The 6 Majors that Executed the First Military Coup in Nigeria: Their Profiles and How they Died
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- In this edition, we discuss the 6 Army Majors that planned and executed the first military coup in Nigeria. We discuss their births, parentage, education, military career, roles in the coup, arrest and detention and how they eventually ended.
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It was not a mess! The same reasons for the coup still exist, even worse reasons! The people that frustrted their efforts where are they? If given another opportunity will they repeat the same mistake? Those 6 majors were legends! We need to stop thinking tribally! That was a National coup. It was the misinterpretation that is still destroying Nigeria! May their spirit "resurrect"IJN!
Amen
Amen
What a half baked, inaccurate presentation of our history. What led to the coup? Was the situation in Nigeria so beautiful before the coup?
Nzeogwu was from the midwest, not east.
So Mr Man, you support shedding of blood. You are not making sense
The officer shown here as Major Tim Onwuatuegwu is late Brigadier Ademulegun.
Wonderful youths! Legends!
Point of correction, the original Narrative Nigeria Majors were 5 by Major Adewale Ademoyega, one the principal Majors that plotted the coup and wrote the first book on the military take over in 1966. “Why We Struct” in 1981.
In addition a Nigeria ex-Army officer Captain Emanuel Nuwobosi that executed Ibadan zone surfaced 4 years ago. He gave his own account why his gang plotted the coup.
From Captain 👩✈️ Nwobosi account of the coup, they save Nigeria Islamization from Samuel Akintola and Sadauna of Sokoto on January 17, 1966.
According to the ex-soldier, they quickly carried out their plan to save Nigeria from Islamization on January 15, 1966.
Captain Nwobosi account of the major reason why the army struck was the same with Major Adewale Ademoyega’s account in his book “Why We Struck”. Both army officers were principal 2 Majors that planned and carried out the coup at Ibadan and Lagos.
And that islamic agenda is still on to date
@@mikeplucy2000 get ur facts . ademoyega wrote why we struck. ben gbulie who served with nzeogwu wrote nigeria's five majors
They made am attempt to deliver Nigeria but failed! I salute their bravery! The day Nigeria see their actions as patriotic, is the day Nigetia will be free from tribalism, religious bigotry and nepotism! I thank God History always repeat itself until the right lessons are learnt! Nigeria dey play!
That was a bloody coup and also killing Army wives and relatives is really uncalled for the coup plotters should have been tried and convicted instead they were released and also join the Biafran war. Ironsi was a joker head of state he failed to tried those killers leading to another reprisal coup 7 months later..
No. They are the major devils that originated the tribal misgivings and distrust till today. They disrupted Nigeria unity and planted the seeds for further coups. If you check well, you find 5 out of the 6 were from same tribal background. What does that tells us? The next coup that brought Gowon mostly from another tribal background. The coups started by them and tribalism is still our problem today
The number of majors mentioned here are seven (7) not six (6):
1. Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu
2. Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna
3. Major Donatus Okafor
4. Major Chris Anuforo*
5.Major Adewale Ademoyega*
6. Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu
7. Major Humphrey Chukwuka
But what really prompt them to chat the course of that coup, was there anything they felt wasn't right that the young officers wanted to correct?
To get the accurate reasons why the military boys struck Balewa government Please, read Major Kaduna Nzeogkwu’s broadcast on Radio Nigeria on January 15 1966 morning.
Also, the first book “Why We Struck” written by one of the principal 5 Major coup plotters Major Adewale Ademoyega. The book detailed the major reasons for trucked Balewa government, Among the cogent reasons was Sadauna of Sokoto joined with Ladoke Akintola planed to Islamize Western Region.
They felt the government then was corrupt and wanted to topple the government and install someone they deemed fit. I'm not sure about the other guys in government, but I know the minister of finance was very corrupt. The first coup is usually seen as an ethnic coup, in reality it wasn't
Thank you for this question! I wonder why some people speak English but still do not understand what they listened to.
