The Maye of Ibadan Land baba kèèpè fuun wa Sir One of the greatest historical of our time I can never tired of watching the interviews of the high chief Lekan Alabi
Chief Lékan Àlàbí is always on fireline. A contemporary being; an encyclopedia of new generation. Mr Edmund Obilo, thank you for the classical class(es).
You are doing a great job here. I just come across this channel today and find this pattern very interesting. Well done. Thanks for the book recommendations.
These salient points are factors that Nigeria mighty custodians of power seek to banish from history classes, books and education. That's why Nigeria banned history from our schools.
Edmund Obilo Your guest Chief Lekan Alabi explained that the Murtala Mohammed led coup was described as “Araba” meaning “Revenge”, but he didn’t tell us Ademoyega’s response to his question, why there were no Northerners in the Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu led coup.
Back in secondary school..I had why we struck...I read it as a teenager buh now I'm willing to read as an adult....I will contact you sir...I need these books
These stories are uncoordinated. According to the ADC to Ironsi, they were put in a land Rover and driven to Iwo road or so, where a Captain asked him and a few others to enter the Land Rover and detain the two officers. It was the NCO's that shot him.
I'm a history student and I love listening to this stories often and often all the different version of the stories. But from my own perspective Aguyi Ironsi was the architect of his death,one major Sani Bello is one of his 4 ADC who later become the military governor of Kaduna state said that every member of their entourage that they sent down from upstairs were capture and tired up saying that they think they have killed of of them until himself and another person came down to see what was happening that's were they saw all of them tired up. Later on Theophilus Danjuma went and arrested the head of state and Fajuyi Adekunle promising them of their safety and they were squeeze into a land Rover and driven away imagine that and he called one of officer who drove a Land Rover and meet up with them he pleaded with the plotter to release Sani Bello for him like Barabas and Jesus Christ in the bible and they drove away were he later heard a gun shot shameful and pity.they succeed in executing their plans and they should be bold to say it out that they were all part of the coup that killed Aguyi Ironsi and Adekunle. But on the other side how can a heads of state doesn't have any informert,no body signals no spiritual back and you are leading a nation so painful 😭😭
@@jkauto7836 Ironsi was a strong and smart soldier military-wise, but didn't understand politics. People said, he was a simple man who just love to enjoy life, drink, and party. He was not ready for the position. He surrounded himself with Northerners. He didn't plant his people around him so that if anything was going on they can be informant. That's why taking him out was so easy.
Edmund, you asked a question, but you did not allow the chief to answer. The question was, why were there no northerners involved in the first coup of 1966?
It was northern officers nzogwu used in storming amadu bello house, he deceived them by telling the young officers that they are going out for military exercise.
@@douglashillary He didn't deceive them, they could have turned when they saw they were at the sarundan's house.Nzeogwu didn't reveal that they were planning a coup in the beginning
Aguyi Ironsi souronded himself with northern soldiers even one Bello Sani one of his ADC said in one of his interview that most of the army in Ironsi entourage were all captured how can and himself Ironsi Fajuyi Adekunle was taken the the bush and one army man came to rescue him away leaving Ironsi and Adekunle behind but he later hear a gun shot why they were driving away 😢so sad
Ironsi became a suspect because his cabinet was dominated by Igbo people. 2. He refused to prosecute the coupists who were people from Igbo extraction too
Unfortunately, Nigeria has turned out to be a country most citizens are not proud of, and celebrating the lives of these seemingly great men will not be attractive.
Fajuyi was a target of the coupists from get-go because his adherence to Awo's political ideology wasnt hidden. So the fact that Nzeogwu on his broadcast had expressed their intention to release Awo from prison and install him as the prime minister made Fajuyi a suspect. Besides, by the time the revenge coup was carried out the northern soldiers didn't trust any south officer as it wasn't clear who the January 6 ploters were apart from the ones being detained. For yet another thing, the January cuop was widely welcomed in the western region as it brought a respite to the political upheaval that bedeviled the western region. So, it's untrue that the government House Ibadan assailants were there to pick up Ironsi only, and that Fajuyi volunteered to follow them for fear that he mighty be accused of betraying Ironsi. He never was given that choice at all. And he couldn't have been able to escape even if he had attempted to.
The coup favored the West than the East. The transfer of power from Zik to Micheal Okpara was peaceful but the transfer of power from Awolowo to Akintola was marred by conflicts, power strong and control of coca-cola distributorship. This conflict led to the death of each of their first child. The conflict led to “operation wetie” and also the imprisonment of Awolowo. Many people are blind to history and facts in Nigeria
@@nnajidaveed9896 read about “operation Wetie” read from multiple sources, RUclips, google it, don’t read Wikipedia version bcuz some people have gone and falsely edited it. Read other independent articles on about it on Google. The causes and factors that led to “Operation Wetie” the events itself and you’d know better.
Lots of Books, examples Diplomatic Soldiering by Late Mojor General Joseph Nanven Garba, Making of a General by Thiopholus Yakubu Danjuma, the five majors why they strike by Mainasara a rejoinder to why we struck by Ademoyega.
