If it's Igbo coup detat with good intentions that turned one-sided, the counter coup detat was a well intended and deserving reverse to correct an erroneous follies of those who thought they knew it all.

The brains behind the coup thankfully wrote and gave accounts of why they did what they did. Zik was never even pencilled down for anything because he was irrelevant. The sage of western region was the man the coup plotters wanted in power so they went about eliminating his enemies. Was the Premier of Eastern region a threat to Awolowo. Was ceremonial Zik relevant?. Ahmadu bello and akintola were the major targets. Others were collateral damages. If the coup was for Igbo interest, then it shouldn't have happened because the Eastern region highest the topmost positions in both civil service and political offices. A group of people who committed an act have given reasons why they did what they did. No outsider should be making any permutations. A military coup happened just like the others that took place afterwards, end of story. 'Igbos' must be detached from that coup.

Whether good intentions or not,It's never an lgbo coup.

@antnam4406

9 күн бұрын

It is an Igbo coup. They killed leaders of other regions and left their own. Then they destroyed regional government and gave us the horrible unitary government we are still suffering today.

@ucol2068

8 күн бұрын

@@antnam4406and the entire Igbo population came together and agreed to do a coup? Make that make sense

@yinkajala

2 күн бұрын

​@@ucol2068They celebrated and supported the news of the coup.

@ayenia2736

Күн бұрын

@@ucol2068 yes, your representatives did it, and all of you were jubilating. No single igbo condemned that gruesome murder. No single record of either open or private condemnation. TILL TODAY, EVEN IN THIS VERY CHAT, NO SINGLE IGBO CONDEMNED IT. YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW

@akubuirocharles3390

Сағат бұрын

​@@ayenia2736now we are all reaping it na. The whole Country is in Turmoil. If we keep playing the Blame Game we will never forge ahead

Very hard for Nigerians to tell themselves simple truth, this guy bending the truth, he couldn’t answer one straightforward question ,

Edmond obilo . I love you from today for this question you asked this man about the coup against easterners. Thank you so much. It is only truth will set Nigeria free

I wanted to order the book from Amazon, but because the author couldn't answer the simple question put to him by the Mr Edmund "if the coup was an Igbo coup or not," it shows that he did not conduct his research very well. I will suggest he should go and read the book titled "Why We Struck" by Adewale Ademoyega. His fellow Yoruba Man It will help him to answer simple questions correctly in his second edition. Thank you so much

All the leaders of the other regions were killed except the Igbos. Why can’t they accept the truth? Is it because the consequences of that coup destroyed Nigeria! The shame is too much.

@ucol2068

8 күн бұрын

Who are the they? How can few military officers from a tribe represent the entire population of the tribe. Make that make sense.

@GoodlandMultihubIntegratedServ

7 күн бұрын

Chris Anuforo,Swantong,Ademola Ademoyega,etc… weren’t Igbos.

@yinkajala

2 күн бұрын

​@@GoodlandMultihubIntegratedServWho were the victims.

@GoodlandMultihubIntegratedServ

2 сағат бұрын

@@yinkajala When a Yoruba man kill another Yoruba does that make it an Igbo on thing. You see why we don’t want to protest,we’ve known over the years how you reason and lie. My question always gi like this,since we can’t stay together,can’t we separate. B/c,I don’t see any of you guys as people I am in the same country with.

so buhari coup is Fulani coup???

The book is a tribal RÙBBÌSH 😭!

It was never an Igbo coup whether with good intension or bad intension. The fact is that the coup was completetly a military coup by young Nigerian army officers

It was a military coup...... not an Igbo coup

@adewaleibraheem3974

6 күн бұрын

Then all the heads of state then wete military leaders, not Northern heads of state. But we do know almost all the victims were from the North and West. Maybe you can explain that

@linkso7166

6 күн бұрын

@adewaleibraheem3974 All the murders were all military people, not igbo. They were all born and bread in the North .... they are not igbo.

@gabrielcollinsokoli9160

6 күн бұрын

So because is igbo you guys went and murder igbos who in your state most of them did not even know what is going on, and u tell the British that u are doing them a favor killing igbos and up till now no one has raise that up, imagine the northern people where leaving in the eastern region and the were killed how will u guys feel?

