logica:
Yes, but this was the FIRST ever coup in Nigeria which shaped ALL other events. Every other coup you can mention happened as a result of this misadventure by these rascals. That's the difference. The mess you are seeing in Nigeria today traces back to that night of January 1966. Also, honorable men do not kill pregnant women (especially in front of their daughter).

Hagm0nd:
Ademulegun killed by an IBO man, his statue stands in Ondo City roundabout,Fajuyi died protecting an IBO man,yet they call us cowards and traitors.
Time will tell

Igboic:


Another trash from Yoruba propaganda archives.

Not only was Fajuiyi in full support of Nzeogwu actions and the coup, he persistently shielded them from being punished by Ironsi by pleading on their behalf, when the coup failed .

He was top of the death list of the Northern military junta who he obstructed from getting justice they demanded by shielding "the boys".

He didn't die protecting anybody, he died for his role in the coup. The story of Fajuyi dying to protect Ironsi was made up by the Yoruba propaganda media, who needed to paint the picture of the coup as an "Igbo coup", but couldn't sell such, if they remained true to Fajuyi's role in the whole debacle.

wizzakosh:
shut your dirty crab if you know nothing about nigeria.

meforyou1:
was asking the guy that claimed that Zik was aware of the coup that's why he went on vacation.

kayo80:


Thank u o! But the ipob people keep saying awolowo killed them with starvation. I just wonder... why would u want the person u are fighting to keep supplying you food while your bombing his land. That doesn't make sense at all.

babsnuel:
dude calm down..I am Yoruba but one of the major coup plotters was Adekunle Fajuyi..a Yoruba man and d minister of finance den was also an Igbo man

LucifersTongue:


What book was this piece culled from?

babadee1:


Pls correct yourself, you mean Adewale Ademoyega. Adekunle Fajuyi was killed in the counter coup while protecting his boss the head of state at the time Aguiyi Ironsi.

Aigbofa:


Irony of life.

Okafor like other officers joined the Revolution because he wanted to free Nigeria from the corruption and indiscipline of politicians. But four weeks earlier, the Army Legal Officer, Chief Arthur Worrey found Okafor guilty of stealing his subordinates’ funds. The Federal Guards held a monthly raffle draw and social nights (Wassa). The proceeds from ticket sales and lucky dips were recorded in Army Book 64 and saved in the PRI (President of Regimental Institute) account. For months, false figures were recorded as Okafor was stealing this money and giving a fraction as hush money to the treasurer Corporal Magaji Birnin Kebbi, a NCO in his fifties. Unknown to Okafor, Magaji was recording actual figures in his private file. Later Magaji interceded on behalf of a friend and colleague Private Mamman Sokoto at the Motor Transport Section of the Federal Guards who had been overlooked for promotion for four years. Okafor did not honour his pledge to promote the man when the list of the promoted was published. When Magaji went back to Okafor in his office in November 1965, Okafor ordered him to be locked up as he a Major and the OC of the elite Federal Guards did not feel he was answerable to a mere corporal in matters of promotion. Magaji then spilled the secrets. Eventually Okafor was found guilty of stealing his soldiers’ funds. Lieutenant Tarfa who was one of Okafor’s junior officers at the Federal Guards served as Magaji’s interpreter before the panel of inquiry. For Magaji was an old illiterate soldier. Tarfa later wrote in his account that, Okafor was afraid of being severely punished that he appealed to Brigadier Maimalari to help. But then they never knew then that the main reason he was scared of punishment was that he would have been suspended and relieved of his command of the Federal Guards. That would have deprived him of both participating and making the resources of the Federal Guards available to their Revolution.

Maimalari, a Northerner intervened and cut tapes that let Okafor, an Easterner, off the hook. But Okafor had lost the total respect of most soldiers in the barracks for his action towards the elderly illiterate Northern corporal and for stealing their money. Had Maimalari allowed army procedures to properly take its due course, had he not allowed “kindness” to get in the way, that night of nights, he would not had been in a position where he had to be scaling his own high fence, hiding in shrubs, fleeing from the man whom he thought he had saved from punishment. Well, 90 minutes later, it was his own world famous brigade chief of staff, Ifeajuna, who had organised a befitting cocktail at his residence that eventually pulled the trigger, took his heartbeat and finally put him to rest.

