₦airaland Forum

Mikkeal:
Nigerians have been attacked in South Africa way before tinubu became president

ChukwuEmeka00:
60 years after, Danjuma is still peddling petty lies.

As I write this, I have "Why We Struck" by Maj. Adewale Ademoyega (who plotted the coup with Nzeogwu) in my hands.

He categorically said, "The coup was not an Igbo coup" and insinuated that northern politicians loyal to Ahmadu Bello (who was plotting a coup according to another source) concocted those lies and fed the media to garner sympathy.

There were 3 coups being planned.

Ademulegun's version was slated for January 17th. Col. Victor Banjo was the recruiter for that coup (even though he was wrongfully arrested for the Nzeogwu coup).

Ahmadu Bello's version was called a jihad because it was basically a coup that was meant to continue the Uthman Dan Fodio conquest. Murtala Mohammed was to led that conquest packaged as a coup.

Recall that the Tiv massacre was ordered by Tafawa Balewa, the then Prime Minister who was a puppet of Ahmadu Bello. The Tivs at the time were Christians. After the massacre, they miraculously became a Muslim majority.

Go figure!

Back to Ironsi, Maj. Ademoyega stated the following in Chapter 6:

"From the dawn of the coup, Lieutenant Colonel Victor Banjo had been fired by the little amount of success that we had and he was determined to stretch our success further, to bring about the realisation of our objectives.

He went all out to assist Ironsi to take over the Federal government and went further to urge the old man, not only to accede to Nzeogwu's demands, but also to bring the latter (Nzeogwu) into the federal government. This was were he disagreed with others (like Danjuma) who had Ironsi's ears and who alleged that he was with us.

As such, on a flimsy accusation that he entered the office of the Supreme Commander with a pistol in his pocket, he was arrested and sent to the same prison where some of our own group were already detained.

This happened even before Nzeogwu was arrested. Thereafter, Banjo was treated as if he was one of us."

If you understand the above quote, you'd realise that Danjuma is a snake who lies to get away with his secret agendas.

First, he claims the coup was an Igbo coup, but here's a Yoruba man who was co-plotter in the coup debunking his lies. Another Yoruba man who believed that the coup plotters were patriotic even helped the Igbo man (Ironsi) to take power and urged him to bring the coup plotters into the federal government.

Now, why did Yoruba soldiers and Igbo soldiers work together (with few northerners) to eliminate the politicians who were destroying Nigeria?

Ademoyega stated the following on page 92 (before the coup) during his chance encounter with Chief H. O. Davies, a Yoruba politician who was also a federal minister:

"Chief Davies made it clear to me that the federal government had no solution to the political crisis. He said that everybody was just waiting to see what would happen next and nobody knew what that would be."

He went on to state that:

"After extensive prodding (around 3rd January,1966), we discovered that the Balewa government had a terrible plan to bring the Army fully to operate in the West (Yoruba majority region) for the purposes of eliminating the elites (top leaders) of that region, especially the intellectuals... people like Tai Solarin of Mayflower school, Ikenne were among those marked down."

He continued, "It was also intended (by the Balewa government) that if the plan succeeded in the West, the next target would be the East (Igbo majority region). The federal government was to use loyal troops for this purpose and the 4th Battalion in Ibadan commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Largema and the 2nd Battalion in Ikeja temporarily commanded by Major Igboba, but soon to be taken over by Lieutenant Colonel Gowon, were designated for this assignment."

The Ahmadu Bello connection comes next...

"The operation (to use the army to subdue West & East) was fixed for the 3rd week of January 1966, when the Sardauna (Ahmadu Bello) would have returned from pilgrimage, and Lieutenant Colonel Gowon would have completed his take over of the Ikeja Battalion.

In preparation for this, the high echelons of the Nigerian army and the Police were being reshuffled."

Danjuma also tried to make it look like Ironsi was part of the coup and was supporting the coup plotters. Here's how Adewale narrated the D-day and how they failed to get Ironsi:

"Major Okafor came along with bad news that General Ironsi had not been found at home when he went there. He was said to have gone to another party after Maimalari's. But he had since surfaced at Dodan barracks and succeeded in raising troops against us."

This Theophilus Danjuma was used by Yakubu Gowon to fulfill the wishes of the Federal government under Balewa to take out Ironsi and spin the 1966 coup as an Igbo coup.

He's a shameless man not worthy of the honour of soldiers.

DevilsEqual:
Are u always this bitter??

Hope everything is alright at home??

NgwalandAbia:
Go act better than him na .

NgwalandAbia:
When olu Jacob was rocking I miss this man.

His derp voice and idioms, he can perfectly act like an Igbo man... Nigeria will remember you years to come.

Continue to recover Sir.

Ahigbo1:
I can't relate with the last lines....Most times papa wanted to beat us, mama was our advocate

walefresh3:
mumu person you be....As you Joli over fake news

Funkyswagzz:
That's not true it must pass tinubu's desk first and if he doesn't sign it's now left for the national assembly to use its power to override the president if necessary

Funkyswagzz:
It's tinubu's choice to sign this bill wether you like or not. In essence of blaming him let him first of all take the right decision and see if people blame him or not.

1Sharon:
Because they want to put a ring on it, does that mean they are the right man?

Curious345:
I'm sure they've all been neutralised by now