Another good read.

OPCNAIRALAND:
As a teenager, Abubakar was never interested in politics. He wanted to be a teacher and a novelist. In 1933, at the age of 20, his novella Shaihu Umar written colloquially came third in a literary competition organised by the colonial education department in Zaria. The novella is a bildungsroman that parallels Shaihu Umar’s journey amongst an enslaver’s caravans across the Sahara Desert with a person’s journey through life from birth, wedding, child-nurturing to death. The sandstorm and other natural disasters experienced in the desert is contrasted with the inevitable hardships and mishaps one must suffer in life. It was useless looking for someone to blame including his wicked brother who contributed to some of his most brutal hardships. If Abubakar could be compared to his hero, Shaihu Umar, then his wicked brother was Emmanuel Ifeajuna and the enslaver’s caravan he travelled with in the desert was Okotie–Eboh, Mbadiwe and other government corruption fundamentalists who enslaved him to bad luck.

 

According to Ifeajuna, when they opened the door for him to get some fresh air, he surprised them: even though everywhere was pitch dark, Abubakar began to race into the bush. It was his white flowing jalabiya that gave him away. Quick, Ifeajuna grabbed his SMG from the car, cocked it and painfully set the darkness echoing before the dense forest could snatch his Abubakar away from him. He closed his eyes to unsee what he had done. But Abubakar was a rose that could grow out of mass concrete. It was love at last sight. The 54-year-old Prime Minister and a father of 18children was not thinking straight; he, the 30-year-old Major and the father of 2 sons (Emmanuel and Bay), had to find a way to correct him. He could have been chased, captured and tied up. But Ifeajuna felt he was ripe for death anyway because he had become a liability to the Revolution and a pain to their free movement.

This thread is very informative. About the bolded, I have read other versions of the execution of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and find this one less credible. Someone obviously wants Ifeajuna to be heralded as being motivated by patriotism while Nzeogwu is cast as the hothead.

While I am convinced Nzeogwu was a psychopath, (watch videos of him smiling while taking about killing other human beings in cold blood, if you doubt me), I don't accept any deification of Ifeajuna. Both were motivated by tribalism and hatred of Muslims, believing that Northerners are lesser human beings and therefore not fit to rule them. Unfortunately many of their fellow coup plotters did not catch on to their true intent until the very end.

MayorofLagos:
The mutineers had divided themselves into three groups. Nzeogwu headed the group that looked after the Sardauna, Captain Gbuile was to seize the 1st Brigade Headquarters, the TV and radio stations and Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu headed the group to delete the existence of Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun and his Deputy, Col Raphael Shodeinde. Ademulegun was startled when Onwuatuegwu entered his bedroom just after 2am. He was reported to have asked, how did you get in here? As the commander of the 1st Brigade of the Nigerian Army, he was the most protected personality in the whole of the Northern Region. While police personnel guarded the Premier and the Governor, Sir Kashim Ibrahim, his own guards were drawn from the 3rd infantry battalion. They guarded not only inside and outside his compound but around his main house too. But the guards had been compromised and they led Onwuatuegwu straight into the Brigadier’s bedroom. Had Ademulegun survived the assassination, he would have ordered all the guards, the guard commander and their officer commanding to face firing squad because as guards, they were supposed to die first before anything happened to him.

Did Yari.ba media houses not report that Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun's teenage daughter claimed it was uncle Major Nzeogwu who used to come by in her father's house for Amala that killed her father and mother? These Yari.ba peeps are downright laughable with the handling of facts.

Dedetwo:


Did Yari.ba media houses not report that Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun's teenage daughter claimed it was uncle Major Nzeogwu who used to come by in her father's house for Amala that killed her father and mother? These Yari.ba peeps are downright laughable with the handling of facts.

Oh my… .you just embarrassed the whole biafrans with this trash you wrote… ..kikikkiki

BabaRamota1980:
Samuel Ladoke Akintola: Personally engaged soldiers in gun duel

Very suicidal indeed!! He simply committed suicide.

Najokee:

Oh my… .you just embarrassed the whole biafrans with this trash you wrote… ..kikikkiki

Please take your case of ignorance to Yari.ba newspapers and propagandists. You can equally search on this forum to see how goofy the story looked.

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Dedetwo:


Please take your case of ignorance to Yari.ba newspapers and propagandists. You can equally search on this forum to see how goofy the story looked.

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Continue… you know in situation we Afonjas have nothing to lose but laugh in Biafran at you guys doing what you know best…… embarrass yourselves

Najokee:
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Continue… you know in situation we Afonjas have nothing to lose but laugh in Biafran at you guys doing what you know best…… embarrass yourselves

I count on my fingers the embarrassing stories from Afonja's government gazette. One of the most wicked of them was Lt Col Francis Fajuiyi volunteered to die with Gen. Ironsi. What a useless and laughable crap.