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franchasng:
1966 Coup by Maj. Nzeogwu – The Biggest Mistake of The Igbo Military Officers & Political Elites


Whenever I read a new book on the January 1966 bloody coup that ended Nigeria’s first indigenous government led by Tafawa Belewa and Nnamdi Azikiwe, tears roll down my eyes.

Igbos lost so much after that unfortunate coup of January 1966 and the counter coup + civil war that followed. Imagine no matter how much an Igbo man or woman had in Nigerian bank before the war, they were given just 20 pounds after the war to start life with; courtesy of Obafemi Awolowo’s 20 pounds policy after the war.

Personally on my family side, my father had close to a million pounds in his bank account before the war, though he managed to take some back to his hometown before the war broke out, but he lost over 500,000 pounds after the war.

On my maternal side, my mom’s elder brother was a head engineer at Enugu railway station, he died in the war as a volunteer special Biafra forces that went to recapture Ebonyi from Federal forces with no weapon, they were only trained to fight with their bare hands to capture weapons from federal forces.

Now enough of my family story.

Nzeogwu had no reason, I mean no reason at all to carry out or lead the first coup of January 1966, and if at all their action was to be justified for any reason like to stop the Western Nigeria political crises between Awolowo and Akintola, then the manner in which they carried out the coup execution – killing Northern political leaders and some Mid-West and Western Premier, while abandoning the Igbo political leaders was the greatest mistake of the Igbo race!

Aguiyi Ironsi who was supposed to correct this mistake when he took over power after the coup made the most stupid mistake of not heeding to Ojukwu’s advice of executing the coupists to pacify the already angered and boiling Northern Nigeria heavily cooking up revenge. He wasted time trying to reconcile the boiling issue through regional tours and dialogue when the North already lost their key political leaders in the unfortunate coup.

The mistakes of Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Anofuru, and co are the root cause of every predicament the great Igbo race are encountering in Nigeria today.

Igbos were completely in charge of Nigeria; from politics to leadership to military to trade, to business to almost every sector and were already the envy of other regions, so carrying out a coup was totally unnecessary when you were in charge, what else did you want

Before the coup and the civil war that followed, Igbos were the President (Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe), Igbos were the Senate President (Sen. Nwafor Orizu), the Chief of Army Staff (Maj, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), Head of Nigerian Military Intelligence (Maj. Chukwuma Nzeogwu), richest person in Nigeria & Africa (Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu), first Vice Chancellor of Nigeria who headed University of Ibadan (Prof. Kenneth Dike), and so many other things.

I am writing this to awaken all Igbo sons and daughters home and abroad, we must resist every attempt to repeat the same mistake we made in the 1960s that pushed us out of national political relevance and others in Nigeria, which is one of the reasons Igbo region is struggling with infrastructural developments compared to other regions.

[/s] Afonjas will never have a good day without mentioning Igbo in their life likewise Fulani herdsmen.

nku5:
2. If you read accounts from non-igbo plotters like Ademoyega, you will see that the original officers meant to handle Enugu were unavailable. Besides are you aware that the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios was with Okpara when the plotters came for him and stood between him and them. Okpara was still arrested and detained. Besides who told you that the plan was to kill the premiers?

Lols, did u just hear urself? "The officers to handle d s/e part of d coup were not available", but they were fully available to execute d northern, western and Midwestern part of d coup ba? How convenient!

3. Are you aware that Northern officers like Hassan Katsina were aware of the coup even if they looked the other way? This picture of Nzeogwu and Katsina being interviewed just after the Kaduna operation is not popular and in many cases Katsina is cropped out to show only Nzeogwu just so revisionists can hold on to their lies.

In ur 'church mind' u think if hassan katsina, wale ademulegun and co had known DT d (as u put it) the original officers meant to handle Enugu /SE would be 'unavailable', and dt d proposed 'national' coup would turn tribal/ethnic cleansing, they would have gone ahead with it?

Its amazing when u (pl.) put up arguments as if ur audience is bereft of sense!

