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When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by gidgiddy: 1:04pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
On July 29th 1966, there was a military coup, led by Northerners, in which the Military head of state, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi was killed. For the next 2 days after the death of Ironsi, Nigeria had no President. The Military Governor of the Eastern Region, Lt Col Ojukwu, called Ironsi's deputy and Chief Of General Staff, Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe Ojukwu told Ogundipe that in the absence of Ironsi, he(Ogundipe) should declare him President as the highest ranking officer of the Nigerian Army. Ojukwu also told Ogundipe that should he(Ogundipe) make a nationwide broadcast declaring himself president, he(Ojukwu) would make a broadcast on the Eastern Nigerian Radio 2 hours later declaring total support and allegiance to the administration of Ogundipe. Ogundipe told Ojukwu over the phone that he had no troops under his command, to which Ojukwu told him to remember he was in Lagos, which was in the South, and not in the North. Sadly, Ogundipe did not have the backbone to declare himself President. Two days later, the Northerners chased Ogundipe out of Lagos to London and a much junior Lt Col Gowon declared himself president. 17 Likes 6 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by BUSINESSARENAA(m): 1:09pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
Hmmmm, very very interesting 7 Likes 1 Share |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by kestolove95(m): 1:09pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
Na Yoruba dey can fear nd don't hv that mind 18 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by angelEmade: 1:18pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
AS A YORUBA PRETTY LADY I.WILL.ONLY SAY
KANU IS WISE
KANU IS GREAT
I LOVE KANU
NIGERIA IS A PROBLEM
YORUBA IS GREAT
WE LOVE IGBOS
NO TO TRIBAL WARS 16 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by alfasexy: 1:21pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
angelEmade: How much for one night? 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Lawgod247: 1:27pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
Ok |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by sapientia(m): 1:30pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
leave the past people. Lets be more concerned with the present.
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Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Nobody: 1:35pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
Cowards are forever cowards. Ogundipe is not different. If it is like backstabbing, betrayal....they will take first position....Lol 17 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by itsme01: 1:38pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
gidgiddy: when will some Ibos get a life and stop spreading fake news due to inferiority complex ? when.. if we open this same chapter some of you would weep bitterly and see how hopeless it might get for you in national politics time and time again it has being shown through history and karma that it is always the greedy pigs that instigate issues that always pay bitterly with their bloods flowing everywhere, without any ray of hope, while God uses the calm to lord over them while they wail endlessly . 26 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Nobody: 1:42pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
Lol 1 Like |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by YeeboMuslim: 1:46pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
MelesZenawi:My Aboki friend pretending to be Osu Jew. Stop lying . You know your Fulani people are the cowards .They attack old women and men in their huts in the middle of the night. Now to the op, The op is nothing but a tissue of lie. By the way , immediately after the counter coup in July 1966, the cantekerous coward osu Jew Ojukwu ran away from the regional headquarter in Enugu to go hide in Onitsha in a police station. He was scared for his life and rightly so because the majority of rifle wielding soldiers in the Eastern region were of Northern origin . I'm surprised my fellow Osu Muslim brother from Anambra that opened this thread wanted Ogundepo whose orders were being flatly rejected by rank and file Northern soldiers in the immediate aftermath of the counter coup to assume leadership of a military that had lost it and was headed for the rocks . And in fact Aguiyi Ironsi was still missing coupled with the fact that the Northern officers had wholly succeeded with their counter coup and were chanting Araba in anticipation for their secession from Nigeria . It's shameful my fellow Igbo Muslim brothers would want Ogundepo to assume leadership in such circumstances . Lastly , if Azikwe and NCNC had agreed with Awolowo/Enahoro/AG to insert a secession clause during the constitutional conference in London , the coup my fellow Igbo Muslims, Jews and Christian organized in January 1966 wouldn't have been necessary . And Yes, the ethnic purging where we took out only the millitary and political leaders of Yoruba and Fulani was a case of greed taken too far by my Igbo people . We call others cowards but the whole world knows my Igbo tribe is filled with wrapper tying spineless half men . Idiagbon came back voluntary from Saudi to face the coup plotters