₦airaland Forum

gidgiddy:
On January 17th 1966, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi assumed power and appointed four military Governors to govern each of the four Regions Nigeria was then made up of at the time. They were:

Lt Col Adekunle Fajuyi- Western Region

Lt Col David Ejoor - Midwest Region

Lt Col Chukwuemeka Ojukwu - Eastern Region

Major Usman Katsina - Nothern Region

All 4 men governed their respective Regions with Ironsi as military head of State until July 29th 1966 when Ironsi and Fajuyi were killed. Gowon would take over, and replaced the dead Fajuyi with Colonel Adebayo. The four Regions would continue until May 27th 1967 when Gowon abolished all 4 Regions, and replaced them with 12 states. This action would make Ojukwu declare the Eastern Region as the Republic of Biafra

Whenever anyone tells you that Ironsi abolished the Regions, ask them what Regions were Fajuyi, Ojukwu, Katsina and Ejoor were governing the day Ironsi died

gidgiddy:
On January 17th 1966, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi assumed power and appointed four military Governors to govern each of the four Regions Nigeria was then made up of at the time. They were:

Lt Col Adekunle Fajuyi- Western Region

Lt Col David Ejoor - Midwest Region

Lt Col Chukwuemeka Ojukwu - Eastern Region

Major Usman Katsina - Nothern Region

All 4 men governed their respective Regions with Ironsi as military head of State until July 29th 1966 when Ironsi and Fajuyi were killed. Gowon would take over, and replaced the dead Fajuyi with Colonel Adebayo. The four Regions would continue until May 27th 1967 when Gowon abolished all 4 Regions, and replaced them with 12 states. This action would make Ojukwu declare the Eastern Region as the Republic of Biafra

Whenever anyone tells you that Ironsi abolished the Regions, ask them what Regions were Fajuyi, Ojukwu, Katsina and Ejoor were governing the day Ironsi died

Goosethetruth:
After a long break,you are back with your falsehood agenda and propaganda.
You have always shown yourself to be a propaganndist,gaslighter and an enabler of terror on these boards.
Decree 34 of 1966 abolished the regions and centralised everything under Ironsi. It was the begining of centrslisation of everything under Ironsi's tribalistic regime. Check what Ironsi did in the Universities of Lagos and Ibadan. It was total cultural,and educational subjugation and annihilation of the Yoruba in the name of Federalism.
Stop trying to rewrite history please.

Amotolongbo:
Maybe you could explain what decree 34 promulgated by Aguiyi Ironsi in 1966 was all about

gidgiddy:
It was all about the civil service

gidgiddy:
So if Ironsi abolished the Region's, what were Fajuyi, Ojukwu, Katsina and Ejoor governing the day Ironsi was killed?

gidgiddy:
On January 17th 1966, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi assumed power and appointed four military Governors to govern each of the four Regions Nigeria was then made up of at the time. They were:

Lt Col Adekunle Fajuyi- Western Region

Lt Col David Ejoor - Midwest Region

Lt Col Chukwuemeka Ojukwu - Eastern Region

Major Usman Katsina - Nothern Region

All 4 men governed their respective Regions with Ironsi as military head of State until July 29th 1966 when Ironsi and Fajuyi were killed. Gowon would take over, and replaced the dead Fajuyi with Colonel Adebayo. The four Regions would continue until May 27th 1967 when Gowon abolished all 4 Regions, and replaced them with 12 states. This action would make Ojukwu declare the Eastern Region as the Republic of Biafra

Whenever anyone tells you that Ironsi abolished the Regions, ask them what Regions were Fajuyi, Ojukwu, Katsina and Ejoor were governing the day Ironsi died

gidgiddy:
It was all about the civil service

gidgiddy:
On January 17th 1966, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi assumed power and appointed four military Governors to govern each of the four Regions Nigeria was then made up of at the time. They were:

Lt Col Adekunle Fajuyi- Western Region

Lt Col David Ejoor - Midwest Region

Lt Col Chukwuemeka Ojukwu - Eastern Region

Major Usman Katsina - Nothern Region

All 4 men governed their respective Regions with Ironsi as military head of State until July 29th 1966 when Ironsi and Fajuyi were killed. Gowon would take over, and replaced the dead Fajuyi with Colonel Adebayo. The four Regions would continue until May 27th 1967 when Gowon abolished all 4 Regions, and replaced them with 12 states. This action would make Ojukwu declare the Eastern Region as the Republic of Biafra

Whenever anyone tells you that Ironsi abolished the Regions, ask them what Regions were Fajuyi, Ojukwu, Katsina and Ejoor were governing the day Ironsi died

Ironsi's broadcast to the nation - May 24, 1966
May 24, 1966



"The Regions are Abolished': Ironsi's Broadcast to the Nation banning Political Parties and introducing Decree No. 34, 24 May 1966.

