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

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

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

He wrote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a FACT, and as our journalist friends will tell you, facts are sacred, and opinion is cheap.

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

😂 😂.. yorubas have been running kita kata like sluts in post war Berlin on this issue for the past 3 days

Make una go rest... e don cast... IT WAS NOT AN IGBO COUP!!

I am still looking for the soft copy of Adewale Ademoyega's "why we struck" so i can post it here for these clueless bigots to read and instantly go mute.

In actual fact, Ademoyega was the mastermind of that coup. NZEOGWU was the face!

Ademoyega did the recruiting of officers into the plan. In addition to the fact he was the most senior in age, he appeared to be the most educated and strategic.

He it was that drafted Major Theophilus Nzegwu, the first igbo air force officer to organise the aircraft that would bring Awo from Calabar prison after the success of the coup.

I will find the soft copy of "why we struck".. I lost my physical copy unfortunately but I'll definitely find it and have it posted here.

PS: Nzeogwu is an igbo man in one breath and his people in delta state are not igbos in another according to these cursed ronu twats 😂... keep spinning your double mouthed selves into a corner.

PSS: Maybe we should also term the obasanjo coup as a yoruba coup and the Buhari/Abacha coups as fulani coups 🤦🏾‍♂️

They were jumping up in jubilation not knowing that the Maradona was going to Maradona them. History cannot be rewritten.

Nzeogwu is now a full blooded Igbo man but Ngozi Iwuala is not Igbo.

Stupid set of people.

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

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

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

Says a brainless human being. I understand it is very hard to "unlearn" when bigotry trumps truth. However, people who have the authority to speak to the issue has spoken, not Gen z like you.

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

Dt betty akeredolus disgusting character na follow come.🤮

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

From that moment the putsch was infiltrated by "outsiders" to its supposed original intention and it took on an unmistakable ethnic coloration compounded by the fact that there were no related coup activities in the Eastern Region

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

XY23:


Says a brainless human being. I understand it is very hard to "unlearn" when bigotry trumps truth. However, people who have the authority to speak to the issue has spoken, not Gen z like you.

Look at the he-goat calling his grandfather brainless! Mugu!
Have you read the so called book?

Call your fada what you like and the coup remain an Igbo coup. Shey dem shit for your sense?

Dos people na comfam dumbest!

They twist narrative to suit them!


Maradona don press their mumu button

They can't read for themselves. IBB is wiser than all their ancestors.

Killerofpigs:
IBB..Speaks about the Coup as an active participant.

FFK...Speaks as what?
RENO.. Speaks as What?


All these Agbado miscreants can never change the narrative..

Beriberi can never change facts .

Una don fail..

Don't worry... let me find that book. I'll post it here. The GenZ can be forgiven for regurgitating what mummy and daddy told them.

It's the millennials here who are old enough to have read accounts of that coup and made an informed opinion I shake my head at.

What do you expect FFK to say before? Dude father was one of those who caused the coup in the first place. Set the SW on fire together with his betrayal boss Akintola. No wonder a whole Premier Akintola and Fani Kayode names are forgotten in the history of the Yoruba race.

Until recently when that masafani Buhari remembered Akintola and named the train station at Omi and the Ibadan airport after him,It was only Lautech that has his name on anything. His House at Ogbomosho where he was buried is abadoned and empty with only birds and reptiles living there.

Unlike the great AWO who's legacy lives forever and ever and can never ever be forgotten.

P.S. You will think the 1966 coup is the one and only coup with the way they shout everynow and then,but the Gideon Orkar coup of 1990 is far more bloody and the bloodiest coup. Infact that is even more ethnic than any coup we ever had. They were mostly officers from Benue state and the middle belt.

In the brief hours they held power,they dissmissed 5 Northern state out of Nigeria.
Bauchi
Borno
Katsina
Sokoto
Kano and told them to go meet their cousins jn Niger republic

But it is Igbo coup they will be shouting all about like the oloribuku they are. They are angry that this isnt the era of traditional media where they bamboozle everybody and tell them their own version which is mostly lies and propaganda just to perpetuate themselves in power.

Awon Oloriburuku

Insert,Akintola's abadoned house in Ogbomosho. Unlike Awo's house in Oke Ado Ibadan which is still a beehive of activities and also his country home of Ikenne in Ogun state.

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

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

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

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

A group even came out demanding 10 trillion compensation.

Let the southerners fight themselves because a northerner write a book😂🤣

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

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

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

He wrote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a FACT, and as our journalist friends will tell you, facts are sacred, and opinion is cheap.

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

Lalasticlala nlfpmod mynd44 dominique

Why is it that, it's only yorbads that is having serious heart attacks over this IBB book?
Are yorbads the only tribe in Nigeria?

No matter how the enemies of Ndigbo try to twist the narrative (the way they have been doing) it, it will still not change the truth.

Don't allow your sworn enemy to tell you your history because, he will never tell you the truth.

