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Tranquillity360: 3:54pm On Feb 25
Lifestone:

Dey deceive yourself. All s of the events including those from Danjuma confirmed that he opted to go to wherever his guests is taken to. He took the bullet for Ironsi. The irony of it is that Igbos have failed to acknowledge this.
No be only bullet for Ironsi,he also took bomb for him grin grin

Fajuyi that was killed together with Ironsi, you changed the narrative because you are afraid of north.


This story was told by none other than the ADC to General Aguiyi Ironsi himself, Captain (Now Senator) Andrew Nwankwo. It shows how the Northerners murdered Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi and his host, Ironsi. It also shows that they lied to the Yoruba nation that Fajuyi was killed accidentally while defending Ironsi. His murder was covered up by the north in order not to make the west suspicious of their agenda. Read on.

How Ironsi was killed, by his ADC
By PETRUS OBI, Abakaliki
Monday, June 28, 2004
• Senator Andrew Nwankwo
Photo.Sun News Publishing

Senator Andrew Nwankwo from the Izzi clan in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, was a captain in the Nigeria Air Force before the January 1966 coup that made way for Major General J. T. U Aguiyi Ironsi to emerge as Head of State.
He became Ironsi’s Aide-De-Camp through the recommendation of Brigadier George Krubo who was then in-charge of the Air Force and subsequently supervised the late Head of State’s security.

Capt. Andrew Nwankwo (rtd) said he was to die with his boss, but for fate. He was present when both Ironsi and Fajuyi were shot dead.

Tracking the 61-year-old former ADC down in his one story building residence in Abakaliki was not as difficult as getting him to recall the events that led to the death of his master 38 years ago.
He would start by taking you down memory lane when he served as a courier to late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, "I was manning the octopus-a helicopter that carries 105 artillery gun and six other machine guns.

"So when Ethiopia was at war with Somalia in 1964/65 we formed the defence group of the emperor, we also formed an attack force. When the emperor is going to the frontline to see what is happening, we ring him round to clear the way for him".
It was part of these that Ironsi saw and handed over his security to the young captain. "It was cool working with Ironsi, he understood everything about what I should do because he had commanded the UN forces in Congo, and that exposed him to the type of people he needed".

The coup
Recalling the events of that night, July 29, 1966, Nwankwo noted that they were in Ibadan, "we had a small detachment of 106 Artillery, Commanded by one Walbe from Plateau"
The Head of State had the previous day hosted traditional rulers from all parts of the country in the Ibadan Government House. "He wasn’t feeling quite well, he had a knee problem and had to go to bed early.

"Lieutenant Sanni Bello was the army ADC, and we were very close. So, we left that night to go and look out and came back late. Lt. Adamu who was the ADC to Fajuyi, Sanni Bello, Walbe and myself, we all slept together in one room that night".
"At about 4a.m the telephone rang, I picked it up and that was Adeola, the then commissioner of police, Ibadan he said he wanted to speak with Ironsi, I said I was the ADC, he said he wanted to speak with him because there was a coup and he gave me some names Orok and two others that had been killed in

Abeokuta.
"Immediately, I made a mental picture of it, and I knew that it was the northerners that were responsible. So, I handed the phone to Ironsi and they talked. I then alerted Adamu and Sanni Bello and said look, there is a coup and the trend is this way.

"Bello assured me that if it is his own people he will protect me, because, there was tension in the land such that we knew a coup was imminent. So, we agreed to protect each other depending on where it will be coming from. I later discovered that Walbe who was sleeping with us was part of the coup; he later became ADC to Gowon.

"Around 5:30 we heard gunfire, then Ironsi had called Col. Njoku to tell him about the coup. As Njoku was going out, he was short at, but he escaped with bullet wounds. It was Njoku, who was the commander of Lagos Garrison that alerted others outside the Government House, Ibadan.
"Fajuyi later sent me outside the government House to find out what was happening. I met Danjuma, who was then a major and he was my friend. He pretended he didn’t know what was happening, he was asking me, and I said I didn’t know. While I was trying to go back, one sergeant from Benue almost shot me, but Danjuma stopped him and spoke to him in Hausa. Danjuma later told me that he would like to see Ironsi, so that he could tell them what to do.

