“There is nowhere in IBB’s book”: Fani-Kayode insists 1966 coup is Igbo coup

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  • Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has insisted that the coup of January 15th, 1966 was an Igbo coup
  • Fani-Kayode said former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, never said the coup was not an Igbo coup
  • According to Fani-Kayode, Babangida made this very clear when he wrote about its “ethnic coloration”

Femi Fani-Kayode says Ibrahim Babangida never said the coup of January 15th, 1966 was Not an Igbo coup.
Photo credit: @realFFKSource: TwitterI hate to burst your bubble but there is NOWHERE in IBB’s book that he said that the coup of January 15th, 1966 was NOT an Igbo coup.”It was heinously callous for Nzeogwu to have murdered Sir Ahmadu Bello and his wife, Hafsatu, because not only were they eminently adored by many but also because they were said not to have put up a fight. From that moment the putsch was infiltrated by “outsiders” to its supposed original intention and it took on an unmistakable ethnic coloration compounded by the fact that there were no related coup activities in the Eastern Region”- The facts are clear and they are as follows. 99% of the officers that planned and executed the Jan. 15th, 1966 coup and that were involved in the mutiny were Igbo and 99% of those that were murdered by them were non-Igbo military officers and political leaders in some cases including their wives.The truth is that the Jan. 15th, 1966 coup WAS an Igbo one and I am glad to say that IBB has confirmed it.This is a FACT and as our journalist friends will tell you ‘facts are sacred and opinion is cheap”.

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