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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by destinytreasure(m): 8:06pm On Jan 27

insidelife22:
In as much as Tinubu is incompetent

A coup is a no no

It will take us back several decades.

Incompetent; I agree with you.
NO no to coup; I agree with you.
But you see that "taking us back several decades" I disagree oo.
Several decades back,
Fuel was N65, kerosene was N50, N5 had big value, bottled soft drinks were sold for between N25 to N50, a bag of rice, a cup of garri, a cup of beans was way cheaper. And these can't compared to now.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by geoworldedu: 8:07pm On Jan 27

insidelife22:
In as much as Tinubu is incompetent

A coup is a no no

It will take us back several decades.

Anyhow we do it. We are still heading several decades back.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by 43Ronin: 8:10pm On Jan 27

This is one of the reason why if I hear APC data boys gaslight igbos I wonder if they are normal undecided

Northern coup yet they have been silent. Fulani minister went on national tv and said tinubu(c-in-c) does not have the power to chose Northern Christian as his vice (even though foreign pressure to do the right thing)invariably threatening a sitting president.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by sailor2011(m): 8:16pm On Jan 27

If the officers are found coupable in the attempted coup plot , they should be exec****d ASAP to serve as a bitter lessons to other undesirables in the military...

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by bobogogo: 8:20pm On Jan 27

success1smyn:
They have taken over the thread, no brain at all.

lmao
You cats are shocked that no igbo person dey the list.

Una shock just dey start.

Cry well well.
grin

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by chiagozien(m): 8:24pm On Jan 27

autoez:
Sometimes I come across comments from Nigerians and wonder how people express themselves without using their brain.

Can you tell us why this wasn't tagged Hausafulanis/northern coup?

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Dalohad: 8:31pm On Jan 27*

T9ksy:
Who are these "Yoruba and northern officers who actively participated in the coup plot"?

Una go explain tire!

Adewale Ademoyega

Ganiyu Adeleke

Fola Oyewole

Were some of the Yoruba officers that planned and executed the Jan 15 coup 1966.

Ofcourse you will argue to deceive yourself as usual, as you always do when the truth is slammed on your face .

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by occfx: 8:37pm On Jan 27

treesun:
https://saharareporters.com/2026/01/27/exclusive-35-military-officers-including-33-northerners-detained-over-alleged-coup-plot

Northerners cannot afford to be out of power for 8yrs, Tinubu should watch his back

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by ariesbull: 8:56pm On Jan 27

T9ksy:
Who are these "Yoruba and northern officers who actively participated in the coup plot"?

Una go explain tire!

Iti boribo

Here is a clean,list of the January 15, 1966 Nigerian coup plotters (the officers generally identified by historians as the actual planners and executors of the coup).

This list is based on converging accounts from Adewale Ademoyega, Ben Gbulie, Max Siollun, Nigerian Army records, and police investigations.

🇳🇬 January 1966 Coup Plotters (Nigeria)

Majors (Principal Plotters)

1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu – Leader of the coup; Northern operation (Kaduna)

2. Major Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna – Lagos operation leader

3. Major Adewale Ademoyega – Co-planner; Lagos

4. Major Donatus Okafor – Federal Guards Brigade; Lagos

5. Major Humphrey Chukwuka – Lagos operations

6. Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu – Northern operation (Kaduna)

7. Major Chris Anuforo – Planning and coordination

Captains

8. Captain Ben Gbulie – Planning and execution

9. Captain Ogbonna Oji – Lagos

10. Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi – Western Region (Ibadan)

11. Captain Ganiyu Adeleke – Lagos

12. Captain Emmanuel Udeaja – Support operations

Lieutenants

13. Lieutenant Fola Oyewole – Western Region

14. Lieutenant Amechi Okaka

15. Lieutenant Edwin Okafor

16. Lieutenant Olafimihan

Second Lieutenants

17. 2nd Lt. Cyril Azubuogu

18. 2nd Lt. Godfrey Ezedigbo

19. 2nd Lt. Ozoemena Igweze

20. 2nd Lt. Bob Ikejiofor

21. 2nd Lt. Emmanuel Nweke

22. 2nd Lt. Samson Emeka Omeruah

23. 2nd Lt. Patrick Ibik

24. 2nd Lt. Harris Eghagha

25. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera

26. 2nd Lt. Dagogo Waribor

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Racoon(m): 8:57pm On Jan 27

Whao! A sensitive national issue as a coup plot yet the senseless agbadorian miscreants defenders of the Tinubu govt are not on the thread? However, they can be spinning the January 1966 coup plot narrative? So much unbridled hatred and ethno-religo-regional sentiments in the nation

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Eriokanmi: 9:12pm On Jan 27

insidelife22:
In as much as Tinubu is incompetent

A coup is a no no

It will take us back several decades.

