HiztoryBox:
Here are the rundown of them...

-Biafra represented the nationalist aspirations of the Igbo people, whose leaders felt that they could no longer coexist with the northern-dominated federal government.

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gidgiddy:
Gowon directly caused the war by going back on the Aburi agreement he signed with Ojukwu in Ghana.

HiztoryBox:
are you really sure about that?

BafanaBafana:
The president was igbo, Senate president was igbo Central Bank governor was igbo The head of the military was igbo Most of the officers in the army were igbo.
But no, it wasn't enough. How can a Hausa man be the prime minister.

gidgiddy:


Yes I am. Of the 12 points agreed and signed in Aburi, one of them was that Gowon as head of state would not change the 4 Regional structure of Nigeria unless all 4 Military Governors of the time agreed with him. Gowon came back to Nigeria and on the 26th of May 1967, he announced that the 4 Regions would be abolished to create 12 states, in clear violation of the Aburi agreement.

With the Aburi agreement broken, Ojukwu had no choice but to declare the Eastern Region a separate country and this led to war.

Had Gowon kept to the Aburi agreement he signed, there would have been no need for Ojukwu to secede and there would have been no war

BafanaBafana:

You are starting from the middle bro. You need to go back to what happened before Aburi, and what happened before then. That's where the war started from.

BafanaBafana:

The president was igbo,
Senate president was igbo
Central Bank governor was igbo
The head of the military was igbo
Most of the officers in the army were igbo.

But no, it wasn't enough. How can a Hausa man be the prime minister.

gidgiddy:


Yes I am. Of the 12 points agreed and signed in Aburi, one of them was that Gowon as head of state would not change the 4 Regional structure of Nigeria unless all 4 Military Governors of the time agreed with him. Gowon came back to Nigeria and on the 26th of May 1967, he announced that the 4 Regions would be abolished to create 12 states, in clear violation of the Aburi agreement.

With the Aburi agreement broken, Ojukwu had no choice but to declare the Eastern Region a separate country and this led to war.

Had Gowon kept to the Aburi agreement he signed, there would have been no need for Ojukwu to secede and there would have been no war

BabaRamota1980:


Aburi is in Ghana. Why were they in another man's country, what happened?

BafanaBafana:

The president was igbo,
Senate president was igbo
Central Bank governor was igbo
The head of the military was igbo
Most of the officers in the army were igbo.

But no, it wasn't enough. How can a Hausa man be the prime minister.

StillX10:
So this is what we didn't know about the civil war

gidgiddy:


Nigeria is not the only country that had a military coup, most countries in West Africa went through military coup, but they did not fight a civil war.

What led to the civil war was not the coup. What led to the war was Gowons inability to keep to the agreement he signed

BafanaBafana:

What happened was more of ethnic killings than a coup. After which igbos in the north and in all the barracks went about making jest of their nothern colleagues. This was what led to the massacre and then the exodus of igbos from the north. There wouldn't have been a need for the Aburi meeting if all these hadn't happened.
And Gowon wouldn't have had the moral justification not to honour the Aburi accord had Ojukwu played fair.

gidgiddy:


Well it may interest you to know that the ethnic killings were already a routine thing before the coup. Hundreds of Igbos were killed in the 1945 Jos massacre and the Kano massacre of 1953. So anyone who thinks that the massacre started with the coup is someone who doesnt know Nigerian history. The crux of the issue is that Ojukwu and Gowon met and signed an agreement that would prevent war and keep Nigeria one. Gowon caused the war by going back on that agreement

BafanaBafana:

There had never been a situation where soldiers turned against their fellow soldiers.
But if we are to look at it from your angle, was there a clause in the Aburi agreement that made seccesion an alternative should any party fail to honour it?

BafanaBafana:

The president was igbo,
Senate president was igbo
Central Bank governor was igbo
The head of the military was igbo
Most of the officers in the army were igbo.

But no, it wasn't enough. How can a Hausa man be the prime minister.

ezenwajosh:


A right minded would ask what led to killing of Igbo's before the so called Igbo coup that made ojukwu declare a separate state

wingmanII:


You are a dumb fool. He is talking about Gowon's government. Mumu

ezenwajosh:


A right minded would ask what led to killing of Igbo's before the so called Igbo coup that made ojukwu declare a separate state

T9ksy:



....and an equally discerning mind would ponder on the rational behind the killings of ibos ( in the northern region) in 1945 and 1953. However, in spite of all these killings, ibos did not ask to seceed from the union rather they were the ones singing the discordant song of One Nigeria among all the regions.

In fact, when self-rule came to the regions, ibos chose to wait for their killers up north before attaining self-rule for their people.

No be today, the north don dey slaughter ibos in their midst however the only difference was the fact that the killings in 1966 was after the ibos had sucessfully satisfied their dream of being in charge of the newly independent nation and the power and domination they dreamt off had swiftly filtered through their fingers.

T9ksy:



....and an equally discerning mind would ponder on the rational behind the killings of ibos ( in the northern region) in 1945 and 1953. However, in spite of all these killings, ibos did not ask to seceed from the union rather they were the ones singing the discordant song of One Nigeria among all the regions.

In fact, when self-rule came to the regions, ibos chose to wait for their killers up north before attaining self-rule for their people.

No be today, the north don dey slaughter ibos in their midst however the only difference was the fact that the killings in 1966 was after the ibos had sucessfully satisfied their dream of being in charge of the newly independent nation and the power and domination they dreamt off had swiftly filtered through their fingers.

BafanaBafana:

So it was the killing of igbos that led to the igbo coup?

BafanaBafana:

So it was the killing of igbos that led to the igbo coup?

ezenwajosh:



Igbo coup?

Is nzeogwu an Igbo man?

I thought u guys said delta is not Igbo

Is Igbo's the only tribe involved?

Both the killings before and the ones after the so called IGBO COUP led to declaration of separate state

overall90:


Really?
what about the leadership tussle in the west between Akintola and Awo.
have you had of operation wetie.
I will advise you to meet an honest Yoruba elder to lecture you on operation wetie.
and while at it.try to get any of Awolowo's speech on the crisis prior to him joining Gowon's government.
that is if you seek the truth.