January 1966 coup took place that saw the deaths of prominent figures from all over Nigeria, Except the eastern region. All the coup plotters were southerners and majority were of Igbo extraction.

For decades I kept reading people make accusations and counter accusations of if it was an igbo coup or not. I decided to look deeper. My findings are as follows:

Many Nigerians don’t know this but at the time when Nigeria employed merit in alot of things, at a time when justice and fairness was the order of the day, at a time when Nigeria never spoil, when corruption was minimal, when we were able to be a prospering economy even without being an oil producing nation, Nigerians thrived but one stood out amongst all. The igbo man. This standing out brought envy, hatred and plots against the Igbos simply for just thriving in a fair system. I would explain as we go on.

The interior east was amongst the last places that education got to, northerners and westerners have been educated long before easterners. Northerners were educated in the Islamic way, whether it’s not the western or secular education, they already had the culture of learning, westerners were amongst the first to meet the British, education penetrated the west far before the east. But when education got to the east, the speed it was embraced was so much that westerners that originally were educated earlier, had to declare free education to catch up, it reached the extent that during the progroms in the north, how they identify an igbo man is speaking English. As a result of this education, it gave igbos an edge in an impartial and fair world run by the British. Many people don’t know this but before 1967 igbos/Easterners used to make up 60% of the army. This was because entry into the army in the past required that u have a certain level of education, and igbos had it in abundance then. Igbos not just made up majority in the army, Igbos held high offices in the army.

Naturally if you guys are a majority in the army and hold the major posts in the army, any thing happening in the army would involve you. The 5majors were wrong in truncating our democracy and ushering in a military regime that would cause problems down the line, but that’s a story for another day. My major work here is to explain why it might look as an igbo coup but it wasn’t intended to, they were right and they were wrong.

All the victims of the coups except the casualties like people whose wives were caught in the cross fire m, the victims smhw instigated their deaths. Though I wish it never happened.

Ahmadu bello, I support him on certain things and I am against many things he did, I support the norths stance on Nigeria not being ready for independence, I am against Ahmadu bello dividing Nigerians after independence, after independence Ahmadu bello did an interview, and he talked about igbo domination, in this interview: he says if there are 10labourers in a camp, and one is igbo, within a year the igbo man would try to emerge as head of the camp, he didn’t accuse the igbo man of trying to steal from the camp, how is an igbo man’s individual effort to succeed a bad thing according to him? This his remarks is part of what made him a target. The second one involves his participation in the western crisis. Here I would bring in Sir Akintola.

Sir Akintola was the premier of western region, at a time when they had their action group, while Obafemi awolowo was of the opinion of extending the had of the west towards the rest of the south, Akintola was of the opinion that they extend it towards the north, during this period Akintola a power tussle between akintola abd awolowo erupted and akintola ended up getting voted out of power. After he was removed from power him and his followers got violent and that was how the western crisis started. During this the federal government intervened, if u read up what I wrote above and even read up history, the antagonist here is Akintola, but what Tafawa balewa the then prime minister did was to arrest awolowo and charge him for treason, this is pure injustice. An election was done while awolowo was away and there was massive rigging, voters suppression and violence, the people that were seeing the people ontop do all those things while they followed orders were the military. And who make up majority of the military then “Igbos”. All these happened and Akintola was put back in power. This actions here was part of what I think made Akintola a target of the coup.

Sir Tafawa balewa, he was the prime minister the man at the top, tafawa balewa might be the man ontop but he was put there by Ahmadu bello, the votes that got him into power were from his npc party which was northern people party, which was the region Ahmadu bello ruled over. Tafawa balewa actions of declaring a state of emergency on the west over an isolated incident that happened only in Lagos which obafemi awolowo cried out against, his role in putting akintola back in power depute his atrocities and rigging of the western region elections, was what I think made him a target.

Sir festus Okotie eboh, back then the number one most attacked person on the media attacked by opposition [mainly the west] was festus eboh, reason is that he was the minister of finance and he was known for his extravagant lifestyle and had some corruption allegations against him, i think his name being the first poster boy for corruption was part of what made him a victim.