No not that coup d'etat,2 coup took place in 1966 first was the one that killed Sir Tafawa Balewa,Festus Okotie Ahmadu Bello and host of them then Aguyi Ironsi assume as head of state.then in July another took place that killed Aguyi Ironsi and Adekunle Fajuyi and murtala Mohamed became head of state ❤
Ojukwu travelled down to Kaduna, encouraged Kaduna Nzeogu to surrender power to Aguyi Irosi since Irosi had the same intention the Coupists had, not knowing that Ojukwu had ulterior motive against the Coupists Though agreement was made between Ojukwu and Nzeogu to tender to Irosi that those involved shouldn't be maltreated and to compensate,both Irosi and Ojukwu played on Nzeogu intelligence. Nzeogu was in firm control of Nothern State by then Nzeogu ceded power to Irosi and he Nzeogu and Ojukwu moved to Lagos,on getting to Airport, the story changed. Nzeogu landed in the midst of Heavy Ammunitions and was arrested. If not because of treacherous behavior of Ojukwu, the coup would have been succeeded because Nzeogu was in total control of Nothern region by then
Fajuyi and Ironsi has no estate or even a plot of land anywhere in Nigeria or overseas. Both Fajuyi and Ironsi borrowed money from their friends and institutions to provide food on their family table while they are top military officers who are on the helm of the affairs for some years before their death.
...to show you how much he respected and had confidence in Obasanjo. Wow, that was a killer line. It means Nzeogwu perhaps never trusted OBJ and even saw him as a friend.
1:20 in, misses an important mark: Danjuma having secured Ironsi and Fajuyi called Gowon who told him “no bloodshed”. What I’ve always wondered is why didn’t Gowon give them 2 hours to bring Fajuyi and Ironsi to SHQ in Lagos? Where did he - Gowon - want them held? Read Lt. Walbe’s Interview with Nowa Omoigui where he makes plain that Fajuyi was the main target because of the September to December 1965 Abeokuta All Battlegroup Course
Thank you Edmund Obilor. I disagree with the position by the interviewee that Major Nzeogwu was mentored by Sir Ahmadu Bello. All the accounts on Nzeogwu I've read from Obasanjo, to Adewale Ademoyega, to Ben Gbulie, to Peter Nzeogwu to Madiebo whom I also had the rare privilege of discussing this subject debunked any prior links of Major Nzeogwu and Sir Ahmadu Bello. That picture he spoke about was a cadet with Ahmadu Bello in UK, that isn't Nzeogwu. Thank you
@@vincentakers9630 Fajuyi was in on it,he facilitated the activities of the foot soldiers in many ways! He had no 'people' he was looking out for Fajuyi.Read the history not stories.
Ojukwu crushed the Nzeogwu coup awolowo was Nzeogwu ideal of president Nzeogwu learned this from Egypt revolutionary remember that Nigeria’s of then wanted charge of government due to corruption
This man called the Balewa intervention in the crises in the southwest as unnecessary despite all the killings? So what is the fed govt suppose to do? Sit back and watch?
The FG is NOT big brother as we think. FG is NOT supposed to interfere in Federating Unit affairs unless in invited. The FG is an Agency, a servant of the Federslism units. We just have things skewed,Federalism is NOT feudalism
Why the intervention was questioned was because he favoured Kintola against the sage of the South West who was Obafemi Awolowo. That was why the coup leaders killed him because they felt he was the best Man for the job
Kaduna Nzeogu might be a revolutionary but either his fellow coupist would have eliminated him because power corrupts or the Northerners whose leaders were killed would have avenged the unfair treatments metted to them.
Interviewer don scatter everything with the last question 😂😂😂 Interviewer: Bola Tinubu should be worried... Baba: Ehn? (Facing another direction) 😂😂 Wise old man
Adekunle fajuyi never sacrificed himself for his supreme commander. He was as much an enemy of the mutineers as the head of state. He was taken along for execution.
Why are these clowns talking like Aguiyi Ironsi did not even deserve more than what he got? Yes, Muritala had planned a coup after he had received pressure from the Northern paramount rulers but what transpired that particular day wasn't Murtala's coup, It all started in Abeokuta and Murtala lashed into the situation.
@@tochukwuokeke5348 Aguiyi Ironisi destroyed this country, he partook in the first coup and destroyed the structure of this country. He removed us from Parliamentary system of Government and also changed it to Centralized system of Government against the regional system were had and he did all this because of greed. If there was no coup, the foolish man called Obasanjo will not bring Federalism on board. Aguiyi Ironsi is the worst Leader in Nigeria history or i can give you OBJ. In Murtala case, he never touched the essence of Nigeria, infact Murtala is the best ruler Nigeria has ever had. When he was killed, it was not only his tribe that mourned him, the Hausa, Yoruba, some South South states e.g the then Bendel states mourned him. They came on the streets of Nigeria to mourn him. This is the only past ruler that has been mourned that way.
