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“Nobody has forgiven him and will forgive him,” Idris said.

He notes that the death of the Sardauna was “like an earthquake or end of the world for the North, then” Idris said the late Sardauna meant the whole world to the North.
Gidado who spent 46 years serving at various levels in the civil service, gave Daily Sun a unique account of his close shaves with death during the many violent changes of government in the country.

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Call him Saint Nzeogwu

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You think you can kill a prince and get away free-----> AFRO EURO

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ANWER: :Yes, Nzeogwu did, that's why he is in heaven and that's why he is now a saint. You got problem with that? He did what most saints do, sacrifice their lives to save mankind.
His idea to teminate Sarduanna of Sokoto was indeed noble and courageous. Sarduanna of Sokoto served the interest of his people not Nigeria. I'm glad he died like a dog for he was a reservior dog masqurading behind religion. Copy?


Hail Biafra


[ March 19, 2004, 12:59 AM: Message edited by: Waypoint1Biafra ]

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Originally posted by AfroEuro:
A true and genuine iboman or ibowoman cannot be fooled by the vain work (doom-bound Nigeria) of then imperialistic Europe. Thus bona-fide ibos reject the concept of iboland integrated in doom-bound Nigeria.

If the crime of the Sardauna was that he "served the interest of his people and not Nigeria", why then should self-proclaimed "Biafrans" be against the Sardauna? Since when do self-proclaimed "Biafrans" care about the well being of doom-bound Nigeria?

Are you seriously suggesting that if the Sardauna had served the interest of doom-bound Nigeria then ibo-people would live a better and happier life?

Can it be, that you are using double standards in judging the Sardauna?

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"It is particularly sad that without consultation with Ndigbo, they chose to act in our collective name to enhance their vision of a "One Nigeria" in so doing these five provided the catalyst for the racist brit colonialist to utilise in formenting and supporting a mass genocide against a people they had long seen as upstarts who had to be put in their place using the very snare of divide and conquer to muster the latent hatreds and envy of other nigerians against Ndigbo.

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Time will not permit me today to mention Ojukwu's own list of failures. I'll do that some other time.

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Where have we heard this before? why do we have to keep holding back these guys who have a lot of beans to spill on Ojukwu

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As for now, if you want to retain your integrity you......

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Did you give me any "integrity" to keep for you?

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How’s that greeting for poignancy and effect?
Absolute "shock and awe"


NOW TO SERIOUS MATTERS

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The coup plotters of January 1966 clearly and repeatedly stated that their original plan was to "get rid" of the so-called corrupt politicians from all tribes (hausa, ibo, yoruba etc.) in order to save doom-bound Nigeria. Furthermore, on the fateful day of January 1966 different contingents of the coup plotters were sent to the north, west and east of doom-bound Nigeria with a clear killing motive. Wasn't that so, or will you deny this historical fact?

Yet, the eastern politicans remained alive while the princes of yoruba-land and hausa-land were butchered, thus creating the impression that the east was purposely spared. Most probably that's exactly what it was.

That's Nzeogwu's failure!......

......How do you define failure? Failure is the "failing to perform a duty or an expected action".

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AfroEuro,

It appears your attempt to rephrase the issue in order to establish a different parameter within which to define "failure" as the topic of discussion on this thread is in keeping with that trademark self deception which you epitomize so well, but again you fail!.

Lets start with your reckless abandon and get you back on track:

1. Gidado Idris above is talking about the impossibility of the forgiveness of Nzeogwu, not failure! of Nzeogwu to have killed his king and more Igbos successfully, as if success in having taken over power in that manner would have erased his complicity in commiting a purely “Nigerian” act: the killing of a “Biafranigerian” of another Nationality, a tacit acceptance that he was “Nigerian” per British coinage.

2. Igbos are talking about Nzeogwu’s heroism of “Nigerianness” as reflective of his attempt to have played the “One Nigerian” all too well, and as reflective of the “Nigeria” that gave him a heros burial, while paradoxically seeking to transferr the guilt of his supposed agrieving actions onto the Igbo and SouthEastern Biafran Nationalities as an excuse to crawl away from their eternal guilt and divine condemnation in the commission of cold blooded bestial mass murder.
Not failure!

3. AfroEuro is out on the other hand, talking loosemouthedly about failure and defending his schizophernic anal retentivity with the usual reckless abandon., ie "failure" I suppose as measured by the fact that

● Nzeogwu did not kill enough Eastereners to have gained the trust and support of all “Nigerians”?
● Nzeogwu died fighting for Biafra but “did not hold the Nsukka sector”, something that really bothers AfroEuro to no end?

