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1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by odogwu9(m): 9:10pm On May 21, 2018
1966 Coup: “THE IGBOS NOW VINDICATED AND EXONERATED”
Olusegun Obasanjo.

"Let the truth be told. The People involved in that so called 1966 “Igbo coup” were:

1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (Midwest Region Igbo)

2. Major Adewale Ademoyega (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”

3. Capt. G. Adeleke (Western Region – Yoruba).

4. Maj. Ifeajuna (Midwestern Region – Igbo).

5. Lt. Fola Oyewole (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “The reluctant rebel”.

6. *Lt. Robert (Bob) Egbiko* (Midwestern Region – Ishan).

7. Lt. Tijani Katsina (Northern Region – Hausa/Fulani).

8. Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Western Region – Yoruba).

9. Capt. Gibson Jalo (Northern Region – Bachama).

10. Capt. Swanton (Northern Region – Middle Belt).

11. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Midwest – Urhobo).

12. Lt. Dag Warribor (Midwest – Ijaw)

13. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Northern Nigeria -Hausa)

14. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Northern Nigeria-Tiv).

The reason for calling the 1966 Coup an Igbo exercise is because the government of Nigeria has refused teaching Nigerian History in our schools. And core North has been busy misinforming Nigerians that the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.
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Yoruba – Igbo fact sheet. This article has no tribal sentiments. Pls add ur own facts if u have any. History will always tell us what happened.

1. Azikiwe defeated Awolowo to become the first Nigerian Premier of Western Nigeria (present Southwest plus Edo and Delta States). Awolowo instead of forming Opposition, rather formed Egbe Omo Yoruba and used it to intimidate Yorubas that won election on NCNC platform to cross carpet and join him against Azikiwe. This was the first parliamentary coup in Nigeria.

2. Awolowo from then on, started indoctrination of Yorubas against the “threat of Igbo domination”. That is how the incurable seed of fear of Igbos was sown in the psychic of Yorubas which Yorubas later sold to other groups through Yoruba control of the media for decades.

3. Alhaji Tafawa Balewa , Nigeria ‘s first Prime minister could not tolerate Awolowo’s treacherous and inordinate ambition of acquiring political power by all means and at any cost. So, he threw Awolowo into prison for treason.

4. Samuel Ladoke Akintola who replaced Awolowo as Premier of Western Nigeria tried to destroy Awolowo’s political grip on Yorubaland by forming a party to takeover Western Nigeria in alliance with the Hausa-Fulani oligarch who Awolowo despised as a backward race. Consequently, Yorubaland went ablaze in revolt against Akintola’s plot. Law and order completely broke down in Western Nigeria. Wole Soyinka wore a mask and forced announcers at Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation to declare that Akintola’s government was a fraud.

5. Yet, Tafawa Balewa refused to declare state of emergency in Western Nigeria in order to keep Akintola as a proxy for Hausa-Fulani interest. This was the MAIN reason Yoruba graduates in the Army were the brains behind the coup led by Chukwuma Nzeogwu who happened to be Igbo.

6. As Wole Soyinka and even Obasanjo acknowledged, Nzeogwu ‘s coup was widely accepted by a vast majority of Nigerians across regional, religious and ethnic divides. But the dissatisfied Hausa-Fulani oligarchy who had majority in Nigerian Army infantry used their puppets, Yakubu Gowon, Theophilus Danjuma and co to overthrow General Ironsi.

7. In order to win support of Yorubas, Gowon released Awolowo from prison. The Hausa-Fulani knew Awolowo’s fear of Igbo as the only group that stood against his ambition to power. Gowon therefore quickly made a deal with Awolowo which in effect was that power would rotate between the North and the West (Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba) in post war Nigeria if Awolowo convinced Yorubas to join the North in fighting Igbos.

8. The Nigerian Army was consequently split into two divisions: the northern sector division commanded by Hausa-Fulani and the southern sector division, commanded by Yorubas.

9. Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967). 14. Awolowo was made Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council and Finance Minister. All federal government owned banks in Nigeria at the time which included the Central Bank and First Bank, were under Awolowo and Yoruba management. It was a deal Awolowo could not resist. The man was an unscrupulous Machivellian anyway.

