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pazienza:
They were never confirmed.
They were all rumours.

Just like the rumour that it was Igbos who were trying to use End SARS to destroy Lagos and that it was Igbo youths that were destroying Oba Lagos palace.
If it were not in social media era where we were able to post videos of the Yorubas youths destroying the palace, the rumours would have also been tagged "confirmed" even when they stayed as rumours.

These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

Ngozi123:
Yes, it does. It explains that paragraph in detail almost word for word. Your reading comprehension is very poor. This will be my last comment to you.

Ngozi123:
How could Nzeogwu and Co release Awolowo when they were arrested and sent to jail?

You do realise the coup failed, right?

Ngozi123:
Have you not been understanding what I've been saying? Go through my previous comments to you.

These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

pazienza:
They were rumours, meaning they were not verifiable.
He never said it was Igbo coup.

These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

Ngozi123:
Exactly. They keep saying "Awolowo was in prison" whenever they're asked why he wasn't killed then. His prison was in the Old Eastern Region for goodness sake! Awolowo was the rightful ruler of the Western Region at the time. If they wanted to consolidate power for the Igbos then he would have been one of the first to die.

Ngozi123:
Why are you telling me to go and read it when I've already posted the whole paragraph and explained it in detail to you?

Are you responding to the wrong person or something?

These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

Dalohad:
Isiguzoro don carry come. Vulture.

Believeintruth:
Try and have small sense I just told you clearly go and read my replies.

These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

Ngozi123:
Stop cropping out parts of the paragraph and post the full paragraph instead. It gives you a better ability to fully comprehend what is being said.

These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

pazienza:
Nope.
He never admitted that.
That's your wishful thinking.

If the coup wasn't all about eliminating Awolowo enemies, why wasn't Awolowo eliminated, he was in prison and most vulnerable?

These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

Ngozi123:
On the contrary, it is you who is twisting this narrative by only highlighting the last part of that paragraph.

This is the whole paragraph:



Here, IBB is trying to get you (the reader) to try to understand what these Northern soldiers were feeling/thinking at the time. That's why he mentions all of the stories and rumours they were hearing then. Then he mentions that, whilst some were detained, some of the coup plotters were given promotions. So, this confirmed to them (at that time) that the coup must have had an Igbo agenda.

Essentially, he is trying to explain why so many in the North believed it (at that time) to be an "Igbo coup" and why they killed so many Igbos in the second coup and its aftermath.

The fact that he clearly says that the leaders of the coup had a nationalist agenda (not an ethnic one) suggests that he later discovered that it was not an ethnically motivated coup. It was not an "Igbo coup".

I really wish Nigeria would allow its people to study history at school. A good history student will tell you that it's not just learning about events that happened in the past; it's about learning how to analyse sources, assess the reliability of these sources and to 'read between the lines'.

It turned out that the wives of Igbo officers, quite insensitively, had been taunting the wives of northern officers about what had occurred to officers of northern extraction

These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

Gandollar:
Your forefathers died fearing Igbo domination, don't let that be your lot too.

Dalohad:


If Maj. Ademoyega never wrote a book. I swear our Yoruba writers would have removed his name from the list of coup plotters and list only the Ibo officers. E sure die.

That his book hook our revisionist Yoruba writers for throat.

I am sure they hate him for writing that book. I read the book in year 2005. Dad had the original copy.

XerXers:
This one no carry weight. The big topic is Awolowo coup 1966

XerXers:
We believe everything bro. Na you de select which one to believe

XerXers:
Ànd you believed this one but want to rubbish the whole book because of the one that didn't favor you. What if not all suspected coupist were found guilty after investigation?

YoruBads:
The coup was a. Yoruba coup and Yorubas know it.

Contrary to a promise given after the coup was quashed that the coup plotters would be tried, none was ever brought to trial, although some were detained. On the contrary, a few of the coup plotters were promoted. These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

YoruBads:
IBB the nightmare of YoruBanistan clowns.

It turned out that the wives of Igbo officers, quite insensitively, had been taunting the wives of northern officers about what had occurred to officers of northern extraction.

BENGOODNESS:
Who should we believe in this matter, IBB or an Igbo hater like Reno?
IBB account has set the stage for national healing if only the government can leverage on this at a time like this in our national life.

kettykings:
A key participant in the events of that period has come out to say what really happened from his perspective, and someone that was born after the war is countering it. Countering it on what grounds. 99% of the problems of Nigeria are from ignorant people.


An igbo man, John Obienu, stopped the coup, and yet ignorant people will still go about their ignorance that it was an Igbo coup

RZArecta:
Reno okoro the weyrey who was neither born and so definitely not an active participant in the events of 1966 wants to correct those who shot actual bullets on that day, Reno okoro is the best thing that happened to agbàdo bandits

Yujin:
When you learn how to address me with respect, then I can dignify you with a discussion. For now, scram off.

XerXers:
So Reno knows better than IBB? Even Ademoyega? These are active participants and they are not Igbo

Contrary to a promise given after the coup was quashed that the coup plotters would be tried, none was ever brought to trial, although some were detained. On the contrary, a few of the coup plotters were promoted. These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

Gandollar:
IBB never called it an Igbo coup. You have not read book, don't even read excerpts, your type just read heading alone and run.

Contrary to a promise given after the coup was quashed that the coup plotters would be tried, none was ever brought to trial, although some were detained. On the contrary, a few of the coup plotters were promoted. These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works.

Elusive001:
No wonder you are stagnated at where are currently for decades.

Go to school, you no gree. Now, school don be o.e scam

Ngozi123:
Where does it say it was an "Igbo coup"? He outright says the coup plotters had a nationalist agenda, not an ethnically motivated one.

The only reason you people call it an Igbo coup is because it led to Aguiyi-Ironsi taking over. However, you people always fail to mention that the only reason that happened was because the coup failed.

Had it succeeded, Obafemi Awolowo would have become the prime minister and no one would be saying this "Igbo coup" nonsense.

On the contrary, a few of the coup plotters were promoted. These confirmed rumours that an Igbo domination of national affairs was in the works

XerXers:
They are the Awolowo disciples

YoruBads:
The man said clearly that the coup was not an Igbo coup.


That's why Yorubads don't quote his book concerning the issue of the coup

Greenback:
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