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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Christistruth00: 4:03pm On Jul 08
grin

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Paythemback: 4:09pm On Jul 08
Afonjananawerey:







Do Afo-/jas got sense talk less of reasoning properly? grin


I understand why you are still angry

Nah 3 million of your ancestors we dey talk nahgrin

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by confusedlady(f): 4:09pm On Jul 08
For a moment I thought this guy was different and wanted to write an honest treatise . I forgot that a leopard can never change its spots. It is part of their DNA.
Come OP,coldie I asked you the relationship between Nnamdi Azikiwe and Major Ifeajuna, but you conveniently refused to answer.....😆 lol....

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 4:11pm On Jul 08
confusedlady:
For a moment I thought this guy was different and wanted to write an honest treatise . I forgot that a leopard can never change its spots. It is part of their DNA.
Come OP,coldie I asked you the relationship between Nnamdi Azikiwe and Major Ifeajuna, but you conveniently refused to answer.....😆 lol....
Maybe I didn’t see it.

Can you help me answer it, it seems you know the answer

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Afonjananawerey: 4:20pm On Jul 08
Coldie:


One day am going to join ohaneze, if our people can listen to someone like me alot would change.


Our people owe awolowo an apology. Where we are wrong on awolowo. This is the reason I don’t go all out and prefer to block Yoruba ronu people than start insulting Yoruba tribe, every era every generation an awolowo and an akintola is born, if because of an akintola u start attacking every Yorubas u would stop future awolowos from being born. To me the best way to solve Yoruba ronu issue, is with love not by hate, ignore the Yoruba ronus and shower love to the true ones for the love they show to others. Allow the hateful ones to wallow in hate.


Before I digress: y I think Igbos owe obafemi awolowo an apology:

Back then information was limited, and deep thinkers were few who think things through.

Awolowo was sent to prison and charged with treason becaue he tried to form a southern alliance which we were part of. To me this is the first apology we owe him.

Second one: people say awolowo was responsible for the starvation policy, a war without starvation policy lasted over a year we were in misery and dieing a slower death and a war that starvation policy ended sooner.

Thirdly if it was left to some people after the civil war ended it’s go fvck urself, but awolowo made sure we were given some money to stand on our feet after the war ended, sth that was eventually known as the 20pounds saga. People say 20pounds and people just think 20pounds in 20 pounds, but what actually was the value of 20pounds back in 1970. That apart I beleive sth bigger was proposed but they ended up in 20pounds.

One last thing: the fact that when igbos returned to the west, their properties and assets were preserved and returned to them.


This made me have far much more respect for him.



Chief Obafemi Awolowo, if any of ur descendants are reading this just know igbos have ur respect. Some Igbos might have other views about him but I am a true igbo man and I say this to you.






You are right, my father rented apartment back then in present day Osun state and nothing was Stole after the war, everything was intact when he got back to south west, my problem is them conniving with the Northerners to teach us Igbos a lesson because of a coup until today especially those Yoruba Muslims who hate Igbos with passion for being Christians, i used to love Yorubas and even cook their dishes, got married to their sister who gave me children, last year i began to see their evil mind and how they see us Igbos, it has nothing to do with Obi, i have never voted in Nigeria and have no intention to vote in future for criminals who has no business being leaders, the insult from MC OLUOMO and Bayo, Fk and Alake just buried my love for Yorubas. it's shameful to see people who called themselves leaders did what they did during Lagos Governorship election
Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Slytiger: 4:21pm On Jul 08
Afonjananawerey:







You are right, my father rented apartment back then in present day Osun state and nothing was Stole after the war, everything was intact when he got back to south west, my problem is them conniving with the Northerners to teach us Igbos a lesson because of a coup until today especially those Yoruba Muslims who hate Igbos with passion for being Christians, i used to love Yorubas and even cook their dishes, got married to their sister who gave me children, last year i began to see their evil mind and how they see us Igbos, it has nothing to do with Obi, i have never voted in Nigeria and have no intention to vote in future for criminals who has no business being leaders, the insult from MC OLUOMO and Bayo, Fk and Alake just buried my love for Yorubas. it's shameful to see people who called themselves leaders did what they did during Lagos Governorship election
Gaslighting. 😂

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Afonjananawerey: 4:21pm On Jul 08
Paythemback:



I understand why you are still angry

Nah 3 million of your ancestors we dey talk nahgrin








DIdirin, people die everyday, it change nothing grin
Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Afonjananawerey: 4:25pm On Jul 08
Coldie:

You can dispute me, tell me where I lied, let’s go








I will advice you to stop wasting your time with imbeciles, they will never change and will never stop tagging it Igbo coup, solution destroy the country and let everybody go their way in peace
Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Afonjananawerey: 4:26pm On Jul 08
Slytiger:

Gaslighting. 😂






If i lied may good thing stop coming my way until i die
Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by EJEGBULEJE: 4:27pm On Jul 08
Coldie:
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 swollen 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 swollen 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?

