LegendHero:


You these guys with your 2by2 stance on situation won’t cease to amaze me.

So Ojukwu took command of a federal prison after 2-3 days of Ironsi’s demise? Ironsi whose corpse was even missing when Gowon took over.

Ojukwu was Governor for several months while Ironsi was head of states for several month and yet they both don’t deem it fit to release Awolowo.

Gowon can to power and released him in 2-3 days.

Yoruba say aje ke lana, omo ku lo ni, ta ni ko mo pe aje ana lo pa omo je!

APCNig:
YES, after being jailed by Nnamdi Azikiwe , Tafawa Balewa and Ahmadu Bello in conjunction with Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola and High Chief Remi Fani Kayode. You now know whom FFK inherited betrayal from.

kingzizzy:


Calabar could not have been a federal prison, it was not in the federal capital territory.

Is it really practical that Gowon, who was barely a week in power, unrecognised by Ojukwu and the Eastern Region, ordered the release of Awolowo from an area he had absolutely no control over? That would not have been possible.

Besides, Awolowo wasnt the only person Ojukwu released around that time. Ojukwu released Victor Banjo, Nzeogwu and many of those involved in the first coup.

Let us not forget that Awolowo was a man convicted of treason during civilian rule. The fact he was released before his time by anyone, military or otherwise, is something to be greatful for. They could have easily left him to rot in jail

LegendHero:


The bolded showed you don’t know what you are saying and conversing with you will be a total waste of time.

So because Calabar was not the FCT meant that a federal prison cannot be situated in Calabar? You and your 2by2 reasoning.

The rest of your statement are jargons and that have been trashed to the bin multiple times when your fellow Igbos with superior intelligence than you tried to debate it.

I have a task for you:
—Present two proofs from independent reputable sources that showed Ojukwu released Awolowo from prison.

I have asked the Igbo population on Twitter/ Nairaland and yet NO ONE was able to bring forth any proof to support their assertions.

Are you guys that shameless to continue to hold on to a lie even when all evidence point to the contrary?

NB: You can invite Dedetwo above to help you in your quest for evidence.

If I have the means I would have gone on Channels TV and invite the highest professor of history in Igboland to debate each other on the subject. Coz it’s evident those of you on Nairaland and Twitter are just the usual “My father told me”.

marriagebyigbo:



Thank u sir


Dedetwo is just like a one eye man in the land of the blind..

They hail bcox they know notin, unknown to them, dedetwo sef no no anytin.


He is just more than Igbochief001..... That one na hin worst pass.... Not intelligent at all

Nigeriabiafra80:

Gowon can’t release awolowo in the region he doesn’t have control over
August 17 1966 awolowo was released and gowon federal government loss control of eastern region after the coup of july 1966 when igbos were massacred and they left the north in droves
Ojukwu failed to recognize gowon
Police officers sent to Eastern region by federal government was attacked by easterners due to their grievances and they left so tell me
Did gowon flew to calabar to release awolowo?
You can’t just post white paper here as evidence
Who released awolowo?
One thing is to sign paper one thing is to execute the aforementioned
Please name the prison warder that release awolowo on gowon directive

LaboPolitics:
You see why we call yorubas mongols?

He showed a gazzette written by gowon's FG adminstration taking accolade for releasing Awolowo. And I ask my people, is Gowon supposed to give the accolade and credit to his enemy Ojukwu who controlled all the prison in the Eastern region after the hausa and the yoruba army officers and prison officers left the East?

Foreign and neutral journalists like Federick forsyth, Auberon Waugh who were on ground know it was Ojukwu and the East who released Awo and they are the ones we will listen to, not Gowon and clearly biased federal records.

When yoruba go get sense abeg?

LegendHero:


The bolded showed you don’t know what you are saying and conversing with you will be a total waste of time.

So because Calabar was not the FCT meant that a federal prison cannot be situated in Calabar? You and your 2by2 reasoning.

The rest of your statement are jargons and that have been trashed to the bin multiple times when your fellow Igbos with superior intelligence than you tried to debate it.

I have a task for you:
—Present two proofs from independent reputable sources that showed Ojukwu released Awolowo from prison.

I have asked the Igbo population on Twitter/ Nairaland and yet NO ONE was able to bring forth any proof to support their assertions.

Are you guys that shameless to continue to hold on to a lie even when all evidence point to the contrary?

NB: You can invite Dedetwo above to help you in your quest for evidence.