So perhaps according to AfroEuro’s reasoning;
A.)If Nzeogwu had killed many Igbos, it would have failed to have been an “Igbo” coup and Nzeogwu would have been successful and his actions more acceptable as “successful”?

B.)If he had killed many Igbos, it would have failed to have been viewed as an “Igbo” coup and Igbos would have been spared a genocidal pogrom?

C.)If he had killed many Igbos, it would have failed to have been viewed as an “Igbo” coup and Nzeogwu would have ushered in a new leadership and things would just have been beautiful?

D.)The introduction of military coup into an unresolved polity can be justifiable when the killings of all ethnic leaders are well represented across the board?

AfroEuro, in your rush to use this thread to justify the unjustifiable as usual, you have just validated again Chiboys characterization of you, and I will be keeping count each time you score another empty posting, replete with biblical quotes and concocted history lessons to butress the convenient moralizing that will invariably emmerge as a conclusion to your consistent duplicity.

All you succeed in conveying under the guise of talking about Nzeogwus supposed "failure" is the tired reasoning that: Igbos are guilty by extension for Nzeogwu’s actions and deserve the genocide that was visited upon them and should “admit” and “apologize” so as to be forgiven and I suppose accepted?

So where then does Ojukwu come in, in all this discussion about Nzeogwu's "failure"? (just watch AfroEuro jump at this one)

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Don't tell me any hogwash about "sweet-bitter" or "bittersweet". Tell it like it is.

Admittance of guilt is the first step towards repentance. (1. John 1:9)

If you want to solve a problem you must first of all admit that you've got a problem. Your problem is blind obedience to war-king Ojukwu and Co. Time will not permit me today to mention Ojukwu's own list of failures. I'll do that some other time. As for now, if you want to retain your integrity you, and the rest of self-proclaimed "Biafrans", must admit that Nzeogwu failed in his military tasks and thus ushered in the bloody pogrom against ibo-people.

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Where have we heard this before? why do we have to keep holding back these guys who have a lot of beans to spill on Ojukwu .... UkaObasi

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their original plan was to "get rid" of the so-called corrupt politicians from all tribes (hausa, ibo, yoruba etc.) in order to save doom-bound Nigeria. Furthermore, on the fateful day of January 1966 different contingents of the coup plotters were sent to the north, west and east of doom-bound Nigeria with a clear killing motive. Wasn't that so, or will you deny this historical fact?

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It is obvious that certain individuals like to talk utter nonsense about subjects they have not read around or researched. The Jan 1966 coup being a case in point. We have AA and SL Sanusi telling us that Igbo soldiers killed northerners and did not harm any Igbos. Yet they totally ignore the fact that officers called Ademoyega, Oyewole, Adeleke, and Banjo took part in, and were among the coup's conspiratorial group. Are these Igbo names? They also forget that an Igbo officer (Lt-Col Unegbe) was killed by the conspirators, that Major Nzeogwu was (an officer who considered himself a "northerner") spoke hausa "like a native" and who when he attacked the Sardauna's lodge on the night of Jan 15th 1966, was accompanied by several northern soldiers. Nzeogwu later pointed out that these northern soldiers were in possession of live ammunition and that "they could have shot me" had they disagreed with the plan to storm the Sardauna's lodge. No one has ever disputed his version of events.

So let us get this straight, Igbos as a race, are undeserving of sympathy because officers from all four regions (Nzeogwu was from the mid-west) of the country killed politicians and soldiers (Okotie-Eboh: Mid-West, Akintola: West, Balewa: north, Unegbe: East) from all four regions of the country 35 years ago? How logical. Let me ask a question: even if I am wrong and the Jan 1966 coup, really was carried out exclusively by Igbo officers, did the innocent women and children who were murdered in grisly circumstances by northern mobs in 1966 ask Ifeajuna and co to stage a coup? Why should innocent Igbos who were murdered for no reason other than their ethnic origin pay for the actions of a few army officers? When Abacha was busy killing and driving his fellow citizens into exile, did Igbo mobs kill northerners just because Abacha happened to be from the north? No - because they realised that Abacha's sins were personal and were not acquiesced to by all northerners. --- Igbo Resentment By Max Siollun

