₦airaland Forum

hakeem4:
Coup is planned among trusted friends .

Also nzeogwu was not the one who planned the coup..... Ifeajuna planned the coup..........

mastertunji:
Dear Historian, pls can u recommend some books that detailed some vital historical events like d one u have just posted? I mean, books that detailed d eyewitness accounts, like FFK use to narrate.

T9ksy:
............yeah, however Nzeogwu recruited Major A. Ademoyega, the only Yoruba soldier in the "inner circle ".

ApcSucks:
Leave trash for lawma, what's done is done

jamesibor:
Op, are you a learner?


Is Obasanjo not a Yoru.... man?

Knowledge9000:
Olutoye told Nzeogwu he would only participate in the coup if the coup was bloodless.lol! Yoruba and fear of death. Nah so General Diya see small knife/ Fulani dagger for Abacha side table, and he knelt down and started crying profusely. Lol

raumdeuter:
Yet we know the warlord who fled warfront and landed in Abidjan

attackgat:
In 1960, 4 young men were commissioned as officers of the Nigerian Army. Two of them were Yorubas, the other two were Igbos. The four men were:

1)Lt Olusegun Obasunjo
2)Lt Chukwuma Nzeogwu
3)Lt Olufemi Olutoye
4)Lt Gabriel Okonweze


By 1965, all four men had become Majors and Nzeogwu along with other disgruntled officers who were disgusted with the political violence in the country started recruiting fellow officers for a coup. Nzeogwu told Olutoye about his plans and Olutoye said he would assist Nzeogwu as long as the coup was bloodless. Nzeogwu told Okonweze about his plans and Okonweze readily agreed to participate. However, Okonweze was transfered to Enugu Barrak before the coup began rendering his services useless.


But despite being best friends, Nzeogwu never told Obasunjo about the impending coup. I have often wondered, why did Nzeogwu never tell his best friend, Obasunjo about the coup?