₦airaland Forum

LZAA:
The coup culture was sweeping through the world at that time and the nigerian govt then did not help matters by trying to drag the army into politics
Awolowo himself did not help matters by trying to overthrow the govt
Smartness and greed?bro as an igbo man i can honestly tell u that as long as u leave a level playing ground for everyone and are not a bigot,no igbo person will oppose you
Jubilating about the coup?ffs the whole nation celebrated that coup
Only politicians were mourning and it was only after ppl saw that no eastern politicians died they started reading tribal meanings to the coup
Also apart from the absence of real govt presence in the east,i can tell u that the east is ahead of all regions in nigeria

It was unfortunate that happened but even today you can't killed people of certain region and leave yours and there won't be outcry. Why are people crying that Buhari is appointing from only a particularly region today? It's the same thing in this case but in your case it was not appointment but killing and jubilating afterwards.
The coup was meant to eliminate all leaders regardless of region but what did your people do? They leaked the plan to their brothers and also failed to carry out their tasks on Easter region.If you are not sincere then don't start something.

Naajjii:
It was unfortunate that happened but [b]even today you can't killed people of certain region and leave yours and there won't be outcry. [/b]Why are people crying that Buhari is appointing from only a particularly region today? It's the same thing in this case but in your case it was not appointment but killing and jubilating afterwards.
The coup was meant to eliminate all leaders regardless of region but what did your people do? They leaked the plan to their brothers and also[b] failed to carry out their tasks on Easter region.[/b]If you are not sincerely then don't start something.

Same outcry by igbos led to civil war
On the second point blame oguchi for not doing his duty

Sanchez01:
So Ojukwu moved against Nzeogwu's revolution because he considered him a junior officer but went ahead to fight for another 'revolution'. Perhaps the revolutions were like minded but one had issues because he thought he could have been in charge. What do I know?

Ojukwu was not part of the coup hence, he moved against it.

Stop guessing and assuming.

engrkaz:
The 5 Majors and Why we struck!!! 2 books every Nigerian must have...

Ademoyega's book is gibberish. He wrote the book just to express his hate for Madiebo.

gidgiddy:
We have to go with what happend, not what we assume was in Ojukwus head. The problem with Nigerians is that they don't know Nigerian history because it wasn't taught. So they go with what the hear on the social circle.

Gowon and Ojukwu met in Aburi, Ghana, in January 1967. The aim of the meeting was to restore peace and keep Nigeria one. They reached a 12 point decision which both men signed. Gowon came back to Nigeria and broke his end of the agreement abolishing the 4 Regions.

The Aburi agreement states that Gowon could not make any structural change to Nigeria unless all 4 Regional Military Governors of the time agreed with it.

By breaking the most important part of the Aburi agreement, Ojukwu had no other choice than declare the Eastern Region a separate country and this led to war.

Gowon caused the war by going back on an agreement he signed in Ghana.

I regard your first paragraph as obiter dicta.

The Aburi Accord was a lot more than "structural changes;" and yet you deemed it "the most important part...": a very convenient unwarranted assumption.

Decree 8 was promulgated on March 17, 1967 to give substance to the Aburi Accord, Ojukwu rejected the decree. Col. Hilary Njoku and some senior eastern army officers advised Ojukwu to accept it, Ojukwu refused. About a week later, senior civil servants from all the regions (including the East) were meeting in Benin City to further refine points of disagreement after Aburi. On this very issue, Ojukwu even met with Colonel Adebayo, Commodore Wey and Mr. Tim Omo-Bare at Onitsha. At a follow-up meeting in Benin scheduled for March 30, Ojukwu was absent for "safety reasons." From the foregoing, negotiations were still ongoing in good faith! The FG and other regional Governors were still willing to resolve the issue and avoid war!

In any case, on March 31, and in bad faith, Ojukwu issued the Revenue Collection Edict 11 of 1967, which basically took complete control of all revenues from all sources in the eastern region, including Oil ["Resource Control"]. Ojukwu followed up by promulgating legal education, statutory bodies council, court of appeal and registration of companies edicts. He seized federal assets and parastatals in the east and revoked the authority of the Federal Supreme court as the final court of appeal for eastern Nigeria.

