when I read General Gowon's forward on the book.
It might be as a way of indirectly thanking Babangida for restoring his rank and retirement which he lost when he got grossly
implicated in the Dimka coup plot that killed General Murtala Mohammed.

Another interesting point is that Babangida said the January 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup. And Lt. Gen. Danjuma was sitting there
at the book lunch!
In his book: "Danjuma, The Making of A General", published in 1979, Danjuma confirmed that he led the group of soldiers who trailed Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi from Lagos via Nyagao Barracks in Abeokuta to Ibadan. He briefly narrated what transpired in Ibadan, leading to the death of Lt. Col. Fajuyi before they gained access to the Commander In Chief, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi and arrested him. If the Jan. 1966 coup was not perceived as an Igbo coup, why were the Northern Officers started to kill their Igbo counterparts in July 1966?
The problem in Nigeria is that leaders in Nigerian politics don't think of the future effects of their behavior, and when the future comes and slap them in the face with their behavior, they start to lie!

eagleu:
History and search for historical truth and facts are scholarly activities. If you're so steeped in tribal and sectional bias, this task maybe impossible for you.
Nigeria experienced her 1st coup among naive younger officers, the older officers somehow put it down, and the highest military officer at the time took power reluctantly, and was working on returning the regime to the civilians, and here you are fixated on a silly question about why and how Ironsi became head of state at the time---unless it was an Igbo coup. Witness and evidence have shown that it was not an Igbo coup, but had Igbo officers among the participants, but you are buried in your 50 year old false narrative that it's Igbo coup. That's the only reason why Gowon allowed wholesome murder of Igbos all over Nigeria. If it was an Igbo coup, maybe the blood thirsty vampires would have stopped the killings after they wiped off most Igbo military officers and Ironsi himself, no, they continued killing children, women and old people.

DenreleDave:
Who will bliv IBB bcox what he said pleases them?

Only igbos.... If IBB had said otherwise, igbos wud have insulted him

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IBB knew you guys are too emotionally deceived. So he played u guys and it really worked

Eriokanmi:
Gowon is one of the cowards, insincere and weakest military leaders ever known. OBJ made same revelation. It appears IBB no wan carry the truth commot as his time ticks, which was why he spilled the beans. The foundation of this nation really had issues but the successive generations could have corrected it, if not for ethnic bigotry. It all started from the north and later found its way to the south due to the perceived civil war massacre as witnessed by those who lived in that era. I had an igbo colleague in those days, who was well advanced in age. He's in his 60s now. He once narrated the unfortunate war to me as experienced by him as a child and how he escaped those who captured him and wanted to send him to war to carry gun despite his age. I felt so emotional. My maternal uncle from ekiti also died in the civil war. He was my mum's immediate younger brother and the only son of my grandma.

Sadly, those generation of igbos to whom the story was narrated didn't manage the situation well. Rather than move on, they instigated rebellion against other tribes by accusing them of genocide and hate for the igbos. Yorubas and hausas also suffered severe casualties. All our forefathers were guilty and selfish. They caused the current wahala majorly. I've read several books on the civil war and the last I read was the Why We Struck. The intention of the war was to release Pa Awo and fast track the transition into civil rule by handing over power to him but baba made a you-turn by hobnobbing with gowon and giving them harsh tactics against the igbos, which included cutting off food supplies to them. Gowon also made his promise to him. Till his death, Pa Awo never ruled Nigeria.

I can never be a tribalist except I don't want this country to move forward. Pa Awo was to be killed alongside others but was released . The briefing containing the future of Nigeria was handed over to him but he went to Gowon's camp instead and the war rather raged on and took another turn. The Aburi Accord was also jettisoned, despite Gowon's promise to keep it. All our leaders still alive must apologise to all of us for ruining this great union called Nigeria and rendering this generation refugees at home and homeless abroad, struggling for survival.

The primordial problem is still evident today and that's why any tribe that produces president will populate his government with his tribes people. Naso e be from foundation. That's why I won't blame Tinubu wholly on what's happening in government today on his choice of political appointees. I only blame him for not being a true democrat by following his predecessors character. He should have acted differently because these were the perceived injustices he fought for, as a political activist back in the days.