"It was then that Fajuyi came out to find out what was holding me, and there inside the Government House Danjuma ordered for his arrest and mine too. That was when I saw Walbe. Then Fajuyi asked me to take him to Ironsi so that they will obey him, that there should be only one person in charge. So, I took them to Ironsi, and major Newman, immediately he saw Ironsi, he seized his crocodile swagger stick, and then they started asking him about the January coup, he said he didn’t know about it that he only agreed to be Head of State so that he can restore confidence and normalcy. It was immediately they arrested Ironsi that they turned violent".

The road to the valley of death
They marched us down, Ironsi and myself, to where Fajuyi was. They used telephone cable to tie my hands behind and my legs, with a little space to walk. Same they did to Ironsi, but they removed his shirt, he wore only tros, they also tied Fajuyi. Ironsi was in a Land Rover, Fajuyi in a mini bus and myself in another bus. They drove us towards Iwo Road, 10 km from Ibadan, there was a small forest were they stopped, marched us to the right hand side of the bush, Fajuyi was leading and as he tried to cross a small stream, he fell down, the soldiers were unruly, it appeared some of them had for the first time taken Indian hemp, so when he fell down some of them started beating him.

My escape
As Fajuyi fell down and they were beating him, Sanni Bello came to me and tapped me and said, we could do something now. It was providence, may be I was not destined to die. I took a few steps from them and jumped into a nearby ditch, all in a split of a second, Bello came and stood by the ditch and was shouting that I had escaped pointing at another direction. So the soldiers ran around that direction shooting into the bush, and when they felt they must have killed me, they shot Fajuyi and then Ironsi there, by the side of the stream. So Bello made sure that he was the last to leave the place.
The ADC, who was later elected senator in 1983 stated that the former Head of State could have escaped if not that he wanted to make sure that there was no bloodshed. He said if he sacrificed his life and prevented bloodshed in Nigeria, it’s better for him. Even his chaplain urged him to escape but he said No. Also many of his officers who were ed instead of taking action ran away.
The ADC denied the prevailing story that Ironsi was tied to a Land Rover and dragged along the road. He maintained that he saw Ironsi and Fajuyi shot dead. "They shot him on the chest and it was a burst, so he would have died after the first shot".

The crocodile staff
It was a swagger stick, which he made after his name Aguiyi (crocodile). It was in the Congo, when he was commanding the United Nations Forces, the Indian troops were to land at the Lumumbashi Airport but the Cameroon gendarmes went and blocked the place with trucks, so that the Indian soldiers will not land, so, he used a Land Rover and with the stagger stick waved as they were shouting, he was eventually able to convince them to remove the trucks. Many attributed that feat to extraordinary powers in his swagger stick. But there was nothing in it, it was just a stick. Ironsi was not fetish; he was a devoted Catholic and attended mass every morning, even the day he was killed. ***** This Interview was culled from www.sunnewsonline.com
Bastardlyrich: 3:58pm On Feb 25
Lifestone:
We should ask Danjuma. He died protecting Aguyi Ironsi
So you believe a cowordky Yorubad 🐖 will die protecting a brace Igbo.
The idiott was killed while Yorubad 🐖 started liaring he died for ironsi.as per Jesus na

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Lifestone(m): 4:02pm On Feb 25
Yorubafather:









Still better than the propaganda your forefathers has ed to you that makes you lose touch with reality other than propaganda, do you know anything else in life apart from propaganda and back stabbing?






My brother, I listened to some audios of Emeka Ojukwu pre the civil war to understand the state of mind of someone going to war. His bragging was like of this current generation, how Federal is a no match for him, only for him to start complaining of no weapons at the start of the war. Propaganda everywhere, even to deceive themselves. I wonder for this people

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Lifestone(m): 4:05pm On Feb 25
Tranquillity360:
No be only bullet for Ironsi,he also took bomb for him grin grin

Fajuyi that was killed together with Ironsi, you changed the narrative because you are afraid of north.


