Every time you will see people here who say that Ojukwu ran away from war like a coward. I have come to believe that most of the people who say this are Yorubas. So I want to use this opportunity to remind Yorubas that while you say that Ojukwu ran away, your own leaders did the same. Here are three well known Yoruba leaders who ran out of Nigeria when they felt threatened.

Brigadier Ogundipe:- He was Chief of General Staff to General Ironsi and second in command in the administration. He became the highest ranking officer of the Nigerian Army when Ironsi was murdered. He should have been sworn in as next head of state. But he jumped into a ship and ran away to Cotonou, from where he made his way to London

Olusegun Obasanjo:- During the second coup of 1966, Major Obasanjo promptly abandoned his command, jumped into the booth of a car and was smuggled to Maiduguri from where he crossed the border and ran out of the country. He did not return until the dust settled

Bola Tinubu:- In the mid 1990's as General Abacha cracked down on pro-June 12th agitators, Bola Tinubu suddenly disappeared into thin air and resurfaced in London. He did not return to Nigeria until Abacha died to aspire to become Lagos State Governor.

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kingzizzy:
Every time you will see people here who say that Ojukwu ran away from war like a coward. I have come to believe that most of the people who say this are Yorubas. So I want to use this opportunity to remind Yorubas that while you say that Ojukwu ran away, your own leaders did the same. Here are three well known Yoruba leaders who ran out Nigeria when they felt threatened.

Brigadier Ogundipe:- He was Chief of General Staff to General Ironsi and second in command in the administration. He became the highest ranking officer of the Nigerian Army when Ironsi was murdered. He should have been sworn in as next head of state. But he jumped into a ship and ran away to Cotonou, from where he made his way to London

Olusegun Obasanjo:- During the second coup of 1966, Major Obasanjo promptly abandoned his command, jumped into the booth of a car and was smuggled to Maiduguri from where he crossed the border and ran out of the country. He did not return until the dust settled

Bola Tinubu:- In the mid 1990's as General Abacha cracked down on pro-June 12th agitators, Bola Tinubu suddenly disappeared into thin air and resurfaced in London. He did not return to Nigeria until Abacha died to aspire to become Lagos State Governor.

The names you listed did not start a war that killed thousands, no they ran away when their lives were in danger! Ojukwu left his men and people to pay for his sins

Very dry.

An agonized clansman is ashamed of the epic and tragic cowardice of his kin, and has to find solace in mudslinging.

Throwback:
Very dry.

An agonized clansmen is ashamed of the epic and tragic cowardice of his kin, and has to find solace in mudslinging.

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OP you forgot the greatest of them all.

Awolowo.

When he was caught for planning a coup for a second time, exposed to IBB by his fellow Yorubas, Jakande in particular.
IBB gave Awolowo three options.

1. Go to life jail for treason.
2. Get killed in a firing squad
3. Go on exile.


Awolowo left all the above and took the coward way out. He took Otapiapia and ran away from life to avoid going to jail again for same offence he went to jail for in 1960s.

Awolowo was a coward who couldn't face the consequences of his own actions but chose to run away from them by taking his own life.
http://247ureports.com/how-awolowo-committed-suicide-by-abdulmumini-adeku/

Throwback:
Very dry.

An agonized clansmen is ashamed of the epic and tragic cowardice of his kin, and has to find solace in mudslinging.

Yeah, when Yoruba leaders run away, it is understandable. When Igbos run away, it cowardly. The worst is that Ogundipe, Obasanjo and Tinubu ran away without a fight while Ojukwu had a three year fight under his belt before running away

tutudesz:

The names you listed did not start a war that killed thousands, no they ran away when their lives were in danger! Ojukwu left his men and people to pay for his sins

Ojukwu didnt start a war either, the man was trying to get himself and his people as far away from Nigeria as possible but they still came for him and his people

Afomjas are born cowards , verbal warriors

tutudesz:

The names you listed did not start a war that killed thousands, no they ran away when their lives were in danger! Ojukwu left his men and people to pay for his sins

You've forgotten the zoo animal that dared the army to enter his Biafra, that they will not depart alive?

When the army eventually showed up, the coward called on Igbo youths far and near to come and engage the army in suicidal battle, while he packed his own bags and fled with his parents.

He was so scared that he went into hiding for over a year, only to resurface to lament about his dead dog and position himself to bargain with politicians who would be willing to pay for the support of his terrorist group.

Igboid:
OP you forgot the greatest of them all.

Awolowo.

When he was caught for planning a coup for a second time, exposed to IBB by his fellow Yorubas, Jakande in particular.
IBB gave Awolowo three options.

1. Go to life jail for treason.
2. Get killed in a firing squad
3. Go on exile.


Awolowo left all the above and took the coward way out. He took Otapiapia and ran away from life to avoid going to jail again for same offence he went to jail for in 1960s.