@@tochukwuokeke5348 Good question my brother. Ask him oh! All this was situation was a spill over of Awolowo vs Akintola's saga. Wetia situation was the straw that broke camel's back. Nzeogwu was just a patriotic young officer.
@@NonsoOkoye-pe4rfexactly, Awolowo and Akintola conflict and tussle for power led to “operation wetie” and the coup. Those soldiers intervened to bring peace but little did they know that their efforts will be turned and read as ethnically motivated. The West had more to gain in that coup and I find it funny that Ademoyega a Western soldier and the highest ranking officer amongst the coup planners who could have stopped the coup is rarely mentioned. Hypocrisy
Good narration, but you failed to mention that one of the five critical majors that planned and executed the January, 1966 coup is a Yoruba man. Tell history the exact way they happened, don’t add don’t subtract.
Absurdity. Mind games and white washing won't the facts about Nigeria. The time to sit and part to our various destinations is now. " THIS HOUSE HAS FALLEN"
@@oghogho_jacinta really! I wonder how it has helped you or your kind men? Or you would rather keep creating unrest? Tell me can you get Britain and America to address slavery as it’s better to deal from the roots line you said? Clueless person as you talk and write from your a@se
If you don't know where you are coming from, you won't know where you are going to! You may make the same mistakes which the past made! That's the benefits of history sir! If you don't like it kindly tune to another channel 😅😅
@@chidiraphael939 it’s a shame when one who thinks like you do addresses everyone with a certain gender!! Ignorance is a big problem in your neck of residence. When a child is named, the gender comes with the name and the fathers name comes last but you ibos pretend not to want the foreign names but now uses it as their last name. Your first name is Raphael and your last name is Chidi ??? Be careful and stop making a fool of yourself . Last time I check, I have the right to express myself with out fools butting in! You get my drift? Drifter !!!
He sounds biased, on one hand he implicated Murtala in the 1966 coup without evidence even though the CSO to Ironsi ,T.Y Danjuma, said we didn't intend to kill him. But on the same vain extricated Ironsi and Ojukwu in the coup that killed the prime minister and others, without evidence likewise. Openly saying that Nzeogwu was his hero. What he didn't say his motivation was , was because Nzeogwu ,a military dislodged a Democratic government was because he planned to install Awolowo as the prime minister after he succeeded to release him from prison.
Again this man is giving the opposition side, but the truth was that when Akintola meet Ahmadu Bello he told him there was going to be coup and they will be killed so they should run away to Nigeir, Ahmadu Bello told him if they ran away how about their people, so he should go back and have faith in God.
That's a pure lie! Akintola was never a coward like that to advice running away from such. He died gallantly, fought and even deployed weapon before gunned down. So, stop the nonsense!
How will SLA a whole Aare ona kakanfo of yorubaland suggest they flee to Niger, that’s a big lie. Akintola is the only person that died a warrior, the saduana of sokoto was caught hiding his face among his wives wearing a hijab to cover his face. These are well documented in books
@@Obalufon don’t mind him. SLA brought out a riffle and he shot if he hadn’t ran out of bullet, he would have taken down capt Nwaobosi that was sent to kill him. Capt Nwaobosi even had to hide and wait for his bullet to finish before he came out to kill SLA. This is the account of Justice Kayode Eso who was a neighbor of SLA…
@@ObalufonAkintola that killed Awolowo first child in a planned car accident bah? Awolowo that Yoruba mob tried everything to killed and drove a six inch nail into his confidants forehead? Read about “Operation Wetie” you people don’t know anything
The young officer who shot Aguiyi Ironsi was by the name William Walbe and he later became aide-de-camp (adc) to Yakubu Gowon.. After the arrest of Aguiyi Ironsi and Adekunle Fajuyi, Ty Danjuma was to lead the squad back to Lagos but on their way back he dicided the group split into two, leaving Ironsi and Fajuyi with Walbe. But a few kilometers into the journey Walbe diverted into the bush. Fajuyi, Ironsi and Usman who was Ironsi's aide-de-camp had their hands tied behind their backs. The young officers led by walbe stripped Ironsi and Fajuyi naked and flogged them severally to confess their part in the assassination of the northern political elites and senior officers but Ironsi couldn't bear the humiliation from the NCOs anymore so he refused to talk anymore. At this point Usman who was the aide-de-camp to Ironsi managed to untie himself and ran away. At this point Walbe pointed his gun at Ironsi and shot him also Fajuyi... But murtala Muhammed insisted that Ironsi and Fajuyi were never marked to be killed but rather to be interrogated for the coup originally plotted by Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Kaduna Nzeogu, christian Anuforo, Humphrey chukwuka,, ogbonna Oji, Donatus Okafor and Ademoyega..... But let it be of note that the real reason Aguiyi Ironsi was killed was for the non execution of the coup plotters and the introduction of the UNIFICATION DEGREE NO 34 OF 1966. The decree was to remove power from the regional civil service and to be control by the central. The northerners saw this as a plot by Aguiyi Ironsi to disenfranchise the uneducated northerners as compared to the vastly educated southerners. This move by Ironsi made the Young irate northern officers believe Ironsi was part of the initial coup .. QED
Ironsi knew about the Jan coup so also most Igbos political leaders especially Zik. Unfortunately Ironsi became upset and had to organize a suppression of that coup for breech of understanding he had with the Coupist not to shed blood as we was made to believe. It was never an Igbo coup in planning but became an Ignorant coup in execution. Of all the victims that were murdered only Akintola resisted arrest. Their actions that night plunged this country which effect reverberates till date.