@cryptoProcharts

3 күн бұрын

If wike, ameechi start denying their igbo heritage, you will come for their head. Imagine because an igbo wasn't born in igbo land, he is no more igbo. Weldone. When it is sweet to be insulting other tribes and tagging them boko Haram or herds men, you can see how individuals of the tribe feel. Tables dey turn.

Yorubas and their snake way of life nawa ooo simple truth is very hard for majority of them to say......defending lies with no evidence God forbid even at his age

This is insane. Self-preservation is man's own responsibility. Let's agree Azikiwe knew about d coup and fled. Why is this guest blaming Zik for taking d military boys seriously, while Akintola and Balewa did the opposite? Haba! The epicenter of d crisis, instigated by the north, was in the west between Awo and Akintola. The guest is wondering why Michael Okpara in Enugu was not killed? Let me ask, did d military boys kill Awolowo? Nope. Why? Bcos Awo was not part of rotten politicians at d time. So if they spared Awolowo, why would they kill Okpara? This is why we Igbos need to be careful of some of these our brothers in d south.

@antnam4406

9 күн бұрын

It is an Igbo coup. They killed leaders of other regions and left their own. Then they destroyed regional government and gave us the horrible unitary government we are still suffering today.

@ayenia2736

9 күн бұрын

Nnamdi Azikwe--president of the country Nwafor Orizu--senate president Jaja Nwachukwu-- speaker for the house of representative All these people were igbos and they held the most powerful political power in the country at that time Only the prime minister( Tafawa Balewa) was not igbo, and he was the only person the igbo coup plotters killed. Self preservation in your sense would mean ethnic cleansing of others in power by igbos. THAT IS NOT WISDOM.

@oluniyionipede5400

3 күн бұрын

Awo was in prison during the period

@ayenia2736

3 күн бұрын

Awolowo was in prison, and the premier of the west then was killed just as the premier of the north. The senate president and the speaker for the house of representative were igbo, and they were not killed. IT WAS AN ETHNIC CLEANSING

Who told you that Yorubas are not related to the Fulanis

It is an Igbo coup. They killed leaders of other regions and left their own. Then they destroyed regional government and gave us the horrible unitary government we are still suffering today.

@talomeyadua4340

9 күн бұрын

Did you watch the video where Edmund pointed out that the military officers went after the instigators and protagonists of the political crisis who happened to be Northerners and South westerners?

@antnam4406

9 күн бұрын

@@talomeyadua4340 instigators? what did they instigate? the parties in power then were the northern and eastern party. They were in power together, occupying top positions. None of them was killed. It's an Igbo coup to keep stealing other peoples resources.

@law285

4 сағат бұрын

​@@antnam4406for example instance ... in your community there's a problem going through and your community have about 3 kindred or more and your own father was among the leader for your own side of kindred, but the problem instigators are not from your own kindred, if you're the one to handle issue what will you do differently to free the life of innocent leader among the problem makers 😂😂

This man doesn't know what he is talking about here 😂😂😂

@bolasalak7360

6 күн бұрын

My brother before condemning someone opinion you must provide a better and convincing one. It is only ignorant that talk down on others without providing alternative view.

It was not an Igbo Coup. Read *WHY WE STRUCK* BY ADEMOYEGA

@oneman.1780

9 күн бұрын

it was not ibo coup but no ibos was killed in the coup..

@antnam4406

9 күн бұрын

It is an Igbo coup. They killed leaders of other regions and left their own. Then they destroyed regional government and gave us the horrible unitary government we are still suffering today.

@ucol2068

8 күн бұрын

@@oneman.1780go and ask the coup plotters not people who weren’t there when they decided to carry out their coup.

@ucol2068

8 күн бұрын

@@antnam4406no sense

@oneman.1780

7 күн бұрын

@@ucol2068 where the coup plotters now. Maybe, you don’t know coup is a secret between coup juntas. Why you people didn’t want to answer the simple question. Why no Igbo military or political leader was not killed? Why that time was went zik travelled?

A yoruba man no matter how educated or smart he maybe will never analize anything in Nigeria without being trabalistic especially against Ndigbo. Just imagine as this present government is in a mess Igbo man eventully be the problem If get 1000 yoruba people believe me about 995 of them wants an igbo man to disappear

"The relationship between Azikiwe and "Ojukwu senior" (Loius Ojukwu)"? This is completely off the logic. But he is an intelligent author all the same.

