₦airaland Forum

DerideGull:
It was not a round robin thing. The people with the same mind set such as you turned the coup into tribal bigotry hence Nigeria has remained a tribal melting point.

Dindondin:
It was a fatal mistake!

If only Nzeogwu & his January boys had killed both Azikiwe & Orizu.

The Hausas/Fulanis have wrong almost every tribe in Nigeria with their animalistic character when their brains switch off. The shout about marginalizing the Igbos could v been corrected in a subtle way than the 1966 coup. What vexed me most was that some Yoruba VIPs lost their lives with Balewa & Ahmadu Bello. Shebi the Igbo's said its Hausa/Fulanis thats their enemy.

jayloms:
Right! And you can tell I'm a bigot because..?

awoononi:
Please, do you have the ebook or have an idea of where I can get the hard copy? Who authored it?

aishmuhd:
There are historical events I hate to read or remember and this is one if them.

Jesuspikin77:
I've been looking for that book since last year

How exactly can I get it? I stay in Uyo

Chukazu:
It's amazing how they keep blaming ojukwu for the war, and forget that Gowon's refusal to abide by the "Aburi "peace Accord automatically led to the war.

rigarmortis:
brother, read history well, the major factor that caused the war was when thousands of people were killed in the north for reasons they don't know anything about, they didn't demand for their own country until they felt they were unsafe in the old one.

picture this, someone, a military officer, from kogi whose name is bayo, kills a prince whose names is abu, now this led to a mass roit which was deliberately left unchecked where thousands of people who don't even know bayo gets killed with impunity, just because their name doesn't sound like abu.

they go home and demand they want to be on their own, that's the simplest cause of the war.

even murtala demanded that the north secede, if not for gowon who told him to calm down, after the first wave of killings, ojukwu called for the takeover of power by the most senior officer, I think his name was bamidele, the guy refused, another senior offcer from the west couldn't control soldiers from the north beneath him, who took orders from a captain of northern origin.

the next most senior was a naval guy from the west too, but murtala and co insisted that they must have the power otherwise they would secede, eventually the two most senior officers from the west relinquished their power and gowon became president , ojukwu however refused to recognise his power, plus as military governor of the east, his people, smarting from the brutal and senseless killings insisted that they wanted their own country.

the rest is history

consider the above before you apportion blames

shala01:
If only that coup was successful

specimenC:
It was succesful and then there was a counter-coup. July rematch.

DerideGull:
The above crap is arrant nonsense. The coup was not a manifestation of quota system where certain number of people from certain ethnic group had to be killed.

fasbat:
Had Kaduna Nzeogwu killed d major Easterners as planned then without allowing them to escape we will not be here now,yes others killed their compatriots in West and North but conspired to fail in d East! The failure was d reason for the counter coup of July 1966 and Nig has not come out of this, Easterners were in strategic and plum positions then but d singular "plot" degenerate to ds sorry 'marginalisation' being witnessed now, as told by very elderly papa,the inability to execute those marked out to be killed in eastern region caused the Civil war despite d plea of Awolowo to tread softly. Umh,the rest is history...

rigarmortis:
brother, read history well, the major factor that caused the war was when thousands of people were killed in the north for reasons they don't know anything about, they didn't demand for their own country until they felt they were unsafe in the old one.

picture this, someone, a military officer, from kogi whose name is bayo, kills a prince whose names is abu, now this led to a mass roit which was deliberately left unchecked where thousands of people who don't even know bayo gets killed with impunity, just because their name doesn't sound like abu.

they go home and demand they want to be on their own, that's the simplest cause of the war.

even murtala demanded that the north secede, if not for gowon who told him to calm down, after the first wave of killings, ojukwu called for the takeover of power by the most senior officer, I think his name was bamidele, the guy refused, another senior offcer from the west couldn't control soldiers from the north beneath him, who took orders from a captain of northern origin.

the next most senior was a naval guy from the west too, but murtala and co insisted that they must have the power otherwise they would secede, eventually the two most senior officers from the west relinquished their power and gowon became president , ojukwu however refused to recognise his power, plus as military governor of the east, his people, smarting from the brutal and senseless killings insisted that they wanted their own country.

the rest is history

consider the above before you apportion blames

Brymo:
I admonished every NLander to go n read why we struck?

