Nigeria has seen the ascent and fall of numerous tactical systems since she turned into a sovereign state in 1960 and this, every step of the way, has changed the heading of the country.
A second overthrow since freedom which occurred on July 29, 1966, would see to the fierce passing of Nigeria’s