No one was envious of the Igbo before the Coup.

Sardauna was only protecting his region with those speeches, don't forget we practice regional system.

Carrying out the Coup to put Awolowo back in Power is one of the greatest lie ever told....

The fact remains that the Igbos having dominated top echelon positions, got greedy,and want to take Power for themselves, reason Ironsi hastely abolished the regional government..

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 4:27pm On Jul 08
confusedlady:


@Bolded,
Are you asking me this with a straight face?
Your lies and propaganda stink to heaven.
While the Aburi issues and killings both in the North and in the East might have contributed towards the civil war,the main reason the egotistical Odumegwu Ojukwu declared war was to appropriate and dominate the minority tribes and their oil wealth. In fact Ojukwu instructed all the oil companies to pay all revenues in dollars to Biafra coffers,this is the main reason that Gowon used the Navy to blockade the sea and the reason why the coast line was a priority target of the Federal troops.
I gave you straight answers but when it was time for ur reply ur answers weren’t straight forward.

Anybody reading our posts, look at my reply to her, and look at hers which amongst the 2 of us looks like they came for truth?


Ojukwu has had many incidents where Nigerian government made promises and went back on their word. Nigerian government officials kept inviting ojukwu to different parts of Nigeria for meeting on resolving the crisis, ojukwu said he can meet on a neutral ground where his safety can be guaranteed.

They used their own hand and mouth invite person for meeting, the person honor meeting, they used their own hand make agreement, everyone settle. Immediately everyone went back home same people that called for meeting agreed refused to honour his own agreement. But it’s the fault of the person who didn’t do anything,

Igbos were not the only people killed in the north, the whole easterners were targeted, there was nothing like south east back then, ojukwu was military governor of the eastern region, so if ojukwu wants to secede his region, would ojukwu say ok as governor of eastern region I would carve out igbo land and secede with it? Does that make any sense to you?

Were the oil companies supposed to pay oil revenues in naira or Biafra pounds? At a time when war was lurking and any one of the nation can change its currency, which happened exactly as I just said?

So ojukwu was fighting a war of survival gowon own target was the oil and gas in the east?

But ojukwu is the bad person wow

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 4:35pm On Jul 08
EJEGBULEJE:


No one was envious of the Igbo before the Coup.

Sardauna was only protecting his region with those speeches, don't forget we practice regional system.

Carrying out the Coup to put Awolowo back in Power is one of the greatest lie ever told....

The fact remains that the Igbos having dominated top echelon positions, got greedy,and want to take Power for themselves, reason Ironsi hastely abolished the regional government..
There were 2 coups, the first coup was not successful as it was stopped by aguiyi ironsi, then the second northern counter coup.

The first coup that was stopped before it could be completed, the people who were stopped from completing their plan said their original goal was to reinstate obafemi awolowo in power. That is their own story.


How does the actions of Aguiyi ironsi involve them, people cannot predict the future.

Aguiyi Ironsi did he own bad and paid dearly for it, just as Akintola, Ahmadu Bello and tafawa balewa.


When the war was over, many of the few living former Nigerian soldiers who fought for Biafra were detained by Gowon and were properly investigated, if they were investigated and tortured for years until gowon released them after appeals from world leaders, y is that till now there has not been any report on their findings disputing what they have been saying, that reinstating obafemi awolowo was their goal?

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 4:36pm On Jul 08
Slytiger:

Gaslighting. 😂
That is his opinion.


I don’t know who he is? I am addressing issues I know about whatever he is doing is his concern.
Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by EJEGBULEJE: 4:50pm On Jul 08
Coldie:
Even after the coup was stopped, if it was an igbo coup, since Igbos were the majority in the army as at then, y then did Major Aguiyi ironsi, surround himself with northern soldiers, if really it was an igbo agenda, won’t he surround himself with igbo officers?

