V7place:
Major Olusegun Obasanjo was a bosom friend of Nzeogwu and his absence from the country for a military course in India was probably why he did not participate in the coup.
He arrived Nigeria on January 16th and slept on the top bunk of the bed, while Nzeogwu slept on the bottom before his flight to Lagos on the 17th,

Grayoso:


Why even bother responding. Anyone asking the question he did is a mischief maker period because everyone knows the behaviour of Igbo.

They bay for Sanwo Olu's blood over a non-existent "massacre" in Lagos yet they make automatic excuses for Peter Obi, and his complicity, as Governor of Anambra, in the brutal and cold blooded murder of dozens of Igbos just to keep selling him as 'presidential material. Scandalous.

Same Igbos Hid their face when Wike, hitherto viewed proudly as their fellow' Igbo warrior' , brutally put down their fellow Igbos in Obigbo/Oyigbo.

They never asked Wike to resign but same biased Igbos scream daily for Osinbajo to resign because our service chiefs are still in office.

Abeg the hypocritical antics of Igbos are well-recorded and universally acknowledged.

V7place:


No, these were young revolutionary minded men with socialist leaning. Major Ademoyega said as much in his book. Major Ifeajuna was infact a fiery Students Union leader at the University of Ibadan who led protests against the school authorities over the closure of an hostel and against the visits of the Queen to Nigeria.
But the coup lacked poor execution outside the North. Nzeogwu was a tactical officer, he did his job well and infact practiced for it for weeks under the guise of routine military practice; the others failed to properly carry out their orders. Their biggest mistake was
1) Not arresting the head of the Army: General Ironsi which allowed him rally against the coupists and also made the North think it was an Ibo coup with no blood shed in the East and no Ibo military or civilian leader killed. IT WAS NOT AN IBO COUP.
2) Unnecessary bloodshed.

V7place:


Those two I can answer.

1) Awolowo was intended to be head of government...who read the mindset of the plotters: No one read their mind, they revealed it themselves. They were all alive for several years after the coup; some even still alive till today.

2) The plot to kill aquiyi ironsi failed just like the plot to free Awolowo: The officer given the job to arrest Ironsi incompetently delayed allowing Ironsi to escape and rallied loyal troops. Captain Ude flew to Calabar, got to the prisons-and was arrested at the prison.

Smoke55:
with all these points of yours can we now divide the country so that everybody will go and mind their business

kettykin:

If this is true then the real threat to the igbo nation is not the north. I am still trying to figure out what was the real mind set of igbos who carried the January 15 coup, was it naivety or patriotism or they were simply fooled into it and betrayed

Grayoso:


[s]See we come back to the same shameless hypocrisy you Igbos are known for. Why don't you lead by example then?

You are shamelessly living in every corner of the nation and profiting from "one Nigeria" yet you confused and hypocritical people remain the most vociferous seccesion noisemakers with your insincere and fake allegation of "they won't let us go".

Why not all down tools today and move to the SE to begin your clamor for secession from there? If you got Biafra today what happen to the millions of Igbos dispersed across Nigeria whose host will surely demand they leave?

Truth is Igbos are not doing anything that demonstrates they genuinely want their own nation beyond noise and blame game against others.

Igbos don't want to leave the land of others. Fact. You are insincere people who just enjoy playing victim and guilt-tripping other Nigerians as is your ways. If not you all should go back to the SE. Rich, poor, male, female. Leave and show you are committed to Biafra beyond words and blackmail against others. [/s]

arantess:

so who beat up ekweremadu in germany?
dont be stupid

Kwashiman:


What a load of nonsense, talk of a paragraphs of epistural tripe and utter emotional-laden garbage. Ogbeni who hurt you like this? You have a problem with Igbos who are constitutionally enjoying the dividends of "One Nigeria" by living in every part of Nigeria and maximizing all the opportunities they can find to create a sustainable environment to thrive in all spheres of human endeavor. God punish you there! bitter miserable bastard, the Igbos will continue to fuvk you economically and as long as Nigeria remains one you will always wake up every morning to the frustrating sight of Igbos buying up all your lands and sending your broke ass into the slums of poverty from whence you came .

Use all those toxic energies you use on Igbos who don't even care a care in the world about your pathetic existence to focus on your Fulani brothers who are butchering you pigs all over the SW, and using your ugly women as intimacy gadgets with their uncircumcised gbolas . Your pain and gnashing of teeth has just begun.

dele1727:


As usual....you turn to abuse and insult instead of stating your point with prove.

