DMerciful:
Murtala was an illegitimate head of state like Gowon, Abacha,IBB. Infact all military heads of state were illegitimate and as such should be stripped of all titles and benefits!

So also was Ironsi and your useless Ojukwu .

DMerciful:
So why did the police not report to Balewa as the commander in chief instead of Ironsi?

The SW cleverly reewrite the story to absorbed the fact that the unrest in the wild wild west led to the coup

When Ironsi was killed, how come Awolowo agreed with Gowon to balkanize the regions to 12 states?

The E-Branch of the Nigerian Police did brief the PM of a possible coup.

The Sarduna reported to the police of strange military excersices being conducted around his residence a few days to his assassination.

The police do not have the powers to arrest officers on suspicion of a coup.


It was up to the military police on orders of the Army chief to do so but Ironsi sat on it and did nothing. The Sarduna's complaints if strange military movement around his home was dismissed by Ironsi as being simply military training excersices.

You are just clinging on straws now that you lying boat is sinking .

danvon:


I haven't seen or heard any proof of the alleged interview until today - can you produce another site?

Why on earth will Aguiyi Ironsi make David Ejoor commander of Mid-west region?

Why would he make Murtala Mohammed Chief of Signals of the armed forces?

Why will he make Gowon Chief of Army Staff?

Why will he make TY Danjuma his personal scribe and the head of his personal guard?

Why will he station the 4th Battalion (a northern dominated army close to Lagos)...

For a tribalist who wants to kill and dominate everybody he seemed to be making the reverse steps.

Ironsi appointing them was just a ruse to make them believe he had nothing to do with the coup when in effect he planned it alongside Azikiwe.

jmoore:
What can 20 naira buy? No be anything wey enter your head you go create topic on it.

The #20 note was once the highest currency denomination we had until Abacha introduced the #50 note.

ShinnBet:


The reason Azikiwe and Enugu championed the invoibility of Nigeria was simply because they had plans to dominate the polity either through legislative means or a future coup.

Azikiwe s tendencies showed he had Marxist leanings and this was what led to the misguided Marxist movement known as the Zikist.

Azikiwe even secured an OAU charter amongst it's earliest members at its first ever inuagural assembly pledging all member states to recognise each other's colonial handed down borders as sacrosanct. This is one of the reasons why hardly any OAU member recognised their rogue Biafra.

The idiots keep shooting themselves on their foot.

Thanks so much. I don't understand the Igbo apologists. It is like they are reading wrong pages of history. As you pointed out, Zik was greedy. The party that made him premier was founded by a Yoruba man, NC. When Herbert Macaulay was retiring from active politics, he handed over the party and it's structure to him. He won in the East, he didn't see any of the Yoruba followers to manage Yoruba land. He was coming to Lagos. That is the reason Awolowo campaigned against him.

Greed is in the blood of this people. Sadauna complained about the same thing..

MightySparrow:


Thanks so much. I don't understand the Igbo apologists. It is like they are reading wrong pages of history. As you pointed out, Zik was greedy. The party that made him premier was founded by a Yoruba man, NC. When Herbert Macaulay was retiring from active politics, he handed over the party and it's structure to him. He won in the East, he didn't see any of the Yoruba followers to manage Yoruba land. He was coming to Lagos. That is the reason Awolowo campaigned against him.

Greed is in the blood of this people. Sadauna complained about the same thing..

More like covetousness.

They always have their eyes on other people's resources and lands.

They eyed Lagos and Niger Delta and even labelled the expired British administered green zone in the fundamentalist Islamic Kano Emirate as a no man's land not knowing the green zone of Sabo Garin expired the day the British left on Oct 1st, 1966.

They nicknamed the Sabo Gari Green Zone, which the British leased from the Amit of Kano to house their Ibo house helps and clerks, as no man's land because the British had secured it on lease from the Emirate and so free of Sharia law.

Sense did not allow them to know that the green zone had reverted to the Amir but they still thought it was their new Nnewi annex in the north.


Do you hear them refering to Sabo Garin as a no man's land today ?

ShinnBet:



Ironsi appointing them was just a ruse to make them believe he had nothing to do with the coup when in effect he planned it alongside Azikiwe.

