By Ejike Anyduba
Major General Aguiyi Ironsi has been dead for five
decades and nine years. July 29, 2025, made it 59 years since Nigeria’s first
military Head of State Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi and
his host, the Governor of Western Nigeria, Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi
were whisked away from Government House, Ibadan, and shot over the brooks of
Iwo, Osun state.
Ironsi was on the last leg of his nation tour when the army struck. He had visited about three regions, commencing with the North, East, the Midwest and West in that order. It was while in the West, the last region on the tour list, that he was abducted by soldiers alongside his host, the governor of Western Region, Lt. Col Fajuyi.