Zik was not in the country for three months before the coup happened, the West was at war, Awolowo and Akintola was at war which led to the death of Awolowo first child in a fake car accident in 1963 and retaliatory killing of Akintola first child by drug overdose in 1965. Akintola conspired with Belewa to imprison Awolowo. The military intervened to get rid of the corrupt politicians destroying the country. The East had peace, Micheal Okpara was delivering and performing amazingly and fortunately for him on the day of the coup he had a British bishop visiting at his home, so the Bishop knew about the coup? Carry your beer parlor history and get out of here.
So, you blame the Nzogou coup as the Nigerian problem but you ignore the fact that your North has had power for more than 40 plus years out of 60 plus years. This tribalism will not lead you ordinary northerners anywhere, in fact, with all the power your politicians have acquired, your region still remains the poorest in Nigeria. Nawa for una o
Didn’t igbos write any book about Nigerian pre and post war history? Why recommending only books written by those who accuse igbos of the coup for reading and learning? Is your audience only the Yorubas? And if yes, why have you chosen to feed them with biased history and lies? Thank you.
It is even better when they read books written by their tribes men. However there are book by some Igbo officers who were a part of the coup plotters namely Ben Gbulie and Emmanuel Nwaobosi
I am so impressed by the Chief’s knowledge of history. If you agree with me give a 👍
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This old Journalist is very knowledgable and FRANK!
His analysis is spot on!
I love history .more grace sir, the elder statesman for educating Nigerian's.
The Maye of Ibadan Land baba kèèpè fuun wa Sir
One of the greatest historical of our time
I can never tired of watching the interviews of the high chief Lekan Alabi
Chief Lékan Àlàbí is always on fireline. A contemporary being; an encyclopedia of new generation.
Mr Edmund Obilo, thank you for the classical class(es).
Thank you E. Obilo for your effort in bringing back history to us....
Lt col Francis Adekunle Fajuyi is an unsung hero,he epitomized bravery, loyalty and selflessness he was indeed a perfect gentleman
And the man is not even remembered
What a piece of history. Thank you!
This is educational. When I see people making mistakes with ethnic tribal tendencies.
Thank you Edmund Obilo
You are doing a great job here. I just come across this channel today and find this pattern very interesting. Well done. Thanks for the book recommendations.
These salient points are factors that Nigeria mighty custodians of power seek to banish from history classes, books and education. That's why Nigeria banned history from our schools.
Thank,you for this teachings ❤
Beautiful conversation
Am thrilled wt our history also d personalities on dis prg, Mr Edmundo kudos 2 u
God bless these two gentlemen for this beautiful interview.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ am in love with the history 🎉
What Kaduna Chukwuma Nzeuogwu said about the Nigerian politicians at that time, is now 1000000% increased
Lol 😆 @ 10000000%
Nzeogwu wasn't hot headed but a frank, forthright and no nonsense revolutionary who had a dream of a better Nigeria
He had good intentions, but went about it the wrong way.
Their team honestly shouldn't have killed Tafawa Balewa and Sokoto's Sarduna Ahamdu Bello
God bless you chief. Good men still live.
I love this baba interview ...
Edmund you are a genius
12 th September 2024 i must comment again after listening to the end very interesting and ❤️ heart breaking information.
Murtala Mohammed also had nemesis caught up with him on 13th February,1976, exactly 10years after he killed ironsi in Ibadan
Karma 💯
Why was Lagos Airport named after the man who murdered Fajuyi?
@@vincentakers9630Ask Olusegun Obasanjo.
The history we were never thought in school
❤🎉 just admire his elaborate history of Nigerian coup of of 1766
Wonderful
Great 👍 Research Works.
Kudos
You are good
This is great history in making
This mans voice i mean the interviewer is so legendary... How come he is not very popular. He should be in Lagos and doing major work for the networks
Interesting ❤
Thanks for the beautiful history. Please, you can also add, ( thirteen years military rule) book.
ADEKUNLE FAGUIYI IS HERO OF THE YORUBAS,AFTER PAPA AWOLOWO.
REAL MARTYR, ETERNAL BLISS AMEN 🙏🙏🙏.
Wow... this is history the past leads to the present and it determines the future.
Thank you
Even with a second attempt, the question was not answered.
Edmund Obilo Your guest Chief Lekan Alabi explained that the Murtala Mohammed led coup was described as “Araba” meaning “Revenge”, but he didn’t tell us Ademoyega’s response to his question, why there were no Northerners in the Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu led coup.
I read Why we struck some tears back
Chief what reasons did Major Adegboyega adduced for Northern military officers failed to carry out their duties during the 15th January 1966 coup?