Thank you Edmond for your direct questions. I agree with the description that the coup plotters had good intentions but the execution of the coup gave it an Igbo coloration. Major Adewale Ademoyega book "Why we struck" is one of the few authentic books on the coup. The coup leader Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna let down his comrades by the way and manner he executed his assignment. The reason why some people held the view that it was an Igbo coup is because there were just too many coincidences. Azikiwe as the Governor-General conveniently left the country. Okpara, the premier of the eastern region suddenly left the country on the eve of the coup. General Aguyi-Ironsi the head of the Army penciled down for arrest couldn't be found by those assigned to pick him up. Now wait for this, General Maimalari who was not listed for assassination was murdered by Ifeajuna for previous grudges. And of course all victims of the coup were either from the South West or Northern region. Indeed page 79 of the book Why we struck tells a telling story of betrayal and dereliction. The turn out of the coup was unfortunate. But the sincerity of purpose of Majors Kaduna Nzeogwu and Adewale Ademoyega is not in doubt

@kvin55555

9 күн бұрын

It was a british coup to destroy the 1963 constitution. They trained Nzeogwu and gave him his post. Nzeogwu spoke no Igbo and was known as Kaduna all his life. All those officers were trained and commanded by the British -pawns in a chess game. The sole beneficiary of the coup was the British. After all these years someone is writing a book and regurgitating Igbo coup --mindless plagiarism, nothing new. Wisdom eludes Africans.

@ucol2068

8 күн бұрын

This is the only Yoruba man that has been objective about this incident. Now Ifejuana acted on his stupidity but the entire Igbo population are now part of it. Crazy😅

In planning, it wasn't an igbo coup. In execution, it looks like an igbo coup. Nzeogwu's interview with Daniel Ejindu points to this.

@antnam4406

9 күн бұрын

It is an Igbo coup. They killed leaders of other regions and left their own. Then they destroyed regional government and gave us the horrible unitary government we are still suffering today.

@factsandgrin

9 күн бұрын

@@antnam4406 in execution, it looks like it was an igbo coup cos of the killing patterns, but revelations from Majors and Captains involved disagrees.

It was never and Igbo coup...we have grown to dispute this lies. Among the coup plotters are 4 Igbo officers, 4 Yoruba officers, 1 Hausa/Fulani officer, 1 Efik ( South South ) officers, 2 Ishan ( South South-Edo ) and the coup was to install Obafemi Awolowo whom the military boys trusted. So what made it an Igbo coup? Going by the current settings of the country, only 2 Igbos from the present South East while the 2 other Igbos are from South South. Tagging it Igbo coup because prominent Igbos are not killed was a failure of the coup plotters who failed to carried out their assignment in Lagos because it was Odumegwu Ojukwu stopped the coup in Lagos. Stop twisting history.

Saying it's an Igbo coup is the most stupid talk of all time ,refer to history and apologize to the Igbo's

Nnamdi Azikwe--president of the country Nwafor Orizu--senate president Jaja Nwachukwu-- speaker for the house of representative All these people were igbos and they held the most powerful political power in the country at that time Only the prime minister( Tafawa Balewa) was not igbo, and he was the only person the igbo coup plotters killed. Self preservation in your sense would mean ethnic cleansing of others in power by igbos. THAT IS NOT WISDOM. It was a planned coup to wipe others off. Aguiyi ironsi after the coup refused to probe his fellow igbo coup plotters. You guys are just dubious and dangerous, you are in no way smart

@philiproland5970

6 күн бұрын

Fool mr smart since you hijacked the power how is your nigeria moving backward or forward