The counter coup came, it was karma, do me I do you, but the following actions I think is part of what sealed Nigeria’s coffins. Nigeria owe the igbo tribe an apology, no matter how much everybody tries to deny or say otherwise.

The counter coup came, ok it’s the vengeance of the people avenging their leaders, you have killed igbo leaders and prominent men in power like igbo did yours. It didn’t stop there these people went on to start killing Igbos on the streets everywhere they could find them, alot of Igbos escaped many parts of Nigeria back to the east, no doubts northerners were killed in the east too as retaliation. What is the relationship between the easterner selling in a shop trying to feed his family and what happened in the military barracks. How Nigeria died and many nonsense started:


The reason for the first coup is explained above from my findings: the reason for the counter coup doesn’t have any reasonable explanation apart from revenge. After ironsi was killed the were to appoint a new military head as the law says, but they put the law aside and appointed a junior officer over a senior officer, ojukwu was against this, you would think ojukwu being against this is because he is supposed to be the one appointed, the answer is NO. The person that was the next ranking person after Ironsi was a westerner, they jumped over him and others and appointed Gowon who was a junior officer to them as at then. This here was what started Nigeria’s era of nepotism, where people’s rise in government isn’t done by merit but based on you coming from certain tribe or region. As the went on we went on to start seeing cases where someone who is illiterate would hold prominent government offices responsible for very important matters simply because of the tribe or region they come from.


The civil war came, we know the story, I won’t talk much in that, with my research I want to address what I found out on why the Biafran forces marched towards the west. The major reason was to capture the Nigerian capital and that was all, cause as time went on alot of people talked about how Biafra tried to invade the west.

If there is any apology to be made, it's the Igbos apologizing to the rest of Nigeria .

There was no beef before 1966.

If Ironsi hav taken action on the Coup plotters as advised, the counter Coup might not happen.

When you slap me,you can't determine the severity of my own counter slap..

After the first Coup, Igbo civilians trooped to the street of North, jubilating and jeering the Northerners who are still in pain of losing their leaders.

They labeled bread mocking how Nzeogwu killed Sardauna, and danced to Rex Laurence song mocking the Northerners..

What did u expect¿ Retaliation in the North,and counter retaliation in the East...

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 4:59pm On Jul 08
I also want to address SS people too.

Igbos and all SS group might not be related but there’s no doubt that Igbos share alot of relationship with the SS.

A lot of igbo speaking tribes in the SS who deny being igbo are Igbos who were colonised by the benin.

Reason I am saying this is before the coming of the British, Igbos were a people who are known to not have kings. And existed in hamlets, until whoever gave us the igbo identity, every hamlet existed independent of each other.

Benin was a powerful empire, one of the most powerful in the south at its peak whose influence stretched all the way to Lagos.

What benin did to Igbos in the SS they also did to Yorubas in the SW, the difference is Yorubas despite the benin influence maintained their identity, y igbos in the SS lost there’s.

Reason Y Lagos was able to maintain its Yoruba identity is they didn’t view the Yoruba with hostility they allowed a live and let live attitude and as time went on they either merged or one dominated the other. This is proof on y there’s an oba of Lagos who pays homage to the oba of benin. And traces his ancestry to benin.

In the case igbo speaking people in the SS, same thing happened. The benin kingdom while expanding an trying to colonise other areas, branched in the east too, since they are trying to colonise they rule the land and are directly descended from benin and trace their ancestry to benin, but the majority of the people who they rule over are of igbo origin. Igbo had no kings had no records of invading any and or any wars, it’s not a coincidence that the indigenous people of a land answer igbo names, understand igbo language and speak a variation of igbo language. The case between Igbos speaking people in the SS and the Lagos case is that while the Lagos people don’t view other Yorubas with hostility igbo speaking people on the SS started looking at Igbos with hostility.

Igbo and benin are 2 distinct people but we form a bond where our people meet in the SS.


I know some people would read this won’t say anything reasonable but would make a foolish assertion.

This is my thinking of what happened, that’s y I see it as foolishness when I see certain SS people especially those igbo speaking ones saying or doing certain things again people related to them.

