₦airaland Forum

Ezeama400:
The bolded is not true.. Gowon abolished regional government and created 12 states.. Your lies and propaganda can never be true despite repeating it million times..

[b]Before Gowon became head of state in August 1966, Nigeria was a federation of

1) 4 semi-autonomous Regions
2) Each Region had resource control
3)Each Region kept 50% of whatever accrued within it, paid the Federal Government 25% and the rest 25% went into a General account that all the Regions including the Federal Government could use for developmental purpose.
4)Because the 4 Regions were semi-autonomous, it made the centre week and prevented any Region from dominating another

Today, we have

1)36 states that have little or no resource control
2) A powerful Federal government that now pays the states
3)Fiscal federalism is dead

How did we get here? It was Gowons promulgation of Decree 14 on the 27th of May 1967 that caused it all. It was this same decree that forced Ojukwu to declare the Eastern Region a seperate country called Biafra 3 days later and this led to the war. It should also be added that decree 14 was a violation of the Aburi agreement that both Gowon and Ojukwu signed in Ghana.


Decree 14, abolished the 4 Regions, replaced them with 12 states, took away resource control, reversed fiscal responsibility and made the federal government all powerful

It was seen for what it was by Ojukwu and the Eastern Region, a calculated attempt by Gowon and his Northern cohorts to dominate everyone.

Suddenly, the North that was one Region, had 6 states while the South that was 3 Regions had to share 6 states between them. This effectively made the North the dominant partner[/b]


Subsequent military administration's led by Northerners subdivided the 12 states Gowon created, and gave the North more states and local governments than the south

Today, the North that was one Region has overwhelming advantage over the South that was 3 Regions

1) The North has 19 states while the south has 17

2)Of the 109 Senators in Nigeria, the North has 59 while the south has 50

3) Of the 360 house of rep members, the North has 191 while the South has 169

4) Of the 774 Local Governments in Nigeria, the North has 419 while the South has 355

This undue advantage given to the North, starting with Gowons decree 14 which changed the structure of Nigeria, is what led to war and created the mess Nigeria is in today

Know your history..

I am done with you.. Bye

OfoIgbo:
He did not abrogate regional government. The region's were in full force throughout his tenure. Ojukwu was the governor of Eastern region. Ejoor was the governor of MidWestern region e.t.c

It was Gowon and Awolowo that got rid of the region's, eliminated resource control, and created weak states so they can carry out the plundering of state resources.

So basically the southern minorities gained states but lost resource control. That's majorly why we are where we are

flokii:
The killer of Niger Delta dream and architect of the bloody pogroms on his people with his refusal to prosecute his coup plotting brothers.

NazoTimes:
Nigeria is a State While Isreal is a Nation-State

EMMAUGOH:
Ironsi is the most stupid igbo man to exist in Nigeria history.

Imagine halting a coup and soround yourself with those that should be killed in the coup.

It shows he knows nothing about the coup and trying to be political correct while forgot there still an ongoing revenge.

I swear if Ojukwu or Nzeogwu succeeded the coup, Nothern Nigeria would have been merged with Niger and Sudan while Souther Nigeria a country of theirs. Africa would have had intelligent leader cos I trust igbos to try to control other countries like role America is playing in their continent.

blackboy:
Is nigeria a nation or a state? Political science students over to you. Is Isreal a nation or country.

Dedetwo:
You could not be more correct, sir. He was beyond stupidity. I guess he was drunk too. I prayed no son of Igbo man take the name of Ironsi.

Christistruth00:
Sani Bello who was Ironsi's Northern ADC said that Ironsi had the potential to be a great leader but he was misled by bad advisers among his kinsmen.
He described Ironsi as a soft person who missed that opportunity to do great things . It is interesting that a Northerner saw that potential in him.

allawizzow:
It's not true sir. IRONSI abolished it and this is his press statement regarding it.

https://www.nairaland.com/attachments/12896482_em4cly3w4ayrpv1_jpeg9ba8de257921e6f5ee47b9c8d206aba9

Find attached

Mraphel:
Northerners soldiers dealt with him.

Afonja should be blamed

omoiyamayor:
The initiator of coup to Nigeria's Democracy, welldone Mr Ironsi,we are still facing the consequences of your action.

shugabasbn:
Fajuyi the man that died for the sin of others. Stupid or hero?

kingzizzy:
The man who killed Ironsi, General Danjuma, is still out there being celebrated despite being a murderer

Ezeama400:
The bolded is not true.. Gowon abolished regional government and created 12 states.. Your lies and propaganda can never be true despite repeating it million times..

