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OkCornel:


Bro… a “clerk” was dispatched for a UN peacekeeping operation in the DRC civil war Congo?

That being said, Ogundipe appeared most qualified for the role based on the British commanders recommendation.

However, the army being strictly hierarchical favoured Ironsi for the role given he was the oldest in service amongst the candidates.

If he wasn’t qualified for that role, he wouldn’t even be in the running to start with.

Meanwhile, this is from Max Siollun’s book - The Inside Story of Nigeria. Ironsi was the most decorated of all the officers vying for the post of GOC

Ironsi’s father was even a Sierra Leonan. Lol.

Isn’t it interesting that a “clerk” was the first ever African to take command of the UN peacekeeping force in the DRC civil war? He was a Major General there, but reverted to Brigadier General on his return to Nigeria.

It was Azikiwe who got Ironsi that post because he wanted it on Ironsi's CV for the Head of Army Job and it was Ogundipe And others who actually ran the show


The man who it should have gone to was Col Wellington Bassey who was from Calabar but for Tribal Political reasons Azikiwe did all he could to frustrate Basseys Career so his Junior Ironsi who was also Azikiwe's kinsman could overtake him

Col Wellington Bassey was more than 3 years Ironsi's senior in the Army

Even from the way Ironsi handled the accurate police intelligence on the Coup you could see Ironsi was not competent or rather unloyal

christistruth01:



It was Azikiwe who got him that post and it was Ogundipe And others who actually ran the show

The man who it should have gone to was Col Wellington Bassey who was from Calabar but for Tribal Political reasons Azikiwe did all he could to frustrate Basseys Career so his Junior Ironsi who was also Azikiwe's kinsman could overtake him

Col Wellington Bassey was more than 3 years Ironsi's senior in the Army

Even from the way Ironsi handled the accurate police intelligence on the Coup you could see Ironsi was not competent or rather unloyal

1. Did the police communicate the names of the coup plotters to Ironsi?

2. Was Ironsi part of the coup plotters?

I’m asking because a certain someone on this thread is claiming Ironsi was involved in the coup.

More evidence that top politicians were aware of an impending coup.

They had ample time to either make security arrangements or flee for their lives.

Balewa never acted on the intelligence report given to him.

Ahmadu Bello didn’t act on Ladoke Akintola’s warning.

And Ladoke Akintola thought it best to arm himself with a rifle rather than flee the nation to save his life and return later.

Smart moves, very very smart.

More information dispelling the myth of an “Igbo coup”

OkCornel:
More evidence that top politicians were aware of an impending coup.

They had ample time to either make security arrangements or flee for their lives.

Balewa never acted on the intelligence report given to him.

Ahmadu Bello didn’t act on Ladoke Akintola’s warning.

And Ladoke Akintola thought it best to arm himself with a rifle rather than flee the nation to save his life and return later.

Smart moves, very very smart.

Oh my God you Ibo people are incredibly insane and evil.

So the personal safety and protection of highly placed public leaders was down top their own chagrin and not the responsibility of your useless Ironsi whom you foolishly claimed knew about the coup plot but at the same time did nothing to avert it by fixing his dysfunctional army ?

Are you normal?

You are again now blaming the victims of that dastardly coup for their own murder in the hands of your evil criminal Ibo officers whom Ironsi did nothing to prevent them going ahead with a coup that you are lying through your dirty cannibal teeth that Ironsi had informed the PM of before hand.

How can Ironsi inform the PM but did nothing to thwart the coup ?

Same Ironsi that refused to court martial same coupists ?

You can keep lying to yourselves in that your yeast but no matter how you want to spin it, the Jan 15 coup was an Ibo coup to eliminate the leadership of other ethnic groups, bring a halt to Nigeria's regional setup and foist Ibo leadership over everybody in the polity and their resources.

It failed woefully and you are still suffering the backlash from that stupid and greedy motivated Zikist agenda.

Continue lying to yourselves . After we now know you defend , celebrate and make excuses for your criminals so who is Ironsi that you won't want to elevate to Sainthood and that lunatic and coward ojukwu that you all see as a sage and brave warrior.

Everything about you guys is inverted.

APCHaram:


Oh my God you Ibo people are incredibly insane and evil.

So the personal safety and protection of highly placed public leaders was down top their own chagrin and not the responsibility of your useless Ironsi whom you foolishly claimed knew about the coup plot but at the same time did nothing to avert it by fixing his dysfunctional army ?

Are you normal?

You are again now blaming the victims of that dastardly coup for their own murder in the hands of your evil criminal Ibo officers whom Ironsi did nothing to prevent them going ahead with a coup that you are lying through your dirty cannibal teeth that Ironsi had informed the PM of before hand.

How can Ironsi inform the PM but did nothing to thwart the coup ?

