I left the chat moment he said “as far as we were concerned, he (Azikiwe) was not endangering anybody”. So Saudauna, Akintola, Balewa, Largema, Shodeinde and co were? Smh.
the guy is a deadly dangerous liar. In that government, only tafawa balewa was of the top 6 political office without igbo origin. He was the only one killed. To this idiots, he was the only corrupt office holder. The remaining 5 people of the 6 were innocent because they were igbos. They still have same mindset till date. They are too dubious and dangerous to live with. President was igbo--- to the coupist, he was not corrupt Senate president was igbo---the coupist claims he is innocent senate vice president was igbo---the claim he was innocent Speaker for the house of rep also igbo---they claim he was innocent Deputy speaker also igbo-- they claim he was innocent. The prime minister was a northerner, not igbo-- the coupist claim he was corrupt YET, THE REASON FOR COMMITING MASS MURDER OF THAT MAGNITUDE WAS SIMPLY DUE TO CORRUPTION IN THE GOVERNMENT. The only yoruba man among the coupist refused to kill anyone because he only believed in change of government without shedding any blood. A They are extremely evil. You trust them to your peril
@ayenia2736 and @agboolafaleti4520 I am sure you're aware that Zik was a ceremonial head (not even a President) as confirmed during the constitutional crisis, Census crisis, Tiv Riots and the political problems in the West. Also I am sure you're aware that Okpara and co were also arrested. @ayenia2736 you're write up is unfortunately based on foolish tribal sentiments, which regular parliamentarian was arrested in the coup of 1966. Your lack of knowledge is further revealed when you that the Senate Vice President, Speaker, Deputy Speaker are Igbo as there was no such thing. Ibhrahim Waziri was speaker of the house of Rep (Igbo by association, I assume). Also you said "The only yoruba man among the coupist refused to kill anyone..." are you serious. lol
Well, I'd have to do a deep dive into what happened in 1966 looking at both side of the divide, because your observation is the general believe of northerners which is not true compared to captain Ben's response. Which is the general believe of the easterners.
For me, the freedom to kill or not kill by the plotters of January was the biggest mess of the plot. Some of the plotters were not solely prompted by idealism.
What Biafra kingdom. What an act of cowardice. You guys made it look as if the IGBOS fought the war and we all know it was the Asaba soldiers that were the real tigers who fought the war. Only mouth .
Why did they not allow this man to say all in his head and they cross question him to let out the lies of his story if any? No wonder Charlie Boy called the Panel a Circus show whatever that means. This man had a lot to tell the world and a lot the world would want to know or would never ever know again.
As an Igboman, I am strongly pained at that first coup. Igbos should have stayed away just like I am shouting and asking Peter Obi to stay away from anything FG.
Gbulie was in on the rump coup that derived from the main central plot which involved several cells run by Lt. Col. Fajuyi. The return of Obasanjo from an overseas course days before the January coup was key to the co-opting of the Army wide coup and subsequently bungling of the coup by his roommate - Nzeogwu - and him
One little link I just captured here is that the July Coup, just like the January Coup before it, failed in Enugu. That is true because if it didn't fail, Ojukwu would not still be governor of the east. My up coming video is on Major Nzeogwu and hope include some of this stories
Ibo wanted to dorminate the rest of Nigeria was the reason for 1966 coup there was no plan to hand over to Awolowo as it was claimed it was blatant lies
The plotters certainly had some legitimate grievances and I truly believe that some of them genuinely intended to fix the flaws in the system but we now have the privilege of hindsight & understand how much of a tall order it is to convince everyone (in such a vastly heterogeneous society) that the coup was devoid of any colouration of ethnic prejudice whatsoever.🤦 I enjoyed listening to Gbulie & he strikes me as a passionate, smart & patriotic man. However his response to the question on why the plotters didn't wait for Zik's return before commencement of the coup was his weakest.
Brigadier Ademulugun was killed at home, along with his wife while their children was at home. Why killed the wife, she was a threat too, while the President was not a threat?
That part of the history destroyed all their good intentions. There was no much reason for the slaughter of many people like that and sparing some persons. The coup failed even before it started which thereby neccitated the counter coup. What many Igbo men took exemption from was the pogrom. All this madness would have just ended in the army. Those men of that generation just fucked everything up and mismanaged the whole situation till date
Factual history indeed. Where this particular video ended was what actually led to the massacre of Igbos in the north and subsequent civil war - that is - the Sadauna / Nzeogu picture widely circulated then.
