₦airaland Forum

gidgiddy:
8 coups happ in one country, but only one is ever discussed, and given ethnic tag.

That's when you know there's mischief making somewhere

ScamHunter:
I asked ChatGPT how a popular coup d'etat morphed into an Igbo coup. Here's it's response:

Britain had strategic interests in Nigeria and was keen on maintaining influence over its former colony, particularly regarding economic and political stability. Labeling the January 1966 coup as an "Igbo coup" served multiple purposes:

1. Preserving Northern Political Dominance: The British had historically aligned with the Northern Region's political elites, who were seen as more cooperative with British interests compared to the more westernized and assertive Southern Nigerians, including the Igbo. By supporting the narrative of an "Igbo coup," Britain helped justify the counter-coup of July 1966, which reinstated northern dominance.


2. Protecting Economic Interests: British companies had significant investments in Nigeria, particularly in oil and trade. A government led by officers from the south, particularly the Igbo, might have pursued economic policies that reduced British influence. Encouraging instability through ethnic divisions helped maintain British leverage.


3. Managing Post-Colonial Influence: By amplifying ethnic tensions, Britain could continue to exert indirect control. If the coup was seen as an Igbo attempt to seize power rather than a nationalist revolution, it would weaken pan-Nigerian unity and reinforce divisions that Britain had historically exploited.


4. Influencing Civil War Narratives: The portrayal of the coup as an "Igbo coup" later justified the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) by framing the Igbo-led secession of Biafra as a continuation of ethnic dominance rather than a response to massacres and marginalization.


By pushing the "Igbo coup" narrative, Britain helped sustain Nigeria as a divided state where ethnic politics could be manipulated to serve external interests.

ResidentSnitch:
I can imagine the one that later took rat poison squirming in his grave at these revelations. Who would have thought...

gidgiddy:
8 coups happen in one country, but only one is ever discussed, and given ethnic tag.

That's when you know there's mischief making somewhere

stuffs2002:
IIGB0S will continue to pay for the brutal and evil ethnic cleansing they carried out in the name of coup in January 1966.

stuffs2002:
IIGB0S will continue to pay for the brutal and evil ethnic cleansing they carried out in the name of coup in January 1966.

ScamHunter:
Igbo has debatably been the greatest opposition to British exploitation of the weaknesses of Africans south of the Niger. So the policy is simple: unite native tribes using hatred for the Igbo. By keeping the Igbo down, they kill 7 post colonial birds with one stone.

A former chief justice of Nigeria said he was a student in the UK during the coup and that they all supported the coup prior to a clandestine meeting with the British Home Office minister who told them how foolish it was supporting the Igbo to control the government.

stuffs2002:
IIGB0S will continue to pay for the brutal and evil ethnic cleansing they carried out in the name of coup in January 1966.

gidgiddy:
8 coups happen in one country, but only one is ever discussed, and given ethnic tag.

That's when you know there's mischief making somewhere

ScamHunter:
You mean Igbo must pay for a coup hatched by Awolowo?

ScamHunter:
Probably the greatest Igbo hater.

gidgiddy:
8 coups happen in one country, but only one is ever discussed, and given ethnic tag.

That's when you know there's mischief making somewhere

Counterigbolies:
others killed everyone in their way irrespective of tribe or region

But only Igbos killed other people's leaders n leave theirs n that's y it's called an Igbo coup till this day

N Igbos paid dearly for it

gidgiddy:
Yeah, like Murtala Mohammeds coup killed only Southerners, touched no Northerner, and Murtala Mohammed ended up a national hero on your N20 note

keymatt:
In order words, coup plotters of 1966 already had their plan well laid out. Should the coup fail, sprinkle in ethnic coloration to divide Nigeria along ethnic lines, thereby giving British absolute control over the country. Mind you the ethnic coloration scheme against Nigeria is a pre-independence plan. A ruthless plan by the British to keep Nigeria under her control even after independence.
A united Nigeria that is well developed politically and economically is bad business for great Britain. So the only way to keep Nigeria in the mud of underdevelopment is by using USEFUL IDIOTS. This is where northernern elites came to be used as the perfect useful idiots to further balkanize the country. They just need to agree with the terms of their agreements and the British govt will make sure they remain in power over Nigeria. They know perfectly well that Southerners (especially Igbos) are a huge threat to them:

1. Due to their well exposed nature in education and innovation,
2. Their Independence nature of not bowing down to anybody or succumbing to anyone thing that is against their own interests.
3. Their industrious nature.