TheTourist:
AS AN IGBO TRIBE MEMBER I WILL HUMBLY OWN UP TO THIS BEING THE BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER MADE. IT KICKSTARTED A CHAIN REACTION OF EVENTS THAT EVENTUALLY CONSUMED US ALL.

U mean igbo leaders held a meeting n decided to stage a coup? Igbo coup indeed! Make una get small sence na. Other tribes were part of it n Nzeogwu the supposed leader was not an Igbo. Was banjo igbo too.? Who stopped de coup? Ironsi.

Every few months we go through this cycle.

Nzeogwu was a patriot and probably one of the greatest patriots we ever had in this country.

The 1966 was never envisioned by him or the other idealist to be an Igbo coup or a power grab by the Igbo; but unfortunately for him and later the Igbo as a whole, a lot of his Igbo collabarators showed the typical selfish Nigeria tendencies which ensured it will always be seen as an Igbo Coup and power grab.

Nzeogwu had by far the hardest job of all the coup plotters and completed it masterfully and successfully like only a true idealist moved by genuine passion could. While his selfish brothers allowed their tribalistic nature to get the best of them and come up will silly stories of crosses and bishops not allowing them to execute the easiset of objectives in their own backyard.

The only moral of the Nzeogwu story and his subsequent death and rejection by his tribe is to choose your friends more wisely. He will always remain my greatest young Nigerian of that era.

Even the snake and northern puppet OBJ cannot say bad things about him. Infact no northern officer that knew him at that time ever did. It's his kith and kin that betrayed him in life that keep spoiling his memory in death

richie240:
Lols, did u just hear urself? "The officers to handle d s/e part of d coup were not available", but they were fully available to execute d northern, western and Midwestern part of d coup ba? How convenient!



In ur 'church mind' u think if hassan katsina, wale ademulegun and co had known DT d (as u put it) the original officers meant to handle Enugu /SE would be 'unavailable', and dt d proposed 'national' coup would turn tribal/ethnic cleansing, they would have gone ahead with it?

Its amazing when u (pl.) put up arguments as if ur audience is bereft of sense!

Please go and read Adewale Ademoyega's book. I don't debate with people who are as uninformed as this

nku5:
Please go and read Adewale Ademoyega's book. I don't debate with people who are as uninformed as this

Lolz. Keep wallowing in delusion!
Which of what I said is untrue?

The coupist were well on ground to execute the coup in d north, west and mid-west, but were no where to be found (aka "unavailable"- to borrow ur words) in d east when it mattered most. Does dt sell to ur ears?

Macbeth indeed hath murdered sleep!

richie240:
Lolz. Keep wallowing in delusion!
Which of what I said is untrue?

The coupist were well on ground to execute the coup in d north, west and mid-west, but were no where to be found (aka "unavailable"- to borrow ur words) in d east when it mattered most. Does dt sell to ur ears?

Macbeth indeed hath murdered sleep!

How such an ignorant person can be so loud is so amusing. Let me educate you for the benefit of others reading

The officer in Enugu, Major Chude-Sokei was sent to India for a course few weeks to the coup. Major Ademoyega had to get a replacement and recruited one young officer named Lt Oguchi. Besides it doesn't matter, the President of Cyprus was with Okpara when they came for him. Engage your brain and it will be clearer eventually

Davash222:
Come 2023, we will support Northerner over South Wasterner.

You have ALWAYS done so

1960
1965
1979
1983
1993


Why are you making announcements now?

franchasng:
1966 Coup by Maj. Nzeogwu – The Biggest Mistake of The Igbo Military Officers & Political Elites


Whenever I read a new book on the January 1966 bloody coup that ended Nigeria’s first indigenous government led by Tafawa Belewa and Nnamdi Azikiwe, tears roll down my eyes.

Igbos lost so much after that unfortunate coup of January 1966 and the counter coup + civil war that followed. Imagine no matter how much an Igbo man or woman had in Nigerian bank before the war, they were given just 20 pounds after the war to start life with; courtesy of Obafemi Awolowo’s 20 pounds policy after the war.

