Did you know that Nigeria's first coup plot by Chief Obafemi Awolowo was silenced by the propaganda media of Western Nigeria.
Awolowo allegedly sent 200 recruits to Ghana, including some Igbo officers, to train for overthrowing the Nigerian government.
He armed them and strategically planned how the coup would unfold.
S. G. Ikoku, an Igbo man who was the field commander for the operation, fled to Ghana when Awolowo was arrested. Ikoku was also tasked with recruiting as many Igbo officers as he could trust.
While Awolowo was imprisoned, some of them re-strategized, given the political tensions in the country at the time, and struck on January 15, 1966.
When the coup failed, the entire attempt was pinned on the Igbos, even though Aguiyi-Ironsi and Ojukwu were at the forefront of stopping it.
Subsequently, about 30,000 Igbos lost their lives across Nigeria in pogroms that eventually led to the declaration of Biafra and then the Civil War.
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