Back in secondary school..I had why we struck...I read it as a teenager buh now I'm willing to read as an adult....I will contact you sir...I need these books
Saying it the way it happened
Why is this man talking like this na. Pls talk a bit more direct. Love the content ❤
These stories are uncoordinated. According to the ADC to Ironsi, they were put in a land Rover and driven to Iwo road or so, where a Captain asked him and a few others to enter the Land Rover and detain the two officers. It was the NCO's that shot him.
I'm a history student and I love listening to this stories often and often all the different version of the stories.
But from my own perspective Aguyi Ironsi was the architect of his death,one major Sani Bello is one of his 4 ADC who later become the military governor of Kaduna state said that every member of their entourage that they sent down from upstairs were capture and tired up saying that they think they have killed of of them until himself and another person came down to see what was happening that's were they saw all of them tired up.
Later on Theophilus Danjuma went and arrested the head of state and Fajuyi Adekunle promising them of their safety and they were squeeze into a land Rover and driven away imagine that and he called one of officer who drove a Land Rover and meet up with them he pleaded with the plotter to release Sani Bello for him like Barabas and Jesus Christ in the bible and they drove away were he later heard a gun shot shameful and pity.they succeed in executing their plans and they should be bold to say it out that they were all part of the coup that killed Aguyi Ironsi and Adekunle.
But on the other side how can a heads of state doesn't have any informert,no body signals no spiritual back and you are leading a nation so painful 😭😭
@@jkauto7836 Ironsi was a strong and smart soldier military-wise, but didn't understand politics. People said, he was a simple man who just love to enjoy life, drink, and party. He was not ready for the position. He surrounded himself with Northerners. He didn't plant his people around him so that if anything was going on they can be informant. That's why taking him out was so easy.
Those books are not on Amazon
Edmund, you asked a question, but you did not allow the chief to answer. The question was, why were there no northerners involved in the first coup of 1966?
They were a lot of northerners during the first coup. Capt.jibson jalo, 2nd lt.atom kpera,etc
@@PaulAbaecheta you mean the middle belt?
It was northern officers nzogwu used in storming amadu bello house, he deceived them by telling the young officers that they are going out for military exercise.
@@douglashillary typical
@@douglashillary He didn't deceive them, they could have turned when they saw they were at the sarundan's house.Nzeogwu didn't reveal that they were planning a coup in the beginning
Mr obilo nice work 👍 but pls alllow ur guests to talk 👄 thanks
And his stupid accent
What about the "The Five Majors" by Ben Gbulie?
Edmond Obilo, l will be so much happy, if you can link me with your guest.
I respect the wisdom of meye of lbadan, chief lekan Alabi.
Aguyi Ironsi souronded himself with northern soldiers even one Bello Sani one of his ADC said in one of his interview that most of the army in Ironsi entourage were all captured how can and himself Ironsi Fajuyi Adekunle was taken the the bush and one army man came to rescue him away leaving Ironsi and Adekunle behind but he later hear a gun shot why they were driving away 😢so sad
Ironsi became a suspect because his cabinet was dominated by Igbo people. 2. He refused to prosecute the coupists who were people from Igbo extraction too
Unfortunately, Nigeria has turned out to be a country most citizens are not proud of, and celebrating the lives of these seemingly great men will not be attractive.
Fajuyi was a target of the coupists from get-go because his adherence to Awo's political ideology wasnt hidden. So the fact that Nzeogwu on his broadcast had expressed their intention to release Awo from prison and install him as the prime minister made Fajuyi a suspect. Besides, by the time the revenge coup was carried out the northern soldiers didn't trust any south officer as it wasn't clear who the January 6 ploters were apart from the ones being detained. For yet another thing, the January cuop was widely welcomed in the western region as it brought a respite to the political upheaval that bedeviled the western region. So, it's untrue that the government House Ibadan assailants were there to pick up Ironsi only, and that Fajuyi volunteered to follow them for fear that he mighty be accused of betraying Ironsi. He never was given that choice at all. And he couldn't have been able to escape even if he had attempted to.
What is your reference? These men are giving their references and experiences.
The coup favored the West than the East. The transfer of power from Zik to Micheal Okpara was peaceful but the transfer of power from Awolowo to Akintola was marred by conflicts, power strong and control of coca-cola distributorship. This conflict led to the death of each of their first child. The conflict led to “operation wetie” and also the imprisonment of Awolowo. Many people are blind to history and facts in Nigeria
@@Live_IT_wow sir please can I know more.. Where do you get your facts.
@@nnajidaveed9896 read about “operation Wetie” read from multiple sources, RUclips, google it, don’t read Wikipedia version bcuz some people have gone and falsely edited it. Read other independent articles on about it on Google. The causes and factors that led to “Operation Wetie” the events itself and you’d know better.
@@Live_IT_what’s your point
How did they want to convince others that Aguiyi ironsi wasn't part of Jan 1966 coup?