10. The Igbos were eventually defeated and Yorubas became champions of nationalism.

11. Awolowo tried to make sure no Igbo man or woman would ever be more than financial destitute let alone have the financial resources to rival a Yoruba.

12. To achieve his objective of permanent Yoruba supremacy, Awolowo insisted that every bank account owned by an Igbo, regardless of how much was in it before the declaration of Biafra, would only be replaced with twenty pounds! He instructed Yoruba Permanent Secretaries who took over the Federal Civil service when Igbos left, to make sure that Igbo senior civil servants were not reinstated but to rather retire those who could not be dismissed as rebels. The same policy obtained in the Armed Forces of Nigeria and Police .

13. The Igbo were not only made pariahs but also financial destitutes.

14. Every house and industry in Igbo city was destroyed by war. Schools were closed for 3 years and many were razed to the ground.

15. Awolowo masterminded the indiginization policy by which Yorubas bought over all companies in Nigeria using money readily made available to them by the banks under their control. The Igbos were excluded.

16. They rejoiced and relaxed and complaisantly asked: “How could Igbos ever rear their ugly heads up again”? Sure, if that had happened to Yorubas or any other ethnic group, that would be their end. But as Awolowo rightly feared, we happen to be Ndi Igbo.

17. The shooting war ended 45 years ago and we are still here. We have survived all policy shenanigans contrapted by treacherous Yoruba masterminds and executed by their Hausa-Fulani allies.

18. In frustration, they have realized that we are who we are. Imagine their frustration! Never mind all Yoruba masterminded psychological attacks on Igbos disparaging us in any way they can.

19. Yes, Federal government policy has made them the tycoons of oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing. Oh, their Hausa-Fulani cum military allies gave Nigeria to Obasanjo for 8 years in keeping faith with their alliance.

20. Bola Tinubu is struggling for Awolowo mantle by forming an alliance of etho- religious jingoistic to ensure power keeps rotating between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Where is the position of the Igbo and other tribes in Nigeria.

THAT IS WHY IGBOS WHO EXPERIENCE ALL THE ABOVE INJUSTICES THINK THAT BIAFRA IS THE ULTIMATE ANSWER.

HOWEVER, MY TAKE IS THAT THIS SHOULD MAKE OUR IGBO LEADERS FOCUSED, AND FIGHT FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF THEIR KINSMEN, NOT ONLY FOR THEIR OWN POCKETS.

2016

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Chuks9000: 9:31pm On May 21, 2018
We have forgiven.
But we are who we are - God's own people!

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Alariiwo: 9:52pm On May 21, 2018
You can keep rewriting and distorting facts as you like.. it won't change anything.

The fact remains

1) Igbo soldiers planned the coup and tricked other soldiers into joining them knowing fully well that no eastern politician at that time will be touched.
Other naive soldiers fell for the deceit which later led to the bloody pogrom against Igbos in the North and the counter coup that killed Ironsi like a common rat.

2) Nzeogwu had it all planned with Ironsi, infact the coup was to install Ironsi as Head of state which was confirmed after Ironsi refused to prosecute Nzeogwu and other coup plotters.

3) An Igbo man Ironsi abolished the regional system so as to dominate other tribes without thinking of possible backlash.
Ipob yewts are getting killed like games today all thanks to Ironsi.


The list goes on and on..
No offence meant but I feel Igbos are the real problem of Nigeria. Their quest to dominate keeps decreasing their population by the years.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Roger3D(m): 10:00pm On May 21, 2018
grin

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Lajet: 10:00pm On May 21, 2018
Alariiwo:
You can keep rewriting and distorting facts as you like.. it won't change anything.

The fact remains

1) Igbo soldiers planned the coup and tricked other soldiers into joining them knowing fully well that no eastern politician at that time will be touched.
Other naive soldiers fell for the deceit which later led to the bloody pogrom against Igbos in the North and the counter coup that killed Ironsi like a common rat.

2) Nzeogwu had it all planned with Ironsi, infact the coup was to install Ironsi as Head of state which was confirmed after Ironsi refused to prosecute Nzeogwu and other coup plotters.

3) An Igbo man Ironsi abolished the regional system so as to dominate other tribes without thinking of possible backlash.
Ipob yewts are getting killed like games today all thanks to Ironsi.