Igboic:

Remember that the plan of Nzeogwu and co was to install Awo as the numero uno.

sunnyeinstein:


So how could such a brutal person and race claim victim when they started it (achebe would later paint a picture of igbo massacre in his book while going silent and kind on the atrocities of b1afraud soldiers!).

kingzizzy:


How come you people keep lying that Ojukwu started the war? Ojukwu was in the East when War came to him, so how could he have started it?

mytot90:
Happy in what sense.

kingzizzy:


How come you people keep lying that Ojukwu started the war? Ojukwu was in the East when War came to him, so how could he have started it?

logicab:
I should remember? According to who? If you are slightly above the level of mental retardation, you should wonder why a coup that was planned to make Awo the Prime Minister witnessed no action (to secure a prime target in military parlance) at the Calabar Prisons where Awo was locked up.

Aquariann:


Wow, so while the Federal government declared full blown war against Biafra, Biafra saw it as a simple "police action"

And the Midwestern invasion was also carried out by Federal troops.

And I never knew Ore was in Biafra land then.. Nice info

Stop listening to what your parents told you and carry out your own research

sunnyeinstein:


Lyk seriously bros? Abeg who declared Rep of Biafra after aburi accord? Who got home and told the press somtin diffrent from what was agreed @ aburi?



I guess it was chief enahoro!

Aquariann:


Wow, so while the Federal government declared full blown war against Biafra, Biafra saw it as a simple "police action"

And the Midwestern invasion was also carried out by Federal troops.

And I never knew Ore was in Biafra land then.. Nice info

Stop listening to what your parents told you and carry out your own research

Aquariann:


Wow, so while the Federal government declared full blown war against Biafra, Biafra saw it as a simple "police action"

And the Midwestern invasion was also carried out by Federal troops.

And I never knew Ore was in Biafra land then.. Nice info

Stop listening to what your parents told you and carry out your own research

Igboic:


Lol! Never knew they needed to scheme on how to release Awo, after the coup,when they would have become the only powers that mattered then.

Igboic:


No! The very first coup was the civilian coup hatched by Awo led AG to topple Tafawa Balewa's government, that very act of treason and insubordination driven by Awo's lust for power, set the precedence for future coup planners in Nigeria, it also inspired Nzeogwu and co.

Remember that the plan of Nzeogwu and co was to install Awo as the numero uno.

I'd say that Awo greed for power and lust for lucre, first of all set the Western region on fire, and inspired the first military coup in Nigeria.

Awo is to be blamed. He( Awo) and by extension Yorubas are the genesis of everything wrong with Nigeria, Sanusi was right.

logicab:
You see how foolish you are on military matters? When a plan is formed, you secure all high value persons. If they had the intention of making Awo Prime Minister, they would have secured and kept him in a safe place as a matter of priority. Reason: if the details of the plot were discovered, the priority of those countering the coup would be to capture Awolowo and that would jeopardize the entire plans of the coup. I have tried to explain, but if you still don't get it, don't bother.

Igboic:


Awo was already in a secured place, in the East.

Igboic:

Awo and by extension Yorubas remain the genesis of political unrest and insubordination in Nigeria. They destroyed our democracy and replaced it with disarray, truly the problem of Nigeria,

Igboic:

like Sanusi surmised.

Malawian:
Yorubas are seriously beating their meat here only because a girl went from eating corn flakes to drinking the pap every other average Nigerians drank, abi? That this cornflakes drinking fella tells us a sobbing story to humanize her dad does not preclude him from being the bad corrupt egg that needed to be crushed. Ejoor o. Igbo warriors can get involved in the mudslinging going on here.

hundredhunndred:
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Cafe attendant sef dey talk. Lmaoook

logica:
Yes, but this was the FIRST ever coup in Nigeria which shaped ALL other events. Every other coup you can mention happened as a result of this misadventure by these rascals. That's the difference. The mess you are seeing in Nigeria today traces back to that night of January 1966. Also, honorable men do not kill pregnant women (especially in front of their daughter).

omooba969:


Hello gorgeous!

Ngozi123:


The mess that we're seeing in Nigeria today traces back to colonialism and our so called 'independence' from British rule. Nigeria has never been a democracy and the fact that you think that everything we're seeing today is as a result of that coup shows that the elites have really distorted our history. The coup was inevitable; ask yourself why it was inevitable in order to get to the real reason for the mess in this country...