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The protest is irrelevant the very nature of the organization of the protest is suspect how can we have a faceless protest if you’re a real activist that care about the people you should be able to lead the protest physically in the days of Gani Fawahinmi and other patriots they lead protests physically when they call for one and they’re willing to pay the price if the organizers of the protest means good they should be able to indentify with the protest and lead from the front instead of hiding behind the social media and to expect one man to turn the government that has been run badly for 60years in one year unrealistic

This man’s knowledge is like a river!

"We'll not accept it anymore" Ninas has put an end to the source of all the misery.

Fantastic ❤

Am just wondering why would the west wait for the east to opt and then follow suit if they are really comfortable with the system?

It was an Igbo coup. Only reason Biafra came into existence is when they realized their plans for national domination was impossible. Trying to revise history as always.

leave then.

@abimolabinjo...listen guy...life is precious...except in the present nigeria...if not,I pray we all live on...and...on...the truth must surface at.last..now...truth seems to be sunk..But..but...ETERNAL TRUTH will prevail...it is always an open wound...along the line...TIME heals it...the scars remain in history..

I think Mr.Iloegbu knows his onions...He tenaciously...and rightly too, defended his points to the letter...to the full-stop,I would say..I have ever abhored reading things about coups in nigeria...But, following this Obilor's interview,I'd like to read IRONSI...Iloegbu's book...In conclusion...I say...nigerians are starving to death today,in the midst of the over-plentiful resources offered that crazy contraption of frederick lugard et al...The current situation had been building up from the onstart...and has now COME TO ROOST..Once upon a while,one naira was equivalent to 1 USD...And 2 naira equal to 1 british pound sterling...Some people piloted nigeria to where it is today...You can take that to the bank...

wahoo great job thanks for bringing back History

The title of his book wasn't indicated in the video description. Id appreciate getting the title of his book.

What kind of nonsense is this? You killed many in Kent men and women and unborn children and you call its for a better Nigeria? That means only Igbo must be at the top to be better in your eyes.

Pls Mr Edmund, help me and direct me to how I can get these books: TRAGEDY WITHOUT HEROES by Hillary Njoku THE RELUCTANT REBEL by Fola Oyewole

Interesting interview even though I think he is way too biased cos no way it is a coincidence the man defended all Igbo actors and painted others the other way. And some inaccuracies obilo should have countered. Like Supreme court never released NMK.

If law and order was completely shattered in less than five years after the British left. One, would then ask, on what bases did the British lump different species of animals in one cage and what was the result they expected??????

How Awolowo was the beneficiary of the Coul ? Awolowo was in kirikiri prison jailed by fist Republic government of Tafawabala in 1963 for treason & felony he could have been killed Northern & Western leaders was killed none of the Eastern leader was killed by these callous people

Continued to distort the history why the leaders ffrom the north and Western region was killed & none from the east ? Callous people

I love you chair man for the story

Thank you sir for saying the truth though majority of them out of hatred for igbos will always shunned the truth and believe the propaganda lies they were been told as long as it goes against the igbos

It was amany igbo was killed then

Wjy is be sounding like Edmund

It wasn't the Ogbo that quelled the coup. Gowon did.

Ojukwu was in kano too but didn't support the coup. If major kaduna succeded in Kaduna or the North,of course the boys he led to wreck harvock were from the north, they could have easily rebel against him.

There's already an undeclared war on our farming villages, towns and cities. The fulani and boko haram terrorits and sleeper cells are all over sadly and unfortunately millions don't understand this. A good example is the war on Yoruba agricultrural economy where our farmers are killed, farm produce are destroyed and citizens kidnapped for huge ransom and killed with the rest of us constantly traumatised.

Igbo are the most tribalistic people and betrayers

i think you were not asking the questions the way they should be asked. it is a bad and condemnable act killing children but i also watched in one of your series where you interviewed a child soldier on the Biafra side who was a spy but you didn't condemn him for being a spy as a child. i like what you do but i think questions should be asked with same energy on either side. our job as storytellers is to find fact and not necessarily take sides in public. keep doing a good job sir.