Awolowo was a coward who couldn't face the consequences of his own actions but chose to run away from them by taking his own life.
http://247ureports.com/how-awolowo-committed-suicide-by-abdulmumini-adeku/

jimyjames:
Afomjas are born cowards , verbal warriors

The road to Abidjan can be very humbling for boastful clansmen.

Throwback:
Very dry.

An agonized clansman is ashamed of the epic and tragic cowardice of his kin, and has to find solace in mudslinging.

@kingzizzy, everyone cannot be as irrational as u lots DT will start a fight DT is doomed to fail b4 d word 'go'.

Not everyone is delusional to (needlessly) sacrifice over a million souls over a war they are I'll prepared for just to turn around and wail 'genocide'.

ON NOVEMBER 18, 20178:41 AMIN EMISSARY, NEWS

IN DEFENCE OF OGUNDIPE
This is a battle I will fight until recognition comes the way of Nigeria’s first Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Brig.[Gen.] Babafemi Olatunde Ogundipe. History must be fair to this man even if compatriots look the other way.

The story that he ran away from Nigeria because he was not brave enough to take over as Head of State following the assassination of Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi is not true. It is like calling a dog a bad name to hang it.

Ogundipe, with identification, N6, was right in all decisions he took after the July 1966 coup. He was the most senior officer alive, the only brigadier still standing and at the brink of execution. All those commissioned before him[ Ironsi,N2, Brig. Samuel Ademulegun, N3, Col. Raph Sodeinde,N4 and Col. Kuru Mohammed N5], but one, [Col. Wellington Bassey,N1] had been murdered.

The Yoruba had lost almost all their senior officers. Lt.Col. Adekunle Fajuyi was killed with Ironsi in Ibadan, the Yoruba headquarters. Ademulegun and Sodeinde were shot in Kaduna, regional capital of the North. Col. Adeyinka Adebayo was away while Lt.Col. Victor Banjo was in detention.

Those who killed Ironsi and Fajuyi were junior officers and non commissioned officers. Titus Numan snatched the military leader’s crocodile stick while other ranks, some accounts say Ibrahim Rabo, Tijani Maiduguri, Sabo Kwale and Clement Dabang, among others, did the damage.

So how could anybody blame Ogundipe whose orders were ignored by an NCO for not taking over government. Lt.Col. Emeka Ojukwu was being diplomatic when he expected the most senior officer after Ironsi to be named Head of State instead of Lt.Col. Yakubu Gowon.

Ogundipe had no troops. Those who should have come to his defence were not there for him. The Army was made up of the First Brigade, Lagos commanded by Lt.Col Hilary Njoku and the Second Brigade, Kaduna under Col. Bassey. The former was with Ironsi and escaped with bullet wounds while the latter did not react at all.

Please let us get this right. When Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed in January 1966, President Nnamdi Azikiwe was out of the country. Acting President, Dr. Nwafor Orizu, did not have the power to fight. He invited Ironsi to take over.

When Gowon was sacked in 1975, the next in command, Admiral Edet Wey, did not challenge Brig. Murtala Mohammed and his boys. The most senior Army officer, Gen. David Ejoor, did not fire a shot. They all went into retirement. No one blamed them for not taking over.....

And dts from vanguard and not d Lagos-ibadan media u deride!

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/in-defence-of-babafemi-ogundipe/
Cc throwback

Throwback:


The road to Abidjan can be very humbling for boastful clansmen.

Obasanjos journey from Lagos to meduguri locked in the trunk of a car , was more humbling

kingzizzy:


Yeah, when Yoruba leaders run away, it is understandable. When Igbos run away, it cowardly. The worst is that Ogundipe, Obasanjo and Tinubu ran away without a fight while Ojukwu had a three year fight under his belt before running away

What a shame for Ojukwu and his clansmen. A Yoruba fellow soldier landed on Biafran soil and Ojukwu suddenly realised that his own life was precious?

What fight did Ogundipe or Obasanjo have to fight?

Can you force someone to fight an assassin, rather than avoid the assassin?

What does Tinubu a civilian politician have to do fighting the military government?

I like how you are agonized by your legendary cowardice that you couldn't sleep well but had to awake this morning and wail.

Continue shedding tears.

jimyjames:


Obasanjos journey from Lagos to meduguri locked in the trunk of a car , was more humbling

Any lie to make you sleep well at night is welcome.

How will you explain the road to Abidjan to your children?

Igboid:
OP you forgot the greatest of them all.

Awolowo.

When he was caught for planning a coup for a second time, exposed to IBB by his fellow Yorubas, Jakande in particular.
IBB gave Awolowo three options.

1. Go to life jail for treason.
2. Get killed in a firing squad
3. Go on exile.


Awolowo left all the above and took the coward way out. He took Otapiapia and ran away from life to avoid going to jail again for same offence he went to jail for in 1960s.