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Nyamiriflathed: 5:01pm On Jul 08
Afonjananawerey:







You are right, my father rented apartment back then in present day Osun state and nothing was Stole after the war, everything was intact when he got back to south west, my problem is them conniving with the Northerners to teach us Igbos a lesson because of a coup until today especially those Yoruba Muslims who hate Igbos with passion for being Christians, i used to love Yorubas and even cook their dishes, got married to their sister who gave me children, last year i began to see their evil mind and how they see us Igbos, it has nothing to do with Obi, i have never voted in Nigeria and have no intention to vote in future for criminals who has no business being leaders, the insult from MC OLUOMO and Bayo, Fk and Alake just buried my love for Yorubas. it's shameful to see people who called themselves leaders did what they did during Lagos Governorship election
So Yoruba Muslim hate Igbos because igbos are Christians 😂😂😂

I am sure you know that many Yorubas Muslims are married to Christians and vice versa.

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 5:04pm On Jul 08
EJEGBULEJE:


If there is any apoliyyo ne made, it's the Igbos apologizing to the rest of Nigeria .

There was no beef before 1966.

If Ironsi hav taken action on the Coup plotters as advised, the counter Coup might not happen.

When you slap me,you can't determine the severity of my own counter slap..

After the first Coup, Igbo civilians trooped to the street of North, jubilating and jeering the Northerners who are still in pain of losing their leaders.

They labeled bread mocking how Nzeogwu killed Sardauna, and danced to Rex Laurence song mocking the Northerners..

What did u expect¿ Retaliation in the North,and counter retaliation in the East...
This part u talked about labelled bread. I would believe everything you are saying if you can give me any historical proof from anywhere, where you got the information.

I don’t deny the reaction of the igbos after the coup, but if you are sure of what you are saying, prove it.

I know that photo u put is fake, so I ask you to prove the bread loaf sth, I can tell you with confidence that the story is a lie.


If you don’t prove this it would make anything you are saying or have said before questionable.


I wait ur reply. I can say this with confidence cause I heard the rumours too but researched it and I know it’s a BIG FALLACY
Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by VinnyBaba: 5:08pm On Jul 08
confusedlady:


😆 🤣 😂 😹....lol....
When you started this your thread,I honestly thought you were about to retrace your steps,make a clean break from the past Ibo hobby of shifting blame on other tribes while trying to play the victim. Your write up as usual was filled with the usual IPOB/Biafra propaganda/Ibo supremacist lies and innuendos. I guess it is useless to expect anything different from an Ibo man.
As usual in your tales the end beneficiary of the lopsided Ibo January 1966 coup was to be Obafemi Awolowo.(The usual Ibo victim playing).
This Awolowo as a beneficiary of the Ibo 1966 coup is just an after thought of Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna to justify their blood thirsty actions.
You also tried to play your usual victim card by claiming the arrogant and cunning Ojukwu insisted on Brigadier Ogindipe taking over when Ironsi was overthrown. So what you are implying is that Ojukwu went to war because he wanted a Yoruba man to take over from Ironsi and become the head of state. Do you see how you guys play this propaganda card.
In your opinion now,The January 1966 Ibo coup was executed because of a Yoruba man. That is to say Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu killed all the politicians and senior military men of other tribes while cunningly exempting Okpara, Azikiwe, Orizu, Ironsi and others because of AWOLOWO!
This revision of history can not work in 2024. It might have worked in the past after the civil war because other tribes Sat by while the Ibo intelligentsia like Achebe, Ekwensi and Chukwumerije put out twisted and warped versions of events while presenting the Ibo as victims.
Ibos are no victims,you are aggressors, masquerading as victims.
And while at it OP,I would like to ask you the relationship between Ifeajuna and Nnamdi Azikiwe? The answer will give you the clue to who.tipped off Azikiwe to travel out of the country a few weeks before the January 1966 coup!

Are you Suggesting that the Coupists should have Killed Azikiwe? shocked

After Herbert Macaulay, Azikiwe is the GODFATHER of all Nationalists in Africa.
The Likes of Kwame Nkrumah and Others Respected him Massively. cool smiley

Who Dares Kill such a Person? sad undecided

As for Awolowo, It is Enough for Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna to Have Assassinated Balewa, Ahmadu Bello and Co.😕

They are NOT mates with Awolowo and Azikiwe on any Levels
and were Planning on instituting a Hausa/Fulani Dominant Federal Government.😒
Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Fighttillvictory: 5:09pm On Jul 08
mrvitalis:

Ojukwu, Zik and awolowo share same ideology sadly

U think insulting ojukwu would get me worked up? Lmaooo bro I am Igbo
please separate ojukwu from politician
Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Paythemback: 5:10pm On Jul 08
Afonjananawerey:









DIdirin, people die everyday, it change nothing grin


Are you still angry about 3 million pig? grin

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by EJEGBULEJE: 5:11pm On Jul 08
Coldie:

This part u talked about labelled bread. I would believe everything you are saying if you can give me any historical proof from anywhere, where you got the information.