If he is among them how did he used Northern as his securities
Lots of Books, examples Diplomatic Soldiering by Late Mojor General Joseph Nanven Garba, Making of a General by Thiopholus Yakubu Danjuma, the five majors why they strike by Mainasara a rejoinder to why we struck by Ademoyega.
Sir; you didn’t mention the rest of the political and military leaders that were killed and why? I believe Okotiebo was killed in that coup. Thanks
Okotiebo was killed during the first military coup, January 1966
No not that coup d'etat,2 coup took place in 1966 first was the one that killed Sir Tafawa Balewa,Festus Okotie Ahmadu Bello and host of them then Aguyi Ironsi assume as head of state.then in July another took place that killed Aguyi Ironsi and Adekunle Fajuyi and murtala Mohamed became head of state ❤
Books to Read: [1} Why we Struck by Adele Adegboyega. {2] Nigeria Soldiers of Fortune [3] Nzeogu by Obasanjo.
According to Adewale Ademoyega Ojukwu doesn't aware of the coup
Ojukwu travelled down to Kaduna, encouraged Kaduna Nzeogu to surrender power to Aguyi Irosi since Irosi had the same intention the Coupists had, not knowing that Ojukwu had ulterior motive against the Coupists
Though agreement was made between Ojukwu and Nzeogu to tender to Irosi that those involved shouldn't be maltreated and to compensate,both Irosi and Ojukwu played on Nzeogu intelligence.
Nzeogu was in firm control of Nothern State by then
Nzeogu ceded power to Irosi and he Nzeogu and Ojukwu moved to Lagos,on getting to Airport, the story changed.
Nzeogu landed in the midst of Heavy Ammunitions and was arrested.
If not because of treacherous behavior of Ojukwu, the coup would have been succeeded because Nzeogu was in total control of Nothern region by then
Fajuyi and Ironsi has no estate or even a plot of land anywhere in Nigeria or overseas. Both Fajuyi and Ironsi borrowed money from their friends and institutions to provide food on their family table while they are top military officers who are on the helm of the affairs for some years before their death.
...to show you how much he respected and had confidence in Obasanjo. Wow, that was a killer line. It means Nzeogwu perhaps never trusted OBJ and even saw him as a friend.
1:20 in, misses an important mark: Danjuma having secured Ironsi and Fajuyi called Gowon who told him “no bloodshed”. What I’ve always wondered is why didn’t Gowon give them 2 hours to bring Fajuyi and Ironsi to SHQ in Lagos? Where did he - Gowon - want them held?
Read Lt. Walbe’s Interview with Nowa Omoigui where he makes plain that Fajuyi was the main target because of the September to December 1965 Abeokuta All Battlegroup Course
Why we struck by Ademoyega
Thank you Edmund Obilor. I disagree with the position by the interviewee that Major Nzeogwu was mentored by Sir Ahmadu Bello. All the accounts on Nzeogwu I've read from Obasanjo, to Adewale Ademoyega, to Ben Gbulie, to Peter Nzeogwu to Madiebo whom I also had the rare privilege of discussing this subject debunked any prior links of Major Nzeogwu and Sir Ahmadu Bello. That picture he spoke about was a cadet with Ahmadu Bello in UK, that isn't Nzeogwu. Thank you
I forgot to add Timothy Carroll, the peace corp who wrote about Nzeogwu in 2015, "The Chick(Chukwuma) I Knew"
Send me your evidence if you have any.
@@walteraloh6687thank you for the Tim Carroll’s reference.
What happens before MM coup is important.
No,no! Fajuyi was a target too and was arrested. This is revisionist history.
Fajuyi was not a target. But because he didn't back down as they were in his residence, he fell too
Distorted history. Fajuyi refused to allow them murder his host. A brave man who gave himself for his people.
@@vincentakers9630 Fajuyi was in on it,he facilitated the activities of the foot soldiers in many ways! He had no 'people' he was looking out for Fajuyi.Read the history not stories.
Joseph Desire Mobutu.
Why was Awolowo still in prison till August even after ladoke Akintola was eliminated.
Why was he not released after the january coup?
Ironsi took over and halted the coup plotters plan
Ojukwu crushed the Nzeogwu coup awolowo was Nzeogwu ideal of president Nzeogwu learned this from Egypt revolutionary remember that Nigeria’s of then wanted charge of government due to corruption
Hello sir, how can we get the books please
What of WHY WE STRUCK BY WALE ADEMOYEGA
Yes Tinubu should be worried. Nigerians need help.......
This man called the Balewa intervention in the crises in the southwest as unnecessary despite all the killings? So what is the fed govt suppose to do? Sit back and watch?
The FG is NOT big brother as we think. FG is NOT supposed to interfere in Federating Unit affairs unless in invited. The FG is an Agency, a servant of the Federslism units. We just have things skewed,Federalism is NOT feudalism
Why the intervention was questioned was because he favoured Kintola against the sage of the South West who was Obafemi Awolowo. That was why the coup leaders killed him because they felt he was the best Man for the job
April 22 1990. Gideon orkar coup.
Daddy you lied. Danjuma was not Ironsi's Chief Security Officer but William Walbe.
