masterfactor:
Lies from the PIT of hell, it was an Igbo coup, nobody should twist history.

Are you more aware of the coup than babangida himself. I pity you are your family

ZombieDredd:

The Igbos don't come across like power hungry people.

You can say that again or perhaps go to alaba and ladipo markets to find out☹️

IBB trying to please his wife tribe by telling a different story.

We will only believe books written by Gowon, ejoor or danjuma.

This is ejoor book a south south man who witness what Igbo did to his people.

Olorunjoe:
Nigeria is One indivisible Entity. Let love lead

Whether it is IGBO, HAUSA or YORUBA, we are all ONE. Let's unite to fight our common enemy

Dey play...

fx45:
Dey play...

Let's love one another

Purely an Igbo coup.
As usual, The manipulative IBB knows where to get his gullible support from.
Name the number of notable high profile Igbo leaders killed in comparison to those of other regions. Who eventually benefited from it, Aguyi Ironsi of course.

'Many people think that Nzeogwu was a tribalistic Igbo. The truth is that he was not. Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna, who tricked him into taking part in the coup (it was not Nzeogwu who planned the coup), was a stark, raving Igbo irredentist. But Nzeogwu was not.

Nzeogwu was a friend of Major Adewale Ademoyega, the only non-Igbo plotter among the putschists, although Ademoyega did not kill anyone during the coup.

Major Nzeogwu was fluent in English, Igbo, Hausa and Gwari. He was that intelligent. Nevertheless, he was a homicidal fellow who locked empathy. Today, we now know that such individuals are psychopaths.'

"From that moment, the "putsch" was infiltrated by outsiders to its supposed original intention, and it took on an unmistakably ethnic colouration." IBB

The January 15, 1966, coup began as a nationalistic coup and ended as a purely tribalistic coup.

The following persons planned the January 15, 1966 coup:

Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna-Igbo from Eastern Region.
Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu-Igbo from the Midwest Region.
Major Chris Anuforo-Igbo from Eastern Region.
Major Don Okafor-Igbo from Eastern Region.
Major Adewale Ademoyega-Yoruba from Western Region.

Of these people, only Major Adewale Ademoyega did not take part in the killings. Please find below the names and regions of the people they killed, and you decide whether or not the coup was one-sided.

1. Sir Ahmadu Bello-Fulani from Northern Region.
2. Sir Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa-Gere from Northern Region.
3. Samuel Ladokr Akintola-Yoruba from Western Region.
4. Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh-Itsekiri from the Midwest Region.
5. Hafsatu Bello (wife of Sir Ahmadu Bello)-Fulani from Northern Region.
6. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun (Brigadier Ademulegun's wife, who was eight months pregnant)-Yoruba from Western Region.
7. Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun-Yoruba from Western Region.
8. Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari-Kanuri from Northern Region.
9. Colonel Kur Mohammed-Kanuri from Northern Region.
10. Colonel Ralph Shodeinde-Yoruba from Western Region.
11. Lt. Colonel Abogo Lagerma-Marghi from Northern Region.
12. Lt. Colonel James Pam-Jos native from Northern Region.
13. Lt. Colonel Arthur Unegbe-Igbo from Eastern Region.
14. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke-Yoruba from Western Region.
15. Police Constable Philip Lewande-Minority from Northern Region.
16. Police Corporal Akpan Anduka-Efik from Eastern Region.
17. Police Corporal Hagai Lai-Minority from Northern Region.
18. Police Corporal Yohana Garkawa-Minority from Northern Region.
19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo-Minirity from Northern Region.
20. Ahmed Pategi-Minority from Northern Region.
21. Zarumi Sardauna-Minority from Northern Region.

Captain Ganiyu Adeleke, Lieutenant Olafimihan and Oyewole, did not take part in the planning of the coup. They were simply officers under the command of some of the coupists who obeyed the orders given to them by their superiors. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke refused such orders and was instantly shot and killed.

So what should we call the coup?

Or you want to say there was no coup at all?

Ojuntana:
There has never been an ethnic coup in Nigeria

Nigeria's military was too colonised to play along tribal lines in those days

Note this:
Aguiyi Ironsi became the first military head after the Igbo coup which killed two northern Muslims

He was killed in July in a counter coup and the man who emerged after him was a northern Christian who went on to become the longest serving military head of state we had.

