Quite touching! A very emotional story. Short of words.

Orikinla:



[size=20pt]Igbo officers also joined to abort Major Kaduna Nzeogwu's military revolution.[/size].

Lols guy go and read history well... they DID NOT ABORT THE COUP.. they took over. The coup.

Nzeogwu was a junior officer, a junior officer cannot take the reins of head of state in a coup unless he ASSASINATES all high ranking officers.

Truth is nzeogwu was 'double-crossed" cos I still ask u
#WHY he was NEVER COURT MARTIALLED talkless of executed?
#WHY he wasn't outrightly executed for treason?
#WHY he was transferred to ENUGU prison??

Guy read-up on naija history...

logicab:
Long and short; these guys were cold blooded murderers. Remember even one of the wives of the Sardauna was shot dead. It was no error. They just did not care who they killed. That night at the palace, Nzeogwu personally shot 3 of the guards and one of his own subordinates who did not follow orders quickly enough.

She was confirmed pregnant. That was why she, who was only 6 years old at the time was asked. The interviewer already knew she was pregnant at the time she was murdered.

Yes, Ifeajuna the mastermind knew exactly the purpose of the coup. He used Awolowo's detention to fool Ademoyega knowing the typical educated Yoruba man's deification of Awo. Awo was in jail, and according to them they wanted to release him and make him Prime Minister. So how come no action (and I mean NONE at all) was observed at the Calabar Prison where Awo was being held at the time? That says a lot.

What happened then, is what the ibos are trying to do now. They always require a fool to achieve their selfish motives and they've always seen Yorubas as the gullible ones as the hausas already know them too well. If Ademoyega in his book thinks the three officers (him, ifeajuna and nzeogu) conceived the idea of the coup he's missing something. The ibo clan via their elites decided they deserve the power due to their high level of literacy and business acumen (they had more literate pple and the highest placed back then in the country), and since the british trusts the hausas more they needed the yoruba soldiers to support their view gullibly and seize the country. If that had happened we could have witnessed the genocide of congo back in the 60s! Instead, their plan backfired and the hausas waited and throughly treated their fuckup via gowon! (forget aburi, aburi accord was just a show for the western world, ojukwu's mind was made up already)

logicab:
Hmm. Nothing wrong in being a workaholic though.

it's @ d detriment of d person cos e or she devotes al d time & energy to work no time 4rest...it's a way of trying to move on & forgetting d past anyway..it's about choice

sunnyeinstein:

The ibo clan via their elites decided they deserve the power due to their high level of literacy and business acumen (they had more literate pple and the highest placed back then in the country)

Yorubas were much better educated than the Igbos at that time; though some of them would rather want you to believe the reverse. There is a reason even the Bible was translated to Igbo by Ajayi Crowther.

sunnyeinstein:

their plan backfired and the hausas waited and throughly treated their fuckup via gowon!

Gowon was a gentleman. Left to some Northerners (and even Murtala Mohammed who was originally from Auchi), the entire Igbo ethnic group would've been wiped out.

logicab:
Aha. Someone willing to learn.

You see, during the good old days of the regions (Western, Northern, Eastern, Mid-Western), each of the regions were semi-autonomous. And they paid taxes to the center which was quite weak. The leader of each region was a strong man. The center was weak. It worked well, until some adventurers thought it was best to annex the center and make it VERY strong using a decree called Decree 34. The idea of a strong center had earlier been mooted by a certain Nnamdi Azikiwe (who happens to be a cousin to the leader of the "failed" coup - a man called Ifeajuna). They always wanted such a strong center because they did not like the idea of being stuck in their regional civil service. They wanted to be able to go to other regions and work in that region's civil service.

Unfortunately, they gave the Northerners an idea of how to hold on to power; so here we are today.

Thing is, a good number of internet warriors don't know this. They just keep on harping about 'True Federalism'. Nigeria had some form of Federalism at some point, then some group of people thought they should consolidate power at the centre. Power is intoxicating, so when others got into that 'strong centre' we started hearing of marginalization lol. Now nobody wants to devolve power again

meforyou1:
so buhari was aware of IBB ' S coup that why he was in Saudi Arabia when the coup took place. And Turkey's president was aware of yesterday's coup that's why he was on vacation when it occurred. Clap for yourself

Nope, they simply struck while the house was empty- while they were away- simply put as a "palace coup", no need to kill anybody because nobody dey house! (although idiagbon had to pay because they saw him as the real motivation behind buhari) In the nigerian case no bloodshed but turkey's own failed that's why people died left right n centre.
Also, Balewa was the real president, Zik was just figure-head.