If I have the means I would have gone on Channels TV and invite the most brilliant professor of history in Igboland to debate with me on the subject. Coz it’s evident those of you on Nairaland and Twitter are just the usual “My father told me”.

marriagebyigbo:
Using Legendhero post as a reference.

kingzizzy:


Then that means you dont know how Regionalism worked back in the day. Let us just assume that Calabar prisons was under federal control. Is it really practical that Gowon, who was less than a week in power and not recognized as substantive leader in the Eastern Region, ordered the release of a Federal prisoner held in the East without the approval of the Regional Governor everyone took orders from? Not even Ironsi, who was recognised in the East could have released Awolowo without ordering Ojukwu to do so, let alone Gowon who was a nobody in the East.

kingzizzy:


Then that means you dont know how Regionalism worked back in the day. Let us just assume that Calabar prisons was under federal control. Is it really practical that Gowon, who was less than a week in power and not recognized as substantive leader in the Eastern Region, ordered the release of a Federal prisoner held in the East without the approval of the Regional Governor everyone took orders from? Not even Ironsi, who was recognised in the East could have released Awolowo without ordering Ojukwu to do so, let alone Gowon who was a nobody in the East.

LaboPolitics:
You see why we call yorubas mongols?

He showed a gazzette written by gowon's FG adminstration taking accolade for releasing Awolowo. And I ask my people, is Gowon supposed to give the accolade and credit to his enemy Ojukwu who controlled all the prison in the Eastern region after the hausa and the yoruba army officers and prison officers left the East?

Foreign and neutral journalists like Federick forsyth, Auberon Waugh who were on ground know it was Ojukwu and the East who released Awo and they are the ones we will listen to, not Gowon and clearly biased federal records.

When yoruba go get sense abeg?

LegendHero:

Like I told you, we have debated and trashed this and even the Igbos that are far superior to you in Intelligence couldn’t see a draw in the face of evidence.

All they keep saying is speculation and one would be amazed how a population of nearly 40million + Igbos can’t provide two sources of evidence to support their assertions.

At least Ojukwu ordering the release of Awolowo will be a breaking news and both foreign and local press will be doing photo Ops and writing about it.

At least Ojukwu would have documented it somewhere and take photos to show the world what he did. Can you provide those images or any documents in its true form that showed Ojukwu released him?

If you can’t provide evidence, please desist from quoting me coz I ain’t gonna respond no more.

Check the thread below to see more other evidence that we Yorubas provided to back our argument.

https://www.nairaland.com/5541011/youtube-video-showed-gowon-released

https://www.nairaland.com/5553170/re-more-absolutely-convincing-evidence

nokatakata:
Oju Iku, Chinua ashebi abi na ashebe and other coward biafra.ud losers lied aggressively to their mumu children just to cover up for their failures. They told all sorts of senseless lies and their akpu guzzling offspring swallowed all. Many of them that were as poor as a church rat claimed they had properties all over Nigeria that were seized and that they were given 20£. All these lies to make their children not see them as failures. Awon weyrey alaso.

kingzizzy:


The YouTube video is complete nonsense because it shows Gowon releasing Awolowo in Lagos when everyone knows that Awolowo was Calabar prison.

Ojukwu releasing Awolowo clearly hijacked by the Lagos/Ibadan expressway media to give Gowon credit he did not deserve

What I want someone to tell me is how Gowon, who was less than a week in power, managed to release Awolowo from a Region he had no control?

Even Ironsi, who was recognised as substantive leader by the Eastern Region, could not have released Awolowo without ordering Ojukwu to to so

So how did Gowon release Awolowo when neither Ojukwu nor the Eastern Region recognised Gowon as substantive leader?

Anybody can write anything, anyone can claim anything or parade any useles video. But what people cannot do is run away from hard facts.

kingzizzy:


The YouTube video is complete nonsense because it shows Gowon releasing Awolowo in Lagos when everyone knows that Awolowo was Calabar prison.

Ojukwu releasing Awolowo clearly hijacked by the Lagos/Ibadan expressway media to give Gowon credit he did not deserve

What I want someone to tell me is how Gowon, who was less than a week in power, managed to release Awolowo from a Region he had no control?

Even Ironsi, who was recognised as substantive leader by the Eastern Region, could not have released Awolowo without ordering Ojukwu to to so

So how did Gowon release Awolowo when neither Ojukwu nor the Eastern Region recognised Gowon as substantive leader?

