May God bless Nigeria

​@@DailyTrustStop the deceit.

Are you aware that Yorubas and other Nigerians, Northerners took part in the coup? And why didn't Gowon execute them after Ironsi?

Jan 15 coup was a very unique coup lead majorly by the Igbo officer, but other officers including northerners participated but they felt used by their Igbo superiors when the pattern of killing became obvious. Nigeria would have probably be a paradise if Jan 15 never happen because we still lives with it consequences over half a century later

@@MohammedTsonga-qi1cv How would Nigeria would've been paradise if January 15 hadn't happened? I am really curious. (Even though, you didn't answer the question in the comment you responded. How did coup of Igbo officer involve all Igbos?)

@@michaeludeze8470 True federalism would have survived and every region would have developed on their pace

@@MohammedTsonga-qi1cv First of all, I totally, wholly, agree with you about true federalism being the structure that will diversify Nigeria's economy and create economic opportunities. That is the practice in advanced economies, where each State develops their own natural resources and control their own destiny! Instead, Nigeria crippled itself with centralized economic system that makes every State equal, and thereby killed progress, and nationalized poverty. Nigeria is doing the direct opposite of developed nations. However, I fail to see how the coup has prevented Nigeria from structuring our economy to a system that benefits the country. And the present centralized system benefits Northern Nigeria at the detriment of the country. After the counter-coup of 1966, Northerners have been controlling Nigeria like it is their private property. All National policies and decisions have been made with the interest of the North, leading to gradual and continued decline of the country. And they have stubbornly resisted the idea decentralization, so that the economy can diversify. Decentralizing the economy would mean giving up control, and they don't want that. Northerners have been using Nigeria's resource wealth like it is their private fund. They dominate Nigerian armed forces and National security; they rushed the capital to the North; they built Kainji dam with resource revenue from the South; they blatantly defied the principles of location of industries, and established oil refineries in the North. They don't have oil, but they ran NNPC, and controlled most Oil Blocks. They enjoyed preferential treatment for admission into higher institution

@@michaeludeze8470 That's the problem our founding fathers bequeath to us, divided nation and they were all guilty. But I tell you today that the North and West were more receptive and even the Igbos weren't so hostile prior to Jan 15. We can always trying to dribble around issues and continue to be in self denial but take it from me, that coup ripple effect still reverberate till tomorrow . It was a curse to the nation and the country would have been better of without it. Ironsi wouldn't have died, their wouldn't have been the civil war, Murtala, Dimka, Vatsa and millions of Nigerians across board would have still been alive. Nothing good came out from that coup period

d same way ironsi betrayed those that make him chief of army staff

Ironsi earned it being the most senior and experienced army officer. The British made him the the chief of army staff. In fact, he was the Commander in Chief at independence, representing the Queen, before Nigeria became a republic. Then a ceremonial president was appointed. When people don't know the system and history of Nigerian government people say all kind of things.

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It is very wicked and irresponsible of you to continue the wicked , malicious and patently false narrative that Ironsi was part of the first coup,it is even more idiotic of you to continue to label an entire race as being responsible for the action of a few of their people. Were the coup plotters sent by Igbos? Was Danjuma, Dimka, Orka, Abacha etc sent by their people to do their own coups?

The qualified people would have been Igbos, which you wouldn't like either. Most of the senior officers were southerners, especially Igbos for obvious reasons. But Aguiyi was trying to pacify the North so he appointed them in very serious positions, a deadly mistake.

Aguiyi was a careless man