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Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna wrote in his unpublished manuscript that they intended to hand the leadership of Nigeria over to Awolowo. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu said so in an interview. Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna are long dead but Major Adewale Ademoyega is not only alive and well but easily accessible. Is it really correct to say that someone of the stature of Ademoyega, a history graduate, was roped into the Nzeogwu coup? The man thinks differently on the matter for, according to him, the innermost caucus of that coup consisted of Ademoyega, Ifeajuna and Nzeogwu. On pages 68-69 of Why We Struck: The Story of the First Nigerian Coup, (Evans Brothers Limited, Ibadan, 1981), Ademoyega states that they organised through Air Force Major T. E. Nzegwu for a plane to take Captain Udeaja to Calabar to effect the release of Awolowo from prison and fly him to Lagos to assume duties as Prime Minister. Why is this never put into consideration? There is another angle to look. If January 15, 1966 was an Igbo coup, how come that an Igbo aborted it? There are accounts still in circulation that credited Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu Gowon with crushing the coup. All such accounts failed to substantiate the claim with any credible materials. Gowon had no command on the right of the coup.

The troops sent into Lagos Island to encounter the coup makers was sent by General Aguiyi-Ironsi and led by Major Hans Anagho, a Cameroonian, who is still alive and proud of his role. Said Colonel Anagho: "Gowon knows very well that it was my company, "D" Company, 2nd Battalion, Nigerian Army which occupied Lagos from Ikeja, as spear-head of the loyal troops. Records show and history will tell that I was the commander of that Company."

General Yakubu Gowon has not commented on, let alone refute, Anagho’s position. All along, he has managed to maintain a deafening silence on January 15 and the events surrounding it, preferring to have "experts" with vested interest speak for him. But on September 3, 2001, Gowon presented a keynote address on the Nigerian civil war at the University of Ibadan. The event was organised by The Programme On Ethnic and Federal Studies (PEFS). Why did he suddenly start speaking? It was just before the Arewa and Ohanaeze were to make their final presentations at the Oputa Panel. Based on the way Gowon danced around the truth in his address, is it possible that he intervened just in time to provide incorrect ammunition for people minded to make a mockery of the Panel’s work? In due course, it will be necessary to review his paper appropriately so that his long-promised autobiography will have a chance of concerning itself with relevant questions.

It is because the truth about January 15 is yet to come from high quarters such as Gowon’s that today’s offering is even more urgent. Gowon attended the conference of senior military officers, which urged General Aguiyi-Oronsi to seek a hand-over of power from the politicians following the bloody Nzeogwu coup. We have it on the authority of Brigadier Hilary Njoku that other officers present were, "Major-General J. T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi (GOC), Lt-Col. Francis Fajuyi, Lt. Col. Victor banjo, Lt.Col. Jack (Yakubu) Gowon, Lt.Col. George Kurubo, Major Patrick Anwunah, Commodore Wey of the Navy and (Lt. Col. Njoku)." Why has Gowon never acknowledged this conference and its decision? Aguiyi-Ironsi, Banjo, Fajuyi, Kurubo and Wey may be all dead. But Njoku and Anwunah are alive and well. Did the conference not hold and was it not on the strength of its decision that Ironsi took power?

One final point. The minutes of the conference in which the rump of the federal cabinet handed over power to the military regime of General Aguiyi-Ironsi was recorded by Alhaji Abdul Rasaq (SAN). He was at the time the legal adviser of the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC). Alhaji Abdul Rasaq told me in his Ikeja home many years ago that he still had in his possession the original minutes of the meeting which included the signatures of all those present. Should this historical document which could throw more light on the vents of January 15, 1966 remain in private hands?

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Major Nzeogwu has since 1966, been touted as the leader of the January 1966 coup. This has been widely presumed due to the visible role which Nzeogwu played during and after the coup. Nzeogwu was the only Major to successfully execute the coup in his designated target region. He then followed up his coup success with his infamous “our enemies are the…..” speech. Thus the (false) assumption that he was the coup leader spread. The truth may be somewhat different. It was not until the coup plot reached its logistical stage that Nzeogwu was brought in to the conspiratorial group. The brains behind the coup was probably Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna, however Ifeajuna was chased out of Nigeria’s then capital city of Lagos by Major-General Ironsi. Realising that Ironsi was rounding up those that took part in the coup, Ifeajuna fled to Ghana, leaving Nzeogwu to hold the fort.---- “The Five Majors": Myth and Reality By Max Siollun (Published at Hausa-Fulani Gamji)

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