₦airaland Forum

OkCornel:
Not sure to be honest. Unless he was acting on an intelligence report or someone who snitched on Banjo.

That being said, no cold hard concrete evidence I know of identifying Banjo as a January 1966 coup plotter.

OkCornel:
No cold hard evidence he was involved.

He was imprisoned as a coup plotter by Ironsi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Banjo

OkCornel:
These links are not going through.

Major Ademoyega and Banjo are not Igbos.

See the roles of Northern officers in the coup too.
https://www.nairaland.com/8325556/january-15-1966-arthur-unegbe/4#133863924

Gandollar:
When Yoruba Muslims want to marry, they invite imam to conduct niklah, but when that marriage begins to wobble, they should be able to once again invite the imam for arbitration rather than go to civil courts backed by Judeo-Christian laws.
How you see am?
I don't even know what you guys are afraid of sef.

Gandollar:
Be kind nah Haba!

All I have to say is Yoruba Muslims should publicly denounce Islam if they don't want sharia law. There are no choices to be made. Sharia is a way of life to Muslims.

lagonovo:
Just imagine okoro preaching to people about “truth”, I swear Nigeria na live comedy

franchasofficia:
The karma and nemesis that will visit Yoruba land for their decades of persecution and gangup against Igbos will come through Yoruba Moslems.


Islam will be the loophole that will destabilize Southwest.


For now, they can pretend that all is well, that Yoruba is one, with time, the truth will be so glaring to ignore, time will tell

Yungbliss:
At least, there's knowledge gained

kettykin:
Thank you for this piece, you have either read a good number of books or versed in history. But let me ask bluntly: even if Aguiyi Ironsi had a Sierra Leonean father, does that make him any less deserving or diminish his legacy in any way? Is there truly anything wrong with that?

@ bolded..................yes, of course

yet, none of the books informed him of the fact that, Ironsi was fostered by a sierra Leonian man - his brother in-law.

Truly, he is very versed(sic!) in history.

Roboto11:
Imagine this was Tinubu.

Streetinvestor2:
In all the rubbish you wrote. How is that our present problem. If we don't align with north. Who should we align with .Tell me what the SW has ever achieved without the North..
The SE will always be better with the north in everything. You that your biggest interest now is to take over igbo properties in lagos...criminals.
Can the SW alone make TPain president.Is it not the north that made him president. The only history the SW remembers is the one to create enemity btw SE and north.
Tell us the history whr the SW has achieved anything both political and economical without alignment with the north.

Streetinvestor2:
In all the rubbish you wrote. How is that our present problem. If we don't align with north. Who should we align with .Tell me what the SW has ever achieved without the North..
The SE will always be better with the north in everything. You that your biggest interest now is to take over igbo properties in lagos...criminals.
Can the SW alone make TPain president.Is it not the north that made him president. The only history the SW remembers is the one to create enemity btw SE and north.
Tell us the history whr the SW has achieved anything both political and economical without alignment with the north.

Omo, why all these lamentations, na? Am not asking you lot to align with the Sw (not that you have ever aligned with the Sw, anyway) or not to align with the north, which you have always done, since the inception of this warped union, am just reminding you all that, the most you will get at the end of it all, is a flippin' VP position.

You guys sure have an unhealthy penchant for fulanis' backside, sha. . They must have smeared it with honey "cause no matter how despicable they treat una, you will still run back to sniff their backside at the slightest opportunity you get or else, you manufacture one.

Yet, you guys will be the ones quick off the mark, to point your cursed fingers at others, calling them, "fulani slaves whilst in actual fact, you are the quintessential fulani lap-dogs!

DMerciful:
Everybody will come to ipobs conclusion at some point that Nigeria cannot work

Pickup8:
His conviction will be a lesson for rest arrogant Igbos who are parading themselves as EZE outside their shells.

Streetinvestor2:
Why bother on something that happened in 1967 when you whr not born.How is what happened in 1967 making TPain incompetent,SW president and spreading hunger and corruption.
The interest of SE is to play the SW game.The SE will align with north to remove SW president who was never southern president.
Are you seeing the whole reason of all these 1967 balablu is for political gain to the SW.They want to create the usual enermity btw the igbos and north for thr political and economical survival.

It has failed. The only important thing is the future and not the past.The SW frog eye president must be remove before this country turns to nation of SW nation

@ bolded........... you don't need to manufacture an excuse to lick fulani backside. No be today, una dey align with the fulani north. Inspite of how they slaughter your silly ars.e.s in 1945 and '53, you still found some ridiculous reasons to align with the fulanis, in 1960 where your american trained doctor (Zik) was kowtowing to a mere grade II fulani man- Tafawa Balewa.