Fellow Nigerians:
During the past two weeks I presided over meetings of the Supreme
Military council and the Central Executive Council at which many
important state matters were considered. . .
It is now three months since the Government of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria was handed over to the Armed Forces. Now that peace has
been restored in the troubled areas it is time that the Military
Government indicates clearly what it proposes to accomplish before
relinquishing power. The removal of one of the obstacles on the way
is provided for in the Constitution (Suspension and Modification)
Decree (No. 5) 1966 which was promulgated by me today and comes intoeffect at once.

The provisions of the Decree are intended to remove the last
vestiges of the intense regionalism of the recent past, and to
produce that cohesion in the governmental structure which is so
necessary in achieving, and maintaining the paramount objective of
the National Military government, and indeed of every true Nigerian,
namely, national unity.
The highlights of this Decree are as follows:

* The former regions are abolished, and Nigeria grouped into a number
of territorial areas called provinces. . . .

*Nigeria ceases to be what has been described as a federation. It
now becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria.
The former Federal Military government and the Central Executive
Council become respectively the National Military Government and the
executive Council. All the Military Governors are members of the
Executive Council.

*A Military Governor is assigned to a group of provinces over which
and subject to the direction and control of the Head of the National
Military Government, he shall exercise executive power. In order to avoid any major dislocation of the present administrative machinery, the grouping of the provinces has been made to coincide with the former regional boundaries. This is entirely a transitional measure and must be understood as such. The present grouping of the provinces is without prejudice to the Constitutional and
Administrative arrangements to be embodied in the New Constitution in accordance with the wishes of the people of Nigeria.

*The National Military Government assumes the exercise of all
legislative powers throughout the Republic subject to such
delegations to Military Governors as are considered necessary for
purposes of efficient administration.

*The public services of the former federation and regions become
unified into one national public service under a National Public
Service Commission. There is a provincial Service Commission for
each group of provinces to which is delegated functions in respect of
public officers below a given rank. This rather drastic change will
probably involve a reconstitution of the existing commissions, and
the National Military Government reserves the right to do so in the
manner stipulated in the Decree. Until this is done, the present
Commissioners continue to act in their posts. Every civil servant is
now called upon to see his function in any part of Nigeria in which
he is serving in the context of the whole country. The orientation
should now be towards national unity and progress. I expect all
civil servants to co-operate and to consult at all levels, vertically
and horizontally, between groups of Provinces and between Provinces
and the Centre.

thesolutions:
When I hear stories as this, I wonder the blindness that is affecting the Igbo race. There problem is right before their face.
Ojukwu wouldn't relinquish power and declared Biafra republic. A name that has no identity or meaning in the igbo dialect. A name single handedly chosen by Ojukwu.
Ojukwu collected their money and gave them small piece of paper convincing them that the worthless piece of paper is worth more than British pound Stirling. That is fraud 101.
E even after the war, he did not at least lie to them that the almighty Biafra pounds has lost value and refund them some of the money he stole from them at a lower rate. He took everything and ran to ivory coast. And returned years later to continue enjoying his loot. No apology. No restitution.
If not that Nigerian government pitied them and gave them 20 naira to start afresh they would have been history. We would have been history.
No one is still asking the Ojukwu family how far about our money in their fathers possession. Rather they are still bragging how their imaginary currency is worth more than pound Stirling because a messiah currently in sokoto prison told them so and they believed.
We are so deluded.

shortgun:
You are very ignorant and swallow.
The name Biafra was derived from the Bight of Biafra... a recognized geographical term long before the civil war. Nations are not required to bear names in a local dialect to have legitimacy. Many countries across the world have names that predate their modern ethnic compositions.