The list goes on and on..
No offence meant but I feel Igbos are the real problem of Nigeria. Their quest to dominate keeps decreasing their population by the years.

I thought Nzeogwu is from Niger delta so now you have remember that Nzeogwu is an Igbo Man from Niger delta. I thought Igbo land start and end in South East

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Roger3D(m): 10:00pm On May 21, 2018
Please Ibo guys come and take your mental patient to Aba mental home grin
cc Immhotep pointzerom iceberg and of course oshogbo boy LZAA

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Bane2020: 10:18pm On May 21, 2018
Lajet:


I thought Nzeogwu is from Niger delta so now you have remember that Nzeogwu is an Igbo Man from Niger delta. I thought Igbo land start and end in South East
LOL don't bother yourself with that mentally ill individual.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Alariiwo: 10:20pm On May 21, 2018
Lajet:


I thought Nzeogwu is from Niger delta so now you have remember that Nzeogwu is an Igbo Man from Niger delta. I thought Igbo land start and end in South East

The question you should be asking is.. Why didn't the coup plotters kill a single Igbo soul but killed other tribes leaders with reckless abandon.

You were even lucky Awolowo didn't die in that coup. Yorubas I trust would have seen to the extinction of Igbos since.
The Akintola you guys killed had it coming. He dined with backstabbers and so had to die from those backstabbers knives (odale bale ku).

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by enoch273: 10:23pm On May 21, 2018
See epistles on top igbo o, just waiting for the Afonjas to spew their frustration and depression on this thread.
Even the one wey no fit read or even understand the thread go type.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by EODforce: 10:25pm On May 21, 2018
Yoruba and mouthing be like 5 and 6
somebody help me with that meme biko

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by MrSly(m): 10:25pm On May 21, 2018
Lajet:


I thought Nzeogwu is from Niger delta so now you have remember that Nzeogwu is an Igbo Man from Niger delta. I thought Igbo land start and end in South East
Don't mind those dwarf cowards. Always talking with both sides of their mouths

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by LZAA: 10:25pm On May 21, 2018
Roger3D:
Please Ibo guys come and take your mental patient to Aba mental home grin

cc Immhotep pointzerom iceberg and of course oshogbo boy LZAA

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Bane2020: 10:27pm On May 21, 2018
Alariiwo:


The question you should be asking is.. Why didn't the coup plotters kill a single Igbo soul but killed other tribes leaders with reckless abandon.

You are even lucky Awolowo didn't die in that coup. Yorubas I trust would have seen to the extinction of Igbos since.
The Akintola you guys killed had it coming. He dined with backstabbers and so had to die from those backstabbers knives.
Dunce a certain Colonel Arthur Unegbe an Igbo quartermaster was killed, you see why it's sad when ignorance mixed with asinine stupidity makes you look more like an uninformed fool? pick up a damn and read detailed accounts of the coup you mo.ron! typical Yoruba lout, na for internet una dey get mouth pass! we wasted Shodeinde, Akintola(a whole Aare ona kakanfo) glad the tribal marked ape paid the price for daring the Igbos in his idiotic Yoruba ronu speech... Awolowo was in prison at the time (na God save that one), he would have been long sent to meet his creator and you cowards would have done nothing. I actually laughed when at the temerity of yorubas seeing to the extinction of Igbos grin grin grin grin grin, man you should consider a more rewarding career as a stand up comedian.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by MrSly(m): 10:27pm On May 21, 2018
Alariiwo:


The question you should be asking is.. Why didn't the coup plotters kill a single Igbo soul but killed other tribes leaders with reckless abandon.

