Lt Col Emmanuel Ajayi's Story of his Participation in the Nigerian Civil War

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Lt Col Emmanuel Ajayi's Story of his Participation in the Nigerian Civil War

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State Affairs 24 November 2023
Topic:
The Nigerian Civil War
Guest: Lt Col. Emmanuel Olukayode Ajayi (Rtd)
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@user-hs9uc8eh1s 3 ай бұрын

History is very very and very much important. Life without history is like a tree without roots it can not stand. History was intentionally taking out of Nigerian schools system. Thank you sir for this great history lesson. JMO

@aeafilmsuk 24 күн бұрын

I respect your work, Edmund Obilo💪🏾

@kolawolealadesuyi1169 9 ай бұрын

Edmond Obilo, I love what you are doing and wish to meet you in person one day. History is not just our past, It is a part of us, it is posterity. The more we interrogate it ...The more Complete we are.....

@DennisDenis 6 ай бұрын

Long live Lt. col Ajayi (fss. mss).So vast , fresh and kept all information exactly, with date accuracy.

@dayofrancisadegbola7095 4 ай бұрын

Mr Edmund - I will strongly advised your team to document baba wars story and put in future book publication for the future . It will be of a good benefit for knowledge and proceeds .

@user-sq9br6it2m 2 ай бұрын

When he mentioned umunede i feel somehow, my town , i wonder how it feel that time

@chimikinnocent4527 2 ай бұрын

Infact I felt same too. Our grands told us few story about it how they managed to survive though they were welcome by our king 👑 according to the story and they had good time with Nigeria soldiers before moving ahead. A great town right from time. Umunede. Owa-oyibu hijacked thier glory in 1991 of becoming LGA HQ. story for another day. God bless umu-ede

@PeterSalifu-ks7vl 2 ай бұрын

The first coup in January 1966,was not an Igbo coup but a Revolution headed by Major Kaduna Nzeogwu.He was a national hero,whose intention was to introduce a new social order that would purge the ills of the country and restored peace.I have written a new book titled The Nigerian civil War 1967to1970.I participated in the War and I stayed in the trench for 20 months fighting day and night.Iam ready to be interviewed by you any time.

@egenzie Ай бұрын

You can’t participate in a war and be using a pseudo account you are a proper oloriburuku.

@egenzie Ай бұрын

It was an Igbo coup, have never seen an Igbo man take responsibility.

@leko762 8 ай бұрын

Major Peter The brave never live long. Old soldiers never died.

@taiwoatoki2925 8 ай бұрын

Edmund, Ifeajuna escaped to Ghana when the January 15 coup failed. I think he was extradited to Nigeria when Nkurumah was also overthrown in Ghana.

@ezecletus6465 Ай бұрын

Ojukwu was not mandated to declare the war, he was mandated to declare the state of Biafra.

@jonnyada60 8 ай бұрын

Thank sir

@earoy2445 3 ай бұрын

The civil war was needless. The President should call for a national dialogue on the way forward for Nigeria to avoid another catastrophe of unimaginable proportion

@adewalejoeladebisi1342 6 күн бұрын

If you are familiar with military orders....Banjo carried out order as directed.

@Live_IT_ 5 ай бұрын

Ademoyega was the most senior officer of the coup

@afolayanadebayo9473 5 ай бұрын

Banjo, Ifeajuna ,Phillip Alale and others were killed on alleged coup against Ojukwu, details of the court proceedings were captured in the book "Rebel against Rebels" by Nelson Ottah. Banjo was not killed for the Ore incident.

@isaoridota6103 9 ай бұрын

How can we order and buy these books in the diaspora? I am located in the Netherlands

@ifeanyibxt 9 ай бұрын

Hello Edmund do you also have any Audio Ebook With Your Voice?

@stewmaker3983 9 ай бұрын

Rank and file officers like Emmanuel Ajayi, whose account of events is questionably sketchy, were not privy to decisions which led to gross violations of human rights, atrocities, and war crimes committed by the Nigerian army.

@omoyelesheriff2925 8 ай бұрын

Were you there? What do you know about the war. This is a soldier that was at the war front, he might not be able to give the account of all what happend because he is not everywhere but you dont have any say in the issue because you only rely on heresay accounts.

@Danalhaji9028 7 ай бұрын

Sitting from the comfort of your room calling a war hero 'rank & file' simply because your kinsmen were the 'vanquished'! Mtswwww

@stewmaker3983 7 ай бұрын

@@Danalhaji9028 More like a war criminal... War heroes win medals, lol. No one gives a damn about your 'no victor/ no vanquished', BS.