Anybody can write anything, anyone can claim anything or parade any useles video. But what people cannot do is run away from hard facts.

marriagebyigbo:


That mean u don't no anytin bro....

http://www.waado.org/NigerDelta/Nigeria_Facts/MilitaryRule/awolowo/awolowo_ironsi.htm


https://www.thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2019/07/29/awolowos-53-year-old-letter-from-prison-7-reasons-he-wanted-ironsi-to-release-him-his-colleagues/

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/07/29/read-awolowos-53-year-old-letter-from-prison-to-ironsi/

https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-the-plot-to-eliminate-awo-in-calabar-prison-was-foiled-gabriel-ohwo-ex-calabar-prisons-head/



Problem with you igbos guys is that u don't accept the truth..

U see the truth and still tries to twist it.. Read that last link

Legendhero, I just shared some link.. Pls read the last link..

It is an interview by Gabriel Egho, the man incharge of awolowo at calabar prison

loopman:


Show me a document or a photograph of Ojukwu releasing Awo

No long talk

Daddysidhan:
Weyrey ni awon Omo Igbo yi sha, legendhero let me permit me to make use of this

Nigeriabiafra80:

Maybe I should also show you a document that show ojukwu also release victor banjo
After that coup orderliness was lost in east
Not even gowon can enter east talk more of giving order
Note :he was not the next in rank to take mount of leadership it was ademoga or so
But he cowed
Nigeria was in total chaos and with this you are exhibiting here
U enter into eastern region with paper while claiming you have an order from gowon
Omo na road safety be ur name

LegendHero:


Thank you for this bro.

Below is where Gabriel Ohwo (an Urhobo man), Superintendent in charge of Calabar Prison at that time, spoke about the release from the extract of the link.

When and why did you leave the Calabar Prison?
At that time, it was 3rd August, 1966 when Gowon said Awolowo should be freed, but I didn’t allow him to be released on that day. That day, I went to the prison, he had heard in the news that he was to be set free that day. When I got there, I said “Papa, I hope you would not be annoyed if I won’t let you go today.” He said: “no, as a law student, you know that unlawful imprisonment is when you are detained against your wish, but, right now, I have been set free. Nobody is detaining me now against my wish. It is my own wish. So at your pleasure, I can stay here until it pleases you to release me.” And I said, “thank you sir.”

Why didn’t you want to release him immediately?
Why I didn’t want to release him on that day was because the Calabar people were the ones in charge of Action Group in Eastern Nigeria then; they were the ones fighting for him there because of the imprisonment. And if I should release him that day, they would bombard him and, who knows, some mixed-multitude might find a loophole to kill him. And that was what I was avoiding. I just wanted the atmosphere to settle down first before releasing him. So, I released him when everybody thought he had gone. So, on the 6th of August of that year, three days after the announcement, I drove to the prison as early as 5:00 in the morning, took him in my car and drove to the Calabar airport to drop him. I made sure the small aircraft that came to convey him had taken off before leaving the airport. Everything I did impressed him terribly!

There is this narrative that it was the Eastern Nigerian Government under Odimegwu-Ojukwu that released Awolowo?
It’s not true. Awo’s imprisonment was not a state issue, so he could not have been released by Ojukwu. It was [General Yakubu] Gowon that released him. It was the Federal Government, which was in charge of the prisons that released him.

Source: https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-the-plot-to-eliminate-awo-in-calabar-prison-was-foiled-gabriel-ohwo-ex-calabar-prisons-head/

Nigeriabiafra80:

You can’t quote a propaganda to exonerate propaganda
Should I share a post where Britain is justifying and lying against biafra war

marriagebyigbo:



Boss shut up....

Who released awolowo is th question?

Stop trying to change the subject... Show us an evidence.... Stop arguing like a blind man

Nigeriabiafra80:
yes is not a state issue
Igbos were massacred in north
It was not a state issue
Igbos left in droves it was not a state issue
If gowon has the authority over eastern region
Why then is he having issues with ojukwu that fail to recognize him?

marriagebyigbo:



Our of context...... T
Show us evidence abt who releases awolowo..
We have shown u bulk of evidences, can u present urs and stop running from this subject


Legendhero, see this guy oo

Nigeriabiafra80:

Awolowo was release by one who has authority over the region he was prisoned (ojukwu)
Also victor banjo was released by ojukwu without any stupid letter from gowon

Nigeriabiafra80:
Evidence hahahahha hahahaha People can be stupid In crisis nothing was done in line with rules and regulations Oga stop posting trash

marriagebyigbo:


Stop changing it.. If u must talk abt it, create a thread..


An urhobo man in charge of awolowo said same thing.... Calabar was a federal prison...