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igbos overtaking civilian president is the beginig of nigeria problem

Ibos are gullible and funny enough they choose to have selective retrograde amnesia when it comes to pointing out the genesis of their woes/ mistakes. Ibos have always caused their woes

disumusa:
igbos overtaking civilian president is the beginig of nigeria problem

arewafederation:
No my friend, there was no ethnic division in the millitary until the Ibos strucked, killing all senior officers, and top politicians from the north. Stop trying to twist the dacts.
How did Azikwe "narrowly" escape the coup?
Abeg, let's not start something that will lead us nowhere. Your ibo soldiers fuvcked up and the ibo race faced the consequences. Finito!
Forget the past and move ahead since you have a forgiving spirit!

umar745:
No he was killed because there was a coup. A coup not because his tribes men killed northerners but because of his indecisiveness because he was shielding Nzeogwu and Okafor from been punished for their crimes
and haven read the attached books I'm telling you that even the Igbo Author knew all Ironsi had to do was execute Major Okafor and Nzeogwu. Which is not an outrageous demand.
Now for you to think one region can single handedly carry out coup against the whole country is just laughable.
See ehn you pple should just stop shifting blames abeg enlighten yourself

The best and most accurate version of what happened in 1966 till the end of the civil war was written by one of the “five majors”. People should try and get the book titled “WHY WE STRUCK ”by major ademola ademulegun . He was one of the 5major that planned and executed the first coup. To be honest ,the fact that the politicians in the south escaped wasn't delibrate ,it was due to the sloppiness of the coup executors ,it was only kaduna Nzeogwu that did his own part very well.

wadetaw202:
Aguiyi ironsi and Kaduna nzeogwu should also tell us about how they murdered sadauna of sokoto and northern soldiers in cold blood. Igbos playing the victim since 1967.

funny guy .

Equalizer:
What happened in 1966 coup was nothing short of revenge cos Gowon, Murtala, Danjuma and other senior officers felt betrayed by the eastern and western region cos the origin plan was for all the Democratic leaders to be wiped out but Azikiwe,Awololo and that mid western man survived the attack and only the north recorded heavy casualties.. Am sure till date, the north are yet to forgive the Igbos for what Kaduna chukwuma Nzengwo did to their great men..

point of correction it was akintola not awolowo pls don't distort history.

if se said they hate hausas do they like sw or ss

onatisi:
The best and most accurate version of what happened in 1966 till the end of the civil war was written by one of the “five majors”. People should try and get the book titled “WHY WE STRUCK ”by major ademola ademulegun . He was one of the 5major that planned and executed the first coup. To be honest ,the fact that the politicians in the south escaped wasn't delibrate ,it was due to the sloppiness of the coup executors ,it was only kaduna Nzeogwu that did his own part very well.

Did they tell you how Nnamdi Azikwe "escaped" the coup?

Maj. Ademulegun was not entirely honest in his book.

onatisi:
The best and most accurate version of what happened in 1966 till the end of the civil war was written by one of the “five majors”. People should try and get the book titled “WHY WE STRUCK ”by major ademola ademulegun . He was one of the 5major that planned and executed the first coup. To be honest ,the fact that the politicians in the south escaped wasn't delibrate ,it was due to the sloppiness of the coup executors ,it was only kaduna Nzeogwu that did his own part very well.

God bless you joor.. The Hausa soldiers that were suppose to take care of Azikiwe, Awololo and Akintola failed and instead for them to admit their failure, they now turned around to blame Nzeigwo for killing Ahmadu Bello and Belewa...

Equalizer:
What happened in 1966 coup was nothing short of revenge cos Gowon, Murtala, Danjuma and other senior officers felt betrayed by the eastern and western region cos the origin plan was for all the Democratic leaders to be wiped out but Azikiwe,Awololo and that mid western man survived the attack and only the north recorded heavy casualties.. Am sure till date, the north are yet to forgive the Igbos for what Kaduna chukwuma Nzengwo did to their great men..

point of correction it was Samuel akintola and he was killed in the coup not awolowo pls don't distort history.It was only Michael okpara and nnamdi azikiwe dat were not killed,and this brought a level of suspicion from the northern military elites, more so aguinyi ironsi also called to prosecute the coupist and as a matter of fact set them free cos the were mainly of d IGBO stock and that was the straw that broke d camels back

arewafederation:
Did they tell you how Nnamdi Azikwe "escaped" the coup?