This story was told by none other than the ADC to General Aguiyi Ironsi himself, Captain (Now Senator) Andrew Nwankwo. It shows how the Northerners murdered Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi and his host, Ironsi. It also shows that they lied to the Yoruba nation that Fajuyi was killed accidentally while defending Ironsi. His murder was covered up by the north in order not to make the west suspicious of their agenda. Read on.

How Ironsi was killed, by his ADC
By PETRUS OBI, Abakaliki
Monday, June 28, 2004
• Senator Andrew Nwankwo
Photo.Sun News Publishing

Senator Andrew Nwankwo from the Izzi clan in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, was a captain in the Nigeria Air Force before the January 1966 coup that made way for Major General J. T. U Aguiyi Ironsi to emerge as Head of State.
He became Ironsi’s Aide-De-Camp through the recommendation of Brigadier George Krubo who was then in-charge of the Air Force and subsequently supervised the late Head of State’s security.

Capt. Andrew Nwankwo (rtd) said he was to die with his boss, but for fate. He was present when both Ironsi and Fajuyi were shot dead.

Tracking the 61-year-old former ADC down in his one story building residence in Abakaliki was not as difficult as getting him to recall the events that led to the death of his master 38 years ago.
He would start by taking you down memory lane when he served as a courier to late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, "I was manning the octopus-a helicopter that carries 105 artillery gun and six other machine guns.

"So when Ethiopia was at war with Somalia in 1964/65 we formed the defence group of the emperor, we also formed an attack force. When the emperor is going to the frontline to see what is happening, we ring him round to clear the way for him".
It was part of these that Ironsi saw and handed over his security to the young captain. "It was cool working with Ironsi, he understood everything about what I should do because he had commanded the UN forces in Congo, and that exposed him to the type of people he needed".

The coup
Recalling the events of that night, July 29, 1966, Nwankwo noted that they were in Ibadan, "we had a small detachment of 106 Artillery, Commanded by one Walbe from Plateau"
The Head of State had the previous day hosted traditional rulers from all parts of the country in the Ibadan Government House. "He wasn’t feeling quite well, he had a knee problem and had to go to bed early.

"Lieutenant Sanni Bello was the army ADC, and we were very close. So, we left that night to go and look out and came back late. Lt. Adamu who was the ADC to Fajuyi, Sanni Bello, Walbe and myself, we all slept together in one room that night".
"At about 4a.m the telephone rang, I picked it up and that was Adeola, the then commissioner of police, Ibadan he said he wanted to speak with Ironsi, I said I was the ADC, he said he wanted to speak with him because there was a coup and he gave me some names Orok and two others that had been killed in

Abeokuta.
"Immediately, I made a mental picture of it, and I knew that it was the northerners that were responsible. So, I handed the phone to Ironsi and they talked. I then alerted Adamu and Sanni Bello and said look, there is a coup and the trend is this way.

"Bello assured me that if it is his own people he will protect me, because, there was tension in the land such that we knew a coup was imminent. So, we agreed to protect each other depending on where it will be coming from. I later discovered that Walbe who was sleeping with us was part of the coup; he later became ADC to Gowon.

"Around 5:30 we heard gunfire, then Ironsi had called Col. Njoku to tell him about the coup. As Njoku was going out, he was short at, but he escaped with bullet wounds. It was Njoku, who was the commander of Lagos Garrison that alerted others outside the Government House, Ibadan.
"Fajuyi later sent me outside the government House to find out what was happening. I met Danjuma, who was then a major and he was my friend. He pretended he didn’t know what was happening, he was asking me, and I said I didn’t know. While I was trying to go back, one sergeant from Benue almost shot me, but Danjuma stopped him and spoke to him in Hausa. Danjuma later told me that he would like to see Ironsi, so that he could tell them what to do.

"It was then that Fajuyi came out to find out what was holding me, and there inside the Government House Danjuma ordered for his arrest and mine too. That was when I saw Walbe. Then Fajuyi asked me to take him to Ironsi so that they will obey him, that there should be only one person in charge. So, I took them to Ironsi, and major Newman, immediately he saw Ironsi, he seized his crocodile swagger stick, and then they started asking him about the January coup, he said he didn’t know about it that he only agreed to be Head of State so that he can restore confidence and normalcy. It was immediately they arrested Ironsi that they turned violent".