You repeated the same feat in the second republic - this was after the civil war where the fulani north killed millions of you igbos and were hell-bent on extermin ating your race like vermins, you still aligned with the same north where another american-trained Dr. ekweume was busy licking the backside of another fulani grade II, teacher - Shehu Shagari. You guys sure posses an unfathomable preference for fulani's behind, sha.

So, in short, you don't need to proffer any excuse to lick their (Fulanis') behind. At the end of it all, the most you will get is the VP post.
Your "pandora" Obi will n ever be presydiot of Nigeria.

WINON1:
Isa Igon has said the whole truth.

mrvitalis:
So you know the aim of the coup?

What was operation wetie n it's relationship to the coup sir

OkCornel:
Were Aguiyi-Ironsi and Ojukwu part of the coup plotters?

MASTAkiLLAh:
the igbo man who called Lagos a no man's land (without malice) is a chieftain of the APC and a senator today who you dare not open your rotten mouth to speak this nonsense to. I just dey laugh

bizzle2:
Who is "We" ? you are a nonentity in the scheme of things . Make no mistakes

gidgiddy:
What a country, the one that locks people up, chages them for terrorism, detains them for 2 years, because they were running their mouth carelessly

What a country

gidgiddy:
The man was locked up just to punish him, not that he did anything wrong

Believeintruth:
Oga you are just jumping everywhere. This format you are using is too stale. Please show me where the governors voiced their opposition to Ironsi? it is very simple

gidgiddy:
Well since none of you manged to do better than Ironsi in the last 60 years, even with all the civilian and military rule you have have in that time, you lose the right to criticise Ironsi

Even your brother Obasanjo created 7 additional states, taking the 12 Gowon created to 19 States.

None of you managed to do better than Ironsi when it was your turn, none of you even attempted to reverse whatever he did. In fact, all of you ended up doing far worse

Believeintruth:
Bros I gave you first. Show me where any of the regional govs apart from Ojukwu condemned Ironsi's decree and spoke to Ironsi about it.

Believeintruth:
Guy see ehn stop trying to be a wise arse. Grammar bo dey show say you get sense. Show me where the governors spoke against the unitary decree. You said only Ojukwu supported it, now i am asking you to show me where other condemned it, Gowon inclusive.

Believeintruth:
Oga stop being dense and dwelling in cheap lies, did Hassan Katsina, Gowon, Ejoor and others condemn it? Did Fajuyi condemn it? You guys always want to play smart on this. There was no record where any of the governors objected to Ironsi

No, no one objected to Ironsi's dumb decree 34 .

Omo, you are very vacous o.....to a fault!!!

Google is your friend.......google....May 1966 riot and then come back and tell me that no one objected to Ironsi's decree 34..

Are you even aware, how many of your elders met their untimely death as a result of Ironsi's decree 34?
And you have the temerity to accuse others of being ignorant?

gidgiddy:
Well I hope you guys have been enjoying the structure Gowon gave Nigeria, no resource control, no regions, multiple unviable states.

gidgiddy:
It was military rule, there's no democracy in military rule, it's all by appointment. There is no such thing as going back to the time of people people choosing their leaders, unless the military were on their way out and were handing over to civilians

Aburi was about discussing the way foward during the period of Military rule, and what was agreed and signed there was for the period of Military rule, not period of democracy.

However, the structural change Gowon made when they returned to Nigeria is still haunting Nigeria to this day. He abolished the Region's and removed resource control

General Joe Ankrah was Military Head of State of Ghana, he hosted Gowon and Ojukwu. But General Ankrah never changed the structural arrangement of Ghana by abolishing the Region's, nor removed resource control. So when civilian rule returned, all they needed to do was dust their old constitution and return to what they were doing before the military. Today, Ghana is far more stable than Nigeria, economically and politically, still has Region's and resource control.

You guys never understood that Ojukwu was fighting in Aburi for everyone, while Gowon was fighting to make his fellow Northerners masters of Nigeria through structural change.

Believeintruth:
dude stop trying to be half clever. Gowon agreed that in Aburi the individual units would be run as a confederational system where power would not be concentrated in the centre. Confederation is not the same as federating units in a Federating units it is 50: 50 but in confederation the regional units have more power.

Believeintruth:
Can you explain the highlighted, when the aim of Aburi agreement that Gowon signed to, was on the issue of a confederation and not the Balewa era style politics.

Believeintruth:
That doesn't change anything the main truth is that Ironsi still retained the regions but appointed regional governors.