[b]Before Gowon became head of state in August 1966, Nigeria was a federation of

1) 4 semi-autonomous Regions
2) Each Region had resource control
3)Each Region kept 50% of whatever accrued within it, paid the Federal Government 25% and the rest 25% went into a General account that all the Regions including the Federal Government could use for developmental purpose.
4)Because the 4 Regions were semi-autonomous, it made the centre week and prevented any Region from dominating another

Today, we have

1)36 states that have little or no resource control
2) A powerful Federal government that now pays the states
3)Fiscal federalism is dead

How did we get here? It was Gowons promulgation of Decree 14 on the 27th of May 1967 that caused it all. It was this same decree that forced Ojukwu to declare the Eastern Region a seperate country called Biafra 3 days later and this led to the war. It should also be added that decree 14 was a violation of the Aburi agreement that both Gowon and Ojukwu signed in Ghana.


Decree 14, abolished the 4 Regions, replaced them with 12 states, took away resource control, reversed fiscal responsibility and made the federal government all powerful

It was seen for what it was by Ojukwu and the Eastern Region, a calculated attempt by Gowon and his Northern cohorts to dominate everyone.

Suddenly, the North that was one Region, had 6 states while the South that was 3 Regions had to share 6 states between them. This effectively made the North the dominant partner[/b]


Subsequent military administration's led by Northerners subdivided the 12 states Gowon created, and gave the North more states and local governments than the south

Today, the North that was one Region has overwhelming advantage over the South that was 3 Regions

1) The North has 19 states while the south has 17

2)Of the 109 Senators in Nigeria, the North has 59 while the south has 50

3) Of the 360 house of rep members, the North has 191 while the South has 169

4) Of the 774 Local Governments in Nigeria, the North has 419 while the South has 355

This undue advantage given to the North, starting with Gowons decree 14 which changed the structure of Nigeria, is what led to war and created the mess Nigeria is in today

Know your history..

I am done with you.. Bye

OfoIgbo:
So were Ojukwu, Ejoor, Hassan and others no longer the governor's of the regions?

Was it Ironsi that removed resource control? This is the major characteristics of true federalism and we know resource control and regionalism were removed by Gowon, Murtala and Obasanjo

flokii:
The killer of Niger Delta dream and architect of the bloody pogroms on his people with his refusal to prosecute his coup plotting brothers.

JudasNaCarrot:
Ironsi was never part of the January 1966 coup. He and Odumegu Ojukwu were never part of it. Infact the the coupist, Kaduna Nzegwu,Ademoyega and other three Majors executed the coup with the plans of killing Ironsi who was at a party that night somewhere in Lagos.

Ojukwu was the one who foiled the coup in the North, making it impossible for Nzeogwu and his cohorts to succeed.

Ironsi only took over power because he was the highest ranking military officer then. His mistake was that he didn't bring the coup plotters to Justice. They should have been tried and executed by military law. His failure sent a signal that it was an ethnic cleansing carried out by officers of Igbo extraction agiant the Hausa Fulani and Yoruba ethnic groups as Azikiwe was not killed like his compatriots.

This was how the seed of ethnic division and hatred began in a once promising and examplary African Nation.

Now Buhari have taken this hatred, nepotism and destruction to the peak of mount Everest.

NazoTimes:
On 29 July 1966 Aguiyi-Ironsi spent the night at the Government House in Ibadan, as part of a nationwide tour. His host, Lieutenant Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, Military Governor of Western Nigeria, alerted him to a possible mutiny within the army. Aguiyi-Ironsi desperately tried to contact his Army Chief of Staff, Yakubu Gowon, but he was unreachable. In the early hours of the morning, the Government House, Ibadan, was surrounded by soldiers led by Theophilus Danjuma. Danjuma arrested Aguiyi-Ironsi and questioned him about his alleged complicity in the coup, which saw the demise of the Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello. The circumstances leading to Aguiyi-Ironsi death still remain a subject of much controversy in Nigeria. His body and that of Fajuyi were later discovered in a nearby forest.

Here are some photos from the burial of Nigeria's first military Head of State, Major General Aguiyi Ironsi who was killed in the July 1966 Northern Nigeria counter coup.

ayokellany:
If it wasn't Ironsi that dismantled the regions with Decree 34, then how come in going to Aburi summit, the first item on the agenda was the abrogation of all Ironsi's decrees?

Secondly, if Ironsi didn't dismantl the regions through his Unification Decree, then why did he throughout his May 24 1966 national broadcast keep on referring to the regions as "former regions"? Also, why did he argue in that broadcast that regional system had caused tribalism and had to give way to a system that would engender nationalism spirit in the citizenry?
Why did he change the official name of Nigeria from "Federal Republic of Nigeria* to just "Republic of Nigeria"?
Removing the adjective "Federal" from the official name meant he no longer recognized the regions.