On April 22, after an SMC meeting, Lt. Col. Gowon responded to Lt. Col. Ojukwu by imposing economic sanctions on eastern Nigeria.

So when exactly did Gowon make structural changes to the Federation and renege on "the most important part" of the Aburi Accord? I reiterate, Ojukwu and the East had already decided on Biafra long before the Civil War began.

ItsMeAboki:
May the bastard rot in hell; he led the destruction of our nascent democracy and we are all paying for it today.

Stop hyperventilating.

All the soldiers that participated in the coup were all northerners. Nzeogwu's doctor, Batman, driver were all northerners.

germaphobe:
. If the january coup had been successful, there would have been a better nigeria than that of today cus it involved all the corrupt high ranked officials in the country, from the north to the south west and east but unfuturnately only the north was simi sucessful. if it had been successful all through aguirunsi wouldn't have taken power, ojukwu wouldn't have thought of breaking the east out ibb would not have succeeded and many more.

This is nothing more than wishful thinking. You have no evidence for any of this. Once the scourge of military intervention was unleashed in Nigeria the country started going downhill. That's just the fact. Anything else is just your imagination.

Alaniyiokorausa:
imagine a skull miner with rotten mouth abusing a whole tribe,without apology Igbo's are by far better than Yoruba's in all ramifications, education sincerity and even accommodating ,you can argue with your destiny if you doubt me.

I will invite you to our Ojúde Oba festival as a Special Guest...make we chop àmàlà & ewédú together.

Volksfuhrer:
I regard your first paragraph as obiter dicta.

The Aburi Accord was a lot more than "structural changes;" and yet you deemed it "the most important part...": a very convenient unwarranted assumption.

Decree 8 was promulgated on March 17, 1967 to give substance to the Aburi Accord, Ojukwu rejected the decree. Col. Hilary Njoku and some senior eastern army officers advised Ojukwu to accept it, Ojukwu refused. About a week later, senior civil servants from all the regions (including the East) were meeting in Benin City to further refine points of disagreement after Aburi. On this very issue, Ojukwu even met with Colonel Adebayo, Commodore Wey and Mr. Tim Omo-Bare at Onitsha. At a follow-up meeting in Benin scheduled for March 30, Ojukwu was absent for "safety reasons." From the foregoing, negotiations were still ongoing in good faith! The FG and other regional Governors were still willing to resolve the issue and avoid war!

In any case, on March 31, and in bad faith, Ojukwu issued the Revenue Collection Edict 11 of 1967, which basically took complete control of all revenues from all sources in the eastern region, including Oil ["Resource Control"]. Ojukwu followed up by promulgating legal education, statutory bodies council, court of appeal and registration of companies edicts. He seized federal assets and parastatals in the east and revoked the authority of the Federal Supreme court as the final court of appeal for eastern Nigeria.

On April 22, after an SMC meeting, Lt. Col. Gowon responded to Lt. Col. Ojukwu by imposing economic sanctions on eastern Nigeria.

So when exactly did Gowon make structural changes to the Federation and renege on "the most important part" of the Aburi Accord? I reiterate, Ojukwu and the East had already decided on Biafra long before the Civil War began.

What you said in the above was not even the main problem. The real problem was what Gowon did on the 26th of May 1967 when he abolished the 4 Regions that made up Nigeria and created 12 states. That was the straw that broke the Csmels back because the most important agreement reached in Aburi was that Gowon would not change the structure of Nigeria [b]"without the concurance of the 4 Regional Military Governors "/b]

In other words, if Gowon ever decided to change the structure of Nigeria from the 4 constitutionally created Regions of the time, all the 4 Military Governors of the time had agree.

But Gowon decided to to abolish the 4 Regions without asking the 4 Military Governors, breaking the Aburi agreement and leaving Ojukwu with no other choice than to declare Biafra which led to war

It should be noted that Gowon abolished the Region so as to implement the Not the "divide and rule" strategy.

It was either Ojukwu bowed to the will of the North like Awolowo and others did, or he fought for the freedom of his people. As the the Igbo man he is, there's no way he could allow his people become slaves without a fight.

