Unraveling the Killing of Nigeria’s Head of State Aguiyi Ironsi and Fajuyi in the July 1966 Coup

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The killing of Nigeria's head of state, Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, and Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi in the July 1966 Counter Coup represents one of the darkest chapters in the nation's history. The coup and its aftermath had far-reaching consequences, deepening ethnic divisions and leading to a brutal civil war. As Nigeria continues to grapple with its past and strive for a brighter future, it is crucial to remember the events of 29 July 1966 as a reminder of the devastating consequences of political instability and the importance of building a united and inclusive nation.
State Affairs 29 July 2023
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@emmanuelchika1202 9 ай бұрын

I am so impressed by the Chief’s knowledge of history. If you agree with me give a 👍

@josephatugoala7324 11 ай бұрын

This old Journalist is very knowledgable and FRANK! His analysis is spot on!

@nnamanierasmus7845 11 ай бұрын

I love history .more grace sir, the elder statesman for educating Nigerian's.

@AbiolaAbimbola-nl5mc 4 ай бұрын

Murtala Mohammed also had nemesis caught up with him on 13th February,1976, exactly 10years after he killed ironsi in Ibadan

@godsonnsofor1554 Ай бұрын

Karma 💯

@ereborkingsley8138 8 ай бұрын

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.

@bolajibada6233 11 ай бұрын

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

@ogunladesemiu6660 11 ай бұрын

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).

@Mallamchuks 8 ай бұрын

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.

@ifeanyibxt 11 ай бұрын

Thank you E. Obilo for your effort in bringing back history to us....

@jewelofnashville1726 8 ай бұрын

What a piece of history. Thank you!

@fifalord4811 11 ай бұрын

Thank you Edmund Obilo

@HispleMedia 11 ай бұрын

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.

@aliomasadiki4582 13 күн бұрын

❤🎉 just admire his elaborate history of Nigerian coup of of 1766

@habeebharbaba6579 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful conversation

@okeziefelix6562 Ай бұрын

Thank you

@samayaafrica2137 11 ай бұрын

Interesting ❤

@akuatitilolaalao8747 Ай бұрын

You are good

@user-fk5yi7fi1n 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the beautiful history. Please, you can also add, ( thirteen years military rule) book.

@toyindipo Ай бұрын

...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.

@Nadel60 8 ай бұрын

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.

@tochukwuokeke5348 7 ай бұрын

What is your reference? These men are giving their references and experiences.

@Live_IT_ 3 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@Live_IT_wow sir please can I know more.. Where do you get your facts.

@Live_IT_ Ай бұрын

@@nnajidaveed9896 read about “operation Wetie” read from multiple sources, KZfaq, 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.

@Prince-bz3nz Ай бұрын

@@Live_IT_what’s your point

@oyetadesheriff6724 15 күн бұрын

Why was Awolowo still in prison till August even after ladoke Akintola was eliminated. Why was he not released after the january coup?

@godsonnsofor1554 Ай бұрын

Mr obilo nice work 👍 but pls alllow ur guests to talk 👄 thanks

@qaadironilewura8997 3 ай бұрын

Why is this man talking like this na. Pls talk a bit more direct. Love the content ❤

@abubakarjibir37 8 ай бұрын

No,no! Fajuyi was a target too and was arrested. This is revisionist history.

@Dominushart 3 ай бұрын

Fajuyi was not a target. But because he didn't back down as they were in his residence, he fell too

@jimiklementi3123 Ай бұрын

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

@crystalclear507 27 күн бұрын

Okotiebo was killed during the first military coup, January 1966

@isaacoritogun8917 11 ай бұрын

Hello sir, how can we get the books please

@walteraloh6687 11 ай бұрын

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

@walteraloh6687 11 ай бұрын

I forgot to add Timothy Carroll, the peace corp who wrote about Nzeogwu in 2015, "The Chick(Chukwuma) I Knew"

@naijagotitwrong Ай бұрын

Send me your evidence if you have any.

@VectorChi-kn8yb 27 күн бұрын

@@walteraloh6687thank you for the Tim Carroll’s reference.

@muhammadaliyu8638 10 ай бұрын

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?

@AishaObodoeke Ай бұрын

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

@templekanu6740 Ай бұрын

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

@user-hj4vf2pz5x 4 ай бұрын

Dey momo ursafe 😂 ty danjuma dey

@SteveAguocha 3 күн бұрын

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.

@gigigeorge-taylor8692 11 ай бұрын

Please stick to now and leave old news.

@oghogho_jacinta 11 ай бұрын

It's always better to deal with a problem from the root.

@gigigeorge-taylor8692 11 ай бұрын

@@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

@LadyDiuto 4 ай бұрын

useless and ignorant statement.

@chidiraphael939 Ай бұрын

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 😅😅

@gigigeorge-taylor8692 Ай бұрын

@@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 !!!

@Wargee4978 8 ай бұрын

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 7 ай бұрын

Did murtala deserve what he got from Dimka?

@Wargee4978 7 ай бұрын

@@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.

@NonsoOkoye-pe4rf 6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Live_IT_ 3 ай бұрын

@@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

@nnajidaveed9896 Ай бұрын

@@Live_IT_It's intentional...

@ababakarmohammed9509 9 ай бұрын

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.

@Nadel60 8 ай бұрын

Yours is a beer palour history. There are tons of books that could bulge you of ignorance.

@Live_IT_ 3 ай бұрын

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.

@stevenwilliams3015 2 ай бұрын

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

@nnajidaveed9896 Ай бұрын

@@Nadel60Not ignorant.. Misinformation.. Pills to be swallowed by those whom they continue to blind..

@Prince-bz3nz Ай бұрын

@@Live_IT_so you think zik didn’t know about it? Stop playing

@muhammadaliyu8638 10 ай бұрын

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.

@Obalufon 8 ай бұрын

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!

@emmanymatthew2539 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

@@emmanymatthew2539 That's right, and he wasn't even a military man!

@emmanymatthew2539 8 ай бұрын

@@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…

@Live_IT_ 3 ай бұрын

@@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