Awolowo was a coward who couldn't face the consequences of his own actions but chose to run away from them by taking his own life.
http://247ureports.com/how-awolowo-committed-suicide-by-abdulmumini-adeku/

Lolz!

You have forgotten abiola, initially ran away to London and declared a government, but was deceived to return to nigeria on the prospect that abacha will hand over to him

Oladipo diya and Abdulkareem adisa would have been better they ran away or perhaps planned to run away but could not do so instead where reduced to sobbing and begging. Generals for that matter.

What of shonekan after abacha made elaborate plans to topple him only for Mustapha to reach where baba sope is expecting a fight. But was surprised shonekan requested that he be driven to abeokuta. Imagine when shonekan reached abeaokuta and his family asked gom what are you doing here, he replied with a sad face they have commot me. His wife was like just like that and you didn't nothing. Shonekan replied what do you want me to do. Free me jorr

Obasanjo ran away on pretext of going for medical check up only to return back with the delusions that because i am international statesman nothing dey happen. Trust abacha he change am one time for obj.

Watch out for part two of runaway yoruba cowards

Throwback:


Any lie to make you sleep well at night is welcome.

How will you explain the road to Abidjan to your children?

You haven't explained the journey from Lagos to Maiduguri locked in the booth, to your children have you ? Plus how will you explain awolowo rat poison suicide to your children?

wole Soyinka.

Wole soyinka created history. woke Soyinka became the first man to ride okada from ife to Benin republic.

When he heard that abacha saw his letters, He quickly collected a bike from some random person and rode the bike till he crossed the border, out of fear of abacha.

History555:
You have forgotten abiola, initially ran away to London and declared a government, but was deceived to return to nigeria on the prospect that abacha will hand over to him

Oladipo diya and Abdulkareem adisa would have been better they ran away or perhaps planned to run away but could not do so instead where reduced to sobbing and begging. Generals for that matter.

What of shonekan after abacha made elaborate plans to topple him only for Mustapha to reach where baba sope is expecting a fight. But was surprised shonekan requested that he be driven to abeokuta. Imagine when shonekan reached abeaokuta and his family asked gom what are you doing here, he replied with a sad face they have commot me. His wife was like just like that and you didn't nothing. Shonekan replied what do you want me to do. Free me jorr

Obasanjo ran away on pretext of going for medical check up only to return back with the delusions that because i am international statesman nothing dey happen. Trust abacha he change am one time for obj.

Watch out for part two of runaway yoruba cowards

Haven't smiled like this in a long while

plessis:
wole Soyinka.

Wole soyinka created history. woke Soyinka became the first man to ride okada from ife to Benin republic.

When he heard that abacha saw his letters, He quickly collected a bike from some random person and rode the bike till he crossed the border, out of fear of abacha.

plessis:
wole Soyinka.

Wole soyinka created history. woke Soyinka became the first man to ride okada from ife to Benin republic.

When he heard that abacha saw his letters, He quickly collected a bike from some random person and rode the bike till he crossed the border, out of fear of abacha.

Una go kill person for this nairaland

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Topsic70:
@kingzizzy, everyone cannot be as irrational as u lots DT can take will start a fight DT us doomed to fail b4 d word 'go'.

Not everyone is delusional to (needlessly) sacrifice over a million souls over a war they are I'll prepared for just to turn around and wail 'genocide'.




And dts from vanguard and not d Lagos-ibadan media u deride!

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/in-defence-of-babafemi-ogundipe/

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@kingzizzy,
*Everyone cannot be as irrational as u lots DT will start a fight DT is doomed to fail b4 d word 'go'.

*Not everyone is delusional to (needlessly) sacrifice over a million souls over a war they are I'll prepared for just to turn around and wail 'genocide'.

ON NOVEMBER 18, 20178:41 AMIN EMISSARY, NEWS

IN DEFENCE OF OGUNDIPE
This is a battle I will fight until recognition comes the way of Nigeria’s first Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters, Brig.[Gen.] Babafemi Olatunde Ogundipe. History must be fair to this man even if compatriots look the other way.

The story that he ran away from Nigeria because he was not brave enough to take over as Head of State following the assassination of Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi is not true. It is like calling a dog a bad name to hang it.

Ogundipe, with identification, N6, was right in all decisions he took after the July 1966 coup. He was the most senior officer alive, the only brigadier still standing and at the brink of execution. All those commissioned before him[ Ironsi,N2, Brig. Samuel Ademulegun, N3, Col. Raph Sodeinde,N4 and Col. Kuru Mohammed N5], but one, [Col. Wellington Bassey,N1] had been murdered.