Nice write ups, I wonder why they removed history from the Nigerian curriculum. History is sweet.

gidgiddy:
What you said in the above was not even the main problem. The real problem was what Gowon did on the 26th of May 1967 when he abolished the 4 Regions that made up Nigeria and created 12 states. That was the straw that broke the Csmels back because the most important agreement reached in Aburi was that Gowon would not change the structure of Nigeria [b]"without the concurance of the 4 Regional Military Governors "/b]

In other words, if Gowon ever decided to change the structure of Nigeria from the 4 constitutionally created Regions of the time, all the 4 Military Governors of the time had agree.

But Gowon decided to to abolish the 4 Regions without asking the 4 Military Governors, breaking the Aburi agreement and leaving Ojukwu with no other choice than to declare Biafra which led to war

It should be noted that Gowon abolished the Region so as to implement the Not the "divide and rule" strategy.

It was either Ojukwu bowed to the will of the North like Awolowo and others did, or he fought for the freedom of his people. As the the Igbo man he is, there's no way he could allow his people become slaves without a fight.

First off, thumbs up to you and @Volksfuhrer for a good discussion...

Re abolition of the regions...that came about because of minority tribe agitation for states....the kind of agitation that partly led to the Middle Belt region creation.

Sure Gowon was playing divide and rule there...but remember Gowon was from a minority tribe too....

The tipping point for me towards secession was the 1966 pogroms...the 'October round' in particular. Aburi for me was just medicine after death. The Rubicon had been crossed ages ago.

theoldpretender:
First off, thumbs up to you and @Volksfuhrer for a good discussion...

Re abolition of the regions...that came about because of minority tribe agitation for states....the kind of agitation that partly led to the Middle Belt region creation.

Sure Gowon was playing divide and rule there...but remember Gowon was from a minority tribe too....

The tipping point for me towards secession was the 1966 pogroms...the 'October round' in particular. Aburi for me was just medicine after death. The Rubicon had been crossed ages ago.

It doesn't matter what the minorities where agitating for, what matters is what Gowon agreed to and signed.

When you sign an agreement, you must keep to it. If for some reason after signing an agreement, you find it hard to keep to what you signed, you must call back all the parties that agreed with to renegotiate a new deal.

What Gowon did was to go all the way to Ghana, sign an agreement with Ojukwu, only to return to Nigeria and go against the agreement he signed

Ojukwu had no choice but to seceed

gidgiddy:
It doesn't matter what the minorities where agitating for, what matters is what Gowon agreed to and signed.

When you sign an agreement, you must keep to it. If for some reason after signing an agreement, you find it hard to keep to what you signed, you must call back all the parties that agreed with to renegotiate a new deal.

What Gowon did was to go all the way to Ghana, sign an agreement with Ojukwu, only to return to Nigeria and go against the agreement he signed

Ojukwu had no choice but to seceed

Here you are claiming that Gowon’s failure to punctiliously comply with one document was what legitimated Biafran secession, and yet you and your sympathisers see absolutely nothing wrong in Nzeogwu’s decision to break the oaths of loyalty he swore as an army officer by blatantly violating the Nigerian constitution and appointing himself judge, jury and executioner over the entire political class! Why is abiding by one set of obligations so much more important than the other, other than that in both cases your stance exculpates your kinsmen?

It is sheer hypocrisy for anyone to justify Nzeogwu’s egotistical decision to slaughter the elected leaders of the country by referring to his supposed “idealism”, and to then turn around and lambaste Buhari for striking in 1984 on the very same basis. Soldiers simply have no business arrogating to themselves the right to rule when no one has given them any sort of mandate, and that is true regardless of how “idealistic” and “revolutionary” they claim to be. The only reason why Nzeogwu maintains any sort of idealistic aura is because he died young: even a thief like Sani Abacha would have had the same claim to “idealism” if he’d died just a few months after pushing Shonekan out of office, and the fact is that as bad as Abacha was, in all his years in office he managed to kill fewer people than Nzeogwu did in the space of a few days, and he didn’t set in motion a civil war in doing so either.

babadee1:
This is a spirited but pointless effort at rewriting history. Who elected or appointed Nzeogwu as the spokesperson of the people? What was his mandate and where did it come from? The man was acting in his own interests and in the interests of his cohorts, period. He introduced the idea of military dictatorship into the national psyche and dragged this country back 50 years. Till today we still have not recovered to develop our own concept of what democracy is. Even elected officials still act like dictators due to the history of coups in Nigeria. Please don't ever praise this Satanic fellow ever again.

