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The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, on Wednesday warned the former Minister of Tourism, Femi Fani Kayode, over his attempt to twist Rtd General Babangida’s statement for saying that the 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup

The MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, spoke in a statement to newsmen in Owerri, over a report that Kayode was attempting to say that there was no time Babangida said that the 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup.

It should be recalled that during the Babangida’s book lunch titled: “A journey in Service” where he was quoted to have said that the 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup.

According to MASSOB, “The leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) have lambasted and condemned the misleading falsehood orchestrated by immuned and pathological hatred against Ndigbo by Femi Fani Kayode whose frustrated tendencies have no bound.

“MASSOB condemned his bold empty claim and assertion that Rtd General Babangida did not say that 1966 coup was Igbo organized. Was Femi Fani Kayode among the coup plotters, was he born during the 1966 military coup?

“MASSOB warned Femi Fani Kayode to desist from his unfounded malicious and misplaced trajectory against Ndigbo. If it was an Igbo coup to serve an Igbo agenda, why did the coupists plan to install Chief Awolowo as a provisional president?

“It should also be remembered that some non-Igbo officers, like Major Adewale Ademoyega, Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, Lt. Fola Oyewole, and Olafimihan, all Yorubas and brothers to Femi Fani Kayode took part in the failed coup. Another military officer of Igbo extraction, Major John Obienu, crushed the coup.

“The original intention and the initial purpose of the coup plotters was to release Chief Obafemi Awolowo from prison immediately after the coup and make him the executive provisional president of Nigeria but it failed.”

MASSOB recalled that “A few years ago, Femi Fani Kayode garnered some attention and respect from Igbo youths during the period he associated with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu in his current travails in the hands of the oppressive government of Nigeria.

“We never knew that Femi Fani Kayode was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, an acute hater of Ndigbo, who was sponsored to blackmail the highly respected and adored name of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (Eze Igbo Gburugburu).”

On page 39 of the book, Babangida wrote the following:
“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”.

I hate to burst the bubble of those that are beating their chests like puerile apes and think otherwise but there is NOWHERE in Babangida’s book that he said that the coup of January 15, 1966 was NOT an Igbo one.

In fact he alluded to the contrary when he said the coup had taken on an “unmistakable ethnic coloration”.

That is what he wrote and that is the reality.
The coup was indeed an ethnic one and the ethnic group he was referring to was none other than the Igbo!

Those that have purposely twisted and misinterpreted his words and have said that he wrote that the coup was “not an Igbo coup” are either misguided and misinformed or are being mischievous and patently dishonest.

Most of them have a poor understanding of the English language and have not even read the book and instead are relying on erroneous and nonsensical social media headlines, fake news, fake quotes and well-crafted propaganda and disinformation.

IPIGSRSHALLOW:
Clowns 🤡.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense and brain knows that it was an Igbo coup.
Any idiot can try to rewrite history but facts are facts and can never change.
It was an Igbo couple, IBB can try to be a revisionist all he wants, history and facts clearly shows that it was a ln Igbo coup.

PDPdestroyer:
To be fair to him, IBB never said it wasnyan Ibo coup. It was Ibos trying to revise what is clearly written in black and white that the coup was an Ibo coup.
I tend to wonder, if Ibos can tell such barefaced lie over such event that has undeniable facts to back it up, imagine how many lies they have deployed on so many other things that doesn't have as many undeniable facts to back their victims - the likes of Tinubu, Buhari, Awolowo, Abiola, etc

PDPdestroyer:
To be fair to him, IBB never said it wasn't an Ibo coup. It was Ibos trying to revise what is clearly written in black and white that the coup was an Ibo coup.
I tend to wonder, if Ibos can tell such barefaced lie over such event that has undeniable and well-documented facts to back it up, imagine how many lies they have deployed on so many other things that doesn't have as many undeniable facts to back their victims - the likes of Tinubu, Buhari, Awolowo, Abiola, etc

Mrexcell:
I don't know why ffk loves blackmailing the igbos? This is the same man that has four boys with igbo blood in them yet doesn't care about their future in a igbo hating nigeria he is busy creating.

PressMyButton:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/03/ibb-massob-warns-ffk-to-desist-from-unfounded-malicious-trajectory-against-ndigbo/

PressMyButton:
Funny people, what did FFK say that's malicious?. FFK was reacting to IBB's book as every other person, he saw that some certain people are trying to play half smart, twisting the words of IBB and as usual, in FFK's character, he quickly came out to set the record straight inorder to stop the revisionists in their tracks. They are twisting IBB's words in the same manner they have been twisting our history all the time.
How can you read pages 1- 38 and you celebrated it but you deliberately turned a blind eye to page 39 where the real knocks was written
You want to tear page 39 and throw it away?, Is that what you guys are trying to do?

Why are you afraid of page 39?, Why are you running away from page 39?

The password is "page 39". It was not FFK that wrote Page 39, it was IBB.


Below was what FFK wrote while quoting IBB, where is the lie?




Remember that David Hundeyin, an Ipob hero previously celebrated and was hailing IBB together with his ipob gang when it initially made the news that IBB said it wasn't an ibo coup but as soon as he got a copy of the book and read page 39, my guy jumped out and did a 360° and advising ibos not to buy the book as it is a waste of time and my guy started insulting IBB.
MASSOB and all revisionists spreading the Awolowo narratives should just die it, e don cast tey tey.

zero8zero:
IBB's book which is the only consolation that ipob are using to hold body, FFK has scattered it.

Bendeco02:
Blame the mumu Igbo women that marries yoruba men.