₦airaland Forum

IamWonderful:
Baby factory people always say Yoruba are coward and backstabbers, fajuyi insisted they can't take away his visitor with him, despite igbos were the cause of the retaliation and retribution that was melted on them and which righteous fajuyi became part of it

Fajuyi should be celebrated by all Igbos for what he did and he should be a symbol of the unity of Nigeria

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

Bro you come to nairaland to educate fools. Leave them to their follies. Let them blame the Igbo man for every of their woes.


Meanwhile let them enjoy their union, ask a Yoruba man, he will tell you Igbos are their problem, ask a middle belt man he will tell you Igbos are their problem. Ask a core northerner, he will tell you Igbos are their problem then ask them to cut off the Igbos from their lives, for where, they will rather fight for months to keep Igbos as compatriots, bunch of confused people.

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

Olodo he was never involved in any coup

woky:
major Adewale Ademoyega was among the coup plotters

People like Ademoyega and Nzeogwu were made to believe they were carrying out a revolution. They didn't know they were ignorantly acting a script by Igbo soldiers and politicians

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

Nigeria is a zoo

Story for your father to wail about just like Buhari never took part in the coup that brought him to power but foolish souls like you n many from you tribe will argue against that.

woky:
Ironsi was never among the officers that initiated the 1966 coup

chuxjay:
Olodo he was never involved in any coup

Then how did he become head of state?
Ironsi staged a coup within a coup.

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

We are in real mess. After going through this write up, it sent chilled spines all over me.
Until this is re-dress, I can't fathom a way forward.

The guy got what he deserved by being nepotistic, killing Northerners and Westerners excluding his Eastern Brothers. He was the one that form Unitary Govt abolishing Regional Govt and Devolved Powers that his people are clamoring for today in the name of restructuring all because of greed and the grand plan to make his tribe to dominate other tribes in Nigeria.

His people started nepotism in Nigeria

Do you have an iota of evidence to show that he was part of the 1966 coup? If no, stop generalizing and judging a person who could be innocent. No wonder, your government banned the study of History in our schools!

His major undoing was not executing the coup plotters and being Igbo as majority of them.

But don't forget that even General Gowon did not execute Nzegwu and co!

So if this set of people wake up now let's question them. One more guy Ifeajuna

Deadlytruth:
It seems you didn't read through my comment carefully. As at the day Ironsi was toppled and killed, Ojukwu, Hassan and Ejoor were in charge of groups of powerless and center dependent provinces and not regions.

This is what you don't understand about resource control; in SS2 Government textbooks the civil service is defined as the only lawfully recognized institution by which any government carries out her duties. It is the civil service that a government uses to generate revenues from the resources found within her domain and deploys it to pay salaries, sponsor capital projects, etc.... meaning that a state or region controls her resource through her civil service institution.
Now, after taking away from the regions their civil services through Decree 34, how exactly were the regions supposed to be able to continue generating and controlling their resources and utilizing same in keeping to their duties?

Once the civil service became centralized by Ironsi, all the revenues they generated from their former regional domains automatically started being remitted to the center. Ask yourself if a civil servants in a federal parastatal located in, say, Enugu today can generate revenue and remit it to the Enugu State Government without being dismissed mmediately if Abuja discovers.

Again, ask yourself how Ironsi would have been able to as military HOS continue paying the salaries of the now enlarged national civil service if the former regional civil servants kept on remitting revenues to the regional governors despite now being under the control of the national military Government. Where exactly on earth does that happen?

He did not take away the regional civil services instead he streamlined the civil services and remove the powers of Emirs in the silly native authority. Ironsi's overthrow was orchestrated by Emirs in the northern region who thought their powers over native authority via Emirates were dashed.

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

Except we reverse to the initial policy, there won't be progress in Nigeria. The north has all d power

Omoslim26:
Why is no one stating here dat igbos were already being slaughtered in The North way before the Coup

The slaughtering of Igbos in the North and by Northerners prior to the coup seems not to attract any concern or sympathy because at independence, despite the benefit of hindsight created by those pogroms targeted at them in the North, it was the same Northerners Igbos preferred to align with in such a way that state power fell into their (Northerners') hands. I think that choice of alliance at independence convinced and till today convinces every other tribe that Igbos actually enjoyed being slaughtered in the North prior to independence and the 1966 January coup.

No normal human being gives raw state power to a person who oppressed and killed him at a time he hadn't even got state power.
No one can love you more than you love yourself.
Jesus only asked us to love our neighbours as ourselves and not more than our own selves.

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.

And later you will claim that his brother is not igbo.his blood is still hunting Nigeria till this catastrophe called Nigeria is dissolve

Firstorderwizard:
But why did he abrogate Regional Govt.?