Kai, did nt read it all. Bt d little i read made me fil like crying.
Its so painfull. Looking @ her mum losing blood, strugling to talk. Kai. God help me not to witnes such tin.

logica:
I posted this for those who always like to portray the murderers who conducted the January 1966 coup as patriots and heroes. They were nothing but low-down dirty murderers and traitors. They used to come eat at Ademulegun's house. They also used to visit the Sardauna often (Nzeogwu for one was one of the Sardauna's pets). A pregnant woman was murdered in front of her daughter. Heroes indeed.

The bastards were simply driven by tribal hatred, they couldn't stand anyone but themselves at the helm of affairs; so they engineered the coup and tried to justify it by labelling the government corrupt; yet by the time of their deaths, neither Balewa nor the Sardauna had more than one house and a small farm each with hardly any money in their bank accounts.
The Sardauna's wife was also the first female victim shot in cold blood by the merciless traitors.
I was once privy to a rare picture of Nzeogwu's body after he was killed in battle, noting that he probably might have suffered excruciating pain at the point of death because half of his body was charred and mutilated with burns.
Hope he and his cohorts rot in hell for derailing our nascent democracy on the flimsiest of excuses that this and many generations still unborn would continue to have to pay for.

rhymaster:
The betrayers and traitors of Nigeria: IBOS!

They come to eat pounded yam in their boss's house while scheming to kill him and his wife!

The same they are doing today in the SW and North, eating our pounded yam and from our economy but Nigeria has wisened up now hence they're encouraging you to go to your region and develop it! Even if you don't want to develop it or claim it is already - whatever - just leave and go back to Beerfra and do whatever!!

A lazy bone Yoruba goat on sight. the last time I checked Ibos wanted biafra more than anything but for the fear fear tribe who cannot survive one week after Nigeria breakup.

there is nothing heroic about d Nigerian army coup plotters nd power hijackers. there reign did not even bring d desired change but further plunged d nation into deep shit. even the ones that came back as president and appointees didn't do extra ordinary. they are the genesis of Nigeria's problem. selfish people

logicab:

Yorubas were much better educated than the Igbos at that time; though some of them would rather want you to believe the reverse. There is a reason even the Bible was translated to Igbo by Ajayi Crowther.

Gowon was a gentleman. Left to some Northerners (and even Murtala Mohammed who was originally from Auchi), the entire Igbo ethnic group would've been wiped out.

Yes, murtala is ruthless but he wouldnt have allowed Ojukwu to go to war for the issue to be resolved. He'd rather have ojukwu and other top ibo soldiers executed for nothing than kill an entire race, that was how commanding he could be (according to history oo, i no dey dia ooo). Gowon smiled and laughed with ojukwu but systematically pushed him to war, knowing ojukwu's mind was almost made up and the time for full-scale hausa retaliation beckoned!

sunnyeinstein:


Nope, they simply struck while the house was empty- while they were away- simply put as a "palace coup", no need to kill anybody because nobody dey house! (although idiagbon had to pay because they saw him as the real motivation behind buhari) In the nigerian case no bloodshed but turkey's own failed that's why people died left right n centre.
Also, Balewa was the real president, Zik was just figure-head.

was asking the guy that claimed that Zik was aware of the coup that's why he went on vacation.

No matter how unpopular and autocratic the govt of the day was, the use of military coup to change the govt is simply crude and unacceptable. Having said that, a military coup is a military coup. There is nothing like an 'igbo man coup', 'yoruba man coup', or an hausa man coup.

Though the incidence of January 1966 was very unfortunate but what was more tragic was when that coup was tribalised which finally snowballed into a fiery burning forest. Till date, tribalism still remains the bane of our society. Similar coup have taken place in the country after the 1966 saga and nobody or group has ever tribalised it to be a coup from a certain tribe of the country. So why 1966 coup?

Oceemo:
Yea I concur with u, Ironsi was a coward sleeping in ship for fear of death wch still meet him there. Gowon show those men from the east sha oo

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Point of correction, Gen. Gowon did not in any way, abuse, or commit any act of genocide, against the Biafrans, before or during the Nigerian civil war.
That accusations should be pointed at Late Gen. Muritala Mohammed, who openly threatened
Igbo officers, of the plans by Northern Nigerian
officers, to carry out a counter coup 'in day time',
as opposed to the January, 1966 coup that was
carried out in the dead of night.
He was actually the master mind of the July,1966 counter coup and was alleged to have committed war crimes against civilian population during the Civil war.

Thank God you have forgiven the perpetrators of that wicked act and moved on already. Take heart

logicab:
Long and short; these guys were cold blooded murderers. Remember even one of the wives of the Sardauna was shot dead. It was no error. They just did not care who they killed. That night at the palace, Nzeogwu personally shot 3 of the guards and one of his own subordinates who did not follow orders quickly enough.