To leave out the Battle Group course of Sept-Dec 1965 sets the stage for the coverup. Walter said in an interview with Nowa Omoigui that the Battlegroup course held under the auspices of Lt Col Fajuyi was the main reason for his death at their hands. Two soldiers who participated in that Abeokuta course were left off the list of coup participants even though Bisalla and Walbe were critical to bringing down the Saurdana’s residence. This guy here: Gbulie was listed as a student at the course and could never set up and fire in the middle of the night. Bisalla and Wya were Sandhurst trained artillery officers who brought down the Lodge with a Howitzer; for political reasons and to set the narrative Mi-6 left them off the suspect list. With their godfather indisposed in 1976, they were executed despite their not having any role in the ‘76 coup
Gbulie was evasive and eratic in his responses to questions put to him. He was a typical tribalistick defending Ohanaze. Gbulie is late now but history will judge every participants in bringing Nigeria to position we are now.
Gbulie was unnecessarily combative, pig headed and pugilistic. He is on the witness stand to answer questions but he is there asking questions.,This is the typical attitude of the Igbos . Arrogance and bellicosity. He says that Igbos are all over Nigeria makes the Igbos the best citizens. This is very simplistic. Igbos don’t assimilate. They live in conclaves and interact with honey Igbos socially. You will hardly find a Nigerian owning a stall at Alaba or Onitsha market.
@mohmmedusman, your comment on Gbulue is simply tribal in totality. Have you questioned the one sided lopsided manner in which your brother the counsel asked his questions. He chose to concentrate on those who were killed or not and framing the execution of the coup as geared towsrds eliminating other tribes rather than focus on the real causes of the coup. Ahmadu Bello constituted himself into a terror and danger to the nation. He became absolutely very reckless and careless, with his utterances believing that he was untouchable and above all other nigerians. So please, be civil when you comment on sensitive national issues.
I am enjoying these hearings, the intellect and theatrics of it is incredibly entertaining despite the seriousness of it, however, I really don’t understand the intent and expected application in the current Nigeria state, is it just to educate or to entertain. It could be the coup gave rise to the current infusion of the unprofessional military recruits in Nigeria with the intent of revenge based on misinformation.
If 3 Hausas and 1 igbo go to Rob or kidnap of course it an offense now is this an Hausa robbery or what? Fact is Awolowo was to be installed PM if the coup was successful but taking him out of Prison beforehand would have gotten him killed if the coup had failed. Now in reverse of the situation it failed and Gowon led a counter coup against Easterners which was baseless since the Jan 1966 coup had failed what would have happened was arresting and killing the coup plotters only but instead it was a revenge to target the Eastern states Now looking at this from a different perspective Awolowo was sentenced to life imprisonment more like a dead man betrayed the coup plotters being the first coup to take place and he was to be the prime minister sources says the military were notified but they choose to do nothing meaning they’ve been prepared but they wanted to it happen anyway since in the end it won’t be successful I believe they were fact checking Awolowo betrayal to the coup plotters perhaps Now this led to the North and South West alliance killing Nigeria today Reasons as to why the coup was allowed to take place and why they allowed Ojukwu declare Biafra independence was to seize the south south states and it oil from Eastern Nigeria reason they hurriedly announced the 12 states to separate East and the oil states Your Northern leaders were greedy and so was ojukwu but your leaders did worst then and even now so don’t come here acting like saints!
WHAT A HERO....GBULIE...I'm glad to learn about you
Gbulie Boldness For Me
Thanks for this. Thanks a million times
I like the title too I must say
What a national journey. Have to read up on this man.
Ben Gbulie ❤️
But how did we go from sound and educated military men to what we have now
Because merit was jettisoned. It's the same problem Gbulie pointed out.
Lol
This is really intriguing.
because as he said , they promoted themselves thereafter
please be specific about the particular tribe that you are talking about
because no all of them were sound and educated as you said.
This man call Ben Gbulie (smile) 😂❤
I left the chat moment he said “as far as we were concerned, he (Azikiwe) was not endangering anybody”. So Saudauna, Akintola, Balewa, Largema, Shodeinde and co were? Smh.
the guy is a deadly dangerous liar.
In that government, only tafawa balewa was of the top 6 political office without igbo origin. He was the only one killed. To this idiots, he was the only corrupt office holder. The remaining 5 people of the 6 were innocent because they were igbos. They still have same mindset till date. They are too dubious and dangerous to live with.
President was igbo--- to the coupist, he was not corrupt
Senate president was igbo---the coupist claims he is innocent
senate vice president was igbo---the claim he was innocent
Speaker for the house of rep also igbo---they claim he was innocent
Deputy speaker also igbo-- they claim he was innocent.
The prime minister was a northerner, not igbo-- the coupist claim he was corrupt
YET, THE REASON FOR COMMITING MASS MURDER OF THAT MAGNITUDE WAS SIMPLY DUE TO CORRUPTION IN THE GOVERNMENT.