I don’t deny the reaction of the igbos after the coup, but if you are sure of what you are saying, prove it.

I know that photo u put is fake, so I ask you to prove the bread loaf sth, I can tell you with confidence that the story is a lie.


If you don’t prove this it would make anything you are saying or have said before questionable.


I wait ur reply. I can say this with confidence cause I heard the rumours too but researched it and I know it’s a BIG FALASY

You can read up to enlightened yourself, people witnessed this,and confirmed it...if the photo is fake prove me wrong.... Obviously you are a bias umpire.....

Even during the War, IGBO went about raping, killing,and coveting properties of Mon IGBO on the eastern region....

You can't garnish anything here, we know the truth, it's better for the Igbos to keep quiet than playing the victim card..

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 5:12pm On Jul 08
EJEGBULEJE:


If there is any apology to be made, it's the Igbos apologizing to the rest of Nigeria .

There was no beef before 1966.

If Ironsi hav taken action on the Coup plotters as advised, the counter Coup might not happen.

When you slap me,you can't determine the severity of my own counter slap..

After the first Coup, Igbo civilians trooped to the street of North, jubilating and jeering the Northerners who are still in pain of losing their leaders.

They labeled bread mocking how Nzeogwu killed Sardauna, and danced to Rex Laurence song mocking the Northerners..

What did u expect¿ Retaliation in the North,and counter retaliation in the East...
This bread picture is photoshopped, I don’t know the reason y anybody would photoshop a picture to try to stir tribal hate.


Reason I can tell you this with utmost confidence is I have watched absolutely all the single oputa panel videos existing, northerners brought the whole sink, they went as far as bringing someone who survived the eastern retaliation of the pogrom that happened in the north. If they can go as far as to locate somebody like that.

Is it this label that someone like you have that they cannot locate?

I ask you?

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by mrvitalis(m): 5:15pm On Jul 08
Fighttillvictory:
please separate ojukwu from politician
I have listened to ojukwu speak he was no different from awolowo

Michael okpara is the only one different

Sam mbakwe was just a none corrupt socilist

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by EJEGBULEJE: 5:19pm On Jul 08
Coldie:

This bread picture is photoshopped, I don’t know the reason y anybody would photoshop a picture to try to stir tribal hate.


Reason I can tell you this with utmost confidence is I have watched absolutely all the single oputa panel videos existing, northerners brought the whole sink, they went as far as bringing someone who survived the eastern retaliation of the program that happened in the north. If they can go as far as to locate somebody like that.

Is it this label that someone like you have that they cannot locate?

I ask you?

Why not tell us the Coup never happened??

You keep trying to justify the crime of ur forefathers to no avail... Ppl know the truth... stop trying to justify evil..

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 5:23pm On Jul 08
EJEGBULEJE:


You can read up to enlightened yourself, people witnessed this,and confirmed it...if the photo is fake prove me wrong.... Obviously you are a bias umpire.....

Even during the War, IGBO went about raping, killing,and coveting properties of Mon IGBO on the eastern region....

You can't garnish anything here, we know the truth, it's better for the Igbos to keep quiet than playing the victim card..
This is a public space, I have said this before and I would say it again. Everytime I catch you in ur lies, it makes people question the integrity of other things you said.

World judge for yourself, compare these images. If igbos were jubilation using bread labels, how come the pic they used was from a video on YouTube?

LoL


Back then nzeogwu was alive and lots of his photos would hv been existing then, but it had to be the one from a YouTube video.


People wake up lie to try to justify their actions.


The truth is coming out. I would say it again the whole bread load story thing is a BIG FALLACY

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by pryme(m): 5:25pm On Jul 08
Coldie:

My point here is: they did wrong no doubt but when u look at the big picture of why they struck vs why the counter coup struck are igbos really the villains as Nigeria has painted us to be?

For ages the narratives has been that Igbos just masterminded wake up one day killed leaders of other regions for no reason then spared ours.

If the flood has come and gone y then is it that whenever an igbo man wants to aspire for certain positions in Nigeria, they remember the flood again. We had to address certain issue for peace and reconciliation, I don’t like how Nigeria is going.


