schoolboij:


Stop saying rubbish. Have you heard in history where the military installed a civilian president?

Is he going to be a military head of state without being a soldier or a civilian president without election? Use your head.

ezegenigbonine:


After the murder, Ojukwu asked gowon to arrest ty danjuma to face law but he refused, that's how the war started. Ibos fought for revenge of aguiyi ironsi and fajuyi murder while Yoruba called Ibos fools.

schoolboij:


And ogundipe would continue to rule up to this day? When ironsi took over, did he keep power to the igbo till today?

IkonBee:


How did shagari become president?

Nzeogwu claimed they were going to install/hand over to awolowo after some time.

maestroferddi:
What have you been smoking?

Nzeogwu"s coup was aborted by Ironsi so how would the issue of installing Awolowo have featured in the scheme of things?

Go and read your kindergarten children books, this kid...

gidgiddy:
On the 29th of July 1966, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi, the Military Head of state, stopped over in Ibadan as part of a Nationwide tour. He was recieved by Lt Colonel Fajuyi who was Military Governor of the Western Region. Before this visit, Ironsi had been warned several times that Northern elements in the Nigerian Army were planning a counter-Coup to which Ironsi dismissed as 'mere rumour'. After Ironsi and Fajuyi had conducted several meeting and consultations, both men retired to Government House for the night. Early in the morning the next day, a detachment of Soldiers led by Major Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma surrounded Government house Ibadan. On sensing the danger outside, Ironsi hid his son, Thomas Ironsi, in a wardrobe before the Soldiers forced their way into Government House. Ironsi, Fajuyi, Ironsi's ADC Captain Nwankwo and Fajuyi's ADC Lt Bello were all arrested. The four men were taken to a thick forest on the outskirts of Ibadan, off Iwo road. Because Lt Bello was a Northerner, he was released while Nwankwo, Fajuyi and Ironsi were badly beaten. When Fajuyi could no longer stand on his two legs, he was gunned down. It was during the shooting of Fajuyi that Lt Bello created a distraction which helped Captain Nwankwo to escape. Thereafter, Ironsi was also executed.

As part of the Aburi agreement, Ironsi's body was later flown to the East where he was given a state burial in his hometown Umuahia. People openly chanted at Ojukwu to pull the Eastern Region out of Nigeria during the burial proceedings.

Ironsi's ADC, Captain Andrew Nwankwo, escaped from Ibadan back to the East and would later fight on the Biafran side during the war. He later became a Senator representing Ebonyi state.

Lt Bello who helped him escape died in the war

Thomas Ironsi would later become a minister under the regime of Obasunjo.

Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma who killed Ironsi would later become Chief of Army Staff. He retired from the Army in 1979 and went on to become Chairman of Nestle Nigeria. He was appointed Defence minister during the regime of Obasunjo and is today a billionaire Oil mogul.

Lordave:
I hope not to read betrayal, Afonja, IPOB, slave and master" bullshít on this thread from rude and disrespectful scallywags. You imps should let us reminisce on the pucture in peace.



But Ironsi was a foolish man, sha.

Konquest:

^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^
I read an interview 2 years ago which was
granted to Punch by one of the children
of Adekunle Fajuyi that Northern/Middle-Belt
soldiers didn't want to kill him but his
killing was unintended and Theophilus
Danjuma apologised/condoled with the family.

The real target was Ironsi, but Fajuyi's
Ekiti strong-head, laced with military loyalty
and discipline led to his death!

Nwankwo saw an opening in the Ibadan
forest and promptly escaped with his
injuries while being aided by his friend - Bello.

PrecisionFx:


And what made Ironsi a foolish man?

IkonBee:


How did shagari/Obasanjo become president?

Nzeogwu claimed they were going to install/hand over to awolowo after some time.

maestroferddi:
What have you been smoking?

Nzeogwu"s coup was aborted by Ironsi so how would the issue of installing Awolowo have featured in the scheme of things?

Go and read your kindergarten children books, this kid...

opyzy:
Fajuyi the gallant host, he chose to die with his boss rather than see him killed under his nose. Yet some bastards will say Yoruba people are cowards

greyham:


It is impossible as long as you have low IQ Nigerians in the argument.

PrecisionFx:


And what made Ironsi a foolish man?

IkonBee:


How did shagari/Obasanjo become president?