Brymo:
I admonished every NLander to go n read why we struck?

shala01:
No it wasn't. Ojukwu did not coorporate with the plotters and Ironsi was not suppose to be alive. At the time of the counter coup, those were in jail. If they had succeded, they will not be any need for the counter coup.

Brymo:
I admonished every NLander to go n read why we struck?

specimenC:
Tell that to your ignorant brothers, not me. To say that ironsi was not suppose to be alive is laughable. Do you even know your history at all? It was a successful IBO COUP BECUS IT WAS OVERWHELMINGLY IBOS DISHING OUT THE PUNISHMENT TO NON IBOS! GET IT, MR INTELLIGENT?!?!. And of course Everybody can understand there was a coup, but what we can't understand is the sparing of some of the politicians along tribal lines, and what the military cannot understand is the massacre of high-ranking Northern officers. These mallams are not as silly as you want to make them seem. The kunu sipping almajiris beat you at your own greed game of 'it's always all or nothing'.

DiademSh07:
At least he didn't lead 3mil of our people to the slaughter ground! 3mil of ibos just wiped off like that! LOL!
That's said, Awolowo's vision for Yorubaland is still the why you losers are trooping in droves to the southwest and getting your Eze flogged in Akure!
Pathetic losers!

specimenC:
The only thing to consider from all this stories of yours is the January coup, that lead to killing of ibos in the north, then to the to counter coup then the war. You are the genesis of the whole thing. So don't try and sugar coat anything, the victim card won't work here. What else would u call predominantly Ibo officers murdering only the Wetern and Northern Premiers on the same day. After murdering them, they go chill with the Eastern Premeir; why didnt they kill him also? Then they kill the most Senior Northern military officers!(were they also part of the corrupt politicians?) What do u call that?lol. Try as u may u cant change the truth! The Jan.1966 coup was an Ibo one and the July.1966 "rematch" was  Northern one; end of story! Why arent the Northerners denying that the July 1966 coup was not an "Hausa" coup! You guys and this victim mentality!

Perhaps you want to know what actually lead to January coup,i won't mind bringing up here too.

rigarmortis:
I will try as much as possible not to insult.

I am not arguing whether the coup was an Igbo man or not, and this is not victim mentality, if the coupists were arrested and jailed or even executed like military tradition requires, that's a different thing.

but the systematic killings of innocent people who don't even know what is going on is wrong, the guys on the street don't have anything to do with the death of those assassinated so why kill them, and why did the authorities look the other way on purpose.

its like justifying the death of the NYSC corpers in 2011 just because some people felt slighted.

and FYI, Yoruba people and even fellow northerners bordering the south were killed, people from professors from benue state were killed.

now another reason the war was fought was military chain of command and all the egos involved.

ojukwu refused to acknowledge gowon as the president, they were both colonels then, I think.

instead he insisted that either of the first two most senior brigadiers from the west take over, when murtala and co refused he went back to Enugu.

I just narrated historical facts, where is the "victim mentality", you want me to say people deserve death because some officers killed other people, if the particular officers involved were hounded and killed, that's different from systematic genocide.

Mosh1:
Ok,give us your own lies(version) how he commit suicide.One thing with lie is that if you don`t attack it,it will soon turn to true.

jonnieoneng:
I read the book.....and it is a chronicle of a few men's Impatience,ethnic chauvanism,wickedness,senitimental and naivity of a few mid level officers, whose greed,hunger and over ambitious tendency pushed them to carry out a Coup that was ethnically baised.Any sensible person will never celebrate this kind of even,in view of what the coup later precipitated.

Brymo:
I admonished every NLander to go n read why we struck?

slimz10:
Do you have the soft copy.... pls share the link for downloading.
Thanks.

Brymo:
nope, no soft copy on it.

RightBoo:
Should I tell you how awolowo died of rat poison?

Worst part is that I read it from an international media.

Mosh1:
Funny you,I am all ears and the source of your international lies.

azpekuliar:
@OP, naptu2 ..I would like you to produce the Orkar coup broadcast. That's one coup I wish had'nt failed.