Here is the same Ekweremadu....https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/01/community-football-league-ties-ekweremadu-asadu-in-2023-web/

Check his praise singers on Nairaland....


Other speakers have said much.....
This point has been made to show that history cannot be written to suit some people sentiments

gidgiddy:


That is one lie that has always been told about the first coup, that no senior military officer of Igbo extraction was killed during the coup. What many dont know is that Lt Colonel Arthur Unegbe, a very senior officer at the time and an Igbo man, was killed.

Dedetwo:


He could have been one of the first Nigerians commissioned as air force officers.

Kwashiman:


What a load of nonsense, talk of a paragraphs of epistural tripe and utter emotional-laden garbage. Ogbeni who hurt you like this? You have a problem with Igbos who are constitutionally enjoying the dividends of "One Nigeria" by living in every part of Nigeria and maximizing all the opportunities they can find to create a sustainable environment to thrive in all spheres of human endeavor. God punish you there! bitter miserable bastard, the Igbos will continue to fuvk you economically and as long as Nigeria remains one you will always wake up every morning to the frustrating sight of Igbos buying up all your lands and sending your broke ass into the slums of poverty from whence you came .

Use all those toxic energies you use on Igbos who don't even care a care in the world about your pathetic existence to focus on your Fulani brothers who are butchering you pigs all over the SW, and using your ugly women as intimacy gadgets with their uncircumcised gbolas . Your pain and gnashing of teeth has just begun.

Grayoso:


Indeed. So also what is revealed below as per casualties of the coup. The murderous bigot Nzeogwu went ahead to kill his Yoruba accomplice to show what would have happened to every token non-Igbo these supremacist murderers managed to coopt into their deception.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

PreyingMantis:
Very well educated compared to the illiterate touts harrassing civilians upadan now. These were the real soldiers... Those who joined the army because they wanted to be soldiers and not the current set of nincompoops joining the army to earn a living... Reason they dont have balls to face any armed opposition

Grayoso:


Lol butt hurt IPOBian in pain. Carry your divisive self and your problem to the geographical location of Biafra i e South East Nigeria.

Simple enough concept. Stop shouting Biafra from every State of Nigeria and every nation of the world while you hypocritical, insincere and fake folks continue to abandon the SE in droves daily for Lagos and even Afghanistan. Fake people who love fake news and living fake lives.

dele1727:



Why don't you pay more attention to your lands...

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/01/04/why-south-east-governors-are-jittery-over-eastern-security-network/

https://thenationonlineng.net/ohanaeze-writes-igp-protests-sighting-herdsmen-with-ak47/




We see the prosperity over all the states in East..

That is why the rest of Nigeria are trooping to go and live there....

Imagine the number of flights that go to the east daily

Ikology:
These unstable lots have spoiled this fine thread

V7place:


Much as I like Nzeogwu and his boys; the massacare was in my opnion uncalled. If it was a gun fight, it would make sense, but cold bloodied killings of civilians and a woman.

Christistruth00:
There were 4 Premiers of the region's (Akintola in the West, Sardauna in the North Osadebey in the Midwest and Okpara in the East) of the 4 Premiers 2 were Igbo speaking but only the non Igbo Speaking Premiers Akintola and Sardauna were Murdered in their houses by Igbo speaking Soldiers in an Army with an Igbo Chief of Staff Gen Ironsi

If it had happened in the West Gen Ironsi would have been Politely asked to resign


That was why Gen Ironsi didn't even announce the deaths of the Murdered Officers for months

babzo:



These are serious allegations. Do you have corroborating evidence like an nterview with the Cyprus Prime Minister or anything indicating Ojukwu and Ironsi planned the coup and used Nzeowgu. Nothing of this was mentioned by Major Adewale Ademoyega; one of the 3 major planners in his book.

Ojukwu being at that location is probably after the fact; especially since you said it was AFTER the killing.
Any interview showing what Ademelegun's wife said?

V7place:


No, these were young revolutionary minded men with socialist leaning. Major Ademoyega said as much in his book. Major Ifeajuna was infact a fiery Students Union leader at the University of Ibadan who led protests against the school authorities over the closure of an hostel and against the visits of the Queen to Nigeria.
But the coup lacked poor execution outside the North. Nzeogwu was a tactical officer, he did his job well and infact practiced for it for weeks under the guise of routine military practice; the others failed to properly carry out their orders. Their biggest mistake was
1) Not arresting the head of the Army: General Ironsi which allowed him rally against the coupists and also made the North think it was an Ibo coup with no blood shed in the East and no Ibo military or civilian leader killed. IT WAS NOT AN IBO COUP.
2) Unnecessary bloodshed.

