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Digital Insights gathered that according to the late General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in one of his Tv interviews, archived by IgboHistofacts, said there is no way the January 15, 1966 could have been an Igbo coup, because those who stopped the coup were largely Igbos; Himself (Chukwuemeka Ojukwu) as Battalion commander in Kano, an Igbo, and Aguyi Ironsi in Lagos, an Igbo. Unfortunately Ironsi was killed in the counter coup of July 29, 1966 purportedly led by General Yakubu Gowon.
Further, military sources and General Ojukwu also confirmed that the January 15, 1966 coup agenda was to release a Yoruba man and sectional political leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo from Calabar prison and make him interim Prime Minister to help them organise an election afterwards, which gives credence that January 15, 1966 was never an “Igbo coup.”
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