Love the last word .,..Peace with his maker, with his Conscience and Peace with History

These two guys are unashamedly tribalistic. Saying if it was an Igbo coup, it would have been a walk over. Everything that comes out of his mouth is jingoism. The interviewer is also complicit in giving a platform without challenge to this diatribe. Igbo officers/politicians were not killed. Giant pictures depicting Sardauna and Balewa as donkeys being ridden by Ibo officers were being given out in Lagos and northern states. The perpetrators of the coup were not tried. It was an Igbo Coup through and through. Just because they failed in the attempt to dominate Nigeria, they are now trying to spin the whole shebang. Just hear his one sided comments. Ibos are welcomed to Lagos and everywhere but criminals who engage in the drugs business, or importing of counterfeit medicines or the making of adulterated drinks are not welcomed whatever their tribe. We don’t need this Obilo guy and others like him who engage in or encourage ethnic sentiments

Great content. Learned a lot from this program

Why does this journalist talk like this.? I have lived abroad for close to 40 yrs and I have yet to encounter anybody that sound like him. However I enjoy the interview less the fake accent. Thank you

Obingos will be tossed left right and centre by the Northern political elites if he becomes Nigeria president. Politically, he is weak and can't matched toe to toe with the craftsmanship of the Northerners. Anyone, who is expecting Obingos to do wonders in Nugeria may be joking. Anambra state remained poor after his administration, transformed nothing and samething will happen to Nigeria after his presidency. Igbos are fake people and they hype and glorified themselves too much. We can see the chaos and lack of governance in Southeast. With their so- called wealth, development is static. Let moves on.

Ipob gaslighters. we literarily have footage of Nzeogwu interview. where he said he did coup and handed over to his Ibo boss Ironsi

People should not forget that the yorubas gave zik hell at nigerian youth movement accusing him of theft

Hardworking about what? They know how to raise capital. They come to Lagos with plastic bags and end up being billionaires by exporting “business” we know what “.business” is, as a result they end up being guests in “government hotels “ abroad from Maylasia to South Africa , Kenya , Ethiopia, Ghana, Benin republic and start crying that the Nigerian government is not helping them. They import counterfeit medicines and produce fake and adulterated drinks in Lagos. That is the hard work they talk about. Youths all over Nigeria have been turned to drug addicts. It is a myth that they know how to do business. Law abiding ones are always welcome in Lagos or any part of the world but criminals should be sent packing

‘Awolowo has the interest of people at heart but Zik is treacherous’ ‘Awolowo was not culpable but Zik committed fraud’ very biased mind, he cannot even contain his tribalism. That is how they spread lies and decides. When his brothers do the same now, they call it political calculation.

The coup was simply to terminate the British/ Fulanis agenda that was designed to keep us permanently enslaved according to Berlin conference 1884/85. We are still in Western shackles today because the coup failed when the British stepped into actions from the North. The Igbo officers were more visible and dedicated during the coup. Don't know if to call it Igbo coup but the British intelligence and military declared it Igbo coup. Please let's start talking on how to correct the British/ Fulanis Mess because today our father land has no future. After the war in 1970 I met all the coup officers still alive plus all Biafrans surviving officers while they were in detention in Lagos. I was a young man but acted as their errand boy between detention and outside world. I alerted Major Adewale Ademoyegas family that he was still alive because during the war Radio Biafra and Nigeria had declared him dead. I learned a little during the war and after the war. Today we are still in shackles crying for freedom and I'm praying and begging our Captors to set us and our children , children free. I know that it is a wishful thinking because no freedom is FREE.

Don't play dumb with us. Your narration is worthless, cause we know what happened through credible sources!.