The road to the valley of death
They marched us down, Ironsi and myself, to where Fajuyi was. They used telephone cable to tie my hands behind and my legs, with a little space to walk. Same they did to Ironsi, but they removed his shirt, he wore only tros, they also tied Fajuyi. Ironsi was in a Land Rover, Fajuyi in a mini bus and myself in another bus. They drove us towards Iwo Road, 10 km from Ibadan, there was a small forest were they stopped, marched us to the right hand side of the bush, Fajuyi was leading and as he tried to cross a small stream, he fell down, the soldiers were unruly, it appeared some of them had for the first time taken Indian hemp, so when he fell down some of them started beating him.

My escape
As Fajuyi fell down and they were beating him, Sanni Bello came to me and tapped me and said, we could do something now. It was providence, may be I was not destined to die. I took a few steps from them and jumped into a nearby ditch, all in a split of a second, Bello came and stood by the ditch and was shouting that I had escaped pointing at another direction. So the soldiers ran around that direction shooting into the bush, and when they felt they must have killed me, they shot Fajuyi and then Ironsi there, by the side of the stream. So Bello made sure that he was the last to leave the place.
The ADC, who was later elected senator in 1983 stated that the former Head of State could have escaped if not that he wanted to make sure that there was no bloodshed. He said if he sacrificed his life and prevented bloodshed in Nigeria, it’s better for him. Even his chaplain urged him to escape but he said No. Also many of his officers who were ed instead of taking action ran away.
The ADC denied the prevailing story that Ironsi was tied to a Land Rover and dragged along the road. He maintained that he saw Ironsi and Fajuyi shot dead. "They shot him on the chest and it was a burst, so he would have died after the first shot".

The crocodile staff
It was a swagger stick, which he made after his name Aguiyi (crocodile). It was in the Congo, when he was commanding the United Nations Forces, the Indian troops were to land at the Lumumbashi Airport but the Cameroon gendarmes went and blocked the place with trucks, so that the Indian soldiers will not land, so, he used a Land Rover and with the stagger stick waved as they were shouting, he was eventually able to convince them to remove the trucks. Many attributed that feat to extraordinary powers in his swagger stick. But there was nothing in it, it was just a stick. Ironsi was not fetish; he was a devoted Catholic and attended mass every morning, even the day he was killed. ***** This Interview was culled from www.sunnewsonline.com
I read the entire piece and it represented the of the ADC. The context is no different from what we know already.
Lifestone(m): 4:06pm On Feb 25
ValarDoharis:
Does it make sense to you that Northern soldiers can't separate him from Ironsi?
They were both killed
Tranquillity360: 4:08pm On Feb 25
Lifestone:

I read the entire piece and it represented the of the ADC. The context is no different from what we know already.
So what Said Fajuyi was Ironsi bullets proof?
ValarDoharis: 4:10pm On Feb 25
Why did they kill Fajuyi?
Lifestone:

They were both killed

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CJStarz: 4:13pm On Feb 25
Lifestone:

It won't make sense to you for obvious reason. You people throws your guest under the bus.
The Truth really hurts, doesn't it?
OkCornel(m): 4:13pm On Feb 25
Tranquillity360:
No Nigerian is a nationalist.


And again nothing Unites us.

If there's any mention it.




If you are talking about something that unite Yorubas and Hausafulanis,then it is only hatred for Igbos that unite them, nothing again.

If there's another, mention it.

And how has tribalism helped the masses from independence till date?

While the vultures put aside their differences to loot the common wealth of the masses 🤷
CJStarz: 4:14pm On Feb 25
Kdon2:


From long ago, ibos encourage evil
As ed down to you by your lying ancestors?

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Tranquillity360: 4:16pm On Feb 25
OkCornel:


And how has tribalism helped the masses from independence till date?