True but the excesses of our civilians always encourage it. Blame them, should there be coup in Nigeria. Anything is possible

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by InvestSmart(f): 9:18pm On Jan 27

🤷🏽‍♀️🤔

insidelife22:
In as much as Tinubu is incompetent

A coup is a no no

It will take us back several decades.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by AlphaTaikun: 9:24pm On Jan 27

treesun:
https://saharareporters.com/2026/01/27/exclusive-35-military-officers-including-33-northerners-detained-over-alleged-coup-plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0N9E9OefNI?si=iYGHo4wyuG_HI_Mk

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Kingbuhari(m): 9:46pm On Jan 27

And nobody is calling them coupist

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Uchesis: 10:02pm On Jan 27

chiagozien:
But why are yorubas not calling it Hausafulanis coup?

because if they do, Tinubu will lose the 2027 election before 12pm that day

grin

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Uchesis: 10:18pm On Jan 27

success1smyn:
You dey answer the weyrey

Cowards!!!

Call this one a Hausa coup if dem born you well.

I dare you

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Abubauchi: 10:47pm On Jan 27

Don't tag them as North but middle belt

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by gidgiddy: 11:23pm On Jan 27

43Ronin:
This is one of the reason why if I hear APC data boys gaslight igbos I wonder if they are normal Northern coup yet they have been silent. Fulani minister went on national tv and said tinubu(c-in-c) does not have the power to chose Northern Christian as his vice (even though foreign pressure to do the right thing)invariably threatening a sitting president.

They have to be silent, they cant antagonise their almighty big brother, the North

Had the names been Igbo, the Internet would have been on fire for weeks.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by lawani(m): 11:28pm On Jan 27

gidgiddy:
They have to be silent, they cant antagonise their almighty big brother, the North

Had the names been Igbo, the Internet would have been on fire for weeks.

If they were Igbos, they would be arrested and made to face trial just as is happening now.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by lagosforever123(m): 2:24am On Jan 28

Dalohad:
I can see some Yoruba Muslim followers of that drug sniffer begging their ancestral spirits to include an Igbo name therein..

That Igbo name would be worth more than the Yoruba officer from Osun and all other northern officers on the list., as it will help their anti-Igbo propaganda as we approach 2027 elections..

We saw how they twisted the propaganda in the Jan 15 coup in 1966 and tagged it an 'Igbo coup'. Carefully removing the names of the Yoruba and Northern officers who actively participated in that coup.

At the end, one of the Yoruba officers Maj. Adewale Ademoyega honourably wrote a book 'Why we struck' to dispel the rumour that it was an 'Igbo coup'. Vindicating the Igbos.

A book that many propagandist Yoruba writers hate to reference till today..

Posterity is a great judge..

*please mention and save this text, before they delete it and ban me as usual*

Sorry but Yoruba people don't really have time. Some Ethnic groups have Developed paranoia that everyone is after them. This Paranoia stems from always playing the victim. If two Northerners fight in Far away Kano they will say " that is why we must break up and form Biafra ", if a Northerner marries 5 wives they will say " that is why we must break up and form Biafra ". Yoruba don't really have time. As long as it does not happen in their zone.... Carry on with what you are doing.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Believeintruth: 3:27am On Jan 28*

insidelife22:
In as much as Tinubu is incompetent

A coup is a no no

It will take us back several decades.

We are moving back several decades so what are you even saying?

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by tishbite41(m): 3:58am On Jan 28

BlackViper:
There were only 2 non Igbo officers in the January 1966 coup. All the rest were from the then Eastern Region

We have at least ten non-Igbo officers who were part of the January 1966 coup abi na attempted coup.
Men like Jallo and Atom Kpera later became military adminstrators in this same Nigeria.
No one criticized them because of 1966 because they were non Igbos.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Federalofficia(m): 10:32am On Jan 28

Make ona calm dawn ooo southerners no plan couple during buhari ooo

treesun:
https://saharareporters.com/2026/01/27/exclusive-35-military-officers-including-33-northerners-detained-over-alleged-coup-plot

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by TokunboCarsOnly: 11:08am On Jan 28

helinues:
Those are the saboteurs in the Nigeria military

Really? Saboteurs?

But when you guys lumped yourselves up and launched a propaganda against GEJ that led to the unprecedented hardship of today, you guys were not saboteurs.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by Mrexcell(m): 12:15pm On Jan 28

Dalohad:
I can see some Yoruba Muslim followers of that drug sniffer begging their ancestral spirits to include an Igbo name therein..

That Igbo name would be worth more than the Yoruba officer from Osun and all other northern officers on the list., as it will help their anti-Igbo propaganda as we approach 2027 elections..

We saw how they twisted the propaganda in the Jan 15 coup in 1966 and tagged it an 'Igbo coup'. Carefully removing the names of the Yoruba and Northern officers who actively participated in that coup.

At the end, one of the Yoruba officers Maj. Adewale Ademoyega honourably wrote a book 'Why we struck' to dispel the rumour that it was an 'Igbo coup'. Vindicating the Igbos.