You say the Igbos have been marginalised since 1967, there is no evidence to support this. Azikiwe was the president of Nigeria. Nwafor Orizu was senate president, Alex Ekwueme was vice president, Babangida had an Ibo deputy. Azikiwe Ebele Jonathan was the president before Buhari. Where is the marginalisation? You have flooded yourselves all over the Southwest engaging in mostly nefarious activities. We know who import counterfeit medicines that maim and kill Lagosians. We know those engaging in adulterated drinks that kill innocent people. We know what IPOB is doing. If some people want to go away from Nigeria, then conduct a referendum withdraw your people from the south west and apply for visas to come. Do things legally and properly. No problem with people moving away, but no government will condone criminality

Brother Edmond, U R and have always been a pride to the Black race, and Africa in general...God will surely continue to uphold, and protect U for all of us...love always ..

A lot of people try to shy away from this fact clearly stated here by this very bold individual, all our southern leaders both recent and in the past have been surprisingly quiet and spineless in raising this issue and here we are today, a country where there are different examination score required by its citizens to gain admission into tertiary institutions, the north requires very little exams score and the south is required to have high scores to gain admmisson, as a young man i thought that did not sound fair to me but our leaders or elders in the south thought it justified. Nigeria na waste of time, unless equity justice and fairness is allowed to prevail the country will forever remain backward and unprogressive.

The Igbo wants freedom....

This is not the right time to talk about this, don't spoil the heart of the people let's unite together against the bad governance

Hear him, it was not an Igbo coup but he claimed there was a northern coup plotted by Maimalari. Can you imagine what this man says. He claimed Awolowo was to be the beneficiary, come on, that was an afterthought. He is hairbrushing the shenanigans of his people, giving excuses for them and accusing others. According to him his people are the best thing since sliced bread and it is the Fulanis and Yorubas that have problems. Both of them (interviewer and the red capped man) are ibo apologists. These type of people are often responsible for the problems of Nigeria. He accused other tribes but we know what his people are doing in Lagos. Adulterated drinks, counterfeit medicines/goods and drugs. Yet he claimed business is in their DNA, which business? This is a very pedestrian interview without any serious challenges of the man. They are trying to rewrite history. These are mainly lies upon more lies

😂 Nnamdi Kanu's uncle. fraudulent lies

Figment of the imagination of the writers. Contradictory and does not make sense . The facts on the ground at the time does of any coup.

It’s all a figment of this man’s imagination. He claimed a Fulani coup was in the offing that was why the Ibos planned a coup which he said was not an Igbo coup. This man is an ethnic champion. How did he know Maimalari disobeyed Ironsi. How did he also know the reason why Ironsi did not discipline him. He is full of conjectures and poorly considered assumptions. These are the sort of people that are responsible for the present dislocations in Nigeria. How this man can write a book full of so much inaccuracies and assumptions is bewildering. How this so called journalist can allow him to get away with his views without challenge is surprising. They appear to be singing from the same song sheet promoting a sectional interest

You people caused the imbalance which resulted in the present day Nigerian system.

Apart from General MC Alli writing other foreign writers also alluded to a Northern coup which was to have occurred had the 15 January 1966 coup had not prevented it. 1) In light of the inability /unwillingness of either the federal government or the Western regional government to restore order in the West, rumours spread to the effect that some junior and middle grade army officers planned a coup. The rumour caused the Western regional premier SL Akintola to fly to Kaduna to meet with the Northern premier Sir Ahmadu Bello on January 14, 1966. There they agreed , with Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun, to use the armed forces in a "ruthless blitz" which will entrench Akintola as Western premier by force of arms. But somehow the young rebels, who secured the cooperation of some civilians politicians, decided to act first. Reference: Nigeria In Crisis. WAE Skurnik, Current History, vol.52, #307, March 1967, pp142-48 and p. 181. 2)A thorough research into the Nigerian Army prior to 1966 shows that a number of coups were in the offing. Which beat the others to the punch was a matter of chance. This chance came when a tip was received about a meeting between the Sardauna and Akintola in Kaduna on 14 January 1966, in the presence of the commander of 1 Brigade ( Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun) of the Nigerian Army. The meeting was followed by the post-haste despatch of a Northern colonel to Lagos in preparation of a rumoured plan to contain the wild, wild West(Western Region). Reference: Genesis of the Nigerian Civil War, Kirk Greene.

Who voted for him sir?

I love this baba interview ...