While the vultures put aside their differences to loot the common wealth of the masses 🤷
it's simple because we're not one and can never be one.
OfoIgbo: 4:27pm On Feb 25
Lifestone:
We should ask Danjuma. He died protecting Aguyi Ironsi

He died because the July coup plotters considered him one of the senior officers that helped the January 1966 coupists with combat training.

I suspect he was Awolowo's man.

The two most senior military officers involved in the January coup were Yorubas. Fajuyi and Banjo. The others were junior to them, but they cleverly stayed out of playing active part, thereby roping in unsuspecting Nzeogwu and co, into making it seem like an Igbo coup, when in actual fact, it was Awolowo's coup, who used it to eliminate all his political opponents.

Pazienza

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OkCornel(m): 4:31pm On Feb 25
Tranquillity360:
it's simple because we're not one and can never be one.

Because the vultures have sold that lie for decades and the masses have gullibly swallowed it up.

The real struggle is between the patriots and the sellouts.

Even if the nation splinters into ethnic groups, there are still sellouts ever ready to throw their neighbours under the bus, just to satisfy their greed.
pazienza(m): 4:31pm On Feb 25
OfoIgbo:


He died because the July coup plotters considered him one of the senior officers that helped the January 1966 coupists with combat training.

I suspect he was Awolowo's man.

The two most senior military officers involved in the January coup were Yorubas. Fajuyi and Banjo. The others were junior to them, but they cleverly stayed out of playing active part, thereby roping in unsuspecting Nzeogwu and co, into making it seem like an Igbo coup, when in actual fact, it was Awolowo's coup, who used it to eliminate all his political opponents.

Pazienza

Exactly.
Infact in another report, it was said that Fajuiyi was the one who kept making Ironsi to delay the trial of Nzeogwu and co as he kept trying to protect them, because they were his boys and he trained them all.
Fajuiyi was the missing piece between Awolowo and the coup.

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pazienza(m): 4:34pm On Feb 25
OkCornel:


And how has tribalism helped the masses from independence till date?

While the vultures put aside their differences to loot the common wealth of the masses 🤷

Tribalism must cancel out tribalism.
Since Yorubas and the rest have embraced Igbophobia as a means to political advancement.
Ndiigbo will do same to cancel out their evil plans for us.
Hate must be met with hate.
In international arena this is called MAD( mutually assured destruction).
Ndiigbo will never lay down our heads again to be used to break the Nigerian coconut.
Let everyone die from poverty, let the elites impoverish everyone, let's all embrace tribalism together.
This is the way the rest of Nigeria want it.

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OkCornel(m): 4:45pm On Feb 25
pazienza:


Tribalism must cancel out tribalism.
Since Yorubas and the rest have embraced Igbophobia as a means to political advancement.
Ndiigbo will do same to cancel out their evil plans for us.
Hate must be met with hate.
In international arena this is called MAD( mutually assured destruction).
Ndiigbo will never lay down our heads again to be used to break the Nigerian coconut.
Let everyone die from poverty, let the elites impoverish everyone, let's all embrace tribalism together.
This is the way the rest of Nigeria want it.

It’s simple, stay divided and remain exploited.

Or

Unite and demand what you deserve.

The vultures have tricked the suffering masses that they are their own enemies because of tribal differences…

Whereas the irony of the whole thing is nobody chose the tribe they were born into.
pazienza(m): 4:49pm On Feb 25
OkCornel:


It’s simple, stay divided and remain exploited.

Or

Unite and demand what you deserve.

The vultures have tricked the suffering masses that they are their own enemies because of tribal differences…

Whereas the irony of the whole thing is nobody chose the tribe they were born into.


We are not miscible with Yorubas and the North.
So the issue of uniting with these people is out of question.
It will never happen.
Our ideologies as a people are divergent, parallel and irreconcilable to each other.
There is simply no point for unity between Ndiigbo and these groups.

We will embrace tribalism fully and return every hate for hate until Nigeria crashes and we can be free from these groups we have absolutely nothing in common with.

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Tranquillity360: 4:54pm On Feb 25
OkCornel:


Because the vultures have sold that lie for decades and the masses have gullibly swallowed it up.