Same Ironsi that refused to court martial same coupists ?

You can keep lying to yourselves in that your yeast but no matter how you want to spin it, the Jan 15 coup was an Ibo coup to eliminate the leadership of other ethnic groups, bring a halt to Nigeria's regional setup and foist Ibo leadership over everybody in the polity and their resources.

It failed woefully and you are still suffering the backlash from that stupid and greedy motivated Zikist agenda.

Continue lying to yourselves . After we now know you defend , celebrate and make excuses for your criminals so who is Ironsi that you won't want to elevate to Sainthood and that lunatic and coward ojukwu that you all see as a sage and brave warrior.

Everything about you guys is inverted.

Exactly how you conclude I’m Igbo without any shred of evidence is exactly the same way you can conclude the January 1966 coup is an “Igbo coup” without tangible evidence.

Perhaps Max Siollun that wrote the book I’m quoting from is also Igbo.

Keep on entertaining the viewers of this thread.

APCHaram:


Oh my God you Ibo people are incredibly insane and evil.

So the personal safety and protection of highly placed public leaders was down top their own chagrin and not the responsibility of your useless Ironsi whom you foolishly claimed knew about the coup plot but at the same time did nothing to avert it by fixing his dysfunctional army ?

Are you normal?

You are again now blaming the victims of that dastardly coup for their own murder in the hands of your evil criminal Ibo officers whom Ironsi did nothing to prevent them going ahead with a coup that you are lying through your dirty cannibal teeth that Ironsi had informed the PM of before hand.

How can Ironsi inform the PM but did nothing to thwart the coup ?

Same Ironsi that refused to court martial same coupists ?

You can keep lying to yourselves in that your yeast but no matter how you want to spin it, the Jan 15 coup was an Ibo coup to eliminate the leadership of other ethnic groups, bring a halt to Nigeria's regional setup and foist Ibo leadership over everybody in the polity and their resources.

It failed woefully and you are still suffering the backlash from that stupid and greedy motivated Zikist agenda.

Continue lying to yourselves . After we now know you defend , celebrate and make excuses for your criminals so who is Ironsi that you won't want to elevate to Sainthood and that lunatic and coward ojukwu that you all see as a sage and brave warrior.

Everything about you guys is inverted.

Awwwn, another round of pointless emotional outbursts.

Oya take these pills (screenshot below) from Max Siollun to ease your tribal urge.

Read his book - The Inside Story of Nigeria

By the way, you keep barking that Ironsi was part of the coupists. Are you ready to show us EBranch information where Ironsi was listed as part of the coupists? 🤷

OkCornel:


1. Did the police communicate the names of the coup plotters to Ironsi?

2. Was Ironsi part of the coup plotters?

I’m asking because a certain someone on this thread is claiming Ironsi was involved in the coup.

Gen Ironsi was involved in the Coup

OkCornel:


1. Did the police communicate the names of the coup plotters to Ironsi?

2. Was Ironsi part of the coup plotters?

I’m asking because a certain someone on this thread is claiming Ironsi was involved in the coup.

Search and read Gen David Ejoor interview on Max Siollun History Website

christistruth01:



Gen Ironsi was involved in the Coup

Where did it state Ironsi was involved in the coup?

OkCornel:


1. Did the police communicate the names of the coup plotters to Ironsi?

2. Was Ironsi part of the coup plotters?

I’m asking because a certain someone on this thread is claiming Ironsi was involved in the coup.

Alhaji Ahmed Kurfi a Northern Civil Servant
went to the State House after Sardauna ,Akintola and others had been murdered to see Ironsi about the missing PM Balewa only for him to find Gen Ironsi in a meeting with the very same Ifeajuna who had just kidnapped prime Minister Balewa from his bedroom in the presence of his screaming wives and Children .


If you were Ahmed Kurfi what would you have done in such a Treacherous situation?

https://dailytrust.com/alhaji-ahmadu-kurfi-89-grateful-for-long-life/

christistruth01:



https://maxsiollun./2009/04/17/igbo-soldiers-plotted-coup-from-independence-day-ejoor/


https://maxsiollun./2009/04/17/igbo-soldiers-plotted-coup-from-independence-day-ejoor/

These links are not going through.

Major Ademoyega and Banjo are not Igbos.

See the roles of Northern officers in the coup too.
https://nairaland.moviesx.org/8325556/january-15-1966-arthur-unegbe/4#133863924

christistruth01:



Alhaji Ahmed Kurfi a Northern Civil Servant
went to the State House after Sardauna ,Akintola and others had been murdered to see Ironsi about the missing PM Balewa only for him to find Gen Ironsi in a meeting with the very same Ifeajuna who had just kidnapped prime Minister Balewa from his bedroom in the presence of his screaming wives and Children .