So the only option for the Britain is to use northerners. Having known northerners to be very obsessed with power and will do anything as long as they were guaranteed to remain in power, the British govt used northern elites to further advance her interest in Nigeria to the detriment of Nigerians including northerners themselves.


What a country.

Counterigbolies:
a coup hatched by awolowo from prison right?

Counterigbolies:
oga muritala coup killed northerners too abeg

U Igbos should know all these attempts at rewriting history doesn't make sense

IGBOPROMISE1:
You know why Nigeria hasn’t made any progress since ‘independence’, and lacks the cohesion and unity necessary to do so? It’s because the country is still living in bondage, almost no different to the shackles it had on during slavery and colonial times.

When the colonialists left in 1960, they handed supremacy over the politics of Nigeria to the feudalist north, and we all know from our knowledge of political-economy that politics is what drives and determines the economics of a country! The control of Nigeria handed over to the feudalist north was not total and unquestioned owing to the structure of the country the different regions managed to negotiate for themselves at the constitutional conferences in Lancaster House, London! The Nzeogwu led coup and the uncivil war that was to follow were the opportunities seen and taken that led to the consolidation of the hegemonic control of the politics, economics and governance of Nigeria by the feudal north. But by 1999, owing to ‘democracy’, they were forced to ally with others and their total control of Nigeria was broken!

It’s interesting to note that feudal norths stranglehold on the Nigerian polity could have been broken earlier in 1987 when they were due to hand power over to the south. They knew this, and this is why there was a coup in 1983!

Hegemonic control over Nigeria still persists though, and this accounts for why the structure and political-economy the feudal north enthroned in the late 60s is yet to be overhauled. The slight difference now is that owing to ‘democracy’ the feudal north has to negotiate and ally with a southern region or power-bloc, and so hegemonic control is now shared by an alliance of domineering interests.

It should be pointed out that the emergence of ‘democracy’ doesn’t necessarily mean a watering down of the feudal norths control of Nigeria, as we saw with what happened during and after elections in 1979 when the Shagari gov’t took over from the military. The feudal north still maintained their hegemonic control of Nigeria at the time and were at liberty to choose any southern region to play second fiddle! The difference between then and 1999 was that in the latter period, they were forced to concede power and share it with the south, specifically the south-west/Yoruba, owing to June 12th and their murder of MKO Abiola.

Counterigbolies:
oga muritala coup killed northerners too abeg

U Igbos should know all these attempts at rewriting history doesn't make sense

gidgiddy:
Then that means you are the only person on earth who knows the Northerner Murtala Mohammeds July 29th coup killed. So tell us

Also, tell us the Tiv person Orkahs coup killed from his Tiv people

And also, tell us the Berom person Dimkas coup killed from Dimkas Berom ethnic group, after killing people from other ethnic groups

ScamHunter:
I asked ChatGPT how a popular coup d'etat morphed into an Igbo coup. Here's it's response:

Britain had strategic interests in Nigeria and was keen on maintaining influence over its former colony, particularly regarding economic and political stability. Labeling the January 1966 coup as an "Igbo coup" served multiple purposes:

1. Preserving Northern Political Dominance: The British had historically aligned with the Northern Region's political elites, who were seen as more cooperative with British interests compared to the more westernized and assertive Southern Nigerians, including the Igbo. By supporting the narrative of an "Igbo coup," Britain helped justify the counter-coup of July 1966, which reinstated northern dominance.


2. Protecting Economic Interests: British companies had significant investments in Nigeria, particularly in oil and trade. A government led by officers from the south, particularly the Igbo, might have pursued economic policies that reduced British influence. Encouraging instability through ethnic divisions helped maintain British leverage.


3. Managing Post-Colonial Influence: By amplifying ethnic tensions, Britain could continue to exert indirect control. If the coup was seen as an Igbo attempt to seize power rather than a nationalist revolution, it would weaken pan-Nigerian unity and reinforce divisions that Britain had historically exploited.


4. Influencing Civil War Narratives: The portrayal of the coup as an "Igbo coup" later justified the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) by framing the Igbo-led secession of Biafra as a continuation of ethnic dominance rather than a response to massacres and marginalization.


By pushing the "Igbo coup" narrative, Britain helped sustain Nigeria as a divided state where ethnic politics could be manipulated to serve external interests.

Killerofpigs:
The COUP plotter died miserably.


Why was he jailed for Treasonable felony?


He is so clean the same Military jailed him?..

Anyway after the Genocide .the IGBOs deployed their ogbunigwe squad to kill the vastard Awolowo without pity
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IGBOs aren't your mates .

Foolish clowns..