Nzeogwu claimed they were going to install/hand over to awolowo after some time.

pooozeee:


Danjuma is spending blood money

schoolboij:


Shagari became president by winning election. Obj was a soldier. He became HOS after his boss was killed in a failed coup.

kayusely70:
Fajuyi was not going to be killed but his insistence that he wont allow his c-in-c to be taken away in his presence made Danjuma took both of them away and killed them. That was undivided loyalty and heroism on the part of Francis Adekunle Fajuyi.

ChidiAlaigbo:



Yes they were FOOLs! For fighting a war they were grossly unprepared for - based on emotions.

We see igbo emotions in their politics today.

Baselm:
It was the action of Ironsi and other reactionists like Ojukwu who benefitted from the coup of the revolutionists (Ademoyega, Nzeogwu, Ifeanjuna, Onwuategu, Okafor and co) that made Nigerians term the First coup a tribal coup. Those guys planned everything, in fact they ensured there were no civilian casualties, Most of the politicians and officers killed were those who resisted arrest and later when they had to flee, they had to kill others as most of those Officers arrested are highly skilled and could take advantage of the situation.
The coup was largely celebrated as at then cos the country especially the western region was in tension. It was the tribalism exhibited by Ironsi that made people start reading tribalism in the coup.

To show they had a different outlook to Ojukwu, despite serving under the biafran army which granted them pardon, Nzeogwu was not given a command, Ifeanjuna was killed by Ojukwu, Ademoyega was released but wasn't supported in his bid to capture the mid western region and proceed to the western region, Ojukwu was only interested in the Eastern region, He was subsequently returned to prison after less than 2 months by Ojukwu.

Please you all should correct the wrong impression.
prime minister and all the regional premiers as well as other top government people including chief of defense Ironsi, were to be arrested. Those killed(Sardauna and Akintola resisted arrest by fighting back, Others like okoti eboh, Tafawa were killed after Ironsi had regained the command of troops by ).

winj3:


Ironsi was and is still cited by every military person of that generation as a COWARD (only IGBOs regard him as anything other than a coward)

IkonBee:


How did Ironsi exhibit tribalism?

Ojukwu claimed that Nzeogwu and ifeajuna were making contacts with the Nigerian government. He claimed they planned to execute a coup in the Biafran territory, kill him and surrender to the Nigerian government.

superlightning:
immature people discussing what they know little or nothing about.

somehow i thank God Nigeria is suffering under this jihadist government so that their brains can be reformatted. Nigerians are so so myopic. exaggerating ironsi's mistakes won't conceal the hate and envy you lots have had for sincere and honest men like ironsi and fajuyi.

ironsi's only crime was not executing the couppplotters immediately and also, that he was IGBO.

anybody saying otherwise is just a zombie.

IkonBee:


Funnily enough, the coup was actually meant to favor awolowo. Either ways, awolowo was going to benefit from the coup.

If the coup had came through, awolowo would be prime minister or president. The coup failed, awolowo became federal minister of finance.

JuanDeDios:

You. Don't. Give. The. Prime Minister's. Killers. A. Pardon.

You don't do it. Ironsi was knaive not to have seen what was coming. The fact that Danjuma got away with murdering the head of state and went on to prosper with his blood-soaked hands is a part of our tragedy as a nation.

JuanDeDios:

You seriously believe Nzeogwu and co could have thrived in the north after killing the Sardauna who was considered a god by northern folk? No, they won't. If that was Ironsi's thinking, he erred. And sold out the country the way our leaders are doing today by releasing Boko Haram commanders and paying the terrorists millions of dollars. What you do is declare Nzeogwu and co wanted and send the troops after them like it was done with Dimka. They were in the north, but that did not mean that soldiers stationed in the north were with them.

perdollar:
at d top, we only lost ironsi compared to d brutal killings of balewa, ahmadu bello, etc.

IkonBee:


Shagari won elections and became president after, the military had agreed to hand over leadership to the civilians.

Nzeogwu and his co-revolutionists planned the same.

IkonBee:


Alexander Madiebo wrote in his book - the Nigerian revolution and the Biafran war, that there was a particular time, he (or col njoku) warned Ironsi about the impending coup and the people involved.

In reaction to this, Ironsi in the presence of Gowon (or danjuma), asked Madiebo (or col Njoku) to repeat what he said concerning the impending coup.

Born2Breed:


Both of them were close and swore to an oath to protect each other no matter what.

Seems they both had promination or Bello was in the know of the counter coup and hinted Nwankwo.