If you were Ahmed Kurfi what would you have done in such a Treacherous situation?

https://dailytrust.com/alhaji-ahmadu-kurfi-89-grateful-for-long-life/

At the bolded, I just read the article. Where did Ahmed Kurfi say that?

See Kurfi’s narrative of the events below:

Kurfi was also the deputy permanent secretary at the Ministry of Defence during the 1966 coup and recounted how he narrowly escaped death.

“My minister and permanent secretary then went overseas, I was in charge when the coup occurred. That night, the acting inspector general of police, Mr Kamsalem, late Hamman Maiduguri was the commissioner of police in Lagos. They came to my house about 2-3 am, woke me up, and told me that they heard that the Prime Minister had been kidnapped, Minister of Defence is not here, since they said it was soldiers that did it, you are the only some that can do something about it,” he said.

“So I really do know it was strange then to see soldiers behaving that way, so I told them I have school mates who are in the army. There was one then who was in charge of the southern brigade, the country has two brigade then, the first in Kaduna and the second in Lagos, it was Maimalari , he was one year ahead of me, there was Kuru Mohammed, Yakubu Pam, some of them were in Ikoyi, I said okay , let us go see what is happening,

“We took off in separate cars, because it dawned on us that there is danger, we went to Maimalari’s house, the day before the coup, there was a party he gave over his new bride. By the time we got there, there was no light, in the front of the house there was no sentry, which was unlike in the military setting, no guards, I noticed something like a dead body in the house, and it completely dawned on me that there is something wrong.

“After seeing this in those days, I should have gone into hiding but I didn’t, so we moved Yakubu Pam, a Berom from Plateau, from same class with Gen Hassan Usman, they are one year behind us. It was quite also, as I was leaving his wife spotted me and called me back weeping telling me some soldiers that normally come weekends for pepper soup have come and taken away my husband. I stayed a while consoling her she told me that when the soldiers came she telephoned Ironsi, who when he got this information, ran away too.

“I could Abogo Largema, a classmate also, was in charge of a battalion in Ibadan, he also was there at the party, they thought all of us will be at the party so that they can come and kill all of us, including myself. I knew he was at Ikoyi Hotel, so I went there. At the reception, by that time I had called, it Col. Samson Siasia who said if I wanted Abogo I should go to the police. I sensed trouble there also, as I was driving away there was a classmate of mine, not a soldier, he was staying upstairs in Ikoyi, he called me back, asking me what is happening saying some soldiers came, killed that man Abogo and put his body in a truck, and drove away. I missed this by five minutes. If I had not stopped at Yakubu Pam’s house, they would have finished me because they were looking for me also for my suggestion that there should be quota system in recruitment.”

christistruth01:



Gen Ironsi was involved in the Coup

Where did the intelligence report identify Ironsi as a coup plotter? That is the cold hard evidence I’m looking for.

Also look out for the words “PERHAPS BECAUSE” - that already makes it speculative and the personal opinion of the author. This is basic English.

See what the author wrote here:

“These soundings were most likely the source of intelligence reports that are said to have reached the ministry of defence late in November 1965. They were ed on to the Prime Minister who was not inclined to take them seriously, PERHAPS BECAUSE (speculative opinion of the author), Ironsi played down on their importance.

OkCornel:


These links are not going through.

Major Ademoyega and Banjo are not Igbos.

See the roles of Northern officers in the coup too.
https://nairaland.moviesx.org/8325556/january-15-1966-arthur-unegbe/4#133863924

Search and read Gen David Ejoor interview on Max Siollun History Website

christistruth01:




Search and read Gen David Ejoor interview on Max Siollun History Website

I’ve mentioned earlier on this thread. David Ejoor was not one of the coup plotters.

Ademoyega was one of the coup plotters. In his book “Why we struck”, did he mention anywhere that the January 1966 coup is an Igbo coup?

Between Ademoyega (a coupist) and Ejoor (an outsider and potential victim of the coup plot), whose s is more accurate? 🤷

christistruth01:



Alhaji Ahmed Kurfi a Northern Civil Servant
went to the State House after Sardauna ,Akintola and others had been murdered to see Ironsi about the missing PM Balewa only for him to find Gen Ironsi in a meeting with the very same Ifeajuna who had just kidnapped prime Minister Balewa from his bedroom in the presence of his screaming wives and Children .


If you were Ahmed Kurfi what would you have done in such a Treacherous situation?

https://dailytrust.com/alhaji-ahmadu-kurfi-89-grateful-for-long-life/

At the bolded, I’m still asking - where did Ahmed Kurfi say that in his interview?

OkCornel:


These links are not going through.

Major Ademoyega and Banjo are not Igbos.