You were even lucky Awolowo didn't die in that coup. Yorubas I trust would have seen to the extinction of Igbos since.
The Akintola you guys killed had it coming. He dined with backstabbers and so had to die from those backstabbers knives (odale bale ku).
Chest beating as usual.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Bane2020: 10:29pm On May 21, 2018
MrSly:

Chest beating as usual.
They haven't even saved common Ilorin from their Gambari masters, it's now Igbos they want to come and make"extinct", fu.ccking clowns these people are honestly. grin cheesy

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Alariiwo: 10:32pm On May 21, 2018
Bane2020:

Dunce a certain Colonel Arthur Unegbe an Igbo quartermaster was killed, you see why it's sad when ignorance mixed with asinine stupidity makes you look more like an uninformed fool? pick up a damn and read detailed accounts of the coup you mo.ron! typical Yoruba lout, na for internet una dey get mouth pass! we wasted Shodeinde, Akintola(a whole Aare ona kakanfo) glad the tribal marked ape paid the price for daring the Igbos in his idiotic Yoruba ronu speech... Awolowo was in prison at the time (na God save that one), he would have been long sent to meet his creator and you cowards would have done nothing. I actually laughed when at the temerity of yorubas seeing to the extinction of Igbos grin grin grin grin grin, man you should consider a more rewarding career as a stand up comedian.

Apart from civil war, you guys hold the record for the most slaughtered ethnic group in Nigeria.

It was a periodic affair then. The same loud mouth, boastful with 'no brain' nature is what you lots exhibit.

Wish I saved the long list of pogroms against Igbos alone in the North. Fulani cows sef can't die like that.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Nobody: 10:40pm On May 21, 2018
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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Nobody: 10:40pm On May 21, 2018
From history books I've read so far, Awolowo was a terrible tribalist and backstabber.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Bane2020: 10:47pm On May 21, 2018
Alariiwo:


Apart from civil war, you guys hold the record for the most slaughtered ethnic group in Nigeria.

It was a periodic affair then. The same loud mouth, boastful with 'no brain' nature is what you lots exhibit.

Wish I saved the long list of pogroms against Igbos alone in the North. Fulani cows sef can't die like that.
At least we are NOT known to back down from fights, we both agree to disagree on that omo yoruba, the Jews are probably the most slaughtered race in human history but all that goes to show the best warriors are aways the potent targets. Since history only the Igbos have been known to stand up to the Northern madness, and in every ethnoreligious crisis known in Nigerian history, it's Igbos who have been known to dish out the cold slate of retributive justice to the Northerners in countless cases of brutal reprisals and even fighting them in self defense on their own turf!!! The famous cartoon riots of 2004 where mainly Igbos in Kaduna, Jos, Kano, Bauchi and several other cities in the North banded together in Sabon Gari and fiercely resisted Northern mobs, even killing lots of them shows an Igbo man is no coward if he decides to drop his liberal and "peace through Christ" mindset. Yorubas have always been second fiddlers to the North, you back stabbing cowards always hide behind the cloak of sophistication to avoid confrontations with the same people that have always killed your top leaders and rubbed it in your faces to do your worst! your only attempt at standing up to Hausa/Fulani control over your political spheres was your rubbish June 12 rubbish that had more of your known Nadeco leaders hounded down like dogs and slaughtered... even your Aare ona kakanfo was given poisoned tea to drink and he died like a dog, ditto his wife Kudirat. Guy bone talk, if you check the stastitical facts till date, majority of casualties incurred by Northern aggressors through Nigerian history have been dished out to them by Igbos in every crisis, we are NOT cowards and will lose a million lives if need be to prove that point.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Alariiwo: 10:49pm On May 21, 2018
CaptJeffry:
From history books I've read so far, Awolowo was a terrible tribalist and backstabber.

Same way Ahmadu Bello and other prominent leaders back then were..

Awo was a master strategist, a rare gem and a genius no doubt. His strategies finished Ojukwu and all his baby tactics as a baby soldier that he was.

Moreover, everything is fair in war. Biafrans killed and also got killed.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Alariiwo: 10:58pm On May 21, 2018
Bane2020:

At least we are NOT known to back down from fights, we both agree to disagree on that omo yoruba, the Jews are probably the most slaughtered race in human history but all that goes to show the best warriors are aways the potent targets. Since history only the Igbos have been known to stand up to the Northern madness, and in every ethnoreligious crisis known in Nigerian history, it's Igbos who have been known to dish out the cold slate of retributive justice to the Northerners in countless cases of brutal reprisals and even fighting them in self defense on their own turf!!! The famous cartoon riots of 2004 where mainly Igbos in Kaduna, Jos, Kano, Bauchi and several other cities in the North banded together in Sabon Gari and fiercely resisted Northern mobs, even killing lots of them shows an Igbo man is no coward if he decides to drop his liberal and "peace through Christ" mindset. Yorubas have always been second fiddlers to the North, you back stabbing cowards always hide behind the cloak of sophistication to avoid confrontations with the same people that have always killed your top leaders and rubbed it in your faces to do your worst! your only attempt at standing up to Hausa/Fulani control over your political spheres was your rubbish June 12 rubbish that had more of your known Nadeco leaders hounded down like dogs and slaughtered... even your Aare ona kakanfo was given poisoned tea to drink and he died like a dog, ditto his wife Kudirat. Guy bone talk, if you check the stastitical facts till date, majority of casualties incurred by Northern aggressors through Nigerian history have been dished out to them by Igbos in every crisis, we are NOT cowards and will lose a million lives if need be to prove that point.

Yet all the freedom fighters and activists in Nigeria's history were Yorubas. From Awo himself to Wole Soyinka to Gani to Fela and even Fela's mother.

When Yorubas like Bola Tinubu and co. were fighting the dictator Abacha from hiding, what were Igbos doing?
They were busy holding 1 million man March in support of tyranny and trooping to decorate Abacha with chieftancy titles.

Go to your dictionary and check the meaning of "backstabbers".

Nonsense

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Bane2020: 11:06pm On May 21, 2018
Alariiwo:


Yet all the freedom fighters and activists in Nigeria's history were Yorubas. From Awo himself to Wole Soyinka to Gani to Fela and even Fela's mother.

When Yorubas like Bola Tinubu and co. were fighting the dictator Abacha from hiding, what were Igbos doing?
They were busy holding 1 million man March in support of tyranny and trooping to decorate Abacha with chieftancy titles.

Go to your dictionary and check the meaning of "backstabbers".

Nonsense
Soyinka, Gani, and Fela are the only noteworthy names you mentioned in that list, and Igbos have nothing but great respect for them. They are/were the few exceptions from the yoruba intelligentsia like the late Gani and Fela who were people worth reckoning with from your tribe. The rest of you are just slimy back stabbing liars, double faced devious plotting and scheming snakes.

And Igbos were never friends to MKO, at least MKO himself famously declared that he didn't need Igbo votes to win the presidential ticket, until a certain Arthur Nzeribe came to the spotlight to show him why you don't talk too much. Yet ironically, the freest and fairest election ever conducted in Nigerian history was orchestrated by an Igbo man(I'm sure you know his name), yes the same election that was rigged and annulled by your Hausa/Fulani masters to deny Abiola the ticket... And had him crying like a baby while he was been handcuffed en route to jail.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Nobody: 11:57pm On May 21, 2018
Of course we all know that the January 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup. The coupists intended to release Awolowo from jail were he was after being prosecuted for coup plotting in 1962 and make him Prime Minister.

Those coupists Ademoyega, Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu, should just have resigned and campaigned for their hero Awolowo as politicians instead of causing confusion. sad

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Nobody: 12:17am On May 22, 2018
Bane2020:


And Igbos were never friends to MKO, at least MKO himself famously declared that he didn't need Igbo votes to win the presidential ticket until a certain Arthur Nzeribe came to the spotlight to show him why you don't talk too much.

Yet ironically, the freest and fairest election ever conducted in Nigerian history was orchestrated by an Igbo man(I'm sure you know his name).

Nobody needs the east to win presidential elections in our dear country. If there is anything the east should have learned by this time, its that they have no leverage.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Bane2020: 1:00am On May 22, 2018
TheCabal:


Nobody needs the east to win presidential elections in our dear country. If there is anything the east should have learned by this time, its that they have no leverage.
And the East doesn't care about been given such mandate cause Nigeria is a joke as it is. All past and present leaders that have been in power whom all happen to predominantly come from a certain region, what have they done for their people? The North is still swirling in abject poverty and humanitarian crisis, the West didn't even benefit anything from Obasanjo when he was in power. What you need to know that apart from a few greedy Igbo politicians and jobbers seeking for crumbs in Abuja, the vast majority of Igbos and I mean on an average index don't care about presidency or even any electoral mandate to vote... yet they are doing comparatively better in the human development index right now in Nigeria than any ethnic group... facts not feelings. So yes the East doesn't give a flying fu. ck about your worthless validation or leverage cause it doesn't add a penny to the coffers of the greater Igbo nation.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Jamnocase: 1:40am On May 22, 2018
Even if all the soldiers that planned and executed the 1966 coup were lgbos, it should not have been the basis to label it lgbo coup. All over the world soldiers are Known for coups, they don't do it for any particular tribe but rather for themselves. There must be something ominous behind that accusation, and the hidden truth must surface one day. Who knows why this country has not been making progress all these years. God does not support injustice.