The Yoruba had lost almost all their senior officers. Lt.Col. Adekunle Fajuyi was killed with Ironsi in Ibadan, the Yoruba headquarters. Ademulegun and Sodeinde were shot in Kaduna, regional capital of the North. Col. Adeyinka Adebayo was away while Lt.Col. Victor Banjo was in detention.

Those who killed Ironsi and Fajuyi were junior officers and non commissioned officers. Titus Numan snatched the military leader’s crocodile stick while other ranks, some accounts say Ibrahim Rabo, Tijani Maiduguri, Sabo Kwale and Clement Dabang, among others, did the damage.

So how could anybody blame Ogundipe whose orders were ignored by an NCO for not taking over government. Lt.Col. Emeka Ojukwu was being diplomatic when he expected the most senior officer after Ironsi to be named Head of State instead of Lt.Col. Yakubu Gowon.

Ogundipe had no troops. Those who should have come to his defence were not there for him. The Army was made up of the First Brigade, Lagos commanded by Lt.Col Hilary Njoku and the Second Brigade, Kaduna under Col. Bassey. The former was with Ironsi and escaped with bullet wounds while the latter did not react at all.

Please let us get this right. When Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed in January 1966, President Nnamdi Azikiwe was out of the country. Acting President, Dr. Nwafor Orizu, did not have the power to fight. He invited Ironsi to take over.

When Gowon was sacked in 1975, the next in command, Admiral Edet Wey, did not challenge Brig. Murtala Mohammed and his boys. The most senior Army officer, Gen. David Ejoor, did not fire a shot. They all went into retirement. No one blamed them for not taking over.....

And dts from vanguard and not d lagos-ibadan media u deride!

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/in-defence-of-babafemi-ogundipe/

***If ojukwu - who later ran with his tail between his feet dressed as a pregnant woman- had a quarter of brain cells as ogundipe, at least 1 million of ur forebears won't have bn sacrificed to chukuma akike obioma - d god of LUNACY in dt senseless war!

Topsic70:
@kingzizzy, everyone cannot be as irrational as u lots DT will start a fight DT is doomed to fail b4 d word 'go'.

Not everyone is delusional to (needlessly) sacrifice over a million souls over a war they are I'll prepared for just to turn around and wail 'genocide'.




And dts from vanguard and not d lagos-ibadan media u deride!

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/in-defence-of-babafemi-ogundipe/

If ojukwu - who later ran with his tail between his feet dressed as a woman- had a quarter of brain cells as ogundipe had, at least 1 million of ur forebears won't have died in dt senseless war!

You're not sensible.

someone who fought for 3 years and ran away, and someone who ran away when nobody was chasing him and died in his self-imposed exile, who's the coward?

I want to think that tribalism is the platform for your reasoning but no, you just don't have sense.

Throwback:


What a shame for Ojukwu and his clansmen. A Yoruba fellow soldier landed on Biafran soil and Ojukwu suddenly realised that his own life was precious?

What fight did Ogundipe or Obasanjo have to fight?

Can you force someone to fight an assassin, rather than avoid the assassin?

What does Tinubu a civilian politician have to do fighting the military government?

I like how you are agonized by your legendary cowardice that you couldn't sleep well but had to awake this morning and wail.

Continue shedding tears.

Oh I thought Ogundipe and Obasanjo were trained Soldiers who fight for their corner? Or were they trained for 4×4 relay race? At least Ojukwu fought for his corner for three years before running away. Ogundipe and Obasanjo abandoned their corners and took flight even before the bell for the fight rang.

plessis:

You're not sensible.

someone who fought for 3 years and ran away, and someone who ran away when nobody was chasing him and died in his self-imposed exile, who's the coward?

I want to think that tribalism is the platform for your reasoning but no, you just don't have sense.

Lolz.....
I've observed dt to u gyes over there, there's virtually no difference between bravery and stewpidity!

Cheebooso nwanne, what was d result of his 'bravety' biko? One million PRECIOUS souls!!!, that's d cost of his idiocy.
If u lots are so proud of 'ojuku's bravery' (lolz) in starting what he couldn't finish, why then are u wailing 'genocide' upandan till tomorrow like castrated bushbabies?

#yeye_dey_smell!

Igboid:
OP you forgot the greatest of them all.

Awolowo.

When he was caught for planning a coup for a second time, exposed to IBB by his fellow Yorubas, Jakande in particular.
IBB gave Awolowo three options.

1. Go to life jail for treason.
2. Get killed in a firing squad
3. Go on exile.


Awolowo left all the above and took the coward way out. He took Otapiapia and ran away from life to avoid going to jail again for same offence he went to jail for in 1960s.

Awolowo was a coward who couldn't face the consequences of his own actions but chose to run away from them by taking his own life.
http://247ureports.com/how-awolowo-committed-suicide-by-abdulmumini-adeku/

Lmao!

Awolowo ran away from life.