You are the deluded one if you think during wartime a sovereign entity should not issues its own currency. It's idiotic for a government fighting for survival continue to rely on the currency of it's enemies.
Every decision His Excellency General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu took was very perfect in every since. This is why he remains our hero till infinity. You can go and die

thesolutions:
Oh shortgun!
I heard he was refining and selling our petrol and crude oil when he took over port Harcourt. I guess your family received benefits from the proceeds of that that and other businesses.
Did he also queue to collect 20 naira to start life afresh after the war or he used his Biafran currency to charter flights to ivory coast?
Who made Biafra sovereign entity. Was there any UN resolution or AU resolution that recognized it as a sovereign entity and also recognize the currency Ojukwu printed? Can you exchange the currency at the border with any African currency at the border? So your claim of sovereign entity is false.
Biafra was never derived from bight of Biafra. Bight of Biafra covers several countries and it will be rascality for Ojukwu to claim that name for his imaginary nation.
Biafra, just as Nnamdi kanu has told you clouns came from the name of his village Afara in Umuahia where Ojukwu bunker is located. Biafra came from distortion of the Igbo phrase Bia Afara meaning come to Afara where he hid to build his fortress. If you don't believe this, then you should be cursing Nnamdi kanu for distorting the origin of the name.
But what More can I say. You believe he is right in his actions. He is your hero or maybe you wish he is because of your pain that your politicians can not solve. I might think you are transferring aggression on the wrong people.

This is exactly why responding to you guys will always make one less intelligent. You said in your other post that the name Biafra "has no identity or meaning in the igbo dialect".
Then suddenly it has a meaning now?

And what nonsense about “your oil” are you talking about? Even as of today, three Igbo states are oil-producing states out of the five states in the South-East.
Ojukwu had every opportunity to accept international support in exchange for crude oil to win the war but he declined. This is one of the reasons he is held in high esteem. He said the war was not about crude oil.

T9ksy:
Yeah, Ironsi's decree 34 centralised the civil service. So in essence, the western regional ministry of agriculture now comes under Federal ministry of Agriculture.

The regional military governors all defers to Ironsi's
centralised federal govt. The regional governors really don't have a say in how they run their civil services.

AndroBlaze:
With AI and all the things we have available their is absolutely no need for this level of laziness.

I have dropped his speech, the link to his speech and even put in bold the parts you told clear untruths on. However, I am 100% certain, someone would have corrected you before but you continue to insist on spreading falsehoods as you cannot handle the truth and what it means despite you seeing evidence of it every day.



https://www.dawodu.com/articles/ironsis-broadcast-to-the-nation-may-24-1966-1360#:~:text=1966%2C%20which%20I%20have%20signed,be%20buried%20along%20with%20the

shortgun:
This is exactly why responding to you guys will always make one less intelligent. You said in your other post that the name Biafra "has no identity or meaning in the igbo dialect".
Then suddenly it has a meaning now?

And what nonsense about “your oil” are you talking about? Even as of today, three Igbo states are oil-producing states out of the five states in the South-East.
Ojukwu had every opportunity to accept international support in exchange for crude oil to win the war but he declined. This is one of the reasons he is held in high esteem. He said the war was not about crude oil.

Go and read about Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, he is from a very wealthy family.
As at the time of the war, his father Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu was the richest man in Nigeria. So stop typing nonsense about Ojukwu taking anything from anyone.
He was a man of integrity who stood by his people when it mattered most. If the same conditions present themselves today and Ojukwu calls for war, we will gladly pick up arms.

thesolutions:
Oh shortgun!
I heard he was refining and selling our petrol and crude oil when he took over port Harcourt. I guess your family received benefits from the proceeds of that that and other businesses.
Did he also queue to collect 20 naira to start life afresh after the war or he used his Biafran currency to charter flights to ivory coast?
Who made Biafra sovereign entity. Was there any UN resolution or AU resolution that recognized it as a sovereign entity and also recognize the currency Ojukwu printed? Can you exchange the currency at the border with any African currency at the border? So your claim of sovereign entity is false.
Biafra was never derived from bight of Biafra. Bight of Biafra covers several countries and it will be rascality for Ojukwu to claim that name for his imaginary nation.
Biafra, just as Nnamdi kanu has told you clouns came from the name of his village Afara in Umuahia where Ojukwu bunker is located. Biafra came from distortion of the Igbo phrase Bia Afara meaning come to Afara where he hid to build his fortress. If you don't believe this, then you should be cursing Nnamdi kanu for distorting the origin of the name.
But what More can I say. You believe he is right in his actions. He is your hero or maybe you wish he is because of your pain that your politicians can not solve. I might think you are transferring aggression on the wrong people.

