Nyorai zvekuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Mazana matatu evanhu vechiIgbo vakafa mumhirizhonga yeJos. Muna 1953 mhirizhonga yakafanana yakaitika muKano gare gare. Makore gumi gare gare muna 1964 uye panguva yekunetsana kwezvematongerwo enyika kweWestern kwakakamura Dunhu reWestern apo Ladoke Akintola akasangana naObafemi Awolowo. Mishumo yakapararira yokubiridzira yakasvibisa kuzivikanwa kwesarudzo. Vanhu vokuMadokero zvikurukuru vakanga vasingafariri kutonga kwezvematongerwe enyika kweNorthern People's Congress, vazhinji vevakwikwidzi vayo vakakwikwidza musarudzo. Masimba masimba akapararira munyika yose uye vamwe vakatanga kutiza kuchamhembe nokumadokero, vamwe kuDahomey. Kutonga kwaiita sokuti kwakanga kwaitwa neNorth munyika yose, uye nyonganyonga yakanga iri munyika yose, zvakaita kuti mauto aite chimwe chinhu chakasimba. Hurumende yemubatanidzwa, inodzorwa neNorthern Nigeria, yakabvumira dambudziko racho kuti riitike nechinangwa chokuzivisa mamiriro okukurumidzira nokuisa Western Region pasi pemutemo wehondo. Uku kutungamirirwa kwehurumende yemubatanidzwa yeNigeria kwaifungidzirwa zvikuru kuva kwakaipa. Muna January 1966, mamiriro ezvinhu akasvika pakuguma. Kuchinja kwechiuto kwakaitika
iyo boka rakasanganiswa asi zvikurukuru revakuru vemauto veIgbo rakauraya vatungamiriri vezvematongerwe enyika 30, kubatanidza Mutungamiriri weNigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, uye Mutungamiriri weNorthern, Sir Ahmadu Bello. Vakuru vakuru vana vokumaodzanyemba vakaurayiwawo. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Mutungamiri, wokubuda muIgbo, uye wezvematongerwe enyika anodiwa weWestern Region Obafemi Awolowo havana kuurayiwa. Mutungamiriri wehondo, Mukuru Mukuru Aguiyi Ironsi akatora simba kuti achengetedze nhevedzano.