let me just go straight...Nigeria"s political problems sprang from the carefee manner in which the British took over,administered,and abandoned the government and the people of Nigeria.British administrator did not make an effort to weld the country together and unite the heterogeneous groups of people.this doesn't imply that British administration did nothing good in Nigeria.far from it.many things stand on their credit,and it is clear that present day Nigeria owes certain achievement to the spade work of the British administrators.Nevertheless there was one evil that outlived British administration namely political non advancement.when the British came they forcibly rubber stamped the political state of the ethnic groups of Nigeria,and maintained that status quo until they left.Upon their departure nearly a hundred year later,the people resumed fighting for their political right.You can blame the British not Nzeogwu for the political gloom in Nigeria..on issue of biafra agitation..the saddest thing about all was that the clash was a clash of personalities -(blw Gowon and ojukwu) nor politics,nor principles.Nzeogwu fought on what he believed.

gidgiddy:
It doesn't matter what the minorities where agitating for, what matters is what Gowon agreed to and signed.

When you sign an agreement, you must keep to it. If for some reason after signing an agreement, you find it hard to keep to what you signed, you must call back all the parties that agreed with to renegotiate a new deal.

What Gowon did was to go all the way to Ghana, sign an agreement with Ojukwu, only to return to Nigeria and go against the agreement he signed

Ojukwu had no choice but to seceed

Absolutely right.but what happened after that.immediately Gowon stepped down in Lagos.he gave his ears to the Northern masters,who advised him that he had conceded too much to ojukwu.there and then,he was prepared to dishonor his own word and break the terms of the Aburi Agreement

gidgiddy:
What you said in the above was not even the main problem. The real problem was what Gowon did on the 26th of May 1967 when he abolished the 4 Regions that made up Nigeria and created 12 states. That was the straw that broke the Csmels back because the most important agreement reached in Aburi was that Gowon would not change the structure of Nigeria [b]"without the concurance of the 4 Regional Military Governors "/b]

In other words, if Gowon ever decided to change the structure of Nigeria from the 4 constitutionally created Regions of the time, all the 4 Military Governors of the time had agree.

But Gowon decided to to abolish the 4 Regions without asking the 4 Military Governors, breaking the Aburi agreement and leaving Ojukwu with no other choice than to declare Biafra which led to war

It should be noted that Gowon abolished the Region so as to implement the Not the "divide and rule" strategy.

It was either Ojukwu bowed to the will of the North like Awolowo and others did, or he fought for the freedom of his people. As the the Igbo man he is, there's no way he could allow his people become slaves without a fight.

Absolutely wrong.The west didn't bow to the will of North.point of correction..during that time,chief Awolowo was still in detention if not the SW would have opted for her own sovereignty.Immediately Chief Awolowo was released by Gowon.He organized a meeting with the southwest leaders of thought in lbadan.His expression led to the resolution passed in lbadan,which,among other things,stated that:"If any Region secedes,SW shall become independent and sovereign.These resolution caused a stir in the North where the leader of thought reacted forcefully urging Gowon to deal ruthlessly with ojukwu.Again it was these Sw resolution that exercabated the situation,setting Gowon on his course of using force on the East.Chief Awolowo was a hero during civil war.he was the one that imposed economic blockade on the East .

babadee1:
This is nothing more than wishful thinking. You have no evidence for any of this. Once of the scourge of military intervention was unleashed in Nigeria the country started going downhill. That's just the fact. Anything else is just your imagination.

. Baba lets not argue here cus it won't change our current niger, insteed make we go hustle so that our kids won't suffer. And for the record i so much respect ur opinion.

oyebanji44:
Absolutely wrong.The west didn't bow to the will of North.point of correction..during that time,chief Awolowo was still in detention if not the SW would have opted for her own sovereignty.Immediately Chief Awolowo was released by Gowon.He organized a meeting with the southwest leaders of thought in lbadan.His expression led to the resolution passed in lbadan,which,among other things,stated that:"If any Region secedes,SW shall become independent and sovereign.These resolution caused a stir in the North where the leader of thought reacted forcefully urging Gowon to deal ruthlessly with ojukwu.Again it was these Sw resolution that exercabated the situation,setting Gowon on his course of using force on the East.Chief Awolowo was a hero during civil war.he was the one that imposed economic blockade on the East .