Maj. Ademulegun was not entirely honest in his book.

Was it only Azikiwe that escaped the coup? didn't you hear that Awolowo and other top yuroba leaders escaped too.. In Nigeria, when one makes sentence without including the Igbos in it, the sentence seems not to be correct..

Equalizer:
No be small one chance.. NW is just marginalizing the other northern zones cos I don't see any reason why NE and NC will fold their arms while NW keep on producing sick presidents.. Murtala Mohammed- NW, Sani Abacha- NW, Musa Umaru Yar'dua- NW and Baba One Chance NW.

please tell us were ibb,abdusalami abubakar,gowon came from?

am sure ur tecno phone can access the internet so please don't disgrace urself publicly.

asamaigho:
point of correction it was Samuel akintola and he was killed in the coup not awolowo pls don't distort history.It was only Michael okpara and nnamdi azikiwe dat were not killed,and this brought a level of suspicion from the northern military elites, more so aguinyi ironsi also called to prosecute the coupist and as a matter of fact set them free cos the were mainly of d IGBO stock and that was the straw that broke d camels back

Then why are Hausas crying as if the coup was planned to kill their elites only.. As at the time of this coup, who was in charge of western region?

Equalizer:
Was it only Azikiwe that escaped the coup? didn't you hear that Awolowo and other top yuroba leaders escaped too.. In Nigeria, when one makes sentence without including the Igbos in it, the sentence seems not to be correct..

Where was Azikwe during the coup?

asamaigho:
please tell us were ibb,abdusalami abubakar,gowon came from?

am sure ur tecno phone can access the internet so please don't disgrace urself publicly.

You are the one disgracing your linage in public.. Is Niger state in NW?
IBB and Abdulsalami are from Niger state while Yakubu is from Jos... So why you choose to disgrace yourself?

Equalizer:
Then why are Hausas crying as if the coup was planned to kill their elites only.. As at the time of this coup, who was in charge of western region?

All yoruba elites killed were loyal to Sir Ahmadu Bello.

arewafederation:
Where was Azikwe during the coup?

Travelled out for an official meeting..

arewafederation:
Did they tell you how Nnamdi Azikwe "escaped" the coup?

Maj. Ademulegun was not entirely honest in his book.

yes I believe major ademulegun was honest about the events that happened. No one has come out to say otherwise among the principal actors of that coup and even top military officer accept the story.

asamaigho:
point of correction it was Samuel akintola and he was killed in the coup not awolowo pls don't distort history.It was only Michael okpara and nnamdi azikiwe dat were not killed,and this brought a level of suspicion from the northern military elites, more so aguinyi ironsi also called to prosecute the coupist and as a matter of fact set them free cos the were mainly of d IGBO stock and that was the straw that broke d camels back

bros ,aguyi ironsi never set the coupist free ,major banjo,njoku,ifejuana and nzeogwu were all sent to prison in the south east , nzeogwu captured the north and infact effectively split the nation into for almost a week ,a deal was struck and he was asked to come to lagos for more negotiations ,infact he and the other coupist were give a red carpet ceremony from the north it was when they got to lagos that they were immdediately arrested . But what happened was that the northerners wanted them to be executed immediately and ironsi wanted a trial and things like that which made the whole thing foot dragging, they were moved to prisons in the south east . So there is no time ironsi set them free.

