Felimax:


Since you people don't want to stay on your lane. Since you want to keep dragging everyone. That is what you get for ruffling.

The dogs has been sleeping since you guys think you could do the supernatural.

renderme:
In fact IBB described in the book that after the coup, Igbo wives of Igbo officers in the barracks were insulting and mocking northern officers wives.

Believeintruth:


Did you actually find out why there was no coup activity in the east? Try and have sense. Go and watch the interview of Col Sani Bello rtd on YouTube where he stated that there actually a coup attempt in Enugu. He even stated that the coup plotter had given directives to soldiers who had positioned themselves at various points in the town. Ejoor who was the battalion commander had escaped Ifeajuna in Lagos was given orders by Ironsi to go to Enugu.
He was the one who ordered soldiers back to the barracks and arrested those who gave the order. But Ejoor out of political expediency never talked about his.role in squashing the coup in Enugu.

ChiefJusticeFuc:

“Igbo in the North were widely taunting their hosts on the loss of their leaders. Celestine Ukwu, a popular Igbo musician, released songs titled Ewu Ne Ba Akwa (Goats Are Crying) and others celebrating “Igbo power”, the “January Victory.” Posters, stickers, postcards, cartoons displaying the murdered Sardauna begging Major Nzeogwu at the gates of heaven or Balewa burning outright in pits of hell or Nzeogwu standing St. George-like on Sardauna, the defeated dragon, began to show up across Northern towns and cities. These provocations were so pervasive that they warranted the promulgation of Decree 44 of 1966 banning them”. Even Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe noted these atrocities in his The Origins of the Civil War: “Some Ibo elements, who were domiciled in Northern Nigeria taunted northerners by defaming their leaders through means of records or songs or pictures. They also published pamphlets and postcards, which displayed a peculiar representation of certain northerners, living or dead, in a manner likely to provoke disaffection.” These images and songs eventually led to the so-called pogroms/ethnic-cleansing/genocide, not the coup”

- Chinue Achebe.

renderme:


Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/02/24/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode/

EmperorCaesar:
Most people lack comprehension skill and now i understand why comprehension passages were compulsory in Pry and Sec school

That David,Rufai and their harem of feminine-minded followers came up with that useless slogan of "IBB claim 1966 coup wasnt Igbo coup" after reading the whole book, shows why we might keep writing IELTS till 2050


Relax FFK, IBB dribbled those clowns like Neymar(they didnt read between the lines)

NaMe4:
Of course, any intelligent, discerning person knows IBB never mentioned such.

He rather narrated parts of the events and perceptions of various people which followed the events.

I never saw where he stated or asserted what certain folks have been making phony celebrations about.

It will be clarified, albeit with some embarrassment, in the coming days.

A group even came out demanding 10 trillion compensation.

creativejagaban:


Check your left brain 🧠.
It must be paining you

aribisala0:

Unmistakably Ibo coup

Only an Ibo would believe the nonsense you have written

No Ibo politicians killed anywhere

Were there no Ibo politicians in Lagos?

Not a single one was touched


After the coup what did Ironsi do to the coup plotters

AdeYORUFAFO:


Why are you guys hellbent on tagging it an Igbo coup? One of your tribesmen wrote a book in the 80s where he debunked the false narrative.

bitbillionaire:
I

From what I have read there, iBB didn't write anything different from what we have read in history books and have already known.

phantom:
Adewale Ademoyega said it clearly in his book "why we struck" as early as 1981 but the yoruba lagos/ibadan print media mafia have done everything in their power to revise history 😂

But no wahala... truth cannot he hidden... When Gowon pens his own memoir, get ready to have an instant stroke on reading his 😂

Igbos planned a coup.. that's the narrative you enjoy pushing but go blind, deaf and dumb when you get to the partof the story were it was the same igbos that foiled the coup.

Ademoyega himself owned up to the fact that AZIKIWE WAS NOT IN THEIR PLAN TO STRIKE! And like Awolowo, the coup plotters probably believed Zik should have been at the helm

These were a group of disgruntled miltary officers who were very unhappy with the unbridled corruption in the polity. Massive corruption perpuated by POLITICAL UNREST THAT BEGAN IN THE SOUTH WEST! Military officers who were highly educated with very rigid social/political values and ideologies. Unlike officers of today.
Some even believed them to be devout, practicing socialists which would explain why Awolowo was their choice of a leader.