gidgiddy:
You are not ashamed of your self? You are answering the name "Nigerian", a British colonial slave name created in London by a white woman. This is your national identity

You are claiming a country the British from Europe created, as your country. You are nothing but a product of the British

Ojukwu fought for freedom. He fought for freedom from a country he knew would never work, and he was right, it has never worked.

So someone who is answering a name created in London by a white woman has no business lecturing Ojukwu on why he chose the name Biafra

thesolutions:
At least you did not dispute the origin of the name Biafra. That is improvement.
But Biafra has no meaning. That is why everyone will come with different interpretation. MASSOB under Ralph Uwazurike claimed Biafra is a distortion of B'Epharaim meaning for Ephraim. This is why they are claiming Israel ancestry. In every of the origin claims, there is a distortion which makes it a name without meaning.

Luis Ojukwu was claimed to be the richest man in Nigeria selling stock fish right? Funny.
No one called Ojukwu poor anyways because he was brigadier general and head of eastern regional government. That should make him richer than his father by far don't you think. But does that dispute the fact that no one gets a refund of the money they exchanged for the Biafran currency. What did he do to help his people get the paper he issued them converted to Nigerian currency. Did he at least negotiate a value with the government so they can help those that has accumulated the currency over the 3 year war?
Did he convert the money for them even if it is a a very low exchange rate?


Sometimes, intelligence is not in the answer but in the question.

shortgun:
Pick up books and read, you won't die.
Commenting on things you know nothing about makes you appear dumb to people.

How will Ojukwu be richer than his father when his father is a billionaire at that time.?

thesolutions:
Nigeria is not a people but a country. it is a name given to our region by our colonial master. They could name us anything because we were conquered without a fight.
We were slaves in a colony.

Biafra is not a country. We were not slaves under Ojukwu to warrant him giving us a name without consultation. The Igbos were free at independence and we jointly accepted the name Nigeria at independence.
We were free as Nigerians.
Oppression that arose was not external aggression but internal squabble caused by our politicians and the height of it was the coup that brought in our own as the ruler of the nation. That is the truth we are not telling ourselves.
Every claim of marginalization is we being served the dish that our politicians served others during this short period.

We have never been slaves in Nigeria. We dominate the trade, sports, and crafts industry. Our population living outside our region is more than our population within our region.

This slavery you are fighting to free yourself in is the actually the slavery of our politicians and leaders which they dragged us into fighting for them. Now the politicians and leaders are free and has ignored us that was dragged into this fight of theirs while we live in self guilt and slave mentality as they enjoy their political loots alone without questions and opposition.
This is why political alignment will continue because our politicians has found their freedom and you will have to call yourself a fool to be free, else, you continue to fight and slave like Ojukwu boy in ADC without gain.
Open your eyes.

buttlover:
He wasn't biased. He included all tribes to govern their respective regions. Tinubu's government is all about Yoruba

gidgiddy:
I think you should do more research on Nigeria history. The name Biafra was actually the suggestion of an Ijaw man called Frank Opigo, head of the Yenagoa province of the old Eastern Region. A lot of people tend to forget that all the Chiefs and heads of the 20 provinces that made up the old Eastern Region met in Enugu(Eastern Nigeria Consultative Forum) where they discussed for two days, voted and mandated Ojukwu to declare the Eastern Region a seperate country called Biafra. When Opigo was called to speak at the conference, he suggested that the name of the new country be called "Biafra".

So indigenous West Africans chose the name Biafra, unlike the name Nigeria that was created in London by a white woman, imported into West Aftica by her boyfriend, and imposed on people by force

buttlover:
He wasn't biased. He included all tribes to govern their respective regions. Tinubu's government is all about Yoruba

Axis313:
Fajuyi,a Yoruba man who laid down his life defending his guest who happened to be an Igbo Head of State.
If Yorubas were cowards and betrayers,he would have turned his guest over to the coupists.