I believe he did it so as to help his igbo people, because igbos were mostly dominating most facet of life in nigeria

Deadlytruth:
Wrong! Ojukwu, Fajuyi, Hassan and Ejoor being governors of subnational units under Ironsi's rule doesn't change the fact that Ironsi abolished the regions. Stop being clever by half. Here are the details of the issue:

Ironsi took power through the backdoor on the 17th of January 1966 and immediately proceeded to replace the democratic regions based structure he met in place with a military structure. So he appointed these mentioned soldiers over the regions first and operated a regions based Federal Military Government from that January 17 to May 24 of same year... meaning he ran a military controlled regional system for the first four months and seven days of his six months tenure. Then on the 24th of May, he issued a raft of centrifugal decrees by which he dismantled the regions and by his own pronouncement converted from federal military government to national (Unitary) military government whereby the regions were broken down to powerless provinces headed by the same military governors who were now ordered to be reporting to the military head of state (Ironsi himself) at the center henceforth. At this point the civil services of the regions had been unified and placed 100% under the control of the just created national (unitary) military government. This was why it was at that point in time that Governors Hassan and Ejoor began to complain against Ironsi.

So beginning from May 24, the military governors to the exception of Ojukwu, were forced against their wish and will by Ironsi to start ruling over groups of weak and powerless groups of provinces and not regions. This continued till July 29 that Ironsi was toppled and killed hence as at when Ironsi died the regions were no longer in existence. It was the coming of Gowon that saw a partial reversal to autonomous regions first followed by a breakdown of those semi-autonomous regions into semi-autonomous states. Get it now?

I’m learning a lot from you boss.
At this point, I strongly want Nigeria to break up based on tribe/ethnicity so that the new nations formed will have a lot in common due to a shared culture and traditions.

Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and other minority tribes should go their separate ways like the former Soviet Union.

I do not want restructuring or regional government because Nigeria shouldn’t have been amalgamated in the first place, it was a grave mistake by lord luggard.

What do you think?

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So exposing evil Igbo deciet is now a distraction ? Anyway, we can ignore the distraction but truth that Igbo ruined regional govt will forever hunt you, your father n your unborn generation n it matter not if Nigeria get dissolved or not.

Yujin:
DISTRACTION! DISTRACTION!! DISTRACTION!!!
Focus on the present situation and save yourselves. The vampires from the sahel are doing all they can at present to create division among Southerners so their fulanization can be complete without challenge. I urge all southerners and middle belters to stay focussed on removing themselves from sharing any country with those terrorists. Gideon Orkar was not stupid when he tried his best to cut them off from middlebelt and the south. T. Y Danjuma who participated in the events of the 60s is still alive and he has publicly called for a renegotiation because he knows better. This thread was exhumed to confuse those who don't understand what's happening at present. Fulanis are wiping off communities and taking their lands at present in Nigeria yet they're telling you to be patriotic to Nigeria. They've killed so many farmers and scared others away to cause hunger in the land. Today majority of the people are hungry without food to eat. That's the scorch earth method of weakening your intended targets. Do not listen to any stories they will cook up. After Nigeria is broken, then you can listen to any of their suggestions. That's the only way out.
DO NOT SAY YOU WERE NOT TOLD.

OAFMods:
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

The above is nothing but a fabricated nonsense. The same dawodu.com that polished prose of Francis Fajuiyi whom they claimed wanted to die with Ironsi in Ibadan, The Fajuiyi crap was disingenuous act form of the gazette of western Nigerian regional publication in 1967. It is foolish beyond human form the so-called sophisticated people should fabricate such nonsensical crap that has no bases in military parlance. Coup or the perpetrators do not given options to the targeted objects. Never in the annals of military parlance.

I wonder why his soldiers who swore to protect their C-I-C did not shoot maj. danjuma & his gang in d mouth.

kingzizzy:
His people were already being massacred in 1945 and 1953 so lets not pretend as if the pogrom wasnt already an ongoing periodic thing long before there was any coup.

Igbos,to say the least are gullible. These core Northeners have been killing you from time immemorial but you continue jumping into any sack they jump into.....NPN,PDP....name it,the Igbos will go there thinking that Hausas are mumus whom they will easily overwhelm but hear them crying now when all their overtake Nigeria plan went overboard as the Hausa-wannabes(Fulanis) continue to wreck havoc on Nigerians not minding that Nigeria folds up or not as long as their kith and kin control the sinking Nigeria.
God will punish all of you that turned my fatherland to what I am now praying to break.
Including Obasanjo,the Anambran Igboman who has consistently gone against Yoruba leaders and anything that will give progress to Yorubas.

