IBB’s 1966 Coup Revelation: Apologize To Igbos, Pay Reparation, Ohanaeze Urges FG
By Felix Durumbah Major applause has come for former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, popularly known as IBB, from apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, for what it described as "his bold and historic assertion" that the January 1966 coup d’état was not an Igbo coup. The coup was a defining event in Nigeria's national history as it not only ended the country's first civilian democracy,but also triggered a chain of events which degenerated into a civil war (1967-70) in which millions of people perished and properties valued, then, at multi-millions of British Pounds, destroyed. But IBB, a principal…