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by dreamwords: 2:40am On May 22, 2018
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Vultures be looking at this thread like

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by BabaRamota1980: 2:43am On May 22, 2018
[[s]quote author=odogwu9 post=67760046]1966 Coup: “THE IGBOS NOW VINDICATED AND EXONERATED”
Olusegun Obasanjo.

"Let the truth be told. The People involved in that so called 1966 “Igbo coup” were:

1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (Midwest Region Igbo)

2. Major Adewale Ademoyega (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “Why we struck”

3. Capt. G. Adeleke (Western Region – Yoruba).

4. Maj. Ifeajuna (Midwestern Region – Igbo).

5. Lt. Fola Oyewole (Western Region – Yoruba), author of “The reluctant rebel”.

6. *Lt. Robert (Bob) Egbiko* (Midwestern Region – Ishan).

7. Lt. Tijani Katsina (Northern Region – Hausa/Fulani).

8. Lt. O. Olafemiyan (Western Region – Yoruba).

9. Capt. Gibson Jalo (Northern Region – Bachama).

10. Capt. Swanton (Northern Region – Middle Belt).

11. Lt. Hope Harris Eghagha (Midwest – Urhobo).

12. Lt. Dag Warribor (Midwest – Ijaw)

13. 2nd Lt. Saleh Dambo (Northern Nigeria -Hausa)

14. 2nd Lt. John Atom Kpera (Northern Nigeria-Tiv).

The reason for calling the 1966 Coup an Igbo exercise is because the government of Nigeria has refused teaching Nigerian History in our schools. And core North has been busy misinforming Nigerians that the 1966 coup was an Igbo coup.
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Yoruba – Igbo fact sheet. This article has no tribal sentiments. Pls add ur own facts if u have any. History will always tell us what happened.

1. Azikiwe defeated Awolowo to become the first Nigerian Premier of Western Nigeria (present Southwest plus Edo and Delta States). Awolowo instead of forming Opposition, rather formed Egbe Omo Yoruba and used it to intimidate Yorubas that won election on NCNC platform to cross carpet and join him against Azikiwe. This was the first parliamentary coup in Nigeria.

2. Awolowo from then on, started indoctrination of Yorubas against the “threat of Igbo domination”. That is how the incurable seed of fear of Igbos was sown in the psychic of Yorubas which Yorubas later sold to other groups through Yoruba control of the media for decades.

3. Alhaji Tafawa Balewa , Nigeria ‘s first Prime minister could not tolerate Awolowo’s treacherous and inordinate ambition of acquiring political power by all means and at any cost. So, he threw Awolowo into prison for treason.

4. Samuel Ladoke Akintola who replaced Awolowo as Premier of Western Nigeria tried to destroy Awolowo’s political grip on Yorubaland by forming a party to takeover Western Nigeria in alliance with the Hausa-Fulani oligarch who Awolowo despised as a backward race. Consequently, Yorubaland went ablaze in revolt against Akintola’s plot. Law and order completely broke down in Western Nigeria. Wole Soyinka wore a mask and forced announcers at Western Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation to declare that Akintola’s government was a fraud.

5. Yet, Tafawa Balewa refused to declare state of emergency in Western Nigeria in order to keep Akintola as a proxy for Hausa-Fulani interest. This was the MAIN reason Yoruba graduates in the Army were the brains behind the coup led by Chukwuma Nzeogwu who happened to be Igbo.

6. As Wole Soyinka and even Obasanjo acknowledged, Nzeogwu ‘s coup was widely accepted by a vast majority of Nigerians across regional, religious and ethnic divides. But the dissatisfied Hausa-Fulani oligarchy who had majority in Nigerian Army infantry used their puppets, Yakubu Gowon, Theophilus Danjuma and co to overthrow General Ironsi.