See the roles of Northern officers in the coup too.
https://nairaland.moviesx.org/8325556/january-15-1966-arthur-unegbe/4#133863924

Do you have any proof that Banjo was part of the Jan 15th, coup plot?

T9ksy:


Do you have any proof that Banjo was part of the Jan 15th, coup plot?

No cold hard evidence he was involved.

He was imprisoned as a coup plotter by Ironsi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Banjo

OkCornel:


At the bolded, I’m still asking - where did Ahmed Kurfi say that in his interview?

Ahmed Kurfi definitely said it
I may have posted the wrong interview


You can have this instead
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/1966-

OkCornel:


No cold hard evidence he was involved.

He was imprisoned as a coup plotter by Ironsi

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Banjo

Yeah, i know he was imprisoned by Ironsi but there was no hard irrefutable evidence, that he was among the Jan. 15th coup plotters. None of the known coup plotters fingered him as one of them nor did he participated in the coup, itself. So, why then did Ironsi jailed in the east with rest?

christistruth01:



Ahmed Kurfi definitely said it
I may have posted the wrong interview


You can have this instead
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/1966-

This link isn’t an interview with Ahmed Kurfi.

This is an interview granted by Mbazulike Amaechi where nothing remotely resembles what you wrote on Ahmed Kurfi’s claim to have seen Ifeajuna and Ironsi together after Balewa was kidnapped.

T9ksy:



Yeah, i know he was imprisoned by Ironsi but there was no hard irrefutable evidence, that he was among the Jan. 15th coup plotters. None of the known coup plotters fingered him as one of them nor did he participated in the coup, itself. So, why then did Ironsi jailed in the east with rest?

Not sure to be honest. Unless he was acting on an intelligence report or someone who snitched on Banjo.

That being said, no cold hard concrete evidence I know of identifying Banjo as a January 1966 coup plotter.

OkCornel:


This link isn’t an interview with Ahmed Kurfi.

This is an interview granted by Mbazulike Amaechi where nothing remotely resembles what you wrote on Ahmed Kurfi’s claim to have seen Ifeajuna and Ironsi together after Balewa was kidnapped.

Ahmed Kurfi definitely saw Ifeajuna with Gen Ironsi in the state house

OkCornel:


These links are not going through.

Major Ademoyega and Banjo are not Igbos.

See the roles of Northern officers in the coup too.
https://nairaland.moviesx.org/8325556/january-15-1966-arthur-unegbe/4#133863924

If you like say Gen Ironsi wasn't Igbo

https://femifanikayode.org/1966-coup-was-igbo-coup/

APCHaram:


Ok, let's indulge your new straw man argument.

What did Ironsi do as the CDS to fish out the coupists from his rank and file ?

Were the troops under the PM or Ironsi?

How are you doing today Mr BishopMagic a.k.a Bishop Adamu-Chitimu?



Keywords- Osu, Marxist, iPod etc.

christistruth01:



If you like say Gen Ironsi wasn't Igbo

https://femifanikayode.org/1966-coup-was-igbo-coup/

Was Femi Fani Kayode part of the coup plotters? 🤷

So Femi Fani Kayode who was 6 years old or so when the coup happened has a more accurate position than Major Ademoyega who was involved in the January 1966 coup?

Nice logic there.

By the way, do a little bit of research and tell us which ethnic group had the most middle ranked officers as at the time of January 1966 coup. I’m eagerly waiting.

christistruth01:



Ahmed Kurfi definitely saw Ifeajuna with Gen Ironsi in the state house

Can you provide the link to the interview where Ahmed Kurfi said this please?

Thanks.

OkCornel:


Not sure to be honest. Unless he was acting on an intelligence report or someone who snitched on Banjo.

That being said, no cold hard concrete evidence I know of identifying Banjo as a January 1966 coup plotter.

Yet, you had no problem, including Banjo in the same breathe as ademoyega as part of the Jan. 15th coup.

Of course, Ironsi was acting on an intelligence report however, not as being part of the Jan. 15th coup

OkCornel:


Was Femi Fani Kayode part of the coup plotters? 🤷

So Femi Fani Kayode who was 6 years old or so when the coup happened has a more accurate position than Major Ademoyega who was involved in the January 1966 coup is?

Nice logic there.

By the way, do a little bit of research and tell us which ethnic group had the most middle ranked officers as at the time of January 1966 coup. I’m eagerly waiting.

List the names of all the Killers first and their victims

Of course you will run away rather than do it

T9ksy:



Yet, you had no problem, including Banjo in the same breathe as ademoyega as part of the Jan. 15th coup.

Of course, Ironsi was acting on an intelligence report however, not as being part of the Jan. 15th coup

Not my problem Banjo was arrested on suspicion of being a coup plotter.

Remind me whose side he fought on during the civil war.