Personally on my family side, my father had close to a million pounds in his bank account before the war, though he managed to take some back to his hometown before the war broke out, but he lost over 500,000 pounds after the war.

On my maternal side, my mom’s elder brother was a head engineer at Enugu railway station, he died in the war as a volunteer special Biafra forces that went to recapture Ebonyi from Federal forces with no weapon, they were only trained to fight with their bare hands to capture weapons from federal forces.

Now enough of my family story.

Nzeogwu had no reason, I mean no reason at all to carry out or lead the first coup of January 1966, and if at all their action was to be justified for any reason like to stop the Western Nigeria political crises between Awolowo and Akintola, then the manner in which they carried out the coup execution – killing Northern political leaders and some Mid-West and Western Premier, while abandoning the Igbo political leaders was the greatest mistake of the Igbo race!

Aguiyi Ironsi who was supposed to correct this mistake when he took over power after the coup made the most stupid mistake of not heeding to Ojukwu’s advice of executing the coupists to pacify the already angered and boiling Northern Nigeria heavily cooking up revenge. He wasted time trying to reconcile the boiling issue through regional tours and dialogue when the North already lost their key political leaders in the unfortunate coup.

The mistakes of Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Anofuru, and co are the root cause of every predicament the great Igbo race are encountering in Nigeria today.

Igbos were completely in charge of Nigeria; from politics to leadership to military to trade, to business to almost every sector and were already the envy of other regions, so carrying out a coup was totally unnecessary when you were in charge, what else did you want

Before the coup and the civil war that followed, Igbos were the President (Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe), Igbos were the Senate President (Sen. Nwafor Orizu), the Chief of Army Staff (Maj, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), Head of Nigerian Military Intelligence (Maj. Chukwuma Nzeogwu), richest person in Nigeria & Africa (Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu), first Vice Chancellor of Nigeria who headed University of Ibadan (Prof. Kenneth Dike), and so many other things.

I am writing this to awaken all Igbo sons and daughters home and abroad, we must resist every attempt to repeat the same mistake we made in the 1960s that pushed us out of national political relevance and others in Nigeria, which is one of the reasons Igbo region is struggling with infrastructural developments compared to other regions.

Before you write the things you wrote above, try to do a thorough research on Nigerian history. Every country in West Africa, with the exception of Cameroon, went through military coup. It was a common thing back then. However, subsequent things that happened were not as a result of that coup. Even if Ironsi had executed the coup plotters, they would have still brought him down because there is nothing the North hates as much an Igbo being president of Nigeria

The pogroms that follwed Ironsi's death where over 50,000 Igbos were murdered has been an ongoing thing. Igbos were massacred in 1945 in Jos and 1953 in Kano. Coup or no coup, Igbos would have been massacred

The civil war was caused by the North's inordinate ambition to be the masters of Nigeria. Only the Igbos and the Eastern Region had the guts to say no to Northern domination which meant that they had no choice but to fight for their freedom

When one takes time to look at things, it becomes clear that the problem Igbos have is not the first coup or the civil war. The problem Igbos have is being part of the wrong country.

Igbos just had the misfortune of being included in the wrong country by the British

gidgiddy:
Before you write the things you wrote above, try to do a thorough research on Nigerian history. Every country in West Africa, with the exception of Cameroon, went through military coup. It was a common thing back then. However, subsequent things that happened were not as a result of that coup. Even if Ironsi had executed the coup plotters, they would have still brought him down because there is nothing the North hates as much an Igbo being president of Nigeria

The pogroms that follwed Ironsi's death where over 50,000 Igbos were murdered has been an ongoing thing. Igbos were massacred in 1945 in Jos and 1953 in Kano. Coup or no coup, Igbos would have been massacred

The civil war was caused by the North's inordinate ambition to be the masters of Nigeria. Only the Igbos and the Eastern Region had the guts to say no to Northern domination which meant that they had no choice but to fight for their freedom

When one takes time to look at things, it becomes clear that the problem Igbos have is not the first coup or the civil war. The problem Igbos have is being part of the wrong country.

