₦airaland Forum

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

spiSeyi:
After going through the history of the coup I understood why there shouldn't be Nigeria in the first place. Guess what , Akintola and Tafawa Balewa caused this coup. If you read our story since 1956 till date you will realize that nothing has changed in our political scene. Tafawa Balewa declared state of emergency in the western region just like Tinubu did in Rivers and that was one of the reasons that provoked the kaki boys. Awolowo & Zik fvckup big time , there shouldn't have been a country called Nigeria in the first place

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.

amaridigital:
The lie that Ojukwu dad was the richest man in Nigeria has been debunked several times.
Stop the lies please

happney65:
And that is the lie they have told you over the years. Fajuyi didnt lie down his life. He was penciled down by the July coup plotters to revenge the January killings.

As written by Adewale Ademoyega,one of the major coup plotters of the January coup. The July plotters already penciled Fajuyi down to be killed as they thought he was among the planners of January coup. He was named and called "Action grouper" by the July coupisrs and that was why they took both him and Ironisi along.

However Fajuyi knew about the coup but he wasnt a participant as he was away out of the country when the coup took place.

Btw,How can he even stop Danjuma and his group from taking Ironisi? When they were fully armed. So that lies that he lay his life for Ironsi isnt true.

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

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

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

RichBoy247:
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You go explain tire. Nobody ask you question, na you dey explain wetin nobody ask you

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.

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

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

thesolutions:
Focus on Odumegwu Ojukwu. I have tried to magnify his wealth so it won't look like he defrauded his people by collecting their money and gave them piece of paper because of poverty yet you are trying to be book clever by focusing more on how wealthy his father was. We have read all those and how his father provided the queen with carriage vehicle. So does that solve the issue that biafrans that converted their currency to the piece of paper Ojukwu issued was never refunded when the war was over. You are derailing the thread just to claim intelligence that might be questionable.

greatseed:
Now I thought you making a little sense until you called Ojukwu a General! He was never a General but retired as a Lt Col in the Nigerian Army. Nigeria still stands comprised of Hausa, Igbo, yoruba & other tribes. Please stop spreading false ranks which Nigeria did not bestow on anyone.

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

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.

loveth360:
Fajuyi didn't laid down his life,he was killed by northern soldiers together with ironsi.



But to avoid confronting north because of fear, Yorubas changed the narrative claiming he asked Northern soldiers for to kill him together.



But let assume it was true, will you yorubas believe that Fajuyi asked to be killed too if he was killed by Igbos soldiers?

Won't you asked even if he requested that, must you kill him.



There is no record he died fighting for the so called Igbo Man,so how is it hard for Northern soldiers to kill their target and leave.


Assuming na northern soldiers told you people this,so you believe it without asking questions?

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

shortgun:
You are confusing yourself by raising completely different issues and trying to merge them just to score cheap points.

First, during an active war, every breakaway state in history has issued its own currency as a measure of sovereignty. It didn’t start with Biafra......Biafra was blockaded and cut off from Nigeria’s financial system, it could not operate using federal currency. So issuing the Biafran pound was a wartime necessity. Economic activities had to continue.

Second, the matter of post-war currency was not handled by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu or by Biafra. After the war ended, the £20 policy was introduced by the federal government under Yakubu Gowon. It was a flat £20 compensation for all Easterners, regardless of how much money anyone had in the bank. That was how they stole all the money belonging to Eastern people in banks across Nigeria. If you truly care about how Igbos and other tribes in the Eastern Region lost their money then hold the government responsible and leave Ojukwu alone. If your grievance is about non-refund or unfair compensation direct it to the Nigerian state that designed and implemented that wicked, oppressive financial policy to impoverish Easterners.

Third, Ojukwu did not take anyone’s money because the money belonging to Easterners was stored in Nigerian banks and later stolen by the government. Most people who fled government sanctioned massacres across Nigeria returned home empty-handed. Those who tried to return with any money were looted on their way back. So where exactly did they get the money you claim Ojukwu collected from them?

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

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

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

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

lawani:
Yet if he did not resist you will be the first one to call him a betrayal or a coward. The Northerners planned to kill Ironsi in Ibadan in order to implicate the Yoruba. They could have killed him in Kaduna but they chose Ibadan to implicate the Yoruba. If they had killed Ironsi in Lagos or Kaduna would Fajuyi still have been killed? Fajuyi simply sacrificed himself because of the honor of his people but you are free to paint him otherwise, it does not remove anything from his sacrifice. He insisted that Ibadan was the wrong place to come and kill Ironsi and he was killed by the counter coupist for that

gidgiddy:
Good that you know that decree 34 was about the civil service, because your people have been lying for years that it abolished the 4 Regions Nigeria had even though all know that Ironsi 4 military Governors were in office to the day Ironsi died

happney65:
Nobody will call anybody betrayal or anything. The coup was a coup lead by soldiers. It has nothing to do with where the coup was to take place.

The coup plotters saw an opportunity and they took it. They might have even killed Ironsi in the North or Lagos or anywhere. I'm sure they didnt choose Ibadan because of what you are saying because it is all conjectures

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

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.