7. In order to win support of Yorubas, Gowon released Awolowo from prison. The Hausa-Fulani knew Awolowo’s fear of Igbo as the only group that stood against his ambition to power. Gowon therefore quickly made a deal with Awolowo which in effect was that power would rotate between the North and the West (Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba) in post war Nigeria if Awolowo convinced Yorubas to join the North in fighting Igbos.

8. The Nigerian Army was consequently split into two divisions: the northern sector division commanded by Hausa-Fulani and the southern sector division, commanded by Yorubas.

9. Lagos, a city built largely by Igbos and were Igbos invested heavily, was also ceded to Yorubas as a State even when there was no Abuja at the time (1967). 14. Awolowo was made Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council and Finance Minister. All federal government owned banks in Nigeria at the time which included the Central Bank and First Bank, were under Awolowo and Yoruba management. It was a deal Awolowo could not resist. The man was an unscrupulous Machivellian anyway.

10. The Igbos were eventually defeated and Yorubas became champions of nationalism.

11. Awolowo tried to make sure no Igbo man or woman would ever be more than financial destitute let alone have the financial resources to rival a Yoruba.

12. To achieve his objective of permanent Yoruba supremacy, Awolowo insisted that every bank account owned by an Igbo, regardless of how much was in it before the declaration of Biafra, would only be replaced with twenty pounds! He instructed Yoruba Permanent Secretaries who took over the Federal Civil service when Igbos left, to make sure that Igbo senior civil servants were not reinstated but to rather retire those who could not be dismissed as rebels. The same policy obtained in the Armed Forces of Nigeria and Police .

13. The Igbo were not only made pariahs but also financial destitutes.

14. Every house and industry in Igbo city was destroyed by war. Schools were closed for 3 years and many were razed to the ground.

15. Awolowo masterminded the indiginization policy by which Yorubas bought over all companies in Nigeria using money readily made available to them by the banks under their control. The Igbos were excluded.

16. They rejoiced and relaxed and complaisantly asked: “How could Igbos ever rear their ugly heads up again”? Sure, if that had happened to Yorubas or any other ethnic group, that would be their end. But as Awolowo rightly feared, we happen to be Ndi Igbo.

17. The shooting war ended 45 years ago and we are still here. We have survived all policy shenanigans contrapted by treacherous Yoruba masterminds and executed by their Hausa-Fulani allies.

18. In frustration, they have realized that we are who we are. Imagine their frustration! Never mind all Yoruba masterminded psychological attacks on Igbos disparaging us in any way they can.

19. Yes, Federal government policy has made them the tycoons of oil and gas, telecommunications, insurance and manufacturing. Oh, their Hausa-Fulani cum military allies gave Nigeria to Obasanjo for 8 years in keeping faith with their alliance.

20. Bola Tinubu is struggling for Awolowo mantle by forming an alliance of etho- religious jingoistic to ensure power keeps rotating between Yoruba and Hausa-Fulani. Where is the position of the Igbo and other tribes in Nigeria.

THAT IS WHY IGBOS WHO EXPERIENCE ALL THE ABOVE INJUSTICES THINK THAT BIAFRA IS THE ULTIMATE ANSWER.

HOWEVER, MY TAKE IS THAT THIS SHOULD MAKE OUR IGBO LEADERS FOCUSED, AND FIGHT FOR THE COMMON GOOD OF THEIR KINSMEN, NOT ONLY FOR THEIR OWN POCKETS.

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Ttuueeh!! Bullshyyte!

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by Nobody: 5:15am On May 22, 2018
Lajet:


I thought Nzeogwu is from Niger delta so now you have remember that Nzeogwu is an Igbo Man from Niger delta. I thought Igbo land start and end in South East
Nzeogwu is from Niger Delta, and there are no Igbo people in the Niger Delta.
However, Nzeogwu led the Igbo coup as an Igbo man grin grin grin grin
Dullardism did not begin today in Nigeria grin grin

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Re: 1966 Coup-igbos Vindicated. .. by femi4: 5:34am On May 22, 2018
Ironsi was the brain behind it

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