EXACTLY WHAT PROMPTED THE COUPS IN NIGER, MALI, BURKINA FSO, GARBON, EQUITORIAL GUINEA & OTHERS
The northern oligarchs with few of their compatriots in the south planned to islamise Nigeria coupled with the unchecked corruption that festered the then government.
Colonel Odumegwu Emeka Ojukwu, wasn’t a General of Nigeria Army, but promoted himself as Biafran General, not legal after Biafra capitulation.
Whether any one likes it or not, General Emela Odumegwu Ojukwu was the people's GENERAL.
The People's Field Marshall..
@@chuxabarah Nope. The mumu coward was never a general.
@@Obalufon your father, your elders from where you come from; and all your generations are all mumu .
If you can call an elder , a hero mumu.
@@chuxabarah You're pained! Y'all erankos/anuohias can hug NEPA thing to kpai yourselves
Did major Kaduna Ezogwu and Emmanuel Ifajuna have children at all?😭😭 please someone should help me for this question
The picture is not Timothy onwuwatuegu but that of ademulegun
Its a painful event that chanred the course of a country forever
I suggest BIH, should deem it fit to make a documentary on the July coup and why either ironsi and Gowon did not court-martial the coup plotters.gowon is still alive let him speak.stop hatred on igbos,we are Nigerias.
Tribalism is the major problem hence Ironsi did not do the needy. Otherwise when a coup fails the culprits are brought to book.
What will you say of the IBO?
These six majors planted the bad seeds that affecting beautiful country like Nigeria today
Several analysts have said so.
Your right but the Jul 66 coupe added fuel to fire by the killing of civilians
There is nothing like 6 majors in that coup ,,, educate urself properly first
Rubbish. Nigeria was lurching from one problem to another.
It was not a mess! The same reasons for the coup still exist, even worse reasons! The people that frustrted their efforts where are they? If given another opportunity will they repeat the same mistake? Those 6 majors were legends! We need to stop thinking tribally! That was a National coup. It was the misinterpretation that is still destroying Nigeria! May their spirit "resurrect"IJN!
Ironsi should be made responsible for Nigeria 🇳🇬 problems. If he has tried the coup plotter and executed them, there wouldn't have been a reprisal coup
The majority of the people in his cabinet and administration were from the North, and it is quite possible that they were giving him ill advice to not try the coup ploters and in doing so, gave them time to plan out the counter coup successfully.
Gen. Gowon also failed to try them
Yes indeed
So why did Gowon fail to try them ?! 🤡🫵🏽
@@ekejiubam6002 Gowon was not accepted by the coward, Ojukwu and never get to settle down at all. So stop the nonsense that he didn't try them. Most of the planners had been killed anyway by the Northerners counter coup
May God help us in Africa
We shall wait onto God in vain. God has no hands in this
Please lets stop these criticism, the coup of jan 66 were were a mess but not an ethnic thing,it was to salvage the situation of events at the time or whatever was in their minds was the reasons. The nation and affected tribe should heal let's move this country ahead without further killing in every quarter.
I hate wars whether in Russia Nigeria or anywhere else
That's Ademuleguns photo not Onwuategu
OK. We will draw the attention of the editor.
That's Ademulegun,not Tim Onwuatuegwu...
I didn't her the name of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Dr Obafemi Awolowo was not mentioned
Nice documentary i pray that God change the narratives of this country Nigeria.
Those six Majors were exclusively Igbo army majors in Nigerian military.
from your narrative I count NZEOGWU IFEAJUNA OKAFOR CHUKWUKA ONWUATUEGWU OKAFOR ADEMOYEGA = SEVEN MAJORS? Please what of LOUIS CHUDE-SOKEI, What of NWOBOSI in IBADAN
Nwobosi was a Captain at the time. I am not sure of what rank Louis wore but he wasn't a Major. The planners of the Coup were all of the same rank (Majors). They were the ones that co-opted others below them into the execution.