Happy Armed Forces remembrance day

"Fellow Nigerian Citizens,

On behalf of the patriotic and well-meaning peoples of the Middle Belt and the southern parts of this country, I , Major Gideon Orkar, wish to happily inform you of the successful ousting of the dictatorial, corrupt, drug baronish, evil man, deceitful, homo-sexually-centered, prodigalistic, un-patriotic administration of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.  We have equally commenced their trials for unabated corruption, mismanagement of national economy, the murders of Dele Giwa, Major-General Mamman Vatsa, with other officers as there was no attempted coup but mere intentions that were yet to materialise and other human rights violations.

The National Guard already in its formative stage is disbanded with immediate effect.  Decrees Number 2 and 46 are hereby abrogated.  We wish to emphasise that this is not just another coup but a well conceived, planned and executed revolution for the marginalised, oppressed and enslaved peoples of the Middle Belt and the south with a  view to freeing ourselves and children yet unborn from eternal slavery and colonisation by a clique of this country.

Our history is replete with numerous and uncontrollable instances of callous and insensitive dominatory repressive intrigues by those who think it is their birthright to dominate till eternity the political and economic privileges of this great country to the exclusion of the people of the Middle Belt and the south.

They have almost succeeded in subjugating the Middle Belt and making them voiceless and now extending same to the south.

It is our unflinching belief that this quest for domination, oppression and marginalisation is against the wish of God and therefore, must be resisted with the vehemence.

Anything that has a beginning must have an end.  It will also suffice here to state that all Nigerians without skeleton in their cupboards need not to be afraid of this change. However, those with skeleton in their cupboards have all reasons to fear, because the time of reckoning has come.

For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state the three primary reasons why we have decided to oust the satanic Babangida administration.  The reasons are as follows:
 
 (a)  To stop Babangida's desire to cunningly, install himself as Nigeria's life president at all costs and by so doing, slowpoke the progress of this country for life.  In order to be able to achieve this undesirable goals of his, he has evidently started destroying those groups and sections he perceived as being able to question his desires.
 
Examples of groups already neutralised, pitched against one another or completely destroyed are:

 (1)  The Sokoto caliphate by installing an unwanted Sultan to cause division within the hitherto strong Sokoto caliphate.

 (2)  The destruction of the peoples of Plateau State, especially the Lantang people, as a balancing force in the body politics of this country.

 (3)  The buying of the press by generous monetary favours and the usage of State Security Service, SSS, as a tool of terror.

 (4)  The intent to cow the students by the promulgation of the draconian decree Number 47.

 (5)  The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.

 (6)  Deliberately withholding funds to the armed forces to make them ineffective and also crowning his diabolical scheme through the intended retrenchment of more than half of the members of the armed forces.

Other pointers that give credence to his desire to become a life president against the wishes of the people are:

(1)  His appointment of himself as a minister of defence, his putting under his direct control the SSS, his deliberate manipulation of the transition programme, his introduction of inconceivable, unrealistic and impossible political options, his recent fraternisation with other African leaders that have installed themselves as life presidents and his dogged determination to create a secret force called the national guard, independent of the armed forces and the police which will be answerable to himself alone, both operationally and administratively.

It is our strong view that this kind of dictatorial desire of Babangida is unacceptable to Nigerians of the 1990's, and, therefore, must be resisted by all.

(b)    Another major reason for the change is the need to stop intrigues, domination and internal colonisation of the Nigerian state by the so-called chosen few.  This, in our view, has been and is still responsible for 90 percent of the problems of Nigerians.   This indeed has been the major clog in our wheel of progress.

This clique has an unabated penchant for domination and unrivalled fostering of mediocrity and outright detest for accountability, all put together have been our undoing as a nation.

This will ever remain our threat if not checked immediately.  It is strongly believed that without the intrigues perpetrated by this clique and misrule, Nigeria will have in all ways achieved developmental virtues comparable to those in Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, India, and even Japan.

Evidence, therefore, this cancerous dominance has as a factor constituted by a major and unpardonable clog in the wheel of progress of the Nigerian state.  (Sic) It is suffice to mention a few distasteful intrigues engineered by this group of Nigerians in recent past. These are:

 (1)  The shabby and dishonourable treatment meted on the longest serving Nigerian general in the person of General Domkat Bali, who in actual fact had given credibility to the Babangida administration.

