₦airaland Forum

WilyWily:
Yorubas called him 'Akintola ' evil man, they begged God to send a saviour who will help them eliminate Akintola.
Yorubas were happy to see him gone.
Nzogwu coup was the saviour of Yoruba Tribe

oyatz:
I am not taking about the evils of the Nigerian Army officers but YOUR stand on the matter.







What goes around, comes around.

No doubts the whole Igbo tribe never planned a coup but a section of the military officers, inspited by tribal loyalty more than any other thing tried to hijacked the political leadership of the country without thinking deeply about the consequences, however it backfired and the rest is History!

kingzizzy:
I dont like coups but it happend a lot back 8n the day, almost every country in Africa went through multiple coups and attempted coups. Most coups are ked by people from a particular section of a country, that is the nature of coups. Captain Nwobosi is 81 and still alive. He was even interviewed not up to two weeks ago. Captain Nwobosi led Soldiers to arrest Fani-Kayode, he gave himself up without incident. When Captain Nwobosi moved to arrest Akintola, he chose to grab a gun and open fire. According to to what I have read, Akintola died in the crossfire.

It is what it is. Military officers get up and decide for whatever reason to change the leadership of a country through the barrel of the gun, often with casualties. Akintola was just one of the many casualties of the seven coups that were conducted in Nigeria. I believe Akintola would have survived had he not chose to open fire. Fani-Kayode who gave himself up survived without a scratch

sageb:
did okotie eboh,Balewa,et al open fire before they were killed and thrown in a bush? You talk as if the coup just wanted to arrest them and that is all.

joeyfire:
This is what you shared initially. It states that Akintola's daughter in-law and grandchild were injured but Akintola's son did not even mention them. How possible is that? What is the source of this your information. The official Special Branch Report you are citing was never released

joeyfire:
So the writer had details that Akintola's son who was there did not know about? Akintola's nephew was not killed and nobody else was harmed in that attack. Do you think Akintola's son would hide a detail like that? His statement was very clear - "None of the children's wives or their children were injured". That totally discredits your source. Adewale Ademoyega's very detailed book did not mention it either.

Most importantly the Special Branch Report was never released ....

joeyfire:
So the writer had details that Akintola's son who was there did not know about? Akintola's nephew was not killed and nobody else was harmed in that attack. Do you think Akintola's son would hide a detail like that? His statement was very clear - "None of the children's wives or their children were injured". That totally discredits your source. Adewale Ademoyega's very detailed book did not mention it either.

Most importantly the Special Branch Report was never released ....

Osaze007:
Igbo thought they will dominate yorubas and Hausas

The thing backfire on top their end and they lost civil war

Today they are the dominated tribe

joeyfire:
So the writer had details that Akintola's son who was there did not know about? Akintola's nephew was not killed and nobody else was harmed in that attack. Do you think Akintola's son would hide a detail like that? His statement was very clear - "None of the children's wives or their children were injured". That totally discredits your source. Adewale Ademoyega's very detailed book did not mention it either.

Most importantly the Special Branch Report was never released ....

joeyfire:
So the writer had details that Akintola's son who was there did not know about? Akintola's nephew was not killed and nobody else was harmed in that attack. Do you think Akintola's son would hide a detail like that? His statement was very clear - "None of the children's wives or their children were injured". That totally discredits your source. Adewale Ademoyega's very detailed book did not mention it either.

Most importantly the Special Branch Report was never released ....

Osaze007:
Igbo thought they will dominate yorubas and Hausas

The thing backfire on top their end and they lost civil war

Today they are the dominated tribe

kingzizzy:
Nwobosi is still alive to give his own version. Akintola was given the opportunity to surrender peacefully but he chose to open fire. They returned fire and killed him, he was never captured alive

Malawian:
His story and that of the O.P is a concocted fairytale. Its just semantics to whip up sentiments and Yoruba's are exceptional in this kind of assymetric warfare.

7lives:
So why did they killed Balewa?, did he also fired at them?.

Christistruth00:
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The Special Branch Report was never released but the participants confirmed it's authenticity.


It was not released because it implicated some NCNC Politicians.