Igbos just had the misfortune of being included in the wrong country by the British

deep, it shall be well, its already well

franchasng:
Don't be confused, there are lots of Igbo origin and Igbo speaking communities in today Niger Delta states, mostly in Delta and Rivers States. Nzeogwu called himself an Igbo man, and he is an Igbo but from Delta part.

D guy u quoted is only saying it based in what those from Anioma said....that they're not Igbo

richie240:
Lols, did u just hear urself? "The officers to handle d s/e part of d coup were not available", but they were fully available to execute d northern, western and Midwestern part of d coup ba? How convenient!



In ur 'church mind' u think if hassan katsina, wale ademulegun and co had known DT d (as u put it) the original officers meant to handle Enugu /SE would be 'unavailable', and dt d proposed 'national' coup would turn tribal/ethnic cleansing, they would have gone ahead with it?

Its amazing when u (pl.) put up arguments as if ur audience is bereft of sense!

The soldiers for the Eastern part of the coup were available.....

They arrested M.I. Okpara.......

The plan of the coup was to kill only those who resisted......


Read "why we struck" and you'll see what I'm saying

nku5:
How such an ignorant person can be so loud is so amusing. Let me educate you for the benefit of others reading

The officer in Enugu, Major Chude-Sokei was sent to India for a course few weeks to the coup. Major Ademoyega had to get a replacement and recruited one young officer named Lt Oguchi. Besides it doesn't matter, the President of Cyprus was with Okpara when they came for him. Engage your brain and it will be clearer eventually

'Woman', u are still playing d ostrich!
Whether they sent Chukumerije to Pakistan for a course blah-blah is beside d point!.
What counts is dt a coup which is supposed to have a national outlook turned tribal with the killing of d leaders of the north, west and Midwest respectively while those of the east were spared d hot bullets is d main thing.

"The coup was perfectly executed in other regions but the East because one captain Chukwujekwu was sent on course".

Lolz......how convenient!

BLS1:
Every few months we go through this cycle.

Nzeogwu was a patriot and probably one of the greatest patriots we ever had in this country.

The 1966 was never envisioned by him or the other idealist to be an Igbo coup or a power grab by the Igbo; but unfortunately for him and later the Igbo as a whole, a lot of his Igbo collabarators showed the typical selfish Nigeria tendencies which ensured it will always be seen as an Igbo Coup and power grab.

Nzeogwu had by far the hardest job of all the coup plotters and completed it masterfully and successfully like only a true idealist moved by genuine passion could. While his selfish brothers allowed their tribalistic nature to get the best of them and come up will silly stories of crosses and bishops not allowing them to execute the easiset of objectives in their own backyard.

The only moral of the Nzeogwu story and his subsequent death and rejection by his tribe is to choose your friends more wisely. He will always remain my greatest young Nigerian of that era.

Even the snake and northern puppet OBJ cannot say bad things about him. Infact no northern officer that knew him at that time ever did. It's his kith and kin that betrayed him in life that keep spoiling his memory in death

Bull shit.....

The coup failed .....

Nobody betrayed him....

Is it Igbo people's fault that Ironsi wasn't killed

franchasng:
1966 Coup by Maj. Nzeogwu – The Biggest Mistake of The Igbo Military Officers & Political Elites


Whenever I read a new book on the January 1966 bloody coup that ended Nigeria’s first indigenous government led by Tafawa Belewa and Nnamdi Azikiwe, tears roll down my eyes.

Igbos lost so much after that unfortunate coup of January 1966 and the counter coup + civil war that followed. Imagine no matter how much an Igbo man or woman had in Nigerian bank before the war, they were given just 20 pounds after the war to start life with; courtesy of Obafemi Awolowo’s 20 pounds policy after the war.