A book that many propagandist Yoruba writers hate to reference till today..

Posterity is a great judge..

*please mention and save this text, before they delete it and ban me as usual*

Those people use their education to terrorize and kill innocent people due to envy.

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Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by T9ksy(m): 1:26pm On Jan 28

Dalohad:
Adewale Ademoyega

Ganiyu Adeleke

Fola Oyewole

Were some of the Yoruba officers that planned and executed the Jan 15 coup 1966.

Ofcourse you will argue to deceive yourself as usual. If when the truth is slammed on your face .

What truth is slammed in your face that you are still arguing blindly about? What does it say about you (and your ilk) that after 60 years, you are still arguing about an open and closed case. This is why no one listen to you guys , anymore. You have been cloned by your past leaders on a deadly cocktail of lies, propaganda and gas lighting.

You obviously haven't read Ademoyega's book else you won't come online to expose your ignorance. Ademoyaga's book did not exonerate the igbos. If you had truly read the book, you would have been aware of the fact, he mentioned the meeting that took place at Ifeajuun's place on the 14th of January, 1966 and that not more than 2 people (present) had fore-knowledge of the coup plot.

Fola Oyewole that you falsely claimed was a member of the coup plot wrote a book, "The reluctant rebel", where he said that until 11:30pm , 14th Jan. 1966 he had no knowledge of a coup plot before he was asked to come to ifeajuuna's flat. Ditto Ganiyu Adeleke, who on been told of the coup plot asked to be excused as he will like to consult with his family first. Ifeajunna then asked someone to follow him saying, "he may be the first casualty of the coup". They both (Fola and Ganiyu) were friends as they both worked in Apapa, before the crisis.

In short, most of those attendees at Ifeajunna's house that night had no fore-knowledge of the coup. There was even a guy, (name escapes me now) who was tasked with the job of destroying the telephone lines and didn't even know he was participating in a coup, not until he got back to his base and was picked did it dawned on him that he had actually albeit, unknowingly, participated in a coup.

Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by WhizdomXX(m): 1:27pm On Jan 28

BlackViper:
There were only 2 non Igbo officers in the January 1966 coup. All the rest were from the then Eastern Region

They are only 2 non-hausa officers in the October 2025 coup. The rest are from the northern region.

Re: 35 Military Officers Including 33 Northerners Detained Over Alleged Coup Plot by T9ksy(m): 1:45pm On Jan 28

ariesbull:
Iti boribo

Here is a clean,list of the January 15, 1966 Nigerian coup plotters (the officers generally identified by historians as the actual planners and executors of the coup).

This list is based on converging accounts from Adewale Ademoyega, Ben Gbulie, Max Siollun, Nigerian Army records, and police investigations.

🇳🇬 January 1966 Coup Plotters (Nigeria)

Majors (Principal Plotters)

1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu – Leader of the coup; Northern operation (Kaduna)

2. Major Emmanuel Arinze Ifeajuna – Lagos operation leader

3. Major Adewale Ademoyega – Co-planner; Lagos

4. Major Donatus Okafor – Federal Guards Brigade; Lagos

5. Major Humphrey Chukwuka – Lagos operations

6. Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu – Northern operation (Kaduna)

7. Major Chris Anuforo – Planning and coordination

Captains

8. Captain Ben Gbulie – Planning and execution

9. Captain Ogbonna Oji – Lagos

10. Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi – Western Region (Ibadan)

11. Captain Ganiyu Adeleke – Lagos

12. Captain Emmanuel Udeaja – Support operations

Lieutenants

13. Lieutenant Fola Oyewole – Western Region

14. Lieutenant Amechi Okaka

15. Lieutenant Edwin Okafor

16. Lieutenant Olafimihan

Second Lieutenants

17. 2nd Lt. Cyril Azubuogu

18. 2nd Lt. Godfrey Ezedigbo

19. 2nd Lt. Ozoemena Igweze

20. 2nd Lt. Bob Ikejiofor

21. 2nd Lt. Emmanuel Nweke

22. 2nd Lt. Samson Emeka Omeruah

23. 2nd Lt. Patrick Ibik

24. 2nd Lt. Harris Eghagha

25. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera

26. 2nd Lt. Dagogo Waribor

Omo, your "clean" list is unfortunately DIRTY and as such , should be thrown in to the rubbish bin .
Sheer gaslighting, it is.

The Jan. 15th coup was an igbo coup , not because of the number of igbo officers involved but for two things:

1. the victims and

2. the beneficiaries.

It's interesting to note that NCNC - a junior partner in the coalition govt. of the day were already having a meeting and wanted Ozumba Mbadiwe to be the acting Pm which of course was not acceptable to the NPC -senior member in the govt., who wanted dipcherima as their PM. Orizu refused to abide by their wishes (NPC's) but went into another room to consult with Ironsi for 40minutes!

It's infuriating and perplexing to be having this kind of discourse, 6 decades after the FACT

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