Who knows, whenever it gets to the igbo's turn, they'd fill the government with their people too, time will tell. I think if we truly split and bear our father's names, it's better for us all else, the trend will only continue except our generation is proven wrong by whoever succeeds tinubu. Only obj ruled fairly in Nigeria, both as military and as civilian. I remember when some of our elders accused him of not being fair to yorubas and he said he's not yoruba president but Nigeria's president.

Bendeco02:
Gowon is saying things as it is.

But observe anyone that attacks the man for this statement, they're from one tribe.

Counterigbolies:
y did Igbos kill all other tribe leaders n leave theirs?

aribisala0:
Babangida never said it is not an Ibo coup

That is a blatant lie

He said the opposite that

IT WAS AN IBO COUP

UNMISTAKABLE

was the word he used

It was an unmistakable Ibo coup

First there were assassinations

Then Ironsi too over

Why did Ironsi have to take over?

He claimed to have thwarted the coup

So why not let the civilians continue in power


Ironsi taking over was the culmination of the coup
The Ibo coup

His failure to prosecute any one was the confirmation
UNMISTAKABLE IBO COUP - IBB 2025

36STATES:
Awolowo was in prison in Calabar in Eastern Nigeria and Ojukwu was in charge of Eastern Nigeria at the time and FGN was not in control of anything in that region.
He could have refused to release him but he chose to release him, hoping that would endear him to the Yorubas after the several massacres of Igbos in the North and other places.

Antivirus92:
ibb lied to gain what?
What would ibb gain from lying?
He is not afraid of being arrested as he will never be arrested.
He is already rich.
Just an old man trying to reveal the suppressed truth b4 his death and and a nobody like you said he lied.
If he had written that ojukwu caused the war, you would have been praising him to the high heavens.

I don't know why you guys are allergic to the truth...

eagleu:
History and search for historical truth and facts are scholarly activities. If you're so steeped in tribal and sectional bias, this task maybe impossible for you.
Nigeria experienced her 1st coup among naive younger officers, the older officers somehow put it down, and the highest military officer at the time took power reluctantly, and was working on returning the regime to the civilians, and here you are fixated on a silly question about why and how Ironsi became head of state at the time---unless it was an Igbo coup. Witness and evidence have shown that it was not an Igbo coup, but had Igbo officers among the participants, but you are buried in your 50 year old false narrative that it's Igbo coup. That's the only reason why Gowon allowed wholesome murder of Igbos all over Nigeria. If it was an Igbo coup, maybe the blood thirsty vampires would have stopped the killings after they wiped off most Igbo military officers and Ironsi himself, no, they continued killing children, women and old people.

FreeStuffsNG:
psycho guy

IBB has written his own denial but we owe posterity to keep the facts for posterity.


Igbo leaders were spared , no single Igbo leader was touched and the primary beneficiary of these tragic and callous murders was Late Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi, also a Nigerian of Igbo extraction who went further to reward his Igbo kith and kin military coup plotters with promotion while non- Igbo Nigerians were grieving and mourning the violent murder of their leaders by the Igbo coup plotters across the nation.
This is no coincidence. The coup was pre-planned and viciously executed to kill the leaders of other regions, decimate and cheat other Nigerians by the Igbo military officers. An obscene and unpatriotic I Before Others(IBO) mentality was perpetuated by the Igbo coup plotters against Non- Igbo Nigerians.

These are the proofs that made people regard the coup as Igbo coup. You can't spin and revise the history. Apologize to the Non- Igbo Nigerians you murdered their leaders violently in the unfortunate coup.

No fair-minded Igbo will be happy if it is the other way. If you are Igbo, just put yourself in the place of Non-Igbo Nigerians whose leaders were violently murdered in their prime by these Igbo military officers. Awful, right?

IBB 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.

aribisala0:
............................................But It was an unmistakably Ibo coup

Racoon:
Ojukwu wants the military hierarchy of command to be ensured and followed but feudal power grabbing lords of those times won't any of that. He stood up to be counted.