Akintola was a very corrupt,cantankerous and recalcitrant premier who turned the south west upside down, went head to head with Awolowo and culminating in the famous cross carpeting and upsetting of the polity.

The Yoruba can attest to the character of Akintola if they are being truthful with themselves but I won't hold my breath. See how they foisted an incompetent Tinubu on the rest of the country and are proudly defending that idiotic move knowing fully well the fellow is not the best they could have presented.

Today, the same yorubas who started this madness have carefully rewritten history and painted themselves saints.

Look at what is happening in Lagos and Osun today! It is a well known fact that when it comes to political rascality and thuggery the south west is UMATCHED!!!

These 5 majors saw all these in the polity and decided to put a stop to it.

Awolowo and Azikiwe must have been the only leaders they thought should have been at the helm and explains why they were spared.

You folks should go and read history and stop pushing nauseating propaganda.

aribisala0:
This is not about explanation

They do not explain that it is raining

Any adult knows what rain is


Ibo coup is about how the people alive at the time saw it and the available facts

Politicians were killed up and down. Not one Ibo politician killed
Ibo man became head of State after allegedly thwarting the coup
That is the coup failed we are told

THEN what did he do to the coup plotters who were apprehended,

The Coup was in January
By July not a single one of them was charged to a Tribunal

They should have been killed by that time or sentence to prison



So that is what we all know so stop trying to explain that it is raining or not

We all know what rain looks like


Unmistakably Ibo Coup and that is WHY


July happened


What did Ironsi do to manage the mood of the country

He did one thing but it was too little
He promulgated a decree
Decree against the offensive publications that Ibos were using to taunt the Northerners some of which even had a Christian versus Muslim flavour.
Taunting wives of soldiers in barracks and so on.

This taunting behaviour that is so typical of Ibos was very inflammatory and one thing we must not forget

That was 60 years ago .

We were not as familiar with each other as we are now.

The mistrust was high and there was no other group in Nigeria that did not think it was an Ibo coup

Shimbo96:
so you are hating on Yoruba people for what reason? Bro get a life

renderme:

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, said there is nowhere in former military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida’s book, A Journey in Service, where he stated that the coup of January 15, 1966, was not an Igbo coup.

Fani-Kayode insisted that those claiming it was not an Igbo coup are wrong, stating that they are either misguided and misinformed or mischievous.

The ex-Minister stated in a post on his X handle that IBB was charitable to the Igbos in his book. He, however, noted that this does not give anyone the license to misinterpret Babangida’s words and conclusions or use them in an attempt to revise history.

He wrote:

"It was heinously callous for Nzeogwu to have murdered Sir Ahmadu Bello and his wife, Hafsatu, because not only were they eminently adored by many but also because they were said not to have put up a fight. From that moment the putsch was infiltrated by "outsiders" to its supposed original intention and it took on an unmistakable ethnic coloration compounded by the fact that there were no related coup activities in the Eastern Region"- President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, 'A Journey In Service: An Autobiography', February 2025.

I hate to burst your bubble, but there is NOWHERE in IBB’s book where he said that the coup of January 15, 1966, was NOT an Igbo coup.

In fact, he alluded to the contrary above, when he said the coup had taken on an ‘unmistakable ethnic coloration.

That is what he wrote, and that is the reality. The coup was an ethnic one, and that ethnicity was Igbo!

Those who have misinterpreted his words and claimed that he wrote the coup was not an Igbo coup are either misguided and misinformed or being mischievous.

They have a poor understanding of the English language and, in most cases, have not even read the book. Instead, they rely on erroneous social media quotes and well-crafted disinformation.

I suggest that they procure a copy of the book, read it from cover to cover, and stop attempting to revise history by misinterpreting the words of the esteemed author.

IBB, in his characteristic manner, was charitable to the Igbos in his book, but that does not give anyone the license to misinterpret his words and conclusions or use them in an attempt to revise history.