 (2)  The wholesale hijacking of Babangida's administration by the all powerful clique.

 (3)  The disgraceful and inexplicable removal of Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, Professor Tam David-West, Mr. Aret Adams and so on from office.

 (4)  The now-pervasive and on-going retrenchment of Middle Belt and southerners from public offices and their instant replacement by the favoured class and their stooges.

 (5)  The deliberate disruption of the educational culture and retarding its place to suit the favoured class to the detriment of other educational minded parts of this country.

 (6)  The deliberate impoverishment of the peoples from the Middle Belt and the south, making them working ghosts and feeding on the formulae of 0-1-1- or 0-0-0 while the aristocratic class and their stooges are living in absolute affluence on a daily basis without working for it.

 (7)  Other countless examples of the exploitative, oppressive, dirty games of intrigues of its class, where people and stooges that can best be described by the fact that even though they contribute very little economically to the well being of Nigeria, they have over the years served and presided over the supposedly national wealth derived in the main from the Middle Belt and the southern part of this country, while the people from these parts of the country have been completely deprived from benefiting from the resources given to them by God.

 (c)  The third reason for the change is the need to lay a strong egalitarian foundation for the real democratic take off of the Nigerian state or states as the circumstances may dictate.

In the light of all the above and in recognition of the negativeness of the aforementioned aristocratic factor, the overall progress of the Nigerian state a temporary decision to excise the following states namely, Sokoto, Borno, Katsina, Kano and Bauchi states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes into effect immediately until the following conditions are met.

The conditions to be met to necessitate the re-absorption of the aforementioned states are as following:

(i)  To install the rightful heir to the Sultanate, Alhaji Maccido, who is the people's choice.

 (ii)  To send a delegation led by the real and recognised Sultan Alhaji Maccido to the federal government to vouch that the feudalistic and aristocratic quest for domination and operation will be a thing of the past and will never be practised in any part of the Nigeria state.

By the same token, all citizens of the five states already mentioned are temporarily suspended from all public and private offices in Middle Belt and southern parts of this country until the mentioned conditions above are met.

They are also required to move back to their various states within one week from today.  They will, however, be allowed to return and joint the Federal Republic of Nigeria when the stipulated conditions are met.

In the same vein, all citizens of the Middle Belt and the south are required to come back to their various states pending when the so-called all-in-all Nigerians meet the conditions that will ensure a united Nigeria.  A word is enough for the wise.

This exercise will not be complete without purging corrupt public officials and recovering their ill-gotten wealth, since the days of the oil boom till date.  Even in these hard times, when Nigerians are dying from hunger, trekking many miles to work for lack of transportation, a few other Nigerians with complete impunity are living in unbelievable affluence both inside and outside the country.

We are extremely determined to recover all ill-gotten wealth back to the public treasury for the use of the masses of our people.  You are all advised to remain calm as there is no cause for alarm.  We are fully in control of the situation as directed by God.  All airports, seaports and borders are closed forthwith.

The former Armed Forces Ruling Council is now disbanded and replaced with National Ruling Council to be chaired by the head of state with other members being a civilian vice-head of state, service chiefs, inspector general of police, one representative each from NLC, NUJ, NBA, and NANS.

A curfew is hereby imposed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice.  All members of the armed forces and the police forces are hereby confined to their respective barracks.

All unlawful and criminal acts by those attempting to cause chaos will be ruthlessly crushed.  Be warned as we are prepared at all costs to defend the new order.

All radio stations are hereby advised to hook on permanently to the national network programme until further notice.

Long live all true patriots of this great country of ours. May God and Allah through his bountiful mercies bless us all."

Ugomba:
If Nzeogwu is still alive, He would have been politically under South South as a Delta Igbo.
- He led the coup yet The South East Igbos did not deny him, He ran to them for help. It was part of what triggered the war.
- Had it been that the S.E Igbos denied Nzeogwu as being Igbo, it would have been Hausa/Fulani vs Anioma.
- Thats What You Call A Brother Standing Firmly by a Brother.
.. PROUDLY ANIOMA and DELTA IGBO.