On the Gowon angle: he (Gowon) on getting to power immediately began to reverse Ironsi's demolition of the regions. In fact he had restored the regions and returned their autonomy to them half way but had to halt it because of Ojukwu's intransigence about Biafra.
Mind you in addition that Gowon's states creation was not out of place as the non-wazobians of the three regions had been agitating for their own regions in order to free themselves from wazobia domination.
Moreover, Gowon's states enjoyed autonomy hence weren't really different from the regions unlike the groups of provinces which Ironsi broke the regions into and stripped them completely of their autonomy by unifying their civil services, imposing governors on them whom he asked to be reporting to him at the center thus killing the spirit of federalism in the country.

In further confirmation that it was Ironsi that dismantled the regions, here is a link to an interview granted by Philip Asiodu revealing how Ojukwu told him of he plan of him and Ironsi to abolish the regions within six months of their Igbo dominated government:

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/impunity-killing-nigeria-phillip-asiodu/



Please note where the report reads:

Emeka Ojukwu and myself were very good friends in school, Kings College, Lagos, and Oxford University. In fact when the coup happened, he wanted me to join him in Enugu and I told him that I was not a regional man. And Ojukwu told me ‘we shall abolish the regions within 6 months

NB: Philip Asiodu who made this revelation is an Igbo man and the Sun Newspaper which carries is owned by another Igbo man - Orji Uzor Kalu hence the usual accusation of Yoruba (Western) Press propaganda will not hold water here.

Please also check my next comment below and explain what exactly Ironsi meant with the bolded lines of his May 24 national broadcast if you insist he didn't abolish the regions.

kingzizzy:
The man who killed Ironsi, General Danjuma, is still out there being celebrated despite being a murderer

omoiyamayor:
The initiator of coup to Nigeria's Democracy, welldone Mr Ironsi,we are still facing the consequences of your action.

omoiyamayor:
The initiator of coup to Nigeria's Democracy, welldone Mr Ironsi,we are still facing the consequences of your action.

kingzizzy:
The man who killed Ironsi, General Danjuma, is still out there being celebrated despite being a murderer

ayokellany:
Ironsi's broadcast to the nation - May 24, 1966.


"The Regions are Abolished': Ironsi's Broadcast to the Nation banning
Political Parties and introducing Decree No. 34, 24 May 1966.



Fellow Nigerians:
During the past two weeks I presided over meetings of the Supreme
Military council and the Central Executive Council at which many
important state matters were considered. . .
It is now three months since the Government of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria was handed over to the Armed Forces. Now that peace has
been restored in the troubled areas it is time that the Military
Government indicates clearly what it proposes to accomplish before
relinquishing power. The removal of one of the obstacles on the way
is provided for in the Constitution (Suspension and Modification)
Decree (No. 5) 1966 which was promulgated by me today and comes into
effect at once.
The provisions of the Decree are intended to remove the last
vestiges of the intense regionalism of the recent past, and to
produce that cohesion in the governmental structure which is so
necessary in achieving, and maintaining the paramount objective of
the National Military government, and indeed of every true Nigerian,
namely, national unity.
The highlights of this Decree are as follows:
The former regions are abolished, and Nigeria grouped into a number
of territorial areas called provinces
Nigeria ceases to be what has been described as a federation. It now becomes simply the Republic of Nigeria.
The former Federal Military government and the Central Executive
Council become respectively the National Military Government and the
executive Council. All the Military Governors are members of the
Executive Council. A Military Governor is assigned to a group of provinces over which and subject to the direction and control of the Head of the National
Military Government, he shall exercise executive power. In order to
avoid any major dislocation of the present administrative machinery,
the grouping of the provinces has been made to coincide with the
former regional boundaries. This is entirely a transitional measure
and must be understood as such. The present grouping of the
provinces is without prejudice to the Constitutional and
Administrative arrangements to be embodied in the New Constitution in
accordance with the wishes of the people of Nigeria.
The National Military Government assumes the exercise of all
legislative powers throughout the Republic subject to such
delegations to Military Governors as are considered necessary for
purposes of efficient administration.
The public services of the former federation and regions become
unified into one national public service under a National Public
Service Commission. There is a provincial Service Commission for
each group of provinces to which is delegated functions in respect of
public officers below a given rank. This rather drastic change will
probably involve a reconstitution of the existing commissions, and
the National Military Government reserves the right to do so in the
manner stipulated in the Decree. Until this is done, the present
Commissioners continue to act in their posts. Every civil servant is
now called upon to see his function in any part of Nigeria in which
he is serving in the context of the whole country. The orientation
should now be towards national unity and progress. I expect all
civil servants to co-operate and to consult at all levels, vertically
and horizontally, between groups of Provinces and between Provinces
and the Centre.
People are aware that Study Groups have been set up to look into
various aspects of governmental activity. One of them is concerned
with problem relating to the Constitution........Read More here:

https://www.dawodu.com/irons2.htm

Bekool:
Where did they even bury him?