@annefranciselizabeth3840

4 күн бұрын

The Nzeogwu Coup was a WESTERN COUP (led by Western Igbo and their Yoruba collaborators; 4 out of the ‘5 Majors’ were from the old Western region) to halt Fulani castration of Western Region (declaring a state of emergency, rigging out and imprisoning Awo). Secondly, the Yoruba are the root cause of the coup. The Awo-Akintola crisis led to the Coups/Counter-coups, the collapse of Regionalism, and ultimately the Civil War. The Wild-Wild West killings went on daily in Yoruba land from October 15, 1965, to January 15, 1966. A whopping 3 months of non-stop mayhem that could only be halted from outside. The fact that the first coup was a revolution to save the Yoruba is collaborated by Ademoyega - one of the 5 majors in his book “Why We Struck”. He stated that the D-day had to be brought forward, to prevent a total overrun of the West which had already been decided by the Balewa-led govt. According to Awo's Private Sec (Odia Ofeimun - his video is on KZread), the aim of the coup was to flush out the neo-colonialists from Yorubaland and make Awo the leader of Nigeria. Awo said so himself; quote: “The January coup authors had planned to release me from Calabar, fly me to Lagos, and install me as Head of State. The authors of the coup had no plan to govern the country under a military administration.” (See Obafemi Awolowo, My March Through Prison, Macmillan Nigeria Publishers Ltd, 1985; page 297). The principal targets of the coup were the leaders of the anti-Yoruba cabal (Balewa, Sardauna, Maimalari) and their Yoruba collaborators (SL Akintola, Fani-Kayode). Most of the other deaths (including those of Easterners like QMG Unegbe and Lt. Oduh) were collateral. All those who were pro-Awo were spared, including the NCNC leaders (led by Zik), who were in political union with Awo’s faction of the AG. IN FACT, THE FULANI HAVE BEEN PUNISHING THE IGBO FOR OVER 50 YEARS FOR DARING TO SAVE THE YORUBA FROM THEMSELVES. EVERY LIFE LOST IN THE CIVIL WAR IS AN INDIRECT RESULT OF THAT VENGEANCE. Tinubu is a new SL Akintola (Akintola used rabid Igbophobia and a self-serving alliance with the North to force himself on the electorate). BAT's "Ebi lo kan" disastrous regime has put the Yoruba in a fix. The North has a better buffer from hunger because most staple foods and animal protein come from their region. The East has a financial buffer - Nigeria has the highest dollar remittances in Africa ($20 billion pa, higher than Nigeria's oil revenue) mostly from Ndigbo abroad to their families in Nigeria. So paradoxically, the criminal government that Tinubu has engineered by his theft of PO's mandate will have its worst effect on the Yoruba masses who have little or no buffer. I do not see how the West can avoid another "Awo-Akintola" type of crisis. But this time around there will likely be no Nzeogwu to save the "sophisticated" Yoruba from themselves.

@ayenia2736

4 күн бұрын

@@annefranciselizabeth3840 what a fraudulent statement! A western coup, which led to only killing of westerners and the northerners Carried out by 4 igbo men and only one yoruba man where all the people arrested by the 4 igbo men were killed by these igbo men, and the only person arrested by the yoruba man was brought safely to the other coup plotters as earlier agreed, and one of the 4 igbo men immediately killed that victim! Is that still a yoruba coup as you dubiously write up here? it is alarming to find anyone so bold coming up with this kind of propagandas. This is a coup meant to clean up the system as you dubiously claimed, and the 4 topmost politicians ruling and destroying nigeria then has only one fulani man, the rest were igbos. You killed only the fulani man and your fellow igbo men were left alone. HOW MORE DANGEROUS A LIAR COULD ANYONE BE IN THIS WORLD?

@ayenia2736

4 күн бұрын

@@annefranciselizabeth3840 As at the time Nnamdi Azikwe and Tafawa Balewa government arrested Aolowo and put him in jail, you all claimed Awolowo planned a coup : Till today, no single evidence was presented to the court which sentenced Awolowo to prison. The man was still in prison when these igbo coup plotters massacred others in government. Tell me the name of anyone killed in that coup by the only yoruba man present in that dubious act? The 4 igbo men deceived the only yoruba man by telling him they wanted to only overthrow the government without shedding any blood. He agreed with them any never killed the people he arrested, but rathe brought them to his fellow plotter as agreed while other 4 igbo men killed every single person of other ethnicity outside igbo of note. These same igbo men killed the man arrested by the yoruba man. YOU GENERATION DO NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WICKEDNESS, LIES, VICTIM-SPINNING vs TRUTH AND REAL HUMANITY

@blessed9143

3 күн бұрын

Eyah, sorry o 😂😂

There is no way any serious person listening to this Obilo guy all the time will not conclude that he is an Ibo apologist. He is always spinning every interview to the benefit of the Ibo. I don’t know how serious Yoruba people should submit themselves to be interviewed by this partisan guy

@chijiokeodaghara6604

Күн бұрын

I guess You are entitled to your opinion. It is Only the truth that will heal Nigeria from bleeding