The facts are clear, and they are as follows: 99% of the officers who planned and executed the Jan. 15, 1966, coup and were involved in the mutiny were Igbo, and 99% of those murdered by them were non-Igbo military officers and political leaders, in some cases including their wives.

We owe it to the memory of those who were so callously slaughtered not to sugarcoat the bitter truth, not to revise history, and not to tell lies.

The coup was UNMISTAKABLY an Igbo one, and IBB made this very clear when he wrote about its ‘ethnic coloration.

I urge all those who have a poor understanding of the English language and cannot read more than three lines of any book or essay to stop using his words to establish their revisionist and patently dishonest narrative and their futile attempt to perpetuate an age-old lie.

The truth is that the Jan. 15, 1966, coup WAS an Igbo one, and I am glad to say that IBB has confirmed it.

This is a FACT, and as our journalist friends will tell you, facts are sacred, and opinion is cheap.
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/02/24/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode/

Greenback:
Nigeria!!!!!!

Chai!!!!!!

God!!! What kinda country is this?!!!!

FreeStuffsNG:


JAMO84:
Now, let's look at the killers:

Nzeogu - killed Sardauna and his wife
Ifeajuna - killed Balewa
Nwobosi- killed Akintola and Arrested Fani Kayode
Anuforo- killed Maimalari
Nwatuegwu- killed Okotie Eboh....

"The truth is that the Jan. 15, 1966, coup WAS an Igbo one, and I am glad to say that IBB has confirmed it".

Antoeni:
Obasanjo Once Said "Just Give FFK Food (Jollof Rice) , He Will Sing & Dance For You"

AdeYORUFAFO:


Your entire write up is premised on assumptions which have been debunked by first hand witnesses.
Also it is a fallacy to say that “taunting behavior is typical of Igbos”. It is a rather distasteful assumption. What if one says that trouble-making, lies, betrayal and deceit are typical of the yorubas? That would be far reaching albeit based on anecdotal precedents.
Have you also considered that the whole “Igbo coup” narrative could have been a political campaign of calumny? Reports show that the coup plotters were multi-ethnic, so why are you insisting on the same old false narrative?
The northerners have been mostly silent about the IBB book even though historical accounts indicate that they were mostly at the receiving end of the “taunting”, so why are Yorubas the ones flying the “This taunting behaviour that is so typical of Ibos was very inflammatory and one thing we must not forget” banner.

renderme:


Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/02/24/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode/

Konquest:

Succinctly stated.

Konquest:

These highly irresponsible and morally bankrupt younger ones will continue to be reminded of these historical FACTS from the Igbo-dominated January 15,1966 coup since they have chosen the path of irresponsible, deliberate disinformation and utter stupidity in 2025! A gross insult to the memories of those who were psychologically bruised by the assassinations of their loved ones and national and regional heroes.
Logistics of July 1966 coup:

Colonel Daramola led the Makurdi faction that executed the coup in Makurdi. He is Yoruba

Danjuma and Akahan led the Ibadan faction that captured Ironsi. They are from the middle belt.

Murtala Mohammed led the Northern faction in Kaduna…. He is from Kano.

Logistics of January 1966 coup:

Ifeajuna led the Lagos faction that went to Tafawa Balewa’s residence…. He is Igbo

Nzeogwu led the Northern faction in Kaduna…. He is Igbo

Nwobosi led the faction that went to Ibadan and killed Aare Akintola…. He is Igbo

Timothy Oneatuegwu led the faction that went to Ademulegun’s house and killed him and his pregnant wife. He is Igbo.

Timothy Onwatwegu led the faction that went to Ralph Sodeinde’s house in Kaduna…. He is Igbo.

Ezedigbo led the faction that went to Okotie- Eboh’s house…. He is Igbo

Chris Anuforo led the faction that went to Col Kur Mohammed’s house…. He is Igbo

Donatus Okafor led the faction that went to Maimalari’s house. He is Igbo.

Lt Oguchi was sent to the East to kill Okpara…. He spared his life…. He was Igbo.