He was removed and his replacement was a northern Muslim who barely lasted six months before he was also killed in a countercoup and the beneficiary was a southern Christian.

If you look at the trends of the aftermath of each coup, you'll notice the ultimate beneficiaries are not usually from the ethnic stock of those who carried out the coup

So only 2 northern Muslims were killed in the coup?
Are you ignorant or just lying?

Can we all just leave the past and move on as a nation? Can we chart our journey without the constant revisiting of the civil war ? The old people that were participants of the war are stoking the fires of resentment and hatred in the younger generation that would otherwise live in harmony . Younger people that are already inter-marrying like there is no tomorrow 😁. To me “there was a country” triggered this recent deep seated suspicion and hatred in the younger ones . I love igbos . I don’t wish them anything but the best . Are igbos the best people on earth , No . Neither is my Yoruba tribe . There are always good and bad people in all tribes . Let’s learn to live together.Damn . It is tiring !

madone:
That is rather insulting that no ibo soldier had the chance to want to grab power. Was it the greed they lacked or the courage.

This is why you remain an unredeemable peasant with decades of dirt hanging on your hunchback of ignorance.

Yep, no Igbo coup.

Considering that most of the coupists were basically left leaning people.

At the end of the day, it would have led to a socialist government for Nigeria if it had been successful. Most likely a lot of execution would have followed which would have included Igbo politicians.

It is very instructive that Ifeajuiana fled to Ghana where he got a warm welcome from none other than Nkrumah. Had Nkrumah not been overthrown a short time later, he would have been still there

Olorunjoe:
Let's love one another

Nigerians loving each other is a pipe dream, wishful thinking and a delusion. It has never happened in the history of the Zoo and will never happen until the Zoo is finally broken into several fragments

Mvnster:
This would only make sense if the major actors where from the north, west and midwest and majority of the victims where from the east, you cant twist bare facts with propaganda.

The major actors of IBB, Buhari and Abacha coups why are they not called Northern Coup?

Mumu

saintkel:
even if Awolowo were to come back from d dead n tell u the 1966 coup had his blessings, u will still not believe.....continue to wallow in ur sheer hatred for d Igbo race....
Spits!

Awo had no knowledge of the coup.

Some of the coupists were at best sympathetic to his views ( socialist views, not tribalist views)

BafanaBafana:
Igbos want everyone to believe they are Jewish descendants
They want everyone to believe Nnamdi Kanu is a peaceful man who is only asking for better treatment of Igbos
They want everyone to believe Jonathan was the best president Nigeria ever had.
And they want everyone to believe the 1966 coup was not carried out by Igbos.

You forgot to add that "They want everyone to believe Peter Obi won the last election, and he is the messiah that will take Nigeria to the promised land, when in reality he is clueless and will be worst than Jonathan.

Omoboricash:
Before i could beleive this narrative, can we have the name of victim of that coup and also the beneficiary of the coup. Let compare and contrast. Then we can draw our conclusion.
By mere just putting out statement without presenting fact and fugure would not go well with me.

The major actors of IBB, Buhari and Abacha coups why are they not called Northern Coup?

Mumu

COFFINSELLER:


https://x.com/ruffydfire/status/1893163978831896800?s=19

Are we not tired of lying to our conscience.
If it was not an Igbo coup then what was it sbf the subsequent coups that followed what were they?


If others had written it that it was not an Igbo coup and bke we are seeing it been written in IBB's biography does that make it true?
A biography that also says it was Abacha that annulled the June 12 election; can we be serious and sincere with the truth for once?
Just because someone is old and aged doesn't mean they can't lie.!!!

Scholes007:
Good, I'm happy people are saying things how it should be. This is the beginning of the best for Nigeria otherwise there will be nothing for her except misery. You can't insult, accuse and persecute a whole nation with great potential and personality and expect a positive outcome. It is like an ocean, you can only cause a turbulence at a section and it remains calm at the other. It cannot be suppression nor contained else it consume you.

Playing the victim card again.

BafanaBafana:
Well, the coup was planned by Igbo politicians and soldiers, carried out by them (even though few mumu soldiers from other tribes were recruited into it thinking it was a revolution), the victims targeted were soldiers and politicians from other tribes. The people who took power after the coup were Igbo.

Even Nzeogwu, one of those who thought it was a revolution mentioned that the coup was tribalistic.

And in their usual fashion, Igbos gloated, celebrated and made fun of northerners after the coup.