The real struggle is between the patriots and the sellouts.

Even if the nation splinters into ethnic groups, there are still sellouts ever ready to throw their neighbours under the bus, just to satisfy their greed.
Nigeria will never get better.
Thiefobi1: 4:56pm On Feb 25
OfoIgbo:


He died because the July coup plotters considered him one of the senior officers that helped the January 1966 coupists with combat training.

I suspect he was Awolowo's man.

The two most senior military officers involved in the January coup were Yorubas. Fajuyi and Banjo. The others were junior to them, but they cleverly stayed out of playing active part, thereby roping in unsuspecting Nzeogwu and co, into making it seem like an Igbo coup, when in actual fact, it was Awolowo's coup, who used it to eliminate all his political opponents.

Pazienza


U ibo people are criminal minded and liers.


Same awolowo was release by Gowon , driven to his home ikenne by miritala Muhammed and finally made deputy to Gowon.

So awolowo will plan a coup and Gowon will not deem it fit to try him.

U S.E are BST.

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Thiefobi1: 4:58pm On Feb 25
pazienza:


Tribalism must cancel out tribalism.
Since Yorubas and the rest have embraced Igbophobia as a means to political advancement.
Ndiigbo will do same to cancel out their evil plans for us.
Hate must be met with hate.
In international arena this is called MAD( mutually assured destruction).
Ndiigbo will never lay down our heads again to be used to break the Nigerian coconut.
Let everyone die from poverty, let the elites impoverish everyone, let's all embrace tribalism together.
This is the way the rest of Nigeria want it.

Return back to ur region or ur tribalism will be Ibo end in Nigeria

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pazienza(m): 4:59pm On Feb 25
Thiefobi1:



U ibo people are criminal minded and liers.


Same awolowo was release by Gowon , driven to his home ikenne by miritala Muhammed and finally made deputy to Gowon.

So awolowo will plan a coup and Gowon will not deem it fit to try him.

U S.E are BST.



Why would he try him? The coup afforded Gowon an opportunity to climb to power, Moreover with Igbos now at loggerhead with the North, Gowon couldn't afford to lose Awolowo .

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Thiefobi1: 4:59pm On Feb 25
pazienza:


Exactly.
Infact in another report, it was said that Fajuiyi was the one who kept making Ironsi to delay the trial of Nzeogwu and co as he kept trying to protect them, because they were his boys and he trained them all.
Fajuiyi was the missing piece between Awolowo and the coup.


Nobody will never ever trust an ibo man with power in Nigeria.


Imagine this BST saying awolowo coup.

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pazienza(m): 5:00pm On Feb 25
Thiefobi1:


Return back to ur region or ur tribalism will be Ibo end in Nigeria

Lol! Igbos have survived your worst since 1967, but you haven't seen our worst yet! You haven't seen our revenge yet, you should be worried, because the day the wheels will turn, you will get a taste of the medicine you have served us since 1967.
The Igbo are not a forgiving people, we don't forget everything! And we cherish revenge more than anything else, this was even recorded in colonial reports.
Your people who are scared of Igbo presidency know why they are scared of it.

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Thiefobi1: 5:01pm On Feb 25
pazienza:


Why would he try him? The coup afforded Gowon an opportunity to climb to power, Moreover with Igbos now at loggerhead with the North, Gowon couldn't afford to lose Awolowo .


Are u serious.

Killing ahmadu bello offered Gowon to power.

Was it not Ironsi and his boys who benefited from their IBO coup.

What was the question those northern soilders who came for his head ask him.
Thiefobi1: 5:02pm On Feb 25
pazienza:


Lol! Igbos have survived your worst since 1967, but you haven't seen our worst yet! You haven't seen our revenge yet, you should be worried, because the day the wheels will turn, you will get a taste of the medicine you have served us since 1967.
The Igbo are not a forgiving people, we don't forget everything! And we cherish revenge more than anything else, this was even recorded in colonial reports.
Your people who are scared of Igbo presidency know why they are scared of it.


U will just kpai another million if u re not careful these time around.


Other are watching u people if u don't know.