Everyone who died in the January coup was killed by a son of Zik. Nobody from another tribe pulled a trigger that killed anyone in the January coup.

To imagine that the January coup was not an Igbo affair in as insult on the memory of the casualties.

So Nzeogwu spoke Hausa fluently and lived in the North…. SO WHAT?

Ojukwu was born in the North. Spoke Hausa fluently. Up until he was made Governor of Eastern region, he never lived in the East. He schooled in Lagos and England before joining the military. History remembers him as the warlord that led the Biafra war.

Zik was born in the North. Spoke Hausa fluently. His parents had to send him home so he could learn the language. He spoke Yoruba fluently. His early political career was in Yorubaland.

That did not stop him from building an Igbo supremacist group called Igbo federal union where he declared that his people were created by God as a special race to lead others.

Propoganda has no place in our time. Your fathers killed innocent people… murdered innocent women and even pregnant women. You can never whitewash the sins of your fathers with any kind of Propaganda.

aribisala0:
Ibo Coup it was
Yes Ibos like to taunt

They Think it is funny until they attract violence then they start feigning surprise

Again
Ibo Coup

Killed Everyone but Ibos
Ironsi protected the perpetrators

Ibo Coup

UNMISTAKABLY

Felimax:
Who is IBB in the coup to say what is and what is not?
Can the so called igbos answer the so many pressing questions that needed answers?

You should have your brain checked if you think it was no an Igbo coup.

I am not saying anything about this nonsense topic again. Instead of us to be talking about how to make IBB pay for his many atrocities we kept talking about irrelevant issue.

renderme:
In fact IBB described in the book that after the coup, Igbo wives of Igbo officers in the barracks were insulting and mocking northern officers wives. And that the barracks became unbearable for northerners.

Dt betty akeredolus disgusting character na follow come.🤮
Logistics of July 1966 coup:

Colonel Daramola led the Makurdi faction that executed the coup in Makurdi. He is Yoruba

Danjuma and Akahan led the Ibadan faction that captured Ironsi. They are from the middle belt.

Murtala Mohammed led the Northern faction in Kaduna…. He is from Kano.

Logistics of January 1966 coup:

Ifeajuna led the Lagos faction that went to Tafawa Balewa’s residence…. He is Igbo

Nzeogwu led the Northern faction in Kaduna…. He is Igbo

Nwobosi led the faction that went to Ibadan and killed Aare Akintola…. He is Igbo

Timothy Oneatuegwu led the faction that went to Ademulegun’s house and killed him and his pregnant wife. He is Igbo.

Timothy Onwatwegu led the faction that went to Ralph Sodeinde’s house in Kaduna…. He is Igbo.

Ezedigbo led the faction that went to Okotie- Eboh’s house…. He is Igbo

Chris Anuforo led the faction that went to Col Kur Mohammed’s house…. He is Igbo

Donatus Okafor led the faction that went to Maimalari’s house. He is Igbo.

Lt Oguchi was sent to the East to kill Okpara…. He spared his life…. He was Igbo.

Everyone who died in the January coup was killed by a son of Zik. Nobody from another tribe pulled a trigger that killed anyone in the January coup.

To imagine that the January coup was not an Igbo affair in as insult on the memory of the casualties.

So Nzeogwu spoke Hausa fluently and lived in the North…. SO WHAT?

Ojukwu was born in the North. Spoke Hausa fluently. Up until he was made Governor of Eastern region, he never lived in the East. He schooled in Lagos and England before joining the military. History remembers him as the warlord that led the Biafra war.

Zik was born in the North. Spoke Hausa fluently. His parents had to send him home so he could learn the language. He spoke Yoruba fluently. His early political career was in Yorubaland.

That did not stop him from building an Igbo supremacist group called Igbo federal union where he declared that his people were created by God as a special race to lead others.