When u talk about it they blame Igbos for the first coup, ok since others are ruling and don’t want to fix the damage they said Igbos caused y not allow Igbos fix the problem. No



Then perhaps you should stop talking about it, anybody that in 2024 will argue that they can't vote for an Ibo man mainly because of what they did in 1962 doesn't have an argument.
I hate these politicians we have today running for President, I won't dare even think of voting any of these 3 major Candidates,

However, there is one I will vote for in a heartbeat if he ran and that person is Professor Charles Soludo, why? The proof is in the pudding. We all saw what he did at CBN, what he did as a CBN Governor no one had been able to replicate today.

So until you bring forth a candidate that is fit for the job (and don't tell me Peter Obi), you will be rejected.
This thread is unnecessary, we have a country to save.

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 5:30pm On Jul 08
EJEGBULEJE:


Why not tell us the Coup never happened??

You keep trying to justify the crime of ur forefathers to no avail... Ppl know the truth... stop trying to justify evil..
I have said it before I have nothing against the north.

Your leader was killed you kill our own too.

It didn’t end there, you kill people that had nothing to do with it. You didn’t stop you kept on killing until the people decided to leave the country. You say come let’s settle let’s do an agreement, we go, meet, agree, shake hands and went home. You that said come let’s meet renegade on agreement we both agreed on, went to war massacred lots of our people, won the war.

I brought this for us to say the truth, talk ur own and convince me, u aren’t convincing anybody. But u are just saying am lying, even when I just proved that you are the one lying with ur photshopped pic

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Coldie(m): 5:47pm On Jul 08
pryme:


Then perhaps you should stop talking about it, anybody that in 2024 will argue that they can't vote for an Ibo man mainly because of what they did in 1962 doesn't have an argument.
I hate these politicians we have today running for President, I won't dare even think of voting any of these 3 major Candidates,

However, there is one I will vote for in a heartbeat if he ran and that person is Professor Charles Soludo, why? The proof is in the pudding. We all saw what he did at CBN, what he did as a CBN Governor no one had been able to replicate today.

So until you bring forth a candidate that is fit for the job (and don't tell me Peter Obi), you will be rejected.
This thread is unnecessary, we have a country to save.
For the first time in Nigeria’s history, we have a politician that has absolutely clean slate, a politician u cannot find cockroaches in his cupboard, a politician that corruption cannot blackmail into silence or looking away. A politician that stood at his campaign stand and said people always say politicians are not saints, but if anybody can find anything on him, he would step down his nominations as president. They searched heaven searched earth absolutely nothing.


A politician that behaves opposite to other politicians, they try to see if they could use his past affairs with women to bring him down, they searched high and low if they can find just one runs girl he has paid to just use her story, it didn’t work.

For people to look an 8years governor that was appointed by the federal government into position and say he is stingy just know he is him. People always have good things to say about politicians when they work with them, cause they know it’s share the money. This man is totally different. One of a kind and he exists in Nigeria.

He exists in igbo land, a man that does not steal, has never taken bribe. Has never used tout to disrupt any election process. That they even interrogated every single IGP or army that worked with him, just give us one thing to nail this man. They couldn’t.


At a time when Nigerians are hungry, when people are committing suicide over hunger, it’s right for me to call a man, that won’t be building VP house of 12billion while people are dying of hunger, that won’t be increasing electricity bills for people who are suffering while buying new presidential jet.
We need a president that would make civil servant, custom officers, nnpc workers, Efcc staffs, police igp etc look like normal citizens. We need a man that would mk all them say omen this man is stingy,


Not one that would tell them go and raid, destroy and extort. Na we dae power.



I didn’t call the politicians name, but anybody reading this knows him.


This man exists and people voted in someone else.


When u ask what the man offence is some will say his people did sth in 1966, another will say they did Biafra one would say he is ipob.


Just imagine

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Christistruth00: 5:50pm On Jul 08
VinnyBaba:


Mr Coldie, long time.

I Quite agree with you that Tinibu is the Akintola of our time. smiley

Akintola colluded with the Hausa/FULANI Political Lords to Acquire Power, thereby Putting Awolowo in prison.