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Lifestone(m): 5:05pm On Feb 25
OfoIgbo:


He died because the July coup plotters considered him one of the senior officers that helped the January 1966 coupists with combat training.

I suspect he was Awolowo's man.

The two most senior military officers involved in the January coup were Yorubas. Fajuyi and Banjo. The others were junior to them, but they cleverly stayed out of playing active part, thereby roping in unsuspecting Nzeogwu and co, into making it seem like an Igbo coup, when in actual fact, it was Awolowo's coup, who used it to eliminate all his political opponents.

Pazienza
Most of the s show that the coup was planned and executed by Igbos. The outcome and lopsidedness of the fatalities was crucial to determine who owns the coup

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pazienza(m): 5:05pm On Feb 25
Thiefobi1:


Are u serious.

Killing ahmadu bello offered Gowon to power.

Was it not Ironsi and his boys who benefited from their IBO coup.

What was the question those northern soilders who came for his head ask him.

Yes!.
The death of Balewa, etc led to cascade of events that threw Gowon to power.
Why should Gowon care about the dead Balewa and co?
The Northern soldiers found no direct link between Ironsi and the coup plotters, they were just angry that he took too long in trying them..
But they were fully convinced that Fajuiyi was involved in the coup and trained the boys that carried the coup.
If they knew this, common sense tells me that they knew of Awolowo involvement but Awolowo was in far away East where they couldn't reach him as of this time, and by the time they had access to Awolowo, events had changed and they needed Awolowo help.
Common sense.

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Tranquillity360: 5:07pm On Feb 25
pazienza:


Lol! Igbos have survived your worst since 1967, but you haven't seen our worst yet! You haven't seen our revenge yet, you should be worried, because the day the wheels will turn, you will get a taste of the medicine you have served us since 1967.
The Igbo are not a forgiving people, we don't forget everything! And we cherish revenge more than anything else, this was even recorded in colonial reports.
Your people who are scared of Igbo presidency know why they are scared of it.
The day is coming.



Yorubas think we will forgive or forget
OkCornel(m): 5:08pm On Feb 25
pazienza:


We are not miscible with Yorubas and the North.
So the issue of uniting with these people is out of question.
It will never happen.
Our ideologies as a people are divergent, parallel and irreconcilable to each other.
There is simply no point for unity between Ndiigbo and these groups.

We will embrace tribalism fully and return every hate for hate until Nigeria crashes and we can be free from these groups we have absolutely nothing in common with.

Alright then, stay divided and remain exploited.

By the way, a Yoruba man has never been a governor in the South East.

An Igbo man has never been a governor in the South West.

Yet the standard of living in either regions is abysmal, the people can’t unite at ward level or local government level or at state level to hold their leaders able.

Forget it, tribalism is all smokes and mirrors perpetuated by the elites to keep y’all in bondage.
pazienza(m): 5:08pm On Feb 25
Lifestone:

Most of the s show that the coup was planned and executed by Igbos. The outcome and lopsidedness of the fatalities was crucial to determine who owns the coup

s showed that the coup killed all enemies of Awolowo, including Okotie Eboh who might have been in NCNC but was a staunch er and friend of Balewa.

In contrast the coup spared Awolowo and other of NCNC who were in UPGA coalition with Awolowos AG.
Additionally, Fajuiyi was the one who trained the boys involved in the coup .

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Tranquillity360: 5:10pm On Feb 25
Thiefobi1:



U will just kpai another million if u re not careful these time around.


Other are watching u people if u don't know.
Are you banking on others to help you again, because you are already indirectly calling others for help grin grin



This time no Britain or Egypt to help you,this time it will be Igbos will evil people.


One and one.
OfoIgbo: 5:10pm On Feb 25
Lifestone:

Most of the s show that the coup was planned and executed by Igbos. The outcome and lopsidedness of the fatalities was crucial to determine who owns the coup

Babangida has already written a book that made it clear that the greatest beneficiary would have been Awolowo.
Awolowo even confirmed this.
Ademoyega also confirm this, so you cannot call it an Igbo coup.

Thanks to Babangida for helping shed light

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