{"id":152394,"date":"2025-02-23T08:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/babangida-confirmed-1966-coup-meant-to-make-awolowo-prime-minister-ohanaeze-chieftain-ibegbu"},"modified":"2025-02-26T23:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:18:22","slug":"babangida-confirmed-1966-coup-meant-to-make-awolowo-prime-minister-ohanaeze-chieftain-ibegbu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/babangida-confirmed-1966-coup-meant-to-make-awolowo-prime-minister-ohanaeze-chieftain-ibegbu","title":{"rendered":"Babangida confirmed 1966 coup meant to make Awolowo Prime Minister \u2013 Ohanaeze chieftain, Ibegbu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former deputy National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chuks Ibegbu, has said ex-military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, has confirmed that the 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup but aimed at making the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo a Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Ibegbu urged former military Generals like Yakubu Gowon and TY Danjuma to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>In his book, \u201cA Journey of Service,\u201d Babangida had dismissed claims that the 1966 military takeover was an \u201cIgbo coup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the head of the 1966 coup, Kaduna Nzeogwu spoke Hausa fluently and was more North than Igbo.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, the Ohanaeze chieftain charged Nigeria to apologize for the past situation that led to the Biafra civil war.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement he signed, Ibegbu said: \u201cAm happy Babangida who was nearly killed at the Uzuakoli sector of the war by redoubtable Biafra forces have finally told the world the truth on the January Coup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis pan Nigeria coup led to a bloody counter coup which later caused the civil war in which millions of lives were lost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy Babangida confirmed that the January coup was geared to make Awolowo the Prime minister and not any Igbo hegemony as the counter coupists of July 29, 1966 claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy the truth is now coming out and I expect General Gowon and TY Danjuma to follow suit. Ndigbo lost three million lives for this wrong profiling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigeria state would now have the courage to apologise to Ndigbo for the progrom and subsequent war against them whose wounds are still there directly or indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have forgiven Babangida of his other sins for saying this generational truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former deputy spokesman of Ohanaeze also declared that Babangida\u2019s confession that MKO Abiola won the June 12, 1993 presidential election was apt.<\/p>\n<p>Ibegbu also called on the Nigerian government to immortalize MKO Abiola.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A former deputy National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chuks Ibegbu, has said ex-military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, has confirmed that the 1966 coup was not an Igbo coup but aimed at making the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo a Prime Minister. 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