when he could have remained there to enjoy his freedom . Abiola and Obasanjo also came back to face the dreaded Abacha when they could have remained outside to save their necks . Civilians like Abraham Adesanya and other noble Yoruba men were at the fore front of the struggle for the return of democracy during the cursed Abacha led military junta. Our history as Igbo on the other hand is replete with back stabbers, snakes in human skin as well spineless wrapper tying sissies . Examples include Ojukwu ( an absolute disgrace to every Y chromosome carrying being ) , Nnamdi Kanu , Nnamdi Azikwe and Athur Nzeribe . Conclusively , Igbos are the cause of the current failed status of Nigeria. They derailed our nacent democracy in January 1966 and led us to a needless war that we are yet to recover from till date. 23 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Nobody: 1:47pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
itsme01: In voice of IBB “ Can yorubas fight” 13 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by itsme01: 1:49pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
MelesZenawi: no we cant, but we have people intelligent enough to win a war by starving biafrans to cannibalism, intelligent people win wars even without a bullet, while does destined to die loose war with 3 million casualties . 20 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Sweeetheart(m): 1:51pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
alfasexy: lolz that's cynthiakiss the ugly goat. she's only impersonating everyone 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Nobody: 1:52pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
itsme01: Maybe that was why awolowo was so intelligent to take rat poison....and the current ones were so intelligent to form a toothless bull dog called amotekun. 18 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Dedetwo(m): 1:53pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
gidgiddy: Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe was Chief of staff Supreme Military Council. "Ojukwu told him to remember he was in Lagos, which was in the South, and not in the North", even if he was in Ibadan, the story would have remained the same, freaking cowardice. By the way, the son of the soil was deleted in Ibadan and no sound of cough was heard from Yari.ba. 15 Likes 4 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Sweeetheart(m): 1:53pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
MelesZenawi: can Igbo fight? why is KANU not in his parents Burial? I mean ordinary burial not war? what am I saying ordinary ojukwu a once war expertise disguise like a lady to abdijan Igbo be talking like people that smokes crack lately 13 Likes |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by itsme01: 1:59pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
MelesZenawi: Great Awolowo enjoyed his life till the ripe age of 78, and he achieved many feat, like free education for his people, Odua investment, Nigerian Tribune, Cocoa house , bodija Housing estate, Ironically a Pig named Ojukwu also cowardly leaved to age 78 and achieved death of 3 million of his people while he ran from one underground bunkers to the other before Obasanjo chased him to ivory coast, his other achievement is marrying Femi Fani Kayode's prostitute who later took over Ojukwu's asset chasing his fat children away,.. oh and politically ojukwu became the biggest looser losing Senatorial seat when he came back from exile, he founded a party APGA yet he couldn't win anything and his Bianca wife even lost Senatorial primaries in the party failure Ojukwu founded... 20 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by gidgiddy: 2:00pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
itsme01: This is no fake news but a well known historical fact. One thing I have often wondered is why Yorubas let the Northerners roll over them like that? Brigaduer Ogundipe was the highest ranking officer after Ojukwu. He should have been head of state. But his fellow Yorubas just let a handful of armed Northerners chase him away like that and install a junior ranked Northerner like Gowon as head of state in Lagos 16 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Dedetwo(m): 2:00pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
itsme01: Did you say we? I guess being loudmouthed is a symptom of ignorance. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by gidgiddy: 2:02pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
Dedetwo: True, Military Governor of the Western Region, Lt Col Fajuyi, was slaughtered by the Northerners and nobody said a word in the West because it was Northerners 9 Likes 1 Share |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Nobody: 2:03pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
itsme01: Few lines of my submission and you are here writing composition. Is that also part of the intelligence? 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: When Ogundipe Was Meant To Be President, Only Ojukwu Supported Him by Dedetwo(m): 2:04pm On Feb 29, 2020 |
itsme01: Only a fool would believe the free education crap. The people in western region were so humanly taxed that few were able to send their wards to the secondary. The so-called free education was fraud. All so-called investments were converted into personal properties. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
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