Gireiboy:

It was an Ibo coup, we will never forgive nor forget. Trying to change history is not going to work.

V7place:


You are 100% right. Nzeogwu was the only who carried out his mission as agreed. Ifeajuna failed in Lagos, thats why the coup failed. Just like the failure to arrest Abacha was in part why the 1990 coup failed. IBB for example knew they could [b]NOT [/b]arrest Idiagbon without a fight that would cost lives, thats why he made sure Idiagbon went for the Hajj. Buhari, they knew was a gentleman.

Northerners initially supported the coup, people were happy on the streets; but in the days after the leaders began to let people know that as you rightly pointed out majority of deaths were northerners killed by Ibos ( which wasnt 100% true as some of the foot soldiers used in the North were Northerners.)

arantess:

But kaduna, ifeajuna and some others were from modern day delta, so how are they ibo?
there ws even some yoruba folks but we keep hearing ibo coup

Deadlytruth:


The coup was and still is tagged Igbo coup not because of the ethnic composition of the participants but because of the ethnic pattern of the casualties. What on earth explains why no single Igbo politician was killed despite there were more Igbo politicians in top positions than any other tribe in that allegedly corruption ridden government which the coupists cited as reason for their action? Were the Igbos like Azikiwe, Orizu, Okpara, etc saints within that allegedly corruption ridden government?

Okafor like other officers joined the Revolution because he wanted to free Nigeria from the corruption and indiscipline of politicians. But four weeks earlier, the Army Legal Officer, Chief Arthur Worrey found Okafor guilty of stealing his subordinates’ funds. The Federal Guards held a monthly raffle draw and social nights (Wassa). The proceeds from ticket sales and lucky dips were recorded in Army Book 64 and saved in the PRI (President of Regimental Institute) account. For months, false figures were recorded as Okafor was stealing this money and giving a fraction as hush money to the treasurer Corporal Magaji Birnin Kebbi, a NCO in his fifties. Unknown to Okafor, Magaji was recording actual figures in his private file. Later Magaji interceded on behalf of a friend and colleague Private Mamman Sokoto at the Motor Transport Section of the Federal Guards who had been overlooked for promotion for four years. Okafor did not honour his pledge to promote the man when the list of the promoted was published. When Magaji went back to Okafor in his office in November 1965, Okafor ordered him to be locked up as he a Major and the OC of the elite Federal Guards did not feel he was answerable to a mere corporal in matters of promotion. Magaji then spilled the secrets. Eventually Okafor was found guilty of stealing his soldiers’ funds. Lieutenant Tarfa who was one of Okafor’s junior officers at the Federal Guards served as Magaji’s interpreter before the panel of inquiry. For Magaji was an old illiterate soldier. Tarfa later wrote in his account that, Okafor was afraid of being severely punished that he appealed to Brigadier Maimalari to help. But then they never knew then that the main reason he was scared of punishment was that he would have been suspended and relieved of his command of the Federal Guards. That would have deprived him of both participating and making the resources of the Federal Guards available to their Revolution.

Maimalari, a Northerner intervened and cut tapes that let Okafor, an Easterner, off the hook. But Okafor had lost the total respect of most soldiers in the barracks for his action towards the elderly illiterate Northern corporal and for stealing their money. Had Maimalari allowed army procedures to properly take its due course, had he not allowed “kindness” to get in the way, that night of nights, he would not had been in a position where he had to be scaling his own high fence, hiding in shrubs, fleeing from the man whom he thought he had saved from punishment. Well, 90 minutes later, it was his own world famous brigade chief of staff, Ifeajuna, who had organised a befitting cocktail at his residence that eventually pulled the trigger, took his heartbeat and finally put him to rest.


Source======>https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2020/01/15/54-years-after-british-secret-files-on-nigerias-first-coup-part-1/

Gireiboy:

Are you honestly telling us that the then northerners supported the gruesome killing of Tafawa Balewa and Sardauna. Haba!!! you guys are taking these revision of history to far.
Ok, if the coup was not an Ibo coup, then why is it that ibo's in the north and particularly Ibo soldiers in the barracks mocking northern soldiers about the killing. We were told these by family members who served in the military then.