The only yoruba man among the coupist refused to kill anyone because he only believed in change of government without shedding any blood. A
They are extremely evil. You trust them to your peril
@ayenia2736 and @agboolafaleti4520 I am sure you're aware that Zik was a ceremonial head (not even a President) as confirmed during the constitutional crisis, Census crisis, Tiv Riots and the political problems in the West. Also I am sure you're aware that Okpara and co were also arrested. @ayenia2736 you're write up is unfortunately based on foolish tribal sentiments, which regular parliamentarian was arrested in the coup of 1966. Your lack of knowledge is further revealed when you that the Senate Vice President, Speaker, Deputy Speaker are Igbo as there was no such thing. Ibhrahim Waziri was speaker of the house of Rep (Igbo by association, I assume). Also you said "The only yoruba man among the coupist refused to kill anyone..." are you serious. lol
Well, I'd have to do a deep dive into what happened in 1966 looking at both side of the divide, because your observation is the general believe of northerners which is not true compared to captain Ben's response. Which is the general believe of the easterners.
For me, the freedom to kill or not kill by the plotters of January was the biggest mess of the plot. Some of the plotters were not solely prompted by idealism.
Biafrans will never ever withdraw from restoring Biafra kingdom
What Biafra kingdom. What an act of cowardice. You guys made it look as if the IGBOS fought the war and we all know it was the Asaba soldiers that were the real tigers who fought the war. Only mouth .
But today u said asaba @Ekundayo-ce5el are not igbo
Why did they not allow this man to say all in his head and they cross question him to let out the lies of his story if any? No wonder Charlie Boy called the Panel a Circus show whatever that means. This man had a lot to tell the world and a lot the world would want to know or would never ever know again.
It's a sentimental conversation that keeps Nigeria at its knees. North-West and South-East regional issues affects Nigeria as a whole
As an Igboman, I am strongly pained at that first coup. Igbos should have stayed away just like I am shouting and asking Peter Obi to stay away from anything FG.
A General is always a general
I can't find the other videos😢
Truth and nothing but Truth.
Oputa of blessed memory...panel 2001
Gbulie was in on the rump coup that derived from the main central plot which involved several cells run by Lt. Col. Fajuyi. The return of Obasanjo from an overseas course days before the January coup was key to the co-opting of the Army wide coup and subsequently bungling of the coup by his roommate - Nzeogwu - and him
The right and only book to read about civil war...
One little link I just captured here is that the July Coup, just like the January Coup before it, failed in Enugu. That is true because if it didn't fail, Ojukwu would not still be governor of the east. My up coming video is on Major Nzeogwu and hope include some of this stories
This is rubbish, they can't allow witnesses to give details.
I love Ben Gbulie.
Gbulie was very good at adding facts to what Yakubu tried to hide.
Gbulie, hard man
The counsel is tribal in his approach!!!
Ibo wanted to dorminate the rest of Nigeria was the reason for 1966 coup there was no plan to hand over to Awolowo as it was claimed it was blatant lies
May the Lord deliver Nigeria
what i noticed here is that uneducated fellow is questioning a bold and educated fellow.
A very emotional topic that makes objectivity on both sides difficult.
Exactly
The plotters certainly had some legitimate grievances and I truly believe that some of them genuinely intended to fix the flaws in the system but we now have the privilege of hindsight & understand how much of a tall order it is to convince everyone (in such a vastly heterogeneous society) that the coup was devoid of any colouration of ethnic prejudice whatsoever.🤦
I enjoyed listening to Gbulie & he strikes me as a passionate, smart & patriotic man. However his response to the question on why the plotters didn't wait for Zik's return before commencement of the coup was his weakest.
Brigadier Ademulugun was killed at home, along with his wife while their children was at home. Why killed the wife, she was a threat too, while the President was not a threat?
That part of the history destroyed all their good intentions. There was no much reason for the slaughter of many people like that and sparing some persons.
The coup failed even before it started which thereby neccitated the counter coup. What many Igbo men took exemption from was the pogrom. All this madness would have just ended in the army. Those men of that generation just fucked everything up and mismanaged the whole situation till date
Factual history indeed. Where this particular video ended was what actually led to the massacre of Igbos in the north and subsequent civil war - that is - the Sadauna / Nzeogu picture widely circulated then.
Emanuel Abisoye, was not among them!
