{"id":152486,"date":"2025-02-24T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T08:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode"},"modified":"2025-02-26T23:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T22:38:32","slug":"ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode","title":{"rendered":"IBB has confirmed 1966 coup was Igbo-led \u2013 Fani-Kayode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, said there is nowhere in former military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida\u2019s book, A Journey in Service, where he stated that the coup of January 15, 1966, was not an Igbo coup.<\/p>\n<p>Fani-Kayode insisted that those claiming it was not an Igbo coup are wrong, stating that they are either misguided and misinformed or being mischievous.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Minister stated in a post on his X handle that IBB was charitable to the Igbos in his book.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, noted that this does not give anyone the license to misinterpret Babangida\u2019s words and conclusions or use them in an attempt to revise history.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to burst your bubble, but there is NOWHERE in IBB\u2019s book where he said that the coup of January 15, 1966, was NOT an Igbo coup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, he alluded to the contrary when he said the coup had taken on an \u2018unmistakable ethnic coloration.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what he wrote, and that is the reality. The coup was an ethnic one, and that ethnicity was Igbo!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who have misinterpreted his words and claimed that he wrote the coup was not an Igbo coup are either misguided and misinformed or being mischievous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have a poor understanding of the English language and, in most cases, have not even read the book. Instead, they rely on erroneous social media quotes and well-crafted disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suggest that they procure a copy of the book, read it from cover to cover, and stop attempting to revise history by misinterpreting the words of the esteemed author.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIBB, in his characteristic manner, was charitable to the Igbos in his book, but that does not give anyone the license to misinterpret his words and conclusions or use them in an attempt to revise history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe facts are clear, and they are as follows: 99% of the officers who planned and executed the Jan. 15, 1966, coup and were involved in the mutiny were Igbo, and 99% of those murdered by them were non-Igbo military officers and political leaders, in some cases including their wives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe owe it to the memory of those who were so callously slaughtered not to sugarcoat the bitter truth, not to revise history, and not to tell lies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe coup was UNMISTAKABLY an Igbo one, and IBB made this very clear when he wrote about its \u2018ethnic coloration.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge all those who have a poor understanding of the English language and cannot read more than three lines of any book or essay to stop using his words to establish their revisionist and patently dishonest narrative and their futile attempt to perpetuate an age-old lie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is that the Jan. 15, 1966, coup WAS an Igbo one, and I am glad to say that IBB has confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a FACT, and as our journalist friends will tell you, \u2018facts are sacred, and opinion is cheap.&#8217;\u201d<\/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. Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, said there is nowhere in former military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida\u2019s book, A Journey in Service, where he stated that the coup of January 15, 1966, was not an Igbo coup. Fani-Kayode insisted that those claiming it was not an Igbo coup are wrong, stating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":152485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[15952,230,4222,254],"class_list":["post-152486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-1966-coup","tag-fani-kayode","tag-ibb","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IBB has confirmed 1966 coup was Igbo-led \u2013 Fani-Kayode - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, said there is nowhere in former military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida\u2019 ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IBB has confirmed 1966 coup was Igbo-led \u2013 Fani-Kayode\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, said there is nowhere in former military Head of State Ibrahim Babangida\u2019 ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-24T08:32:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-26T22:38:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740377227.80808.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"IBB has confirmed 1966 coup was Igbo-led \u2013 Fani-Kayode\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-24T08:32:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-26T22:38:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode\"},\"wordCount\":500,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740377227.80808.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"1966 coup\",\"Fani Kayode\",\"IBB\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/ibb-has-confirmed-1966-coup-was-igbo-led-fani-kayode\",\"name\":\"IBB has confirmed 1966 coup was Igbo-led \u2013 Fani-Kayode - 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