The Northern millitary hierarchy knew ironsi and azikwe were the brain behind the Jan 66 coup.

Nzeogwu and Ademulegun were just a pun in the event.

The main culprit e.g ironsi, azikwe, ifeajuna, okafor and co had other ideas.

Their agenda was an Igbo domination of the country which zik already laid out plans in his 1949 speech.

ShinnBet:


Logout already.


Your lies have been discarded to the waste bin they belong.

Point it you or keep quiet.Highlight my lies for the world to see.

danvon:


Why on earth will Aguiyi Ironsi make David Ejoor commander of Mid-west region?

Nepotism..

Those are some of the atrocities your fore-fathers committed..

We’re you told they also made an Igbo Man U.I & Unilag Vc? Igbos introduced nepotism into Nigeria system. Azikwe was the father of nepotism..

It was part of why they destroyed our regionalism, with the believe that they’d be able to have power to control over all..

GeneralPula:

Nepotism..

Those are some of the atrocities your fore-fathers committed..

We’re you told they also made an Igbo Man U.I & Unilag Vc? Igbos introduced nepotism into Nigeria system. Azikwe was the father of nepotism..

It was part of why they destroyed our regionalism, with the believe that they’d be able to have power to control over all..

Ejoor was not an Ibo man neither was he appointed to the position of Military Governor of the Midwest by Ironsi. It was Gowon that appointed Ejoor.

Ironsi appointed Ejoor as a staff officer in his military junta to keep him close at hand for monitoring and future assassination.

It's only natural for Ironsi to remove Ejoor from his command position fearing Ejoor knew about Ironsi having a hand in the coup and failed assassination on him.

gidgiddy:
When Obasanjo was military dictator in the 70's, he put the face of General Murtala Mohammed on the 20 Naira note. This was a huge error because Murtala Mohammed is not a role model for anyone. He was a murderous coup plotter, war criminal and military dictator. There was nothing positive about the man

How do you put Murtala Mohammed alongside the likes of Herbert Macaulay, Zik, Awolowo and Sarduana?

When Obasanjo returned as civilian, he had the opportunity to correct this national embarrassment of putting Murtala Mohammed on the N20 note. Obasanjo introduced the N200 and N500 and put eminently qualified people on it. He had the power to remove Murtala from the N20 Naira, but did not

Obasanjo needs to tender an apology for not correcting the mistake he made.

Who did Murtala Mohammed murdered?

Obasanjo should apologized to who?

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Modified: The provocative comments have been removed, hence no point continuing this exchange.

ShinnBet:


Ejoor was not an Ibo man neither was he appointed to the position of Military Governor of the Midwest.

Ironsi appointed Ejoor as a staff officer in his military junta to keep him close at hand for monitoring and future assassination.

It's only natural for Ironsi to remove Ejoor from his command position fearing Ejoor knew about Ironsi have in the coup and failed assassination on him.

I like the fact that Ironsi didn’t end well..

DesChyko:

Now you're bringing in Igbo soldiers, Hamas, war and warfare, secessionists, the foolishness of Zik and Ojukwu, Igbo descendants and what they choose to read and what not to read, Awolowo and his choice, Igbos and their choice, Hausas and their choice, 1999 elections, your love for Igbos, me taking a new job to educate Igbos, Yoruba leaving Nigeria, Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu.

You do realise all these you posted does not justify insulting the entire Igbo race because one of them thinks Murtala Muhammed should not be on #20 naira note?

I've asked this question about three times now but you keep introducing newer and newer subjects.

You and your people have said worst x10..

https://www.nairaland.com/745731/yoruba-marginalization-elders-met-jonathan

GeneralPula:


You and your people have said worst x10..

https://www.nairaland.com/745731/yoruba-marginalization-elders-met-jonathan

Oh.. Sorry, I consider myself a bigger person to engage in such degenerate behaviours.

Have a blessed day!

DesChyko:


Oh.. Sorry, I consider myself a bigger person to engage in such degenerate behaviours.

Have a blessed day!

Run.

Fast.

GeneralPula:

Who did Murtala Mohammed murdered?

Obasanjo should apologized to who?