To leave out the Battle Group course of Sept-Dec 1965 sets the stage for the coverup. Walter said in an interview with Nowa Omoigui that the Battlegroup course held under the auspices of Lt Col Fajuyi was the main reason for his death at their hands. Two soldiers who participated in that Abeokuta course were left off the list of coup participants even though Bisalla and Walbe were critical to bringing down the Saurdana’s residence. This guy here: Gbulie was listed as a student at the course and could never set up and fire in the middle of the night. Bisalla and Wya were Sandhurst trained artillery officers who brought down the Lodge with a Howitzer; for political reasons and to set the narrative Mi-6 left them off the suspect list. With their godfather indisposed in 1976, they were executed despite their not having any role in the ‘76 coup
Are you saying he was an ineffective officer
Ben Gbulie was a hostile witness. Seemed very arrogant and haughty.
What is happening to and in Nigeria today.
Do you now see what caused Nigeria's current problems.
Gbulie was evasive and eratic in his responses to questions put to him. He was a typical tribalistick defending Ohanaze. Gbulie is late now but history will judge every participants in bringing Nigeria to position we are now.
Gbulie was unnecessarily combative, pig headed and pugilistic. He is on the witness stand to answer questions but he is there asking questions.,This is the typical attitude of the Igbos . Arrogance and bellicosity. He says that Igbos are all over Nigeria makes the Igbos the best citizens. This is very simplistic. Igbos don’t assimilate. They live in conclaves and interact with honey Igbos socially. You will hardly find a Nigerian owning a stall at Alaba or Onitsha market.
And u bokoharamist are not tribalistic ehn...mumu
Yes. History will judge those that looted Nigeria to this mess. Likes of abacha and his co horts that looted everything
Mohammed, use your brain
@mohmmedusman, your comment on Gbulue is simply tribal in totality. Have you questioned the one sided lopsided manner in which your brother the counsel asked his questions. He chose to concentrate on those who were killed or not and framing the execution of the coup as geared towsrds eliminating other tribes rather than focus on the real causes of the coup. Ahmadu Bello constituted himself into a terror and danger to the nation. He became absolutely very reckless and careless, with his utterances believing that he was untouchable and above all other nigerians. So please, be civil when you comment on sensitive national issues.
Why did Gbulie's mic go off?
This arewa counsel no sabi
Coupist kor, Coupator ni
No event, no history.
The questionnaire is confusing the fact of Ben Gbulie, all this up and down question ⁉️⁉️⁉️
I am enjoying these hearings, the intellect and theatrics of it is incredibly entertaining despite the seriousness of it, however, I really don’t understand the intent and expected application in the current Nigeria state, is it just to educate or to entertain. It could be the coup gave rise to the current infusion of the unprofessional military recruits in Nigeria with the intent of revenge based on misinformation.
Malcolm x speech “the hate that hate produce" this is a typical example.
This man is too sentimental for a trut and reconciliation conmision, i am happy he could not bully Ben gbulie.
It pisses me off that General Yakubu Gowon could not write a book up untill today about the war. Thats because he has nothing to write.
You should know that you don't kill people leaders and expect the people to fold their arms and look at you
Action man you're uncle.
Your documentary failed in your intro....with the words ..Coup plotters mostly igbo officers....
It was a revolutionary without any ethnic slant....
It’s all in my book. You should read it! 😂
What's the name?
Wow alot of hate comment from igbos people 🙄
Because ur intention was to islamize Liegeria. But unaa don cast... Hauss are still coming for u
This guy was lucky he did not face trail .
😮
can nigeria be one and the same since? Never
Bigotry at its peak
Die hard arrogance as usual.
Lies
It was an Igbo coup! Facts are facts and not fiction. This military guy is just doing some 'white-wash' of their heinous tribal offensive war.
If 3 Hausas and 1 igbo go to Rob or kidnap of course it an offense now is this an Hausa robbery or what?
Fact is Awolowo was to be installed PM if the coup was successful but taking him out of Prison beforehand would have gotten him killed if the coup had failed. Now in reverse of the situation it failed and Gowon led a counter coup against Easterners which was baseless since the Jan 1966 coup had failed what would have happened was arresting and killing the coup plotters only but instead it was a revenge to target the Eastern states
Now looking at this from a different perspective Awolowo was sentenced to life imprisonment more like a dead man betrayed the coup plotters being the first coup to take place and he was to be the prime minister
sources says the military were notified but they choose to do nothing meaning they’ve been prepared but they wanted to it happen anyway since in the end it won’t be successful I believe they were fact checking Awolowo betrayal to the coup plotters perhaps
Now this led to the North and South West alliance killing Nigeria today
Reasons as to why the coup was allowed to take place and why they allowed Ojukwu declare Biafra independence was to seize the south south states and it oil from Eastern Nigeria reason they hurriedly announced the 12 states to separate East and the oil states
Your Northern leaders were greedy and so was ojukwu but your leaders did worst then and even now so don’t come here acting like saints!