Personally on my family side, my father had close to a million pounds in his bank account before the war, though he managed to take some back to his hometown before the war broke out, but he lost over 500,000 pounds after the war.

On my maternal side, my mom’s elder brother was a head engineer at Enugu railway station, he died in the war as a volunteer special Biafra forces that went to recapture Ebonyi from Federal forces with no weapon, they were only trained to fight with their bare hands to capture weapons from federal forces.

Now enough of my family story.

Nzeogwu had no reason, I mean no reason at all to carry out or lead the first coup of January 1966, and if at all their action was to be justified for any reason like to stop the Western Nigeria political crises between Awolowo and Akintola, then the manner in which they carried out the coup execution – killing Northern political leaders and some Mid-West and Western Premier, while abandoning the Igbo political leaders was the greatest mistake of the Igbo race!

Aguiyi Ironsi who was supposed to correct this mistake when he took over power after the coup made the most stupid mistake of not heeding to Ojukwu’s advice of executing the coupists to pacify the already angered and boiling Northern Nigeria heavily cooking up revenge. He wasted time trying to reconcile the boiling issue through regional tours and dialogue when the North already lost their key political leaders in the unfortunate coup.

The mistakes of Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Anofuru, and co are the root cause of every predicament the great Igbo race are encountering in Nigeria today.

Igbos were completely in charge of Nigeria; from politics to leadership to military to trade, to business to almost every sector and were already the envy of other regions, so carrying out a coup was totally unnecessary when you were in charge, what else did you want

Before the coup and the civil war that followed, Igbos were the President (Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe), Igbos were the Senate President (Sen. Nwafor Orizu), the Chief of Army Staff (Maj, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), Head of Nigerian Military Intelligence (Maj. Chukwuma Nzeogwu), [s]richest person in Nigeria & Africa (Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu)[/s] , first Vice Chancellor of Nigeria who headed University of Ibadan (Prof. Kenneth Dike), and so many other things.

I am writing this to awaken all Igbo sons and daughters home and abroad, we must resist every attempt to repeat the same mistake we made in the 1960s that pushed us out of national political relevance and others in Nigeria, which is one of the reasons Igbo region is struggling with infrastructural developments compared to other regions.

Henry Fajemirokun.

After Ironsi came to power

Did Igbos taunt the North
Yes or no?

Did they make offensive images,songs etc?

richie240:
'Woman', u are still playing d ostrich!
Whether they sent Chukumerije to Pakistan for a course blah-blah is beside d point!.
What counts is dt a coup which is supposed to have a national outlook turned tribal with the killing of d leaders of the north, west and Midwest respectively while those of the east were spared d hot bullets is d main thing.

Deal with it!

Who asked your people not conduct themselves well....


The plan was to kill those that resisted arrest

franchasng:
it was not greed per se because Igbos didn't sit down to plan the coup, neither was Igbo political elites or Igbo socio cultural groups consulted.


It was done out of ignorance to be the savior of a man they believed will turn Nigeria to paradise, that's Awolowo.

The aim of the coupists was to stop the political turmoil in Western Nigeria between Awolowo and Akin tola, and to help free Awolowo and make him president.

It has nothing to do with Igbos being greedy because it was also Igbo top officers like Ironsi and Ojukwu that foiled the coup

You own point of view and opinion.

I still maintain my opinion about greed. I’ve not seen igbos doing anything in the larger interest of Nigerians and the coup has NOTHING to do with Awolowo

They hardly do anything for altruistic purpose but what they stand to benefit from an action.

Xavfra:
The soldiers for the Eastern part of the coup were available.....

They arrested M.I. Okpara.......

The plan of the coup was to kill only those who resisted......


Read "why we struck" and you'll see what I'm saying

All this one is story biko!
1. Were the leaders of the north, west and Midwest killed in the '66 coup? Yes/no?
2. Were the leaders of the east spared from death because those officers to carry out d exercise were (in nku5's words) unavailable/sent on course to Pakistan? Yes/no?