Another book. Oil politics and violence. The Nigerian military coup culture. Max siollum
They are not fighting for Awolowo they just took advantage of the situation
Your interviews are good... Your questions too. The overdramatization of your voice though... It's a bore..
Kaduna Nzeogu might be a revolutionary but either his fellow coupist would have eliminated him because power corrupts or the Northerners whose leaders were killed would have avenged the unfair treatments metted to them.
Interviewer don scatter everything with the last question 😂😂😂
Interviewer: Bola Tinubu should be worried...
Baba: Ehn? (Facing another direction) 😂😂
Wise old man
Wale Ademoyega book is even relevant than Obasanjo's BOOK
Adekunle fajuyi never sacrificed himself for his supreme commander. He was as much an enemy of the mutineers as the head of state. He was taken along for execution.
A brave soldier with confident
Please be honest, they were fighting for Awolowo, the yoruba has hated the igbos for nothing
My friend walk the talk and stop all these advert pronouncement
BABAGINDA MOST RUTHLESS MILITARY OFFICER.
HE NOW A SHADOW OF HIMSELF.
KARMA IS REAL!!!
Why are these clowns talking like Aguiyi Ironsi did not even deserve more than what he got? Yes, Muritala had planned a coup after he had received pressure from the Northern paramount rulers but what transpired that particular day wasn't Murtala's coup, It all started in Abeokuta and Murtala lashed into the situation.
Did murtala deserve what he got from Dimka?
@@tochukwuokeke5348 Aguiyi Ironisi destroyed this country, he partook in the first coup and destroyed the structure of this country. He removed us from Parliamentary system of Government and also changed it to Centralized system of Government against the regional system were had and he did all this because of greed. If there was no coup, the foolish man called Obasanjo will not bring Federalism on board. Aguiyi Ironsi is the worst Leader in Nigeria history or i can give you OBJ. In Murtala case, he never touched the essence of Nigeria, infact Murtala is the best ruler Nigeria has ever had. When he was killed, it was not only his tribe that mourned him, the Hausa, Yoruba, some South South states e.g the then Bendel states mourned him. They came on the streets of Nigeria to mourn him. This is the only past ruler that has been mourned that way.
@@tochukwuokeke5348 Good question my brother. Ask him oh! All this was situation was a spill over of Awolowo vs Akintola's saga. Wetia situation was the straw that broke camel's back. Nzeogwu was just a patriotic young officer.
@@NonsoOkoye-pe4rfexactly, Awolowo and Akintola conflict and tussle for power led to “operation wetie” and the coup. Those soldiers intervened to bring peace but little did they know that their efforts will be turned and read as ethnically motivated. The West had more to gain in that coup and I find it funny that Ademoyega a Western soldier and the highest ranking officer amongst the coup planners who could have stopped the coup is rarely mentioned. Hypocrisy
@@Live_IT_It's intentional...
Good narration, but you failed to mention that one of the five critical majors that planned and executed the January, 1966 coup is a Yoruba man. Tell history the exact way they happened, don’t add don’t subtract.
Theophilus Danjuma and his fellow goons wanted ironsi dead do not believe anything to the contrary!
Absurdity. Mind games and white washing won't the facts about Nigeria. The time to sit and part to our various destinations is now. " THIS HOUSE HAS FALLEN"
Can this guy talk normal please
Please stick to now and leave old news.
It's always better to deal with a problem from the root.
@@oghogho_jacinta really! I wonder how it has helped you or your kind men? Or you would rather keep creating unrest? Tell me can you get Britain and America to address slavery as it’s better to deal from the roots line you said? Clueless person as you talk and write from your a@se
useless and ignorant statement.
If you don't know where you are coming from, you won't know where you are going to! You may make the same mistakes which the past made! That's the benefits of history sir! If you don't like it kindly tune to another channel 😅😅
@@chidiraphael939 it’s a shame when one who thinks like you do addresses everyone with a certain gender!! Ignorance is a big problem in your neck of residence. When a child is named, the gender comes with the name and the fathers name comes last but you ibos pretend not to want the foreign names but now uses it as their last name. Your first name is Raphael and your last name is Chidi ??? Be careful and stop making a fool of yourself . Last time I check, I have the right to express myself with out fools butting in! You get my drift? Drifter !!!
He sounds biased, on one hand he implicated Murtala in the 1966 coup without evidence even though the CSO to Ironsi ,T.Y Danjuma, said we didn't intend to kill him. But on the same vain extricated Ironsi and Ojukwu in the coup that killed the prime minister and others, without evidence likewise.
Openly saying that Nzeogwu was his hero. What he didn't say his motivation was , was because Nzeogwu ,a military dislodged a Democratic government was because he planned to install Awolowo as the prime minister after he succeeded to release him from prison.
What a moron? Could not keep keep himself alive. His memory will forever live infamy. Yes why did he not prosecute the misguided nzegwu group?
Again this man is giving the opposition side, but the truth was that when Akintola meet Ahmadu Bello he told him there was going to be coup and they will be killed so they should run away to Nigeir, Ahmadu Bello told him if they ran away how about their people, so he should go back and have faith in God.