. And economic blockade on east made him a hero abi, bros many innocent kids and women died not cus of bullet wound nor excess running but cus of hunger, even some parts that the war didn't reach to they still died of hunger, my grannny would always tell us dat our aunty who was some days away from being a year died cus of the competition for food which was so high.
#nowarplease

FiftyFifty:
His foolishness caused his people a lot & will continue to cause them from all indication.

and how come it cost his people a lot and you are not in anyway better than his people?

Naajjii:
The coup was not successful due to tribalism and attempt to dominate Nigerians by certain region. Now the table has turned they can only dominate in Biafra never in Nigeria. We were living in peace even though they were challenges until these coup plotters came and upset the structure of Nigeria. No wonder karma is paying back.

karma is paying back by bringing boko haram, Fulani herdsmen, and a brainless leader like buhari. karma indeed is bad

seguntijan:
He is the architect of Nigeria's problem. First coup caused the unrest we have in the country till today. Hausa had always trusted Igbos before then and vice-versa, Ahmadu Bello chooses him as his close aide but unfortunately he killed Ahmadu Bello, and other prominent Nigerians that actually fought for our independent. If the founding fathers of Nigeria had stay longer, they would have been NATIONAL PLAN, because they knew exactly what they needed and why they fought for independence.

Till today we don't have that national plan, and what do you expect of a house built without drawings and plans? we will just end up wasting resources, time, and unrest will be experienced.

This man killed Nigeria of our dreams.

Ahmadu Bello NEVER trusted Kaduna! He most definitely was 'using' the young lad. More so, how on earth could a national plan be designed when one of the tripods on which the independence was gotten was being gagged and jailed?

Without Awolowo, there was always going to be chaos. He was the leader of about 30% of the population and was being targetted. At a point, Ahmadu Bello and Zik lost focus. Their only focus was to take out Awo. That's what pre-occupied them.

germaphobe:
. And economic blockade on east made him a hero abi, bros many innocent kids and women died not cus of bullet wound nor excess running but cus of hunger, even some parts that the war didn't reach to they still died of hunger, my grannny would always tell us dat our aunty who was some days away from being a year died cus of the competition for food which was so high.
#nowarplease

well..to me,it was totally inconceivable that those who claimed to be fighting for unity and oneness could impose such hardsships,such terrible suffering,agony,privations on fellow human beings not to talk of fellow citizens.My broda sorry ooo Gud nite

MajesticIgbo:
Stop hyperventilating.

All the soldiers that participated in the coup were all northerners. Nzeogwu's doctor, Batman, driver were all northerners.

Subordinates trained to carry out orders of a superior officer without question.

oyebanji44:
let me just go straight...Nigeria"s political problems sprang from the carefee manner in which the British took over,administered,and abandoned the government and the people of Nigeria.British administrator did not make an effort to weld the country together and unite the heterogeneous groups of people.this doesn't imply that British administration did nothing good in Nigeria.far from it.many things stand on their credit,and it is clear that present day Nigeria owes certain achievement to the spade work of the British administrators.Nevertheless there was one evil that outlived British administration namely political non advancement.when the British came they forcibly rubber stamped the political state of the ethnic groups of Nigeria,and maintained that status quo until they left.Upon their departure nearly a hundred year later,the people resumed fighting for their political right.You can blame the British not Nzeogwu for the political gloom in Nigeria..on issue of biafra agitation..the saddest thing about all was that the clash was a clash of personalities -(blw Gowon and ojukwu) nor politics,nor principles.Nzeogwu fought on what he believed.

Before the British came there was nothing like Nigeria. They created the notion of Nigeria based on their own interests not ours. It was not in their interests to promote national unity so why would they do that?
They got one thing right though, the only way to properly administer Nigeria is through autonomous regional governments collaborating and competing with each other. That was the status quo until the military took over and forced a unitary system of government on us which is easier for the purposes of dictatorship.
Till today, even with so-called democracy, Nigeria is still a quasi dictatorship due to the legacy of military intervention in our politics. I blame Nzeogwu for that.