Your progenitors perfectly laid d bed of betrayals in ds country, biko, gladly lie on it!

franchasng:
The aim of the coupists was to stop the political turmoil in Western Nigeria between Awolowo and Akin tola, and to help free Awolowo and make him president.

https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/lol_idi_amin.gif

Awolowo president?

Xavfra:
Who asked your people not conduct themselves well....


The plan was to kill those that resisted arrest

Tafawa Balewa was killed because he resisted arrest?

seunmsg:
Tafawa Balewa was killed because he resisted arrest?

Yes the pregnant wives were also killed for resisting arrest.
Ibo logic

Xavfra:
The soldiers for the Eastern part of the coup were available.....

They arrested M.I. Okpara.......

The plan of the coup was to kill only those who resisted......


Read "why we struck" and you'll see what I'm saying

Haba, did you read how Nzeogwu killed Sardauna? He killed him along with his wife without any resistance.

U don’t know anything u just go about spilling nonsense, who told u it was an “ Igbo coup” yes Nzeogwu is an Igbo man but only by birth, he was born in Kaduna and he grew up in Kaduna, intact he dressed always like an Hausa man and he didn’t know how to speak Igbo, but he was very fluent in Hausa. I don’t know what’s wrong with u people, u don’t know anything but u go around spreading rumor.

franchasng:
1966 Coup by Maj. Nzeogwu – The Biggest Mistake of The Igbo Military Officers & Political Elites


Whenever I read a new book on the January 1966 bloody coup that ended Nigeria’s first indigenous government led by Tafawa Belewa and Nnamdi Azikiwe, tears roll down my eyes.

Igbos lost so much after that unfortunate coup of January 1966 and the counter coup + civil war that followed. Imagine no matter how much an Igbo man or woman had in Nigerian bank before the war, they were given just 20 pounds after the war to start life with; courtesy of Obafemi Awolowo’s 20 pounds policy after the war.

Personally on my family side, my father had close to a million pounds in his bank account before the war, though he managed to take some back to his hometown before the war broke out, but he lost over 500,000 pounds after the war.

On my maternal side, my mom’s elder brother was a head engineer at Enugu railway station, he died in the war as a volunteer special Biafra forces that went to recapture Ebonyi from Federal forces with no weapon, they were only trained to fight with their bare hands to capture weapons from federal forces.

Now enough of my family story.

Nzeogwu had no reason, I mean no reason at all to carry out or lead the first coup of January 1966, and if at all their action was to be justified for any reason like to stop the Western Nigeria political crises between Awolowo and Akintola, then the manner in which they carried out the coup execution – killing Northern political leaders and some Mid-West and Western Premier, while abandoning the Igbo political leaders was the greatest mistake of the Igbo race!

Aguiyi Ironsi who was supposed to correct this mistake when he took over power after the coup made the most stupid mistake of not heeding to Ojukwu’s advice of executing the coupists to pacify the already angered and boiling Northern Nigeria heavily cooking up revenge. He wasted time trying to reconcile the boiling issue through regional tours and dialogue when the North already lost their key political leaders in the unfortunate coup.

The mistakes of Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Anofuru, and co are the root cause of every predicament the great Igbo race are encountering in Nigeria today.

Igbos were completely in charge of Nigeria; from politics to leadership to military to trade, to business to almost every sector and were already the envy of other regions, so carrying out a coup was totally unnecessary when you were in charge, what else did you want

Before the coup and the civil war that followed, Igbos were the President (Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe), Igbos were the Senate President (Sen. Nwafor Orizu), the Chief of Army Staff (Maj, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), Head of Nigerian Military Intelligence (Maj. Chukwuma Nzeogwu), richest person in Nigeria & Africa (Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu), first Vice Chancellor of Nigeria who headed University of Ibadan (Prof. Kenneth Dike), and so many other things.

I am writing this to awaken all Igbo sons and daughters home and abroad, we must resist every attempt to repeat the same mistake we made in the 1960s that pushed us out of national political relevance and others in Nigeria, which is one of the reasons Igbo region is struggling with infrastructural developments compared to other regions.