Equalizer:
Senator Andrew Nwankwo from the Izzi clan in
Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, was a captain in the Nigeria
Air Force before the January 1966 coup that made way
for Major General J. T. U Aguiyi Ironsi to emerge as
Head of State.
He became Ironsi’s Aide-De-Camp through the
recommendation of Brigadier George Krubo who was
then in-charge of the Air Force and subsequently
supervised the late Head of State’s security.
Capt. Andrew Nwankwo (rtd) said he was to die with
his boss, but for fate. He was present when both Ironsi
and Fajuyi were shot dead.
Tracking the 61-year-old former ADC down in his one
story building residence in Abakaliki was not as
difficult as getting him to recall the events that led to
the death of his master 38 years ago.
He would start by taking you down memory lane when
he served as a courier to late Emperor Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia, "I was manning the octopus-a helicopter that
carries 105 artillery gun and six other machine guns.
"So when Ethiopia was at war with Somalia in 1964/65
we formed the defence group of the emperor, we also
formed an attack force. When the emperor is going to
the frontline to see what is happening, we ring him
round to clear the way for him".
It was part of these that Ironsi saw and handed over
his security to the young captain. "It was cool working
with Ironsi, he understood everything about what I
should do because he had commanded the UN forces
in Congo, and that exposed him to the type of people
he needed".
The coup
Recalling the events of that night, July 29, 1966,
Nwankwo noted that they were in Ibadan, "we had a
small detachment of 106 Artillery, Commanded by one
Walbe from Plateau"
The Head of State had the previous day hosted
traditional rulers from all parts of the country in the
Ibadan Government House. "He wasn’t feeling quite
well, he had a knee problem and had to go to bed
early.
"Lieutenant Sanni Bello was the army ADC, and we
were very close. So, we left that night to go and look
out and came back late. Lt. Adamu who was the ADC
to Fajuyi, Sanni Bello, Walbe and myself, we all slept
together in one room that night".
"At about 4a.m the telephone rang, I picked it up and
that was Adeola, the then commissioner of police,
Ibadan he said he wanted to speak with Ironsi, I said I
was the ADC, he said he wanted to speak with him
because there was a coup and he gave me some
names Orok and two others that had been killed in
Abeokuta.
"Immediately, I made a mental picture of it, and I knew
that it was the northerners that were responsible. So, I
handed the phone to Ironsi and they talked. I then
alerted Adamu and Sanni Bello and said look, there is
a coup and the trend is this way.
"Bello assured me that if it is his own people he will
protect me, because, there was tension in the land
such that we knew a coup was imminent. So, we
agreed to protect each other depending on where it will
be coming from. I later discovered that Walbe who was
sleeping with us was part of the coup; he later became
ADC to Gowon.
"Around 5:30 we heard gunfire, then Ironsi had called
Col. Njoku to tell him about the coup. As Njoku was
going out, he was short at, but he escaped with bullet
wounds. It was Njoku, who was the commander of
Lagos Garrison that alerted others outside the
Government House, Ibadan.
"Fajuyi later sent me outside the government House to
find out what was happening. I met Danjuma, who
was then a major and he was my friend. He pretended
he didn’t know what was happening, he was asking
me, and I said I didn’t know. While I was trying to go
back, one sergeant from Benue almost shot me, but
Danjuma stopped him and spoke to him in Hausa.
Danjuma later told me that he would like to see Ironsi,
so that he could tell them what to do.
"It was then that Fajuyi came out to find out what was
holding me, and there inside the Government House
Danjuma ordered for his arrest and mine too. That was
when I saw Walbe. Then Fajuyi asked me to take him
to Ironsi so that they will obey him, that there should
be only one person in charge. So, I took them to Ironsi,
and major Newman, immediately he saw Ironsi, he
seized his crocodile swagger stick, and then they
started asking him about the January coup, he said he
didn’t know about it that he only agreed to be Head of
State so that he can restore confidence and normalcy.
It was immediately they arrested Ironsi that they turned
violent".
The road to the valley of death
They marched us down, Ironsi and myself, to where
Fajuyi was. They used telephone cable to tie my hands
behind and my legs, with a little space to walk. Same
they did to Ironsi, but they removed his shirt, he wore
only trousers, they also tied Fajuyi. Ironsi was in a
Land Rover, Fajuyi in a mini bus and myself in another
bus. They drove us towards Iwo Road, 10 km from
Ibadan, there was a small forest were they stopped,
marched us to the right hand side of the bush, Fajuyi
was leading and as he tried to cross a small stream, he
fell down, the soldiers were unruly, it appeared some of
them had for the first time taken Indian hemp, so when
he fell down some of them started beating him.
My escape
As Fajuyi fell down and they were beating him, Sanni
Bello came to me and tapped me and said, we could
do something now. It was providence, may be I was
not destined to die. I took a few steps from them and
jumped into a nearby ditch, all in a split of a second,
Bello came and stood by the ditch and was shouting
that I had escaped pointing at another direction. So
the soldiers ran around that direction shooting into the
bush, and when they felt they must have killed me,
they shot Fajuyi and then Ironsi there, by the side of
the stream. So Bello made sure that he was the last to
leave the place.
The ADC, who was later elected senator in 1983 stated
that the former Head of State could have escaped if
not that he wanted to make sure that there was no
bloodshed. He said if he sacrificed his life and
prevented bloodshed in Nigeria, it’s better for him.
Even his chaplain urged him to escape but he said No.
Also many of his officers who were contacted instead
of taking action ran away.
The ADC denied the prevailing story that Ironsi was
tied to a Land Rover and dragged along the road. He
maintained that he saw Ironsi and Fajuyi shot dead.
"They shot him on the chest and it was a burst, so he
would have died after the first shot".
The crocodile staff
It was a swagger stick, which he made after his name
Aguiyi (crocodile). It was in the Congo, when he was
commanding the United Nations Forces, the Indian
troops were to land at the Lumumbashi Airport but the
Cameroon gendarmes went and blocked the place with
trucks, so that the Indian soldiers will not land, so, he
used a Land Rover and with the stagger stick waved
as they were shouting, he was eventually able to
convince them to remove the trucks. Many attributed
that feat to extraordinary powers in his swagger stick.
But there was nothing in it, it was just a stick. Ironsi
was not fetish; he was a devoted Catholic and
attended mass every morning, even the day he was killed.