These above are the major victims of the 1966 coup. Everything I told you make ur personal research I can debate with anybody who thinks otherwise, make ur research and you would know they were guilty, only mistake those military officers made was taking laws into their hands.

The reason why there was no major igbo leader as victim.
Nnamdi azikiwe as at then was out of the country, Michael okpara then premier of the eastern region was not involved in the crisis. The crisis was a north/south west alliance push gone sour. So do you expect the young majors back then who thought they were fighting for Nigeria future, a future without tribalism and corruption, to just locate Sir Michael okpara and kill him for nothing just because they want the killing to be fair?

It has been said many times, it’s a fact, the coup plotters who survived said it many times, the original goal of their coup was to put Obafemi awolowo back in power, if this was an igbo agenda y would they go through such stress to put a non igbo into power? The major things those young military officers did back then was:
Taking matters into their hands, which was a big mistake, another mistake they did was killing, arresting the leaders should have been the last resort, but resorting to killing is what made things worst.

Say the truth?

I have been making alot of reflections about Nigeria, its direction and what the future holds for the country.

I will use the opportunity to talk about alot of characters, I am of the igbo tribe, I would say what we did well and what we did not do well, and I would talk about others too.

Nigeria is currently in shambles, some days ago a matured man who visited Nigeria told me, we are currently enjoying. I looked at him as the enemy, cause for him to say we are enjoying at a time when people are in agony and poverty, to the extent that people started taking their lives. He explained to me, and gave context to his comment Nigerians are enjoying. What he explained was that:

“In the early 2000’s Nigerians thought they were suffering, African china was singing lead us well and food no dae. This is 2024 and the situation is 50times worst than the early 2000’s and Idris Abdulkareem is singing ebi pawa lokan, in the next 20years when he comes Nigeria would have gotten 100times worst, it would reach a situation where the suffering maybe in 2050, would make what we are suffering in 2024 look like enjoyment”.


I settled down sat back and thought about what he said, his words kept giving me sleepless nights as u thought about not just myself, but my family. I started looking for answers on how we got here.


Nigeria is dying, Apc or Tinubu cannot save Nigeria, Tinubu is here to do the ceremonials of saying he achieved his ambition of being Nigerian president. Not much would change under Tinubu government. Reason not much would change is that Tinubu government is not divine. You can’t come to power, on the back of bloodshed, corruption, hate, tribalism, division and bigotry like never seen before in Nigeria’s history and expect to succeed.


There’s a reason under Tinubu government, after he took power, was a coup happened in Niger, there’s a reason why it was under his tenure as ecowas president 3Nations broke out of Ecowas. There’s a reason all of a sudden companies that have been through heaven and hell in Nigeria for decades from military to civilian governments, yet they started leaving during his tenure. It’s because his government is not divine.


Obasanjo is the best President Nigeria ever had, Obasanjo is the Awolowo of his time, I think Tinubu is the Akintola of his time.

I would explain this in the next write up where u go into what really happened in 1966 and Nigeria after it. I would try my best to be absolutely unbiased.

SmartPolician:


Most Nigerians are opportunistic, hypocritical and dubious. 98% of Nigerians fall into one or more of these categories.

If Efcc that’s supposed to be fighting corruption can have armed robbers who would breakdown ur door at night, slap ur wife or gf, flog people with cutlass, pack what they can and even pack u join to their office and tell you to write statement that you are a yahoo boy before you bail yourself.

enemachris:
You don't know how painful it is until you become victim.

The psychology of rolling in the mud makes no sense.

It’s just like someone stripping naked cause they are unhappy

The civil war is the cause of these erosion. The damages from bombardments weren’t remedied. The aftermath is the erosions of this magnitude u see today

flokii:
South Africa still doesn't come close... you're fascinated about the digitalized election process, I understand.
Their popultion there is about 64 million while Nigeria's population is about 232 million

This makes no sense.

Even with the huge population, South Africa voters turnout and that of Nigeria is almost the same.

Even with that, with the fact that they had similar voting strength, Nigeria election budget was double that is South Africa.

LexngtonSteele:


That kind of slap is called Factory Reset.

All this fight would have been resolved by less gragra from both parties.

Some people derive joy & pride from slapping a military man during mob action.

Ur bio says say no to tribalism. But u are talking very uncivilised.

On a very good day, what are soldiers looking for in a civilian matter.

On a very good day, if whatever happened happened, police is already there to solve the situation and there’s a chance that Police already arrested the culprits and the soldiers would have taken the culprits away from the police.

Why exactly is the plaza shutdown?

So someone in shop z commits a crime someone in shop Q would pay for it, in this time that Nigeria is hard, with people in extreme poverty?

It’s 100% a possibility that the woman might have been ignorant, but how does that translate to the treatment she received from the soldiers?

In Nigeria we excuse so many nonsense, nobsense Ends when we acknowledge that certain things are nonsense, not when we see nonsense we start excusing it and passing blames, instead of out rightly saying NO to it.

I buy burna boy London show 150pounds with after party ticket and him dae use our money go shut down clubs

garriAndsugar:
Take utility bill from any of your friends living outside campus

This advice won’t work. The reason for nepa bill is to check proof of address

Shut up and stop lying

jmoore:
I am interested to know how many hours it will take from Aba to PH. And what is the capacity?

The train will run at a loss, especially now that ph aba road is under heavy construction to the highest standards by the Abia state government.

Ph aba road has many fly overs at the ph area, which cuts the journey by hours, if not for the bad roads in the Abia section, it takes 2hours by bus without any traffic for a cheaper price.

Y would anybody pay that amount to enter a train that would take 5hours whose fans are not working?

Mandate1:
170k is okay? Even people in UK don't pay 170k for electricity. Nawa for una óò.

Imagine where price of electricity is almost 6times monthly minimum wage, how does that make any sense?

emorse:

This is by the way but the average tariff in the US and the UK is less than N225/kWh.

So electricity will be 6times the minimum wage monthly?

So electricity is more than minimum wage lol

Available9:
Please educate them

Let me add my voice

Granting someone bail at any amount simply means that the person who will stand as surety to the accused must be ready to pay that amount when the accused runs away before the conclusion of the case, meaning the surety is not even paying any money before the release of the accused...even cubana doesn't know the meaning of bail, hence he wouldn't have posted that "money na water "...no one paid any money...it is simply a condition should the accused runs away


I bet 99.9 % of nairalanders do not know this

Nigerian police taught us the wrong way.

So police that have been collecting money from people, what do they call that?

Golan007:
Nice one.

See them apc supporters, they support any nonsense that sinks this country then later they blame other people for not been patriotic,

Nigeria doesn’t need solar subsidy, tomorrow they might start taxing solar users saying they want to repay the loan.

What they should do is remove custom and import duties on solar energy imports and leave the rest.

Las las am beginning to dislike this guy. He is acting like Gej promax.

Last time a southern leader acted like this, it didn’t end well

BrighterSyde:


Honestly the way you reason baffles me. But I will answer your question. No it is not compulsory to use all those services when one can’t afford them.

Now answer this. Is it possible to afford all those services on a 200k salary as the man you are defending said?
I mean a man told a blatant lie to buttress his point and an educated man like you is asking if it is compulsory to use these services? How low are we going mentally?

Let me see if you can answer the question.

The foolishness is unbelievable. Maybe because he see government workers who earn 200k monthly with driver, maid, gateman and they think it ends with the 200k they earn

Ijaya123:


Do you buy a bag of rice every month? And can you also mention one country that sells fuel at the equivalent of N150 per litre anywhere in the world.

Una go just dae lie to Una selves. The only place 200k can be enough for you in this Nigeria is except u live in a village.

Apart from the inflation there’s so many things that will take that 200k away from you, u would buy fuel, electricity bill right now in Nigeria is high, you would pay for vigilante in ur area, sometimes if ur road is bad you have to contribute money to fix it, you would also pay for transformer if its bad, small police problem you would pay, in Nigerian standards except you live in a village in the north 200k is nothing.

2000 pounds in the uk is a good pay and the average minimum wage. That can do alot for you. It’s only quite little in London cause London is the most expensive city. Living with 2000 in London is far better than living with 200k in somewhere like lekki

helinues:


But he his saying the truth now.

Stop lying.

London is uk most expensive city, it’s like saying someone earning 200k in lekki is richer than someone earning 2000 pounds in London.

The only thing expensive in London is just rent nothing more. 100pounds would feed u properly in London for a whole month, as a single person 1k pounds can pay ur rent. 2k pounds is enough for you, and you can still save 5h pounds every month

helinues:
Kinda true.

Things are really cheap in Nigeria even compared to other African countries but the problem is they are not available

If you are earning 200k strictly in Nigeria you are in poverty though.

jmichael259:

Are you the one to spoil them? Have you ever succeeded in spoiling them before?

Beg me

Smitaro100:
Nice harvest.

This is not right though, half of those fishes would get spoilt and rotten as they don’t have storage for them. Why can’t they catch what they need and leave the rest?

This should be illegal

wwwihy:
Lagos+Ogun+Ondo+Delta+Balyesa+Rivers+ Akwa-Ibom+Cross River

It covers eight states. The biggest single road project in the history of Nigeria as nation

E patewo fun Tinubu

God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

Is that not the same thing as east west road or is there sth I don’t know?

sirpharrell:
Nnamdi Kanu and his family are still living in the past. They have failed to realise that NK has lost his awe and political relevance and it is all due to his fault.

When he was released from the first detention in 2017, he was like a colossus and was literally worshipped by the Igbos who are naturally desirous and always eager for someone to hero worship. He should have seized that opportunity to quickly transform himself to the political leader of the South East.

At that point, politicians were falling over themselves to have a picture with Nnamdi Kanu. Any candidate or party he endorsed would have won elections easily. And that is what he should have done. His adopted political party would have swept the south east and maybe by now, he would have had all five south east governors under his control. Then, you can effectively fight for a referendum if that was his real objective.

But he allowed the hero worshipping to get into his head and he lost focus. Instead of strategising on how to make use of his cult following to gain political power, he started an underground warfare, flatantly abusing his bail conditions thinking that he was now untouchable. That is what landed him in this condition now.

I am sure he must be regretting his missed opportunity now. But it is too late to make amends, a lot of water has passed under the bridge. He is no longer firmly in control of his IPOB and the Inos have got a new hero now to worship in the person of Peter Obi. Nnamdi Kanu and his family should face the reality now. This is no longer 2017.

FG could have considered releasing him but after he made that brash statement, that if he is released insecurity in the east would end in 2 minutes, I just knew he isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

He is sending a message that if they ever arrest him the SE will implode. FG would want to stop the insecurity without releasing him, and take all the glory

Mr Ibu family really destroyed everything. People from far and wide contributed money for his health, I even contributed. Only for the family to start fighting over money people donated for his health while he is still alive.

Now people are having second thoughts when it comes to helping.

derecho:
I'm sure Tinubu won't be happy.
This development in abia is indicting to him and his fellow politicians claiming there's no money.

There's no money yet they are wasting money on useless palliatives.

Mk Una dae talk with sense small. You should be thanking Tinubu for removing power from executive list, making states have the ability to generate and transmit their own power

Nice one. This is what northerners used to say when Fulani herdsmen were maiming and killing people

G

This is y Nigeria can never be better. Somebody would do u bad thing, he has probably done it to others. He first lied that u slapped him first, when it didn’t work he starts begging u and u let him off the hook to go and slap others. This is y I like oyibo, oyibo no dae hear sorry. Before u go do them bad thing mk u ready

They should return the money back to the Canadian government or the owners though