Igbo coup it was

echibuogwu:
U don’t know anything u just go about spilling nonsense, who told u it was an “ Igbo coup” yes Nzeogwu is an Igbo man but only by birth, he was born in Kaduna and he grew up in Kaduna, intact he dressed always like an Hausa man and he didn’t know how to speak Igbo, but he was very fluent in Hausa. I don’t know what’s wrong with u people, u don’t know anything but u go around spreading rumor.

Igbo coup” yes Nzeogwu is an Igbo man but only by birth

Even after admitting that he was an ibo man, you still want us to convince us that he was a northerner.

Unfortunately for you, Northerners did not see it that way.

ipobs can be really really funny and comedic sha,

@ OP, they are generally self destructive and you can not prevent them from being self destructive no matter what, it's part of their DNA to be.

ZIK wanted ONE Nigeria so he teamed up with the North to form One Nigeria

Aguiyi Ironsi wanted One Nigeria so he abolished regional administration and joined us together with decree 34 to create the unitary system with power in Abuja, precisely what we have today.

ibo people created all the all the problems and the One Nigeria they cry everyday that they don't want.

U are indeed very senseless, how about the coup that follows after that one?? Was it termed as “ Hausa coup” or Yoruba coup?? U just said sth very foolish, next time reAd well and understand before typing, my point is that it shouldn’t be termed as Igbo coup, there’s nothing like that. A coup is a coup.

NGpatriot:
Even after admitting that he was an ibo man, you still want us to convince us that he was a northerner.

Unfortunately for you, Northerners did not see it that way.

ipobs can be really really funny and comedic sha,

shekauvsbuhari:
U mean igbo leaders held a meeting n decided to stage a coup? Igbo coup indeed! Make una get small sence na. Other tribes were part of it n Nzeogwu the supposed leader was not an Igbo. Was banjo igbo too.? Who stopped de coup? Ironsi.

Banjo never participated in the coup, he was arrested 3 days later for trying to gain entrance into Ironsi's headquarters with a loaded pistol

echibuogwu:
.......yes Nzeogwu is an Igbo man but only by birth, he was born in Kaduna and he grew up in Kaduna, intact he dressed always like an Hausa man and he didn’t know how to speak Igbo, but he was very fluent in Hausa

Lolz......dt makes him a kanuri jor. Biko, don't mind them!

NGpatriot:
Even after admitting that he was an ibo man, you still want us to convince us that he was a northerner.

Unfortunately for you, Northerners did not see it that way.

ipobs can be really really funny and comedic sha,

Às in ehn?!
Very comedic and warped logic!

echibuogwu:
U don’t know anything u just go about spilling nonsense, who told u it was an “ Igbo coup” yes Nzeogwu is an Igbo man but only by birth, he was born in Kaduna and he grew up in Kaduna, intact he dressed always like an Hausa man and he didn’t know how to speak Igbo, but he was very fluent in Hausa. I don’t know what’s wrong with u people, u don’t know anything but u go around spreading rumor.

tomorrow you will call my son Canadian because he was not born and brought up in Aba, and doesn't know how to speak Igbo fluently, nwanne make una carry time oh

NGpatriot:
@ OP, they are generally self destructive and you can not prevent them from being self destructive no matter what, it's part of their DNA to be.

ZIK wanted ONE Nigeria so he teamed up with the North to form One Nigeria

Aguiyi Ironsi wanted One Nigeria so he abolished regional administration and joined us together with decree 34 to create the unitary system with power in Abuja, precisely what we have today.

ibo people created all the all the problems and the One Nigeria they cry everyday that they don't want.

Zik and Ironsi were more western than Igbotic reason for their stupid actions. Because they spent much time with the whites, they started thinking they can make Nigeria to be like the UK, but Ojukwu despite his long stay and study in Britain never threw away his Igbo thinking cap and heritage and reason Igbos celebrate him till tomorrow