Racoon:
Gowon’s promise to secure Igbos was unfulfilled – IBB on what triggered civil war


https://dailypost.ng/2025/02/24/gowons-promise-to-secure-igbos-was-unfulfilled-ibb-on-what-triggered-civil-war/

FreeStuffsNG:
IBB has written his own denial but we owe posterity to keep the facts for posterity.


Igbo leaders were spared , no single Igbo leader was touched and the primary beneficiary of these tragic and callous murders was Late Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi, also a Nigerian of Igbo extraction who went further to reward his Igbo kith and kin military coup plotters with promotion while non- Igbo Nigerians were grieving and mourning the violent murder of their leaders by the Igbo coup plotters across the nation.
This is no coincidence. The coup was pre-planned and viciously executed to kill the leaders of other regions, decimate and cheat other Nigerians by the Igbo military officers. An obscene and unpatriotic I Before Others(IBO) mentality was perpetuated by the Igbo coup plotters against Non- Igbo Nigerians.

These are the proofs that made people regard the coup as Igbo coup. You can't spin and revise the history. Apologize to the Non- Igbo Nigerians you murdered their leaders violently in the unfortunate coup.

No fair-minded Igbo will be happy if it is the other way. If you are Igbo, just put yourself in the place of Non-Igbo Nigerians whose leaders were violently murdered in their prime by these Igbo military officers. Awful, right?

IBB 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.

FreeStuffsNG:
Igbo leaders were spared , no single Igbo leader was touched and the primary beneficiary of these tragic and callous murders was Late Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi, also a Nigerian of Igbo extraction who went further to reward his Igbo kith and kin military coup plotters with promotion while non- Igbo Nigerians were grieving and mourning the violent murder of their leaders by the Igbo coup plotters across the nation.

Racoon:
Lt General TY Danjuma

eagleu:
You can throw up, urinate, ejaculate, or undergo any of the sympathetic/ parasympathetic reflexes as you can, but despite all that, no thoughtful person would agree that it was an Igbo coup, even participating officers like IBB, Ademoyega have all said it wasn't. But, you, at your street corner beer parlor insist that it was.
Ok, let's say ALL the killers were Igbos, does it justify the organized killing of more than 3 million Igbos even after Ironsi and almost every Igbo officer had been killed?

Okpokpo09:
As you support this atrocity , so shall evil follow you and your generations forever

Sundaymessi:
Title please!

Ebubu:
Yoruba people largely supported January 15 1966 coup of Nzeogwu.

I mean, the jailer of Awolowo who also would have Awolowo killed was Sardauna.

And Sardauna got killed and the life of their Leader Awolowo spared.

They were in high spirits that their leader had got his revenge.

They only shifted their stand and went against it because the tide turned against Igbo people.

Halo22:
Until they compensate Igbos by handing the mantle of leadership of Nigeria to us, they would continue implicating themselves. A group of people that are determined to improve the well being of the country have been sidelined all these while for an unjust agreement and u think God is not watching?

Halo22:
Until they compensate Igbos by handing the mantle of leadership of Nigeria to us, they would continue implicating themselves. A group of people that are determined to improve the well being of the country have been sidelined all these while for an unjust agreement and u think God is not watching?

ValarDoharis:
He wrote the book in 1981, long after the coup. He had no reason to lie. You wanna make it an Igbos coup so bad that you'll never see reason

Katakata10:
That 3M suyalization no be small thing but how come they claimed they were starved to death when surplus suya was available for cannïbal*sm?

Where were those bodies buried? Inside pot of course

That’s what you get when you think you are smart but those animals are still not ready to learn.

They still Iove to be starved to death the second time.

Only animals do not learn from their mistakes

Shivisee1:
That’s what your evil forefathers told you,did you asked why God roasted over 3millions of your people and codeming most of the remaining to eating baby fleshes and grass?? You think God did not support the Genocide?? You think darkness will prevail over light?

YouAreNobody:
why are yorubas the only tribe attacking IBB since he released this book?

Ebubu:
You-rubber

Am I the one who asked Awolowo to commit suicide ?

Am i the one who asked Abacha to kill Abiola ?

DenreleDave:
so it wasnt igbo coup yet 90% of coupist