Those are the facts. If you like you can give it any name you like.

The major actors of IBB, Buhari and Abacha coups why are they not called Northern Coup?

Mumu man

Olorunjoe:
Nigeria is One indivisible Entity. Let love lead

Whether it is IGBO, HAUSA or YORUBA, we are all ONE. Let's unite to fight our common enemy

It is TIRING my brother . Politician are stealing us blind without ethnic barriers. Nigerians are busy hating on themselves like there is a cup to be won at the end .

The history is important but the future is way more important. The way these issues are going I hope a generation won’t start another civil war

BafanaBafana:
Igbos want everyone to believe they are Jewish descendants
They want everyone to believe Nnamdi Kanu is a peaceful man who is only asking for better treatment of Igbos
They want everyone to believe Jonathan was the best president Nigeria ever had.
And they want everyone to believe the 1966 coup was not carried out by Igbos.

It was not an Igbo coup.
It was a army coup carried out by socialist leaning officers in the Nigerian army.

BafanaBafana:

Unlike you, this is not the first time we are hearing narratives about the coup. So the fact that the president attended and they donated plenty money makes whatever he said valid?
If that's how you reason, abeg you no reach to follow me argue.

IBB was a small boy in the army at that time. We have heard accounts from several key players, some of our elders were also eye witnesses.

If you are in doubt who to believe, don't believe the evil genius IBB. He is only trying to redeem his tarnished image.

Again, a random tribal bigot on nairaland is a nobody. When the forces of good unite, evil is defeated, and I’m glad Nigerians are now speaking out. It’s only going to get worse for Agbadorians from here, those group of hateful Nigerians who have peddled falsehood for decades

Thanks for dismantling the British/Nigeria concocted lies against Ndigbo. By the way, I don’t care about Peter Obi and I’m not Igbo.

bixton:



Are we not tired of lying to our conscience.
If it was not an Igbo coup then what was it sbf the subsequent coups that followed what were they?


If others had written it that it was not an Igbo coup and bke we are seeing it been written in IBB's biography does that make it true?
A biography that also says it was Abacha that annulled the June 12 election; can we be serious and sincere with the truth for once?
Just because someone is old and aged doesn't mean they can't lie.!!!

IBB IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR !!!

Can the leopard ever change its skin? These criminals parading as politicians/elder statesmen know that majority of Nigerians are very emotional, sentimental and don't have sense.

Ebubu:


The major actors of IBB, Buhari and Abacha coups why are they not called Northern Coup?

Mumu

Those coups were targeted at northerner like themselves and they didn't go about killing leaders of other ethnic groups while keeping their own leaders save.

BafanaBafana:

Unlike you, this is not the first time we are hearing narratives about the coup. So the fact that the president attended and they donated plenty money makes whatever he said valid?
If that's how you reason, abeg you no reach to follow me argue.

IBB was a small boy in the army at that time. We have heard accounts from several key players, some of our elders were also eye witnesses.

If you are in doubt who to believe, don't believe the evil genius IBB. He is only trying to redeem his tarnished image.

I think that ibb was at least a captain in 1966. He was a major by 1968

masterfactor:
Lies from the PIT of hell, it was an Igbo coup, nobody should twist history.

only few of the officers involved were igbo, there were hausa and fulani, urhobo, middle belt, edo, ijaw officers involved, that it is called an igbo coup is a misrepresentation of facts

omooba969:


IBB IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR !!!

Can the leopard ever change its skin?

You forgot IBB wife na ibo woman.


It was expected of him

OldNORSE:
DONT attempt to weaken this revelation by attaching Rufai’s name like he was the one who said it. BABANGIDA who was part and parcel of the Army and also a beneficiary of the coup said it with his full chest!

No Igbo coup during Babangida reign but there was Igbo coup before Babangida. But coup is coup, it was not based on tribe then but the leader of the coup plot.

masterfactor:
Lies from the PIT of hell, it was an Igbo coup, nobody should twist history.

The objective of the coup was to kill ahmadu bello, akintola and zik and free awolowo from jail, tell me, how that is an igbo coup

Of course, there was Igbo coup. Even Igbo themselves knew with all the those undeniable evidences

Mvnster:
This would only make sense if the major actors where from the north, west and midwest and majority of the victims where from the east, you cant twist bare facts with propaganda.

The major actors were from all across Nigeria, only about three or four were igbos