Ever wondered why Igbos can't be trusted? This should give you a hint. Igbos were, are, and will be greedy till the end of time. No one 'I repeat' no one who has their wit intact would trust Igbo to head a thing, even if it is a head of greed. Na_greed_go_wipe_una_to_extinction

LZAA:
A few errors here though
Ifeajuna was the brains of that coup.nzeogwu was brought in when plans for the coup were at an advanced stage.
The main reason why northerners were murdered in the coup was that they were in leadership positions in both civil and military life
The coup failed in the east cause lt oguchi failed to carry out his duty on a flimsy excuse that the archbishop of cyprus was with the eastern premier
Yes nzeogwu loved revolution but that was not his reason for staying unmarried
Nzeogwu was a TOTAL teetootaler.they tend to be insular and welcome unnecessary interactions the same way u welcome rats into ur home
Other than that nice write up

If you had sense, you would think be4 u type. It is really obvious you are ignorant of your arrogance. Apart from the fact that I'm from the same community with Nzeogwu, a Yoruba man used his own mouth to pronounce Nzeogwu as the only hero he ever knew. I was shocked but i had to read different people's story. Ifeajuna is from asaba and he is supposed to be known as Nzeogwu's brother because asaba and okpanam are the same. Unfortunately, jealousy made him not to complete his own task. He was jealous that Nzeogwu will be seen as a hero coz he(Nzeogwu) masterminded the coup. Nzeogwu brought the plan, and the reason he didn't involve any Northerner was because he saw they were all loyalists(zombies). Dey may feel bad and go against him. Little did he know that some foolish brothers of his were also idiots. People like Ifeajuna and Ojukwu can never be trusted. Both of them made Nzeogwu hate secession(after the coup). He saw their betrayal and concluded that Ibos can never be their brothers keeper, he justified that notion with this statement "if Nigeria should secede, I shall pack my things and leave". Go and read your history son

professorchuks:
If you had sense, you would think be4 u type. It is really obvious you are ignorant of your arrogance. Apart from the fact that I'm from the same community with Nzeogwu, a Yoruba man used his own mouth to pronounce Nzeogwu as the only hero he ever knew. I was shocked but i had to read different people's story. Ifeajuna is from asaba and he is supposed to be known as Nzeogwu's brother because asaba and okpanam are the same. Unfortunately, jealousy made him not to complete his own task. He was jealous that Nzeogwu will be seen as a hero coz he(Nzeogwu) masterminded the coup. Nzeogwu brought the plan, and the reason he didn't involve any Northerner was because he saw they were all loyalists(zombies). Dey may feel bad and go against him. Little did he know that some foolish brothers of his were also idiots. People like Ifeajuna and Ojukwu can never be trusted. Both of them made Nzeogwu hate secession(after the coup). He saw their betrayal and concluded that Ibos can never be their brothers keeper, he justified that notion with this statement "if Nigeria should secede, I shall pack my things and leave". Go and read your history son

What is with this blatant lie na?
Ifeajuna who masterminded riots in his uni days and was always seen as a rebel WAS the brains of that coup
The five majors myth was simply cause five majors had different areas of OP
Nzeogwu was recruited due to his open anti government rhetoric
Ojukwu actually shot down that coup in kano and if not for public pressure nzeogwu would have been in jail during the war
Lt oguchi failed in his duty in the east and was the major cause of the counter coup and civil war
Finally u do know ojukwu executed ifeajuna for....coup plotting
Geez no wonder they banned history hia
So lies can keep being peddled as truth
Smh

gidgiddy:
I wonder why some people keep saying that Nzeogwus coup caused the civil war? That's like saying that the wright brothers are responsible for airplane crashes for inventing the airplane.

The civil war started 18 months after Nzeogwus coup so that was not the cause. Personally, I condemn coup plotting, particularly the one against a democratically elected government and Nzeogwus coup should be condemned

But this false narrative that Nzeogwus coup was responsible for everything wrong with Nigeria today must be debunked. Every country in West Africa, with the exception of Cameroon, went through a coup in the 60's and 70's.

Ghana went through coups, but they did not fight and the Regional structure did not change. Ghana is today the success story of West Africa

The reason the civil war was fought was because Igbos refused to willingly sumbit to Northern domination like all other regions did

Ghana success story in West Africa? How? Please state criteria where Ghana is more successful than Nigeria.

Northern domination of other regions, How? I thought the nation was practicing true federalism then, and each region had its own government and legislature.

