BrownLondon:

Here is what he wrote in July 1949 on his west Africa pilot newspaper.

Together with one Charles onyeama.

You can as well read his letter to northern leaders in 1954 when they were planning leaving Nigeria.

BrownLondon:

You asked for proof of his speech.

I provided the one he wrote on his newspaper, west African pilot.

And also, what a certain Charles onyeama (a legislative leader) said.


Isn't that enough?

You asked for it Sir.

Igbochief001:

Oga a speech that was made in a pan Igbo meeting ? What do u expect ?

Who does that translate to coup ....igbos plan is to dominate the world based on merit ...we don't hide that fact ...we say it everyday

We are the most intelligent group in Africa we say that always

How does that translate to coup

If igbos wanted to dominate won't it be obvious from the Eastern region ? ..but and independent report found no truth to the false accusations

This doesn't take away the fact that the coup plotters planned to hand over to awo

T9ksy:



Abi o, jare!!!

To think two years after making such an seditious speech, zik was plotting how he can be in charge of his closest rival's domain.

Zik and his duplicitous men never forgave Awo for thwarting their obnoxious objective in our land.

7 decades later they are still wailing because we didn't allow them to "dominate" us.

valentineuwakwe:
Why post this now..we all read history and knew what went wrong.....instead of posting this to hate and divide the country, why not post reports about the fuel price and electricity traffic increase....that will go along way

BrownLondon:
Cc.
Igboid
Proeast
Igbochief001
Rugaria
PROUDIGBO
What could be the cause of the bloody coup, was it because Nnamdi Azikiwe's famous domination plan wasn't coming as expected ( though you folks dominated the the civil and military service then, perhaps Azikiwe, Ironsi and the 5 Igbo killers wanted TOTAL domination?)

Why did Azikiwe travelled in build up to these night of blood?

kolaaderin:
It important to know the history and the root cause of this mess, the first coup derailed the country which gives birth to series of coup and counter coup, it gives birth to people like Obasanjo, Buhari and Babangida to ever grace the first office of this country hence the whole mess we have now. Ibo coup and they are really enjoying the consequences of their actions.

BrownLondon:
* Prime minister, Tafawa Balewa was abducted from his home and his body was dumped along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway.

Sir Ahmadu Bello was killed in his home together with his wife, his security assistant and driver.

Chief Samuel Akintola was gunned gun in the presence of his family.


Festus Okotie-Eboh, the Minister of Finance, who was brutalised, abducted from his home and whose body was later dumped in a bush.

BrownLondon:


Azikiwe in one of his speech iterated how the gods designed Igbos to dominate Nigeria, how he was the only leader to reject the succession clause.

We all saw/read about the atrocities he committed in the Western region ;

From kicking against movement of capital away from Lagos, the Yorubas/Western region never wanted the FCT.

How he masterminded the mid-west referendum (well, i may be wrong)

Trying to be premier of Western region.

Calling Lagos a no man's land.

Involvement in Akintola/Awolowo (together with northern leaders) which led to Awo spending few year in prison etcetera.

He had the chance to form the government with Awolowo but refused, he knew he would not be able to achieve his domination plan because Awolowo is one hell of a brilliant man, he chooses to form it with the fulani thinking they would be pushover, but he was wrong.
It's audible to the deaf and clear to the blind that his inability to totally control the government led to the coup, he clearly had a hand in the coup.

He wouldn't have travel prior to the coup.

And talking about the coupist plan to install Awolowo, isn't that foolish ?
You mean the same Awolowo that was jailed by Eastern and Northern joint leadership?

Let's look at it from this angle, the coup took place on the 15th of january, and he, Awolowo was still in the prison untill July? (That's some 6 months after the coup) and the coupist didn't still release awo from prison, didn't that sound foolish?

Ironsi didn't punish the coupist and that shows that he has a hand in it too, Ironsi should have release Awo from prison since you said the objective of the coup was to pave way for Awolowo.

Let's argue with logic nah.

DerideGull:



Dunces are danger to the society. Ironsi ,as and army general, does not have addition power outside the mandate of constitution and military code of conduct to punish a coup plotter. In a hurry to justify their silly pitching tent with northern region of Nigeria in a war against eastern region, the hack writers from western region of Nigeria concocted all kinds of rubbish,

BigSarah:
Topics like this are made every month, the same arguments is put forth... Each tribe trying to vilify another, There are no facts to the civil war only doctored truths.

T9ksy:



Prof (?) pls, STFU jo!!

Ironsi had no power outside the mandate of which constitution? Are you referring to the constitution, he abolished after taking over power at gun point?

Somehow and somewhere though, he found the military code of conduct bunkum with which he utilised to punish Adaka boro but not his own (Ironsi's) kinsmen whose coup plotting brought him into power.

I implore you to go take your meds.