If not for The Coup by Nzeogwu and Others which Murdered all his Enemies,
Awolowo would have roasted in Jail and DIE like Abiola. embarassed embarassed

Afterwards, Instead of Awolowo to Respect them, he joined Forces with Yakubu Gowon and Starved the IGBOs during the Civil war. undecided

This is the Reason why most IGBOs came to hate Awolowo. sad

As a Widely Respected African Statesman, he should have remained NEUTRAL in the War, just like Nnamdi Azikiwe cleverly did.😒🙂


It is not a Secret that Azikiwe played a lead role in the framing and jailing of Awolowo

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by Fighttillvictory: 5:51pm On Jul 08
Coldie:

This part u talked about labelled bread. I would believe everything you are saying if you can give me any historical proof from anywhere, where you got the information.

I don’t deny the reaction of the igbos after the coup, but if you are sure of what you are saying, prove it.

I know that photo u put is fake, so I ask you to prove the bread loaf sth, I can tell you with confidence that the story is a lie.


If you don’t prove this it would make anything you are saying or have said before questionable.


I wait ur reply. I can say this with confidence cause I heard the rumours too but researched it and I know it’s a BIG FALLACY
my problem with you is the fact that knowing that nig. will not work and will be worst in the next 50yrs, when it should be dissolved and clear every body of tribal thought. it shows you don't even like the people living in the contraption called Nigeriaarea
Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by confusedlady(f): 6:05pm On Jul 08
VinnyBaba:


Are you Suggesting that the Coupists should have Killed Azikiwe? shocked

After Herbert Macaulay, Azikiwe is the GODFATHER of all Nationalists in Africa.
The Likes of Kwame Nkrumah and Others Respected him Massively. cool smiley

Who Dares Kill such a Person? sad undecided

As for Awolowo, It is Enough for Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna to Have Assassinated Balewa, Ahmadu Bello and Co.😕

They are NOT mates with Awolowo and Azikiwe on any Levels
and were Planning on instituting a Hausa/Fulani Dominant Federal Government.😒

Oga,
Quite Frankly I cannot say I understand your point but as per Nnamdi Azikiwe I will inform you that he was an Ibo supremacist masquerading as a pan Africanist. He may have pretended to start out as a Pan Africanist because he was hiding under the cloak of Herbert Macaulay but after the death of Macaulay he reverted back to his Ibo supremacist agenda and after the January 66 coup quickly joined Odumegwu Ojukwu in Biafra before falling out with Ojukwu and in his usual unstable manner jumped ship and ended up supporting one Nigeria.
I will search for that video on YouTube and attach it to this post when I am less busy.

Below is a video of Nnamdi Azikiwe unity Begging for ONE united Nigeria while condemning Odumegwu Ojukwu as a tyrant who misled the Ibo.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEYj8vnR_wk?si=yKFX1Cd2aiBkOSpa

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Re: I Finally Found Out The Truth About The January 1966 Coup. by DMerciful(m): 6:07pm On Jul 08
If truly the West and the North hated the unification decree could you explain why they enforced it after killing Ironsi? Why did they not reversed it?

Secondly, could you explain why Awolowo supported Gowon to break the 4 regions to 12 states about 10 months after being in charge?
Slytiger:

1. Ibos were not the only people in the army, all the counter coup consisted of Northern military officers 😂

2. Ironsi surrounded himself with his kinsmen after the coup.
At the early stage of his tenure, he appointed a three-man advisory team made up of Chief Francis Nwokedi, a Permanent Secretary, Dr. Pius Charles Nwabafor Okigbo (1924-2000) and Colonel Patrick Anwunah, who later became Chairman and Head of the Orientation Committee at that time.

He replaced the then Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr. Taslim Olawale Elias (1914-1991) with Chief Gabriel Chike Michael Onyiuke (SAN), former Director, Public Prosecution, Eastern Nigeria (1960-1965) from Nimo in the present Anambra state.

3. Out of the 22 killed in the coup, only 1 was Ibo. The premier of the eastern region Michael okpara was even spared unlike the premiers of the west and north that were murdered.

4. The handing over of the government to Ironsi by Orizu (the acting president and the senate president who could have called for the formation of another civilian government).

5. The unification decree of May 1966 promulgated by Ironsi, leading to the abolition of regional system of government - Historically speaking, the West and North have always believed in the regional system of government as the best form of government for a multiethnic like Nigeria, however this was taken away by Ironsi, leading to a massive outrage and pogrom in the North. Unification decree favoured the ibos as they don't stay in their region like the others.

6. The coup plotters were kept in Jail but weren't sentenced to death.

You people should stop trying hard to revise history.

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