It was a confirmed IGBO COUP

UNMISTAKABLY IBO COUP
UNMISTAKABLE

Why are we even having this discussion? Call it anything you like but the undisputable facts of the coup remains:
*Non-Igbo political leaders were gruesomely murdered
*Somehow none of the political leaders from the SE got killed
*Majority of the coupists were from the SE
*An Igbo man(Ironsi) became the HoS after the coup
*Ironsi failed to try the coupists
*The revenge coup targeted mainly Igbo officers
....why did they target mainly Igbo officers in the revenge coup? There lies the clue

Killerofpigs:
IBB..Speaks about the Coup as an active participant.

FFK...Speaks as what?
RENO.. Speaks as What?


All these Agbado miscreants can never change the narrative..

Beriberi can never change facts .

Una don fail..

He speaks as a victim
His father was arrested and his family brutalized
But the issue here is
WHAT DID BABANGIDA WRITE in his book
not opinion or debate

JUST FACTS

That
the coup took on an UNMISTAKABLE ETHNIC coloration when they killed the Sardauna and there was NO COUP RELATED ACTIVITY IN THE EASTERN REGION

Those are his words
Nothing to argue about

ibedun:
It was a confirmed UNMISTAKABLE IGBO COUP

phantom:
😂 😂.. yorubas have been running kita kata like sluts in post war Berlin on this issue for the past 3 days

Make una go rest... e don cast... IT WAS NOT AN IGBO COUP!!

I am still looking for the soft copy of Adewale Ademoyega's "why we struck" so i can post it here for these clueless bigots to read and instantly go mute.

In actual fact, Ademoyega was the mastermind of that coup. NZEOGWU was the face!

Ademoyega did the recruiting of officers into the plan. In addition to the fact he was the most senior in age, he appeared to be the most educated and strategic.

He it was that drafted Major Theophilus Nzegwu, the first igbo air force officer to organise the aircraft that would bring Awo from Calabar prison after the success of the coup.

I will find the soft copy of "why we struck".. I lost my physical copy unfortunately but I'll definitely find it and have it posted here.

PS: Nzeogwu is an igbo man in one breath and his people in delta state are not igbos in another according to these cursed ronu twats 😂... keep spinning your double mouthed selves into a corner.

PSS: Maybe we should also term the obasanjo coup as a yoruba coup and the Buhari/Abacha coups as fulani coups 🤦🏾‍♂️

All the major players and people of that moment like Ojukwu, Ademoyega, Babangida have come out to say the coup was not an Igbo coup, the non players and people who are not in any way related to the events of the period are running around with counter claim.

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

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

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

He wrote:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is a FACT, and as our journalist friends will tell you, facts are sacred, and opinion is cheap.

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

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


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

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

kettykings:



All the major players and people of that moment like Ojukwu, Ademoyega, Babangida have come out to say the coup was not an Igbo coup, the non players and people who are not in any way related to the events of the period are running around with counter claim.

Where did Babangida say that ? Can you quote the words in which he said so?
You are a liar
He said the opposite.

That the coup had an UNMISTAKABLE ETHNIC COLOURATION

Which ethnic colour was this? Urhobo?

What I still don't understand about the whole thing why must this coup tagged igbo coup while hausa fulani people staged many coups .

Tinubuadvocate:
What I still don't understand about the whole thing why must this coup tagged igbo coup while hausa fulani people staged many coups .

Because they killed other ethnic leaders .
Many of them

in fact it was a bloodbath and

SPARED ALL IBO LEADERS

Not one Ibo politician was killed

Not only that

An Ibo man became Head of State and
DID NOT TAKE ACTION against the plotters

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

They were calling them wives of cowards. Where have we heard that before?

May be you are not old enough
There was nothing he said about that coup that has not been heard before

In fact nothing that is not already on Nairaland

Everything has been written on this nairaland more than once


Just pick two most outstanding things that you have never heard
The mocking, The songs , a record was made THE GOATS ARE CRYING
Even bread was made with the paper inside the package with mocking photos

You wrote an epistle proving nothing.

OK, it was not an Igbo coup. If them born you well, try to be President as Igbo.

What has changed? Your status as an OSU slave? No wonder Tinubu managed to effortlessly fool your entire tribe to crown himself with your hate

phantom:
😂 😂.. yorubas have been running kita kata like sluts in post war Berlin on this issue for the past 3 days

Make una go rest... e don cast... IT WAS NOT AN IGBO COUP!!

I am still looking for the soft copy of Adewale Ademoyega's "why we struck" so i can post it here for these clueless bigots to read and instantly go mute.

In actual fact, Ademoyega was the mastermind of that coup. NZEOGWU was the face!

Ademoyega did the recruiting of officers into the plan. In addition to the fact he was the most senior in age, he appeared to be the most educated and strategic.

He it was that drafted Major Theophilus Nzegwu, the first igbo air force officer to organise the aircraft that would bring Awo from Calabar prison after the success of the coup.

I will find the soft copy of "why we struck".. I lost my physical copy unfortunately but I'll definitely find it and have it posted here.

PS: Nzeogwu is an igbo man in one breath and his people in delta state are not igbos in another according to these cursed ronu twats 😂... keep spinning your double mouthed selves into a corner.

PSS: Maybe we should also term the obasanjo coup as a yoruba coup and the Buhari/Abacha coups as fulani coups 🤦🏾‍♂️