@owolabishonaike4735 2 ай бұрын

Instead of us going through another civil war for whatever reason(s). I am of the opinion that we go our different ways, but my fear is that those who are milking the nation to the disadvantage of the rest of us presently, will not want it, only to returned to the conference table later with rhetoric of "no Victor, no vanquish"

@ezecletus6465 Ай бұрын

The coup is dubbed “ one sided” because innocent people who were not dramatis persone in the crisis that the coup was staged to address were not killed. Haba ! So ,In order to do justice in Nigeria, the innocent must be punished with the culprits to make the relatives of the culprits sufficiently assuaged. Ohhh! What a country.

@VpointEmekaGlobal Ай бұрын

Pls this voice miming is uncalled for, let’s not make breeze

@ezecletus6465 Ай бұрын

That man telling you how Ironsi was allowed to run has already told you that he had not even enlisted in the military by that time. He is not more knowledgeable than any other person who was a bloody civilian at the time. Ajayi is not a witness of truth.

@olusegunjohn8852 3 ай бұрын

Ifeajuna escaped to Gold Coast (Ghana) and later repatriated to Nigeria and was imprisoned by Ironsi.

@biafranboybiafranboy9481 9 ай бұрын

Edmund, do you have any publication of the list of Eastern Nigerian officers killed in the July 1966 coup?

@DennisDenis 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the requests, this has been my interest

@judeskylabardooo8286 6 ай бұрын

You can find their names online

@ucol2068 3 ай бұрын

@@judeskylabardooo8286 where?

@ogbukachisom8450 5 ай бұрын

How can I get this book. the five majors

@biafranboybiafranboy9481 9 ай бұрын

Edmund, Ojukwu did not declare the war. He declared independence for Biafra and Nigeria decided to launch a genocide against the young country. Please check out General Madiebo’s interview wherein he said that they never knew or believed that Nigeria would launch a war to massacre them. Unfortunately, he did not expatiate on this.

@Obalufon 8 ай бұрын

Declaring freedom of a particular place in a country, is declaration of war. Let’s be real here

@user-hs9uc8eh1s 3 ай бұрын

Sir, the war was bad but at least, the war gave you a wife. Hahahaha. I like that. JMO

@imotumbokanaka4157 2 ай бұрын

he read books, and he is arguing with people who fought the war. if aguyi ironsi have executed the plotter, the north would ve been parficied, and would not have seen it as igbo coup

@uniqtouchpt 7 ай бұрын

Those asking about your part of military is because they want to use the information for selfish desire or interest.

@imotumbokanaka4157 2 ай бұрын

u see the igbo allow ironsi to escape, that is why he did not kill the plotters, i see why the northern were upset, u did not kill zik, u did not ironsi, but u amadu bello and balewa, is one sided, he spoke igbo to them

@imotumbokanaka4157 2 ай бұрын

he was quiet when the guy said out of 5, you kill only 2, and you want the rest to be quiet, a big lie, that he wanted to release awolowo and make him president , he should have included it in his speech, when okar break six states, he included it in his speech. indeed is an ibo coup

@Obalufon 9 ай бұрын

This man is too old to remember most of the questions asked. Banjo was never part of the coup plotters, he was senior to the plotters but a good friend of Ojukwu and of same rank as him. Adewale Ademoyega was part of them and that makes it not an Igbo coup, but revolutionary group coup

@anthonyajibolaomoruyi8054 9 ай бұрын

What do you call the counter coup of July 1966, do you consider it a "Nigeria coup" or a "northern coup"?

@Obalufon 9 ай бұрын

@@anthonyajibolaomoruyi8054 Northerners Coup! Not Hausa or Fulani coup. You can call January 1966 a Southerners coup, but not Igbo coup

@omoyelesheriff2925 8 ай бұрын

There is no way you could exonarate ethnicity complexity, especially igbo in the coup. the events that followed laid credence to Igbo complexity for non of igbos politoicians were killed, the jubilation of the igbos in the north, supreme power were in hand igbos and introduction of unitary of government with believe that they would be in power for life since. These and more provoked the northerner officers that made them to struck at the counter coup.

@Aro_Gidigba 7 ай бұрын

@@omoyelesheriff2925 You are on point, many like to bury their hands in the sand

@ucol2068 3 ай бұрын

@@omoyelesheriff2925 you absolutely have no proofs of igbos jubilations in the north. No igbo politician was among the corrupt politicians except zik who only him knows why he travelled at that time. And the introduction of the unitary system at that time doesn't proof it was for hold of power.