And you left out Ben Gbulie and Captain Nwobosi. Their generation will not be spared.
Those were nothing
@@HaadfulHaad-qv9syhow
There is something about Sandhurst. All the soldiers from Ghana and Nigeria who were sent there for training became coup plotters!!!!
😅😅😅😅Funny comment, my wife just returned from Sandhurst, are you saying she's going to be one? Anyway we still have officers there as I type this.
Including muamar ghadaffi
@@adeizayusuf hello sir, I’ve been willing to join the Nigerian army but I’m unable to, my dad captain J O Aleilo wanted to enroll me to the army but he unfortunately left this world and since then I haven’t been able to follow my dreams of being in the Nigerian army, pls sir if you don’t mind I would like us to contact privately and I would be very much grateful to you if you can help me cause I know nothing about my dad’s associates and his colleagues
Pls help me sir
Thank you for your service 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
@@adeizayusufbe careful of yr wife 😅😅 before she will make a coup to remove u from the head of the family 😂😅😅😅😂😂
They are brainwashed by the British.
U forgot Major Ben Gbulie. Also Major Onwuatuegwu died last 5 years ago
Gbuli was a Captain
Onwuatuegwu died many years ago please
These Army officers are the ones that plunged Nigeria into this our unfortunate situation today. No more of these types again!
They didn't plunge Nigeria into anything. Nigeria was already going down the drain hence why the coup happened in the first place. Please stop perpetuating this lie.
Your Blain is zero ask your self before they carried that cuep in their any killing in unnessery killing in Nigeria in North pricisely
PLEASE EXPLAIN. RWANDA civil war ended in 1994. Nigeria Civil War ended in Jan 1970. Can you compare the 2 countries. Nigeria is the extreme state of comatose due to wicked leaders and gullible populace that believe that ethnicity, bigotry, nepotism and greed predicated on GROSS INABILITY TO UNLEARN
Your reporting is terrible , you should have been professional enough to give the nitty gritty of the series of events that lead to the planning of the coup in the first place.
And Ademoyega was the 3rd person in ranking in terms of the coup plot and execution
They were 5 majors n not 6
Thank you for calling us TERRIBLE. We appreciate you nonetheless. But let us say this: There is a reason why every video has a title. The discussion made addresses the title. We will also make a video on remote causes.
@@backinhistory9for the title as you have mentioned, they were 5 majors who planned the said coup... and not 6
The coup was planned by leaders of the inositol namely,president Nnamdi Azikiwe. Michael 0pkara,speaker of the house,etc, using senior members of the Military, who were Ibos. No info man was killed and the couple planners were spared by lronsi, even Osadebe was spared because from western ibo. How was Azikiwe able to leave for UK if he was not aware or not part of the plan.
After saying all that you want to say to suit you, you are still asking us a question?
The only thing you have to note is the reasons those young men plotted that coup still exist today in Nigeria. How far about Nigeria after 50+ years?
Coup plotters do not involve highly placed individuals. If you know Zik's stance in the independence struggle, you will understand that you cannot convince him to go against what he fought for. Remember he was the unifying enigma that ensured that Pa Awo and Pa Tafawa got on.
It would be naive thinking that because he left for the UK, then he knew of the plot - Hear this: The PA to Herbert Wigwe stepped down from the ill-fated helicopter that claimed the lives of Wigwe's family and other persons. Please what do you say about the man that stepped down.
I took a man to the airport to board United Airlines flight to New York. His Int'l Passport got missing during checking in. "MYSTERIOUSLY". He was to attend an important meeting at the WTC building on the 11th of September 2001. "9/11 HAPPENED". Are you going to say that he knew about the attack. OH BY THE WAY, the airport authority called him 3 days later that his Int'l Passport has been found - DISCUSS SIR
So you hypocrite now accept that there are people known as Western Igbo ba? Because of nzeogwu & osadebe right?
