IBB says 1966 was not Igbo Coup, noting that Major Kaduna Nzeogwu was ‘Hausa’.
Newsone Nigeria reports that the former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, also known as IBB, has dismissed claims that the 1966 military takeover was an “Igbo coup”.
IBB said the leader of the 1966 coup, Kaduna Nzeogwu, spoke Hausa fluently.
In his just launched book, ‘A Journey in Service’, the former military Head of State said Nzeogwu was only Igbo by name but was more of…
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