Ok

The history of federalism in Nigeria suffered a setback in May 1966, when the military government under Major-General J.T.U.Aguiyi-Ironsi abolished the federal system of government and formed a unitary system of government. Thus, the national military government legislated for the whole of the country. After the counter coup-d’etat of July 1966, General Gowon promulgated a decree abolishing the unification decree of Ironsi and restored Nigeria to federal system of government. Nigeria did not go back to the old four regions but dramatic changes took place. According to D.A. Ijalaye; “by breaking the old Northern and Eastern Regions into six and three states respectively, each with extensive semi-autonomous powers, and by the distribution of assets and liabilities of the former regional governments, major changes had been effected in the potential balance of powers within the federation as well as the position and powers of Native Authorities and of many ethnic groups especially the minorities.”


It was Gowon that restored the Federal System

People with no knowledge about history will just come to niraland to spew rubbish. He has makes his own submission on nigeria history and consequently upon that, backed it with an evidence.

Omoslim26:
Why is no one stating here dat igbos were already being slaughtered in The North way before the Coup

The is one of the reasons I said Ironsi was a dumbass fool. I had the same square off in person with Emeka Ojukwu. He seemed to have the ears of Ironsi and queried why he failed to advise Ironsi to take stringent actions against the killing of Igbo and easterners in northern region of Nigeria in May, 1966. I stressed the fact to him that such failure was the genesis of Nigeria\Biafra war.

maak400:
I’m learning a lot from you boss.
At this point, I strongly want Nigeria to break up based on tribe/ethnicity so that the new nations formed will have a lot in common due to a shared culture and traditions.

Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and other minority tribes should go their separate ways like the former Soviet Union.

I do not want restructuring or regional government because Nigeria shouldn’t have been amalgamated in the first place, it was a grave mistake by lord luggard.


What do you think?

Well, even though Lord Luggard made that selfish mistake, the likes of Ahmadu Bello, Tafawa Balewa, Enahoro and Awolowo later realized it was a mistake and therefore made proposals for correcting the mistake either by way of de-amalgamation or making provision for secession clause in our future constitution to give legal backing to whichever tribe or region would later want out. But Igbos under the leadership of Azikiwe, Ojukwu and Ironsi at different times thwarted all these efforts by killing the some of the proponents and instigating the British to jail them at different times. In a particular instance they even arrested and sentenced to death by hanging the first person to attempt secession physically (Isaac Adaka Boro).In addition Aguiyi Ironsi even went as far as promulgating Anti-secession Decree.
But today the tide had turned against them and rather than confess to all these evils they did in the past and apologise to other tribes for laying the foundation of an indivisible Nigeria, they keep playing the victim card for losing innocent lives in a war they caused. Who takes such people seriously? In actual fact they are only asking for secession now just because they have lost control at the center. Visit NL threads on the dissolution of Nigeria when Jonathan was in power and you will be shocked how much they spoke in favour of one-Nigeria like they did during the colonial era when it appeared to them that their gods would give them Nigeria to dominate post independence.

bizzibodi:
I wonder why his soldiers who swore to protect their C-I-C did not shoot maj. danjuma & his gang in d mouth.

Bro not when most of them were part of the coup. The only person not with coup plotters was Flt Lt. Andrew Nwankwo and unfortunately he was outnumbered and outgunned.

You two need to read this response to the praise you were giving this liar you were hyping.

Na lie go kill you n your tribesmen even if the face of glaring fact. This was how another igbo fool was lying that Ojukwu released Awolowo from prison with a clip showing Gowon welcoming him with not even an article attesting to Ojukwu freeing yet the lying igbo liar Wan kill himself but as always you are free to believe whatever you want n keep living in your deciet.

Blitz888:
Brilliant submission.

Pray tell the role of Akenzua Solomon the then permanent secretary who it was alleged convince Gowon to jettison the Aburi agreement, He later became the Oba of Benin in 1978?

OgbanjeProphet:
God bless you for this.

Deadlytruth:
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.

IamWonderful:
Baby factory people always say Yoruba are coward and backstabbers, fajuyi insisted they can't take away his visitor with him, despite igbos were the cause of the retaliation and retribution that was melted on them and which righteous fajuyi became part of it

Pls read n get your facts right Nzeogwu the architect of the whole pogroms was a delta man from south south...keep calling igbos till thy kingdom come.

Dedetwo:
He did not take away the regional civil services instead he streamlined the civil services and remove the powers of Emirs in the silly native authority. Ironsi's overthrow was orchestrated by Emirs in the northern region who thought their powers over native authority via Emirates were dashed.

Let us even assume but not concede that Ironsi did it exactly the way you painted above; the question becomes why he even chose to tamper with a constitution which nobody or the general public ever complained about. The crisis he purported to come and address by taking over power had nothing to do with the constitution. Nigeria was not in a constitutional crisis at that moment. The politicians who were battling for supremacy were doing so over the issue of which party should align with which party to form the government at the center. None of them claimed that the constitution was their problem let alone call on the military for intervention. Neither did the Southern or Northern politicians or even the general public complain about these Northern emir's or their Southern counterparts' constitutional recognition. So what exactly attracted Ironsi to the constitution if not for a dubious ulterior motive?

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.

can I have your contact?