Did IBB Confirm or Reject the Ibo Coup Narrative of 1966? || Part 1 Lately, people have been throwing around a new argument. They say the 1966 coup was not an Ibo coup because General Ibrahim Babangida supposedly said so. They quote his book, A Journey in Service, without reading a single page of it. IBB tried to soften the narrative around the Ibo officers involved, but he did not deny the ethnic tone of the coup. Instead, he wrote that it “took on an unmistakably ethnic colouration.” That is a