7lives:
So why did they killed Balewa?, did he also fired at them?.

oyatz:
I am not taking about the evils of the Nigerian Army officers but YOUR stand on the matter.







What goes around, comes around.

No doubts the whole Igbo tribe never planned a coup but a section of the military officers, inspited by tribal loyalty more than any other thing tried to hijacked the political leadership of the country without thinking deeply about the consequences, however it backfired and the rest is History!

sageb:
did okotie eboh,Balewa,et al open fire before they were killed and thrown in a bush? You talk as if the coupists just wanted to arrest them and that is all.

joeyfire:
You are speaking out of prejudice. Two of your tribesmen who were part of the coup wrote books almost forty years ago and have rubbished this dead conspiracy theory

richie240:
You can bury ur heads in d sand like d typical ostrich 4 all we care.

All DT is clear even to d blind is that a coup occurred in 1966, led predominantly by military officers of eastern region in which d premiers/political leaders and military officers of the north, west and Midwest regions were killed whilst ALL their counterparts- d political leaders and military officers of those of eastern region - were spared from d bullets
.......And add d brutal killings of d pregnant wives of d northern premier to d mix too!

U wanna spin dt?

Macbeth indeed hath murdered sleep.......

sageb:
for the igbo coupists leaders from other regions should be killed whereas the eastern ones should live. How come they did not attack michael okpara and Akanu ibiam.

2 Kings 6:28-29 (KJV)
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: AND SHE HATH HID HER SON.

sageb:
for the igbo coupists leaders from other regions should be killed whereas the eastern ones should live. How come they did not attack michael okpara and Akanu ibiam.

Dedetwo:
Coup is not an endeavor for equal and propositional disposition. There was no time in the history of the shithole called Nigeria that either Michael Okpara or Akanu Ibiam took to the airwave to cast aspersions and impugn the character of other ethnic nationalities as did Akintola and Bello. Most Nigerians tend to argue with frivolous analogy.

joeyfire:
Why would the Gowon regime with all the bitter northern extremist hardliners want to cover NCNC politicians who were from the Eastern region and were people that they hated and were eager to punish. This makes no sense please...

The logical reason why it was never released was that :

1. The Report proved that it was not an Igbo coup
2. Some senior northern officers like Hassan Katsina were part and parcel of the coup and supported it from the shadows

The picture here shows Nzeogwu on the right and Hassan Katsina on the left answering journalists questions the morning after the coup. This original picture just surfaced recently. The propagandists have only been showing us the one that shows Nzeogwu alone with Katsina cropped out

kingzizzy:
Everyone is dominated, the SW, SS, SE. Of the four Regions we used to have, one Region now dominates the other 3. At least the Igbos stood up and fought, the others quickly accepted slavery because they could not fight

Dedetwo:
Coup is not an endeavor for equal and propositional disposition. There was no time in the history of the shithole called Nigeria that either Michael Okpara or Akanu Ibiam took to the airwave to cast aspersions and impugn the character of other ethnic nationalities as did Akintola and Bello. Most Nigerians tend to argue with frivolous analogy.

kingzizzy:
I dont like coups but it happend a lot back 8n the day, almost every country in Africa went through multiple coups and attempted coups. Most coups are ked by people from a particular section of a country, that is the nature of coups. Captain Nwobosi is 81 and still alive. He was even interviewed not up to two weeks ago. Captain Nwobosi led Soldiers to arrest Fani-Kayode, he gave himself up without incident. When Captain Nwobosi moved to arrest Akintola, he chose to grab a gun and open fire. According to to what I have read, Akintola died in the crossfire.

It is what it is. Military officers get up and decide for whatever reason to change the leadership of a country through the barrel of the gun, often with casualties. Akintola was just one of the many casualties of the seven coups that were conducted in Nigeria. I believe Akintola would have survived had he not chose to open fire. Fani-Kayode who gave himself up survived without a scratch

T9ksy:
So, what about the remaining casualties of your brothers coup like Ademulegun, Shodeinde, maimalari et al? Did they ALL took to the airwaves to disparage your ethnic group as well, to justify killing them in cold blood?

Ifeajunna shot brig. Maimalari at close range in cold blood after the latter had already escaped the first initial attempt on his life, by Maj. Okafor.