The Nzeogwu coup was the chain reaction that led to the civil war, there is no argument about that. Kaunas Nzeogwu and his colleagues conspirators murdered senior military and political leaders of the other regions and the northerners decided to take revenge on the igbos living in the north, thereby leading to exodus back east and Ojukwu declaring independence and hence the civil war.

omohayek:
Here you are claiming that Gowon’s failure to punctiliously comply with one document was what legitimated Biafran secession, and yet you and your sympathisers see absolutely nothing wrong in Nzeogwu’s decision to break the oaths of loyalty he swore as an army officer by blatantly violating the Nigerian constitution and appointing himself judge, jury and executioner over the entire political class! Why is abiding by one set of obligations so much more important than the other, other than that in both cases your stance exculpates your kinsmen?

It is sheer hypocrisy for anyone to justify Nzeogwu’s egotistical decision to slaughter the elected leaders of the country by referring to his supposed “idealism”, and to then turn around and lambaste Buhari for striking in 1984 on the very same basis. Soldiers simply have no business arrogating to themselves the right to rule when no one has given them any sort of mandate, and that is true regardless of how “idealistic” and “revolutionary” they claim to be. The only reason why Nzeogwu maintains any sort of idealistic aura is because he died young: even a thief like Sani Abacha would have had the same claim to “idealism” if he’d died just a few months after pushing Shonekan out of office, and the fact is that as bad as Abacha was, in all his years in office he managed to kill fewer people than Nzeogwu did in the space of a few days, and he didn’t set in motion a civil war in doing so either.

Oga you want to know the truth? The truth is, if I have such opportunity again, I will reciprocate it, again and again and again. Who do you think is a fool? If you want to be foolish and afraid, I understand, but I won't bro. I will take the laws into my hand because the law has given them access to do evil. Ah, sarduana that was very wicked and corrupt? He was celebrated for being cruel In his time. Nzeogwu was good, if it's me, I will torture him very well b4 killing him. Nonsense human beings. Just wait mk buhari win this election first, u go know say dem no keep am quiet, all the threats he made 2015 will come to pass. That war wey he dey look, we go help am sort am out. Don't even know why I'm telling you, u people should prepare well

SSShehu:
Ever wondered why Igbos can't be trusted? This should give you a hint. Igbos were, are, and will be greedy till the end of time. No one 'I repeat' no one who has their wit intact would trust Igbo to head a thing, even if it is a head of greed. Na_greed_go_wipe_una_to_extinction

Why this tin dy pain u like this
Just as the north dominated ruling positions due to the british,the igbos dominated the military and economy due to intelligence and were RIGHTLY the majority in the officer corps at the time
Hope u like as ur army now has arabic in it's crest in a SECULAR country

LZAA:
What is with this blatant lie na?
Ifeajuna who masterminded riots in his uni days and was always seen as a rebel WAS the brains of that coup
The five majors myth was simply cause five majors had different areas of OP
Nzeogwu was recruited due to his open anti government rhetoric
Ojukwu actually shot down that coup in kano and if not for public pressure nzeogwu would have been in jail during the war
Lt oguchi failed in his duty in the east and was the major cause of the counter coup and civil war
Finally u do know ojukwu executed ifeajuna for....coup plotting
Geez no wonder they banned history hia
So lies can keep being peddled as truth
Smh

Na now I really believe say people weed wey dey mk dem lie well. Please them never ban all the books, "There was a country" by chinua Achebe still dey market, 'Nzeogwu' by Olusegun Obasanjo still dey market. Them plenty, kindly go and read b4 u open your mouth and disgrace yourself. So everyone saying that Nzeogwu masterminded the coup(both Ibo Hausa and Yoruba) are all liars. U don't have sense o

oyebanji44:
well..to me,it was totally inconceivable that those who claimed to be fighting for unity and oneness could impose such hardsships,such terrible suffering,agony,privations on fellow human beings not to talk of fellow citizens.My broda sorry ooo Gud nite

That's the nature of war and is actually an effective strategy. Britain got Basra to surrender during the first gulf war without firing a single bullet. They laid siege on the town made sure nothing and nobody went in or came out. After one month the fighters surrendered.

See what is happening in Yemen today as the Saudis imposed a total air, sea and land blockage of the country.