Propoganda has no place in our time. Your fathers killed innocent people… murdered innocent women and even pregnant women. You can never whitewash the sins of your fathers with any kind of Propaganda.

seunmsg:
Igbos planned a coup and wanted to blame everyone but themselves for it. IBB was even emphatic in his opinion that it was an Igbo coup.

phantom:
Adewale Ademoyega said it clearly in his book "why we struck" as early as 1981 but the yoruba lagos/ibadan print media mafia have done everything in their power to revise history 😂

But no wahala... truth cannot he hidden... When Gowon pens his own memoir, get ready to have an instant stroke on reading his 😂

Igbos planned a coup.. that's the narrative you enjoy pushing but go blind, deaf and dumb when you get to the partof the story were it was the same igbos that foiled the coup.

Ademoyega himself owned up to the fact that AZIKIWE WAS NOT IN THEIR PLAN TO STRIKE! And like Awolowo, the coup plotters probably believed Zik should have been at the helm

These were a group of disgruntled miltary officers who were very unhappy with the unbridled corruption in the polity. Massive corruption perpuated by POLITICAL UNREST THAT BEGAN IN THE SOUTH WEST! Military officers who were highly educated with very rigid social/political values and ideologies. Unlike officers of today.
Some even believed them to be devout, practicing socialists which would explain why Awolowo was their choice of a leader.

Akintola was a very corrupt,cantankerous and recalcitrant premier who turned the south west upside down, went head to head with Awolowo and culminating in the famous cross carpeting and upsetting of the polity.

The Yoruba can attest to the character of Akintola if they are being truthful with themselves but I won't hold my breath. See how they foisted an incompetent Tinubu on the rest of the country and are proudly defending that idiotic move knowing fully well the fellow is not the best they could have presented.

Today, the same yorubas who started this madness have carefully rewritten history and painted themselves saints.

Look at what is happening in Lagos and Osun today! It is a well known fact that when it comes to political rascality and thuggery the south west is UMATCHED!!!

These 5 majors saw all these in the polity and decided to put a stop to it.

Awolowo and Azikiwe must have been the only leaders they thought should have been at the helm and explains why they were spared.

You folks should go and read history and stop pushing nauseating propaganda.

Indabawa1987:
Logistics of July 1966 coup:

Colonel Daramola led the Makurdi faction that executed the coup in Makurdi. He is Yoruba

Danjuma and Akahan led the Ibadan faction that captured Ironsi. They are from the middle belt.

Murtala Mohammed led the Northern faction in Kaduna…. He is from Kano.


Logistics of January 1966 coup:

Ifeajuna led the Lagos faction that went to Tafawa Balewa’s residence…. He is Igbo

Nzeogwu led the Northern faction in Kaduna…. He is Igbo

Nwobosi led the faction that went to Ibadan and killed Aare Akintola…. He is Igbo

Timothy Oneatuegwu led the faction that went to Ademulegun’s house and killed him and his pregnant wife. He is Igbo.

Timothy Onwatwegu led the faction that went to Ralph Sodeinde’s house in Kaduna…. He is Igbo.

Ezedigbo led the faction that went to Okotie- Eboh’s house…. He is Igbo

Chris Anuforo led the faction that went to Col Kur Mohammed’s house…. He is Igbo

Donatus Okafor led the faction that went to Maimalari’s house. He is Igbo.

Lt Oguchi was sent to the East to kill Okpara…. He spared his life…. He was Igbo.

Everyone who died in the January coup was killed by a "son" of Zik. Nobody from another tribe pulled a trigger that killed anyone in the January coup.

To imagine that the January coup was not an Igbo affair in as insult on the memory of the casualties.

So Nzeogwu spoke Hausa fluently and lived in the North…. SO WHAT?

Ojukwu was born in the North. Spoke Hausa fluently. Up until he was made Governor of Eastern region, he never lived in the East. He schooled in Lagos and England before joining the military. History remembers him as the warlord that led the Biafra war.

Zik was born in the North. Spoke Hausa fluently. His parents had to send him home so he could learn the language. He spoke Yoruba fluently. His early political career was in Yorubaland.

That did not stop him from building an Igbo supremacist group called Igbo federal union where he declared that his people were created by God as a special race to lead others.

Propaganda has no place in our time. Your fathers killed innocent people… murdered innocent women and even pregnant women. You can never whitewash the sins of your fathers with any kind of Propaganda.