She was confirmed pregnant. That was why she, who was only 6 years old at the time was asked. The interviewer already knew she was pregnant at the time she was murdered.

Yes, Ifeajuna the mastermind knew exactly the purpose of the coup. He used Awolowo's detention to fool Ademoyega knowing the typical educated Yoruba man's deification of Awo. Awo was in jail, and according to them they wanted to release him and make him Prime Minister. So how come no action (and I mean NONE at all) was observed at the Calabar Prison where Awo was being held at the time? That says a lot.

You're very emotional, opinionated on this issue. That's the problem with Nigeria: people don't approach a discussion to improve themselves or find a solution, but to win. What do you think a soldier's job is? To make tea? I've been reading about this issue since 1985 and I've read all sides and I've always had a scientific quality of an open mind. Do you know how many people Benjamin Adekunle "killed" in same manner as Nzeogwu? You need to check your civilian sensibilities at the gate when discussing military matters as it's a parallel world. To harden your heart and cope, I suggest you watch old movies of WWII and the Holocaust. As I said previously, those women were in the way and were accordingly shot. They were absolutely of no material objective to the attempted coupists. Abi I neva blame Ibo reach?

Orikinla:
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Yoruba soldiers were among the plotters of the coup d'etat.

GOOD BOOKS AFRICA: Why We Struck By Adewale Ademoyega

http://www.goodbooksafrica.com/2013/07/why-we-struck-by-adewale-ademoyega.html?m=1

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I agree with you that Yoruba officers participated in the January, 1966 coup d'etat, but I doubt if they would
have participated if they have an insight that,
Chief S.L. Akintola, Gen. Ademulegun, Col. Sodeinde
and other Yoruba military officers would be murdered
by their fellow Igbo co-conspirators, who went ahead
to spare all military and political leaders from the Eastern Region of the country then.

midasbliss:
Made me cry

really, sorry about that. Doe it really emotional, even while I read through. It also showed we had just military men who went extra length in pain to secure her nation.

Nairaland promoting tribal war by pushing this to front page. No nose for News.

Newmanluckyman:
No matter how unpopular and autocratic the govt of the day was, the use of military coup to change the govt is simply crude and unacceptable. Having said that, a military coup is a military coup. There is nothing like an 'igbo man coup', 'yoruba man coup', or an hausa man coup.

Though the incidence of January 1966 was very unfortunate but what was more tragic was when that coup was tribalised which finally snowballed into a fiery burning forest. Till date, tribalism still remains the bane of our society. Similar coup have taken place in the country after the 1966 saga and nobody or group has ever tribalised it to be a coup from a certain tribe of the country. So why 1966 coup?

It is because you don't know that you talk like this. First coup was Igbo coup, every other coup has been by Northerners; only Igbo and North have ever carried out a coup in Nigeria. Igbo is the one that gave "Hausa man" the power he wielded for a generation until Obasanjo balanced it a bit. It is Igbo that makes me and you to be suffering in Nigeria today by allowing military force to enter politics. It is Igbo and I don't care if you are one. If you think ever last Igbo went for the meeting to conspire to make a coup, then YOU have to have your head examined. That doesn't stop it from being an Igbo coup. Afterall, all those Igbo market people mocking Northerners IN THE NORTH for the death of Sardauna didn't attend any coup meetings either but enjoyed the "glory" of their brothers. Till today the Igbos are still clannish, sectional and hate their fellow Igbos who elect to be Nigerian than Ibo (eg Ezekwesili, Utomi etc)

Hagm0nd:
ademulegun killed by an IBO man, his statue stands in ondo city roundabout,fajuyi died protecting an IBO man,yet they call us cowards and traitors.
time will tell

How I wish I can do a million likes for this. Yorubas are not impulsive or overtly emotional...More rational, calculative and always trying to be on the right side of history politically in Nigeria, putting values before materialism

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blackprowler:


There are many things emotion doesn't allow us to reason properly about. First, I've battled Ibo people tire about Nigerian Civil War and I insist they deserve even worse as they've not been able to learn any lessons even in 2016, from 1966. But let me point out a thing or two from this very interview. The plotters shot the woman first. There's no way that was part of the plan. She was an unexpected hindrance to their plans. Remember these guys have prepped for a kill. When she had been shot, they probably realise that wasn't the goal and then took the guy they were after to be shot somewhere else. Maybe they couldn't finish her off because they couldn't bring themselves to repeat the error. Painful to contemplate leaving her in a worse state, but entirely possible. Secondly, as you can see from the interview, the then girl didn't know if her mom was pregnant. Pregnancy takes nine months to term and it doesn't always show itself as a big stomach the whole time. If human beings could dispassionately look at issues, it would save them from a whole lot of disaster. Ibos went to war and lost 1 million lives, with unspeakable hardships and destruction of their land because they were angry that they initially lost 30,000 people after the counter-coup. That's stupidity and that's stupidity that reigns to this day in Nigeria.
I affirm that the first coup was a conspiracy amongst the Ibo elite, the extent of which wasn't even known to some of the Ibo plotters like Nzeogwu himself, let alone Ademoyega. I take solace in the fact that the evil mastermind of it all, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, was shot at the stake by his fellow Ibo on the orders of Ojukwu. What a tragic set of misadventurers

You could not have said it better, my brother.
The January, 1966 coup was a big blunder on the
part of the master minds and the beneficiaries, which
was Gen. Ironsi and the Igbo nation.

IGBO people are the cause of hatred and disunity in Nigerians and still are the most unfriendly to date. please let's give them Biafra so that Nija will prosper.

rhymaster:
The betrayers and traitors of Nigeria: IBOS!

They come to eat pounded yam in their boss's house while scheming to kill him and his wife!

The same they are doing today in the SW and North, eating our pounded yam and from our economy but Nigeria has wisened up now hence they're encouraging you to go to your region and develop it! Even if you don't want to develop it or claim it is already - whatever - just leave and go back to Beerfra and do whatever!!

dude calm down..I am Yoruba but one of the major coup plotters was Adekunle Fajuyi..a Yoruba man and d minister of finance den was also an Igbo man

blackprowler:


You're very emotional, opinionated on this issue. That's the problem with Nigeria: people don't approach a discussion to improve themselves or find a solution, but to win. What do you think a soldier's job is? To make tea? I've been reading about this issue since 1985 and I've read all sides and I've always had a scientific quality of an open mind. Do you know how many people Benjamin Adekunle "killed" in same manner as Nzeogwu? You need to check your civilian sensibilities at the gate when discussing military matters as it's a parallel world. To harden your heart and cope, I suggest you watch old movies of WWII and the Holocaust. As I said previously, those women were in the way and were accordingly shot. They were absolutely of no material objective to the attempted coupists. Abi I neva blame Ibo reach?

Ogbeni, I doubt that you've watched enough Holocaust, WW2 etc movie or know enough about these subjects as I do. And no, I am not emotional. Now, you tell us how many Benjamin Adekunle killed in like manner since you were keeping count. Not that I'm bothered for an answer, really.

Hmnnnn! Touching!!

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Orikinla:
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Stop being childish.
Yoruba army officers were among the coup plotters.
They actually wanted to free Awo and help him.
They were socialists.

Orikinla, I think it is you that should stop being
childish on this issue. Don't tell me you believe the
'cock and bull' story about the coup being planned to release Chief Awolowo from prison. The Awolowo
bait, if it was ever real, was used by the Igbo officers
to lure the unsuspecting Yoruba officers into their evil plans.

Newmanluckyman:
Similar coup have taken place in the country after the 1966 saga and nobody or group has ever tribalised it to be a coup from a certain tribe of the country. So why 1966 coup?

Wrong. 1976 Dimka coup was widely recognized as a "Middle Belt" coup. There was a reason why Danjuma refused to become Head of State when he was offered; it was a poisoned chalice. He had the wisdom of hindsight having witnessed what happened to Ironsi at close quarters.

babsnuel:
dude calm down..I am Yoruba but one of the major coup plotters was Adekunle Fajuyi..a Yoruba man and d minister of finance den was also an Igbo man

Which Minister of Finance? Okotie Eboh was Igbo?

logicab:
Wrong. 1976 Dimka coup was widely recognized as a "Middle Belt" coup. There was a reason why Danjuma refused to become Head of State when he was offered; it was a poisoned chalice. He had the wisdom of hindsight having witnessed what happened to Ironsi at close quarters.

... This is the dysfunction I am talking about. Is 'middle belt' the name of a tribe?. Is totally wrong to tribalise sensitive issues. A coup is a coup it doesn't have to be viewed with a tribal lenses.

logicab:
Wrong. 1976 Dimka coup was widely recognized as a "Middle Belt" coup. There was a reason why Danjuma refused to become Head of State when he was offered; it was a poisoned chalice. He had the wisdom of hindsight having witnessed what happened to Ironsi at close quarters.

... This is the dysfunction I am talking about. Is 'middle belt' the name of a tribe?. Is totally wrong to tribalise sensitive issues. A coup is a coup it doesn't have to be viewed with a tribal lens.