That's a pure lie! Akintola was never a coward like that to advice running away from such. He died gallantly, fought and even deployed weapon before gunned down. So, stop the nonsense!
How will SLA a whole Aare ona kakanfo of yorubaland suggest they flee to Niger, that’s a big lie. Akintola is the only person that died a warrior, the saduana of sokoto was caught hiding his face among his wives wearing a hijab to cover his face. These are well documented in books
@@emmanymatthew2539 That's right, and he wasn't even a military man!
@@Obalufon don’t mind him. SLA brought out a riffle and he shot if he hadn’t ran out of bullet, he would have taken down capt Nwaobosi that was sent to kill him. Capt Nwaobosi even had to hide and wait for his bullet to finish before he came out to kill SLA. This is the account of Justice Kayode Eso who was a neighbor of SLA…
@@ObalufonAkintola that killed Awolowo first child in a planned car accident bah? Awolowo that Yoruba mob tried everything to killed and drove a six inch nail into his confidants forehead? Read about “Operation Wetie” you people don’t know anything
BOLA TINUBU SHOULD BE WORRIED. YOU BETTER MIND YOUR UTTERANCES
The young officer who shot Aguiyi Ironsi was by the name William Walbe and he later became aide-de-camp (adc) to Yakubu Gowon..
After the arrest of Aguiyi Ironsi and Adekunle Fajuyi, Ty Danjuma was to lead the squad back to Lagos but on their way back he dicided the group split into two, leaving Ironsi and Fajuyi with Walbe. But a few kilometers into the journey Walbe diverted into the bush. Fajuyi, Ironsi and Usman who was Ironsi's aide-de-camp had their hands tied behind their backs. The young officers led by walbe stripped Ironsi and Fajuyi naked and flogged them severally to confess their part in the assassination of the northern political elites and senior officers but Ironsi couldn't bear the humiliation from the NCOs anymore so he refused to talk anymore. At this point Usman who was the aide-de-camp to Ironsi managed to untie himself and ran away. At this point Walbe pointed his gun at Ironsi and shot him also Fajuyi...
But murtala Muhammed insisted that Ironsi and Fajuyi were never marked to be killed but rather to be interrogated for the coup originally plotted by Emmanuel Ifeajuna, Kaduna Nzeogu, christian Anuforo, Humphrey chukwuka,, ogbonna Oji, Donatus Okafor and Ademoyega.....
But let it be of note that the real reason Aguiyi Ironsi was killed was for the non execution of the coup plotters and the introduction of the UNIFICATION DEGREE NO 34 OF 1966.
The decree was to remove power from the regional civil service and to be control by the central. The northerners saw this as a plot by Aguiyi Ironsi to disenfranchise the uneducated northerners as compared to the vastly educated southerners. This move by Ironsi made the Young irate northern officers believe Ironsi was part of the initial coup .. QED
But Igbos said Yorubas are betrayals. It is because they don't know history of the past
Have you ever seen any IGBO man laying down his life for his Yoruba friend? The problem with the IGBOS is that they never take responsibility
Dey momo ursafe 😂 ty danjuma dey
Ironsi knew about the Jan coup so also most Igbos political leaders especially Zik. Unfortunately Ironsi became upset and had to organize a suppression of that coup for breech of understanding he had with the Coupist not to shed blood as we was made to believe. It was never an Igbo coup in planning but became an Ignorant coup in execution. Of all the victims that were murdered only Akintola resisted arrest. Their actions that night plunged this country which effect reverberates till date.
Yours is a beer palour history. There are tons of books that could bulge you of ignorance.
Zik was not in the country for three months before the coup happened, the West was at war, Awolowo and Akintola was at war which led to the death of Awolowo first child in a fake car accident in 1963 and retaliatory killing of Akintola first child by drug overdose in 1965. Akintola conspired with Belewa to imprison Awolowo. The military intervened to get rid of the corrupt politicians destroying the country. The East had peace, Micheal Okpara was delivering and performing amazingly and fortunately for him on the day of the coup he had a British bishop visiting at his home, so the Bishop knew about the coup? Carry your beer parlor history and get out of here.
So, you blame the Nzogou coup as the Nigerian problem but you ignore the fact that your North has had power for more than 40 plus years out of 60 plus years. This tribalism will not lead you ordinary northerners anywhere, in fact, with all the power your politicians have acquired, your region still remains the poorest in Nigeria. Nawa for una o
@@Nadel60Not ignorant.. Misinformation..
Pills to be swallowed by those whom they continue to blind..
@@Live_IT_so you think zik didn’t know about it?
Stop playing
Didn’t igbos write any book about Nigerian pre and post war history? Why recommending only books written by those who accuse igbos of the coup for reading and learning? Is your audience only the Yorubas? And if yes, why have you chosen to feed them with biased history and lies? Thank you.
It is even better when they read books written by their tribes men. However there are book by some Igbo officers who were a part of the coup plotters namely Ben Gbulie and Emmanuel Nwaobosi
Stop distorting history