Na narrative essay be this nah

Believe me if the law trace this misguided writeup to you only God know where you will end of, so avoid copy n pasting everything you see on net.

londongal03:
My ppl stop fooling yourself with Nigeria, read the evil planned against you.
SOUTHEAST SHOULD BE CAREFUL
I am a soldier, I will not give my name for the sake of my life . my message is simple, I can't stop myself from letting people understand the danger they are in,in Nigeria (especially those in the southeast),after my fellow soldiers here in southern Kaduna, Kaduna state,yesterday being Sunday 08 march,invaded a church and killed innocent Christian youths guarding their church against suicide bombers from gaining access in to the church compound during their church service. My conscience keeps judging me for not letting people know what I know. I am a christian but here in the military camp, I dare not let them know about this or I will be on the next troop heading to confront Boko Haram without enough rains of ammunition to fight them and certainly will get killed . most of our men deployed to fight Boko Haram are christian soldiers from the eastern and southeastern part of the country ,I cry inside me each time they leave the camp to confront Boko Haram as most of them don't make it back alive and nobody cares to retrieve their body from Boko Haram .messages are set to their families back in the far eastern part of the country that they killed in a car accident and I wonder why their families don't demand for the bodies of their children they claim where involved in a car accident ,what a pity. The reason why I want people to know this ,is not because of all that had happened to Christians all over this country but because of the things they are going to face very soon , I must confess that Christians don't respond to dangers approaching them until they all die , they think that God will come down from heaven to defend their life instantly but that is not true because I am a christian also ,from kano state .Nobody suspect that I am a christian because I am from the North and they think that all Northerners are Muslim but that is not true .The message is that Boko Haram men are all over Nigeria now believe it or not, Boko Haram has also joined ISIS (Islamic State) in the Arab world and I don't know if the christian people understand what that means .150 women recently have been beheaded by ISIS and most of the women where discovered to be pregnant women ,Boko Haram is expected to carry out the same thing since they have pledged allegiance to ISIS, this is just an introduction ,the main message is that 6 years ago , Boko Haram young members joined the Nigeria Defense Academy like ordinary citizens showing interest to gain admission ,join any of the arm force for the defense of the Nation but that was not the reason ,60% of them gained admission and graduated . Recently , that group have been deployed to the eastern part of the country along with few genuine soldiers , their mission is simple and they will carry it out once the order comes . many people may see them as ordinary soldiers but the truth is that 90% of the soldiers in every checkpoint and camps in the eastern part of the country are Boko Haram members in army uniforms ,they are soldiers but their mission is different from others . please my christian brothers be wise . you may be wondering how I got this information , remember I am from the North , the northerners are not considered Christians here even when some of us are.It will interest you to know that many of our soldiers here are working for Boko Haram , not because they like them but because of the money they are been paid by the Boko Haram for every information and attacks the soldier themselves carry against Christians and the Government cannot provide the soldiers with such money . Do not see all Northerners as bad people , some of us are good but it is very difficult to tell so I don't blame anyone that think that we are all the same . For me I know that I will die because the Boko Haram are getting more help and resources than we the soldiers. Please help me to save people that I can not save as soldier by spreading this message to save livesk especially those in the southeast before the order gets to Boko Haram soldiers there . I will be happy in heaven for your good works if I die . I copied it and share with you, please do the same too, wake-up my ppl.