All the leaders at that time were aware of the coup before execution of the coup, including Ahmadu Bello.
Then
The story and the names of the first coup plotter are incomplete. More so, to name 5 Igbos out of the 6 names implies as they wrongly say that it was an Igbo led coup. Whilst this is completely a 😮😮lie. There were more Yorubas and officers of other ethnic groups.
This account is not correct. The were five major not six, and they were actually nine officers that planned and participated in the coup d'etat. How you mentioned all these officers and failed to talk about Captain Nwobosi who killed the S L Akintola the Premier of Western Region?
Name the 9 officers.i know they were five majors anyway!
These guys especially nzegwu, ifejuana and okafor were traitors who benefitted from north and south west.Ironsi let them got away because he was a hypocrite too and the leaders end up joining Biafran side.All of them were more than subordinates they killed, they were confidents and regarded as part of the family of the household.sad listening to this educative documentary that waa well researched and presented.Great work.
Big fool,what for?
They were not torch by the Coup plotters,why should they be mentioned
The Igbozuruzuru,Odimegyu Ojuku was a full general of the Biafran army , not a colonel .
In Nigeria army na colonel he be no be general
@@BuhariSani-fk8jl😂😂😂
Biafran Army, not recognized. So, stop the nonsense!
The same tribalism ever since immemorial is still on now, some ppl are blaming them bcuz almost 90%percent of them are igbos.😂😂😂
Six majors ? I believe it's Five Major's.
Your story was very faulty You missed many important personalities such as the first Military Head of State of Nigerian- Maj. Gen J.T.U .Aguyi Ironsi.. so it's thrown into the dust bin.
We criticise a lot in this our country (Nigeria), sometimes blindly. What is the title of this video? Watch with a clear mind.
That was a false, hypocritical and independence.
Title - The Six Major Majors That Plotted The First Nigeria Coup Of 1966.
Thanks for reading.
That's interesting. That means there were minor majors too. Great!!
Igbo's seems to be wicked tribe in Nigeria ever. And today they are shouting everywhere seeking for justice, fairness and equity.
You are the real problem of this country. Bigot.
As it stands now in Nigeria, Igbos are the least of your worries. There are so many things to worry about. Perhaps those Igbos saw it on time and tried to act. But Nigerians will always be Nigerians.
Igbos are the least of
Your worries fr
100% Facts! They're empty barrels.
This is sarcasm. Your exclusion of the major plotters is a total blunder
Thank you. We appreciate the fact that you enjoyed it till the end. We know you can replace our conclusion (blunder) with yours (a perfect one). Happy new month sir.
Who are the major plotters aside the ones he mentioned?
I think this narrative is no
This narrator is so bias.
Thanks for watching. Watch again with a free mind.
Igbos have been constituting nuisance for a long time!🙄
A Goat..
@@rccrforeverfrrdfortuneshav9823 Pig !
And I guess fulani people have been a blessing to the country right??? Smh
@@BigJack273 I don’t know anything about Fulani been an issue, I’m from. South south , I’m not bothered about them like you Igbos have made them an issue !🙄
@darkodarko147 how would you be bothered by them when you have accepted your slavery with open arms and have sabo characteristics
Nzeogu clearly through your narrative is made to be the villain. unfortunately for you, you cannot rewrite history. all records, interviews granted and documented by all military and non military leaders show Emmanuel Ifeajuna as the planner and leader of the coup plotters. Here you present Nzeogu as leader which is an outright misinformation to the general public especially the young. It is our duty as parents to be upright and bequeath our kids unadulterated facts.
Thank you. But you know what? You've not read "all the records" on the subject. You did not also watch my video till end. You would have heard what I said about Nzeogu and Ifeajuna concerning the leadership of the coup. You would have heard what Ojukwu said about this issue, etc.
All the same, I appreciate you so much for your time and everything.
How was ifeajuna the planner? It is known as Nzeogwu's coup