@Nadel60 9 ай бұрын

PA Ajayi's recollection of certain major events before and during that war is mostly inexact or downright erroneous. For instance, Lt Col. Victor Banjo was not part of the coup; he was senior to Nzeogwu and co. He was arrested and detained because he was said to have gone to meet Ironsi in his office armed - two days after Ironsi became the Head of state. He had been appointed as the first Nigerian commander of the Engineering corps of the Nigerian army .(He was an electrical engineer). He was being detained in the East when the war broke out. He reached an agreement with Ojukwu upon his release from the prison, that he would be given troops to Match to the west to stir up armed insurrection in the west which was occupied by Norther soldiers. He and his Biafran troops arrived at Ore, when it happened that there was a breakdown in communication with his contact in the west. They were stuck at Ore waiting to re-establish contact when the Federal troops came against them.

@Obalufon 8 ай бұрын

West was never occupied by Northern soldiers when Ojukwu declared Biafra. The Marines commandos were all lead by Yoruba soldiers ie Benjamin Adekunle, Obasanjo later on

@Live_IT_ 5 ай бұрын

You know better than a war veteran, somebody older than your father. Mumu

@Live_IT_ 5 ай бұрын

As much of Akintola was the Northern puppet, Ironsi was also a puppet to the North, he was among the people on the list to be executed but Ademoyega who was tasked to kill him failed in his assignment. Banjo was part of the coup. After the coup failed Ironsi hijacked it. Ironsi was handed power by the civilian government to restore order. In his appointments he surrounded himself with Northern soldiers, only one spots were for the Yoruba and Igbos which were Eastern and Western premier positions. The rest of his appointments were Northerners, if indeed Ironsi was part of the coup give me one reason as a military officer he will be so foolish to surround himself with Northerners?

@ucol2068 3 ай бұрын

@@Obalufon did you read where he said he was on his way to LAGOS or you're just being disingenuous!

@ucol2068 3 ай бұрын

@@Live_IT_ he was just an army man fighting a war he knows nothing about

@Live_IT_ 5 ай бұрын

Ademoyega failed in his assignment

@josephmoses6052 3 күн бұрын

This man was lately recruoted does not have much facts.

@user-wc4ls9gt6s 7 ай бұрын

Igbo people make una no buy any Biafra book written by a Yoruba, don't spend your cent

@brightolay8346 3 ай бұрын

This is Yoruba interview. You are just everywhere making comments that nobody take notes.

@user-wc4ls9gt6s 3 ай бұрын

@@brightolay8346 keep quiet

@brightolay8346 3 ай бұрын

@@user-wc4ls9gt6s Bully

@brightolay8346 3 ай бұрын

@@user-wc4ls9gt6s Efulefu

@brightolay8346 3 ай бұрын

@@user-wc4ls9gt6s Ewu Gambia

@denniskcobi3470 9 ай бұрын

This old man don't know anything about the biafra and Nigeria war

@emmanuelakinola1483 9 ай бұрын

Someone fought in the war, but he does not know anything about the war,. Does that statement even make any sense?

@denniskcobi3470 9 ай бұрын

@@emmanuelakinola1483 he was but he can not give a good account instead the hosting is telling him some stories can you say this man was there i ask you

@anthonyajibolaomoruyi8054 9 ай бұрын

@@emmanuelakinola1483: Good response. We agitate for history to be taught in our school but we want the history the manner in which it suits our narrative.

@chukwunonsomarshal739 8 ай бұрын

@@anthonyajibolaomoruyi8054 so his own narrative is superior to those who had more information? For example, we all know Banjo going to Ore was by his own volition and was a direct disobedience to the orders of Ojukwu, which was what cost him, Ifeajuna and others their lives. Even when Edmund corrected his false narrative, he still insisted on it, then let me ask you, of what value is teaching history if the facts of history have been corrupted?

@anthonyajibolaomoruyi8054 8 ай бұрын

@@chukwunonsomarshal739: My point is not about whose argument(s) is/are superior, but for someone who didn't participate in the war to tell a person that participated that he knows nothing, doesn't make sense at all.

@paulanuforo8010 7 ай бұрын

Which two weeks is this man talking about? The presidential Jet took Conrad Nwawo from lagos to Kaduna to fetch Nzeogwu. Banjo part of the five Majors? You claim to be a soldier and yet you do not know why Banjo was arrested and detained after January '66 coup! SMH.

@hyacinthumeh5092 2 ай бұрын

Please show some appreciation.Discussions have levels.Don't be rude.

@paulanuforo8010 2 ай бұрын

@@hyacinthumeh5092 appreciation for distorting history? I will do no such thing sir and besides I was never rude in my submission. So many books have been written on January 15 by both participants and non participants if you care.