My friend go n learn the word VAGABOND before you use it.

babajero:
It was his foolishness that killed him, Ojukwu warned him about his closeness with the hausas and yorubas and told him not to go for that meeting but he ignored him, and is the same problem with president Jonathan today he brought hausas too close, forgetting they are just vagabonds.

Equalizer:
Ahmadu Bello died as a result of coup that went bad.. he was never the target but was at the wrong place with the people and at the wrong time... Was that the reason you murdered Ironsi too?

pls enlighten us were was ahmadu bello wen he was killed.since u said he was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Equalizer:
Travelled out for an official meeting..

Nope! It wasn't an official meeting.

OP, where is the picz now

Equalizer:
Was it only Azikiwe that escaped the coup? didn't you hear that Awolowo and other top yuroba leaders escaped too.. In Nigeria, when one makes sentence without including the Igbos in it, the sentence seems not to be correct..

There was never a plan to assasinate Awolowo.

fr3do:
Asaba and the South East are yet to forgive the north in the way they acted during the Nigerian/Biafran war.

This simply implies that it is not only the notherners that lack the ability to forgive as insisted by equalizer. Bitterness seems to be the only legacy we intend to leave for the next generation

pazienza:
Notice there was no instance in the story where Fajuiyi was killed because he was begging for Ironsi' s life.

Yorubas had used their control of the media in the 60's and 70's to fabricate a story of Fajuiyi begging for Ironsi's life. They have also done all they could to promote Igbophobia by presenting the Jan coup as an Igbo coup, their lies and sins against the Igbo nation are indeed heavy.

Fajuiyi was implicated in the Jan coup, the Northerners already marked him for death in the counter coup, but to maintain the Igbo coup story, the Yoruba media propaganda cannot report Fajuiyi implication in the Jan coup, it will ruin their " Igbo coup" script, they were already struggling on how to exonerate Ademoyega and Kpera, they just had to concoct a story of an altruistic and Jesusesque Fajuiyi, who gave up his life to protect an already condemned Ironsi. It was a tough sell, but for an Igbophobic country, anything negative attached to Ndiigbo is usually swallowed hook, line and sinker.

One word sums this up: trash!

arewafederation:
There was never a plan to assassinate Awolowo.

Don't mind them jare at the time of the coup Awolowo was in prison. He was arrested about a year before the coup, he was accused of funding his party Action Group(AG) with public funds and was sent to prison so he was not even around nor listed to be killed. Azikiwe on the otherhand knew about the coup and travelled to the Caribbean days before the coup was carried out. Among the coup plotters was his cousin Emmanuel Ifejunwa

bakynes:
Don't mind them jare at the time of the coup Awolowo was in prison. He was arrested about a year before the coup, he was accused of funding his party Action Group(AG) with public funds and was sent to prison so he was not even around nor listed to be killed. Azikiwe on the otherhand knew about the coup and travelled to the Caribbean days before the coup was carried out . Among the coup plotters was his cousin Emmanuel Ifejunwa

With this, the ibos want me to believe Azikwe didn't have knowledge of the coup!

I always advice that we forget about the past. It will only create more ethnic division.

Having Read all the comments I could, I ma forced to conclude that no one is ready to forgive the other, [size=20pt]so WHAT DO WE DO?[/size]

babajero:
It was his foolishness that killed him, Ojukwu warned him about his closeness with the hausas and yorubas and told him not to go for that meeting but he ignored him, and is the same problem with president Jonathan today he brought hausas too close, forgetting they are just vagabonds.

God punish you

haywire07:
God punish you

let it not pain you much my dear, just flow with the truth.