You are not aware that Murtala Mohammed led a coup that killed over 300 people

Or not aware that Murtala Mohammed led the second division that massacred over 1000 men, women and children in Asaba?

ShinnBet:


A northern hegemony is far better than an 0suegbe cannibalistic one

All goes to show what some of us have been saying a long time, that we should all agree to dissolve Nigeria and go our seperate ways

gidgiddy:


All goes to show what some of us have been saying a long time, that we should all agree to dissolve Nigeria and go our seperate ways

Will you ever go in peace without resorting to another round of land grabbing into the Niger Delta ?

gidgiddy:


All goes to show what some of us have been saying a long time, that we should all agree to dissolve Nigeria and go our seperate ways

Have you considered doing your Biafra exit without dragging others into your mess?

Form your Ibo nation and leave Nigeria to her own


Why must Nigeria disintegrate to pieces before you get your Biafra ?

I know the answer to what I posted above and it's because you want Nigeria dissolved into weaker entities so as to restart another annexation of the SS which will not have the protection of a bigger powerful Nigerian army.

This is why you fools are promoting disintegration because you know you can never be allowed to have your Biafra with the Niger Delta in tow neither can you annex the Niger Delta when your five Ibo states are granted leave.


So that's why you are all pushing for a disintegrated Nigeria to make your future annexation easier.

DMerciful:
Forefathers? Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu were less than 30yrs old.

You can't blame the failures of Nigeria on them. They didnt plan the coup from nowhere,
the political class were corrupt and causing massive unrest.

Do you know how many presidents and heads of states we've had since then?

When democracy was returned in 1979, why did Buhari overthrow a democratically elected government? Did you not reward Buhari?

PASSING the blame as usual? Well, I got better use for my morning today, so I'll pass. Thanks for the mention though.

Murtala was Obasanjo's Boss; So why not Honoura Boss who died in service that you worked with?

gidgiddy:
When Obasanjo was military dictator in the 70's, he put the face of General Murtala Mohammed on the 20 Naira note. This was a huge error because Murtala Mohammed is not a role model for anyone. He was a murderous coup plotter, war criminal and military dictator. There was nothing positive about the man

How do you put Murtala Mohammed alongside the likes of Herbert Macaulay, Zik, Awolowo and Sarduana?

When Obasanjo returned as civilian, he had the opportunity to correct this national embarrassment of putting Murtala Mohammed on the N20 note. Obasanjo introduced the N200 and N500 and put eminently qualified people on it. He had the power to remove Murtala from the N20 Naira, but did not

Obasanjo needs to tender an apology for not correcting the mistake he made.

GeneralPula:

Nepotism..

Those are some of the atrocities your fore-fathers committed..

We’re you told they also made an Igbo Man U.I & Unilag Vc? Igbos introduced nepotism into Nigeria system. Azikwe was the father of nepotism..

It was part of why they destroyed our regionalism, with the believe that they’d be able to have power to control over all..

David Ejoor was not Igbo, and according to the guy I mentioned, Aguiyi Ironsi wanted to kill David Ejoor, why empower a man you wish to kill?

ShinnBet:


Ejoor was not an Ibo man neither was he appointed to the position of Military Governor of the Midwest by Ironsi. It was Gowon that appointed Ejoor.

Ironsi appointed Ejoor as a staff officer in his military junta to keep him close at hand for monitoring and future assassination.

It's only natural for Ironsi to remove Ejoor from his command position fearing Ejoor knew about Ironsi having a hand in the coup and failed assassination on him.

GeneralPula:

Nepotism..

Those are some of the atrocities your fore-fathers committed..

We’re you told they also made an Igbo Man U.I & Unilag Vc? Igbos introduced nepotism into Nigeria system. Azikwe was the father of nepotism..

It was part of why they destroyed our regionalism, with the believe that they’d be able to have power to control over all..

See how both of you are contradicting yourselves

One claimed Aguiyi Ironsi appointed David Ejoor as Midwest commander due to nepotism

The other pointed out that David Ejoor was not Igbo so it couldn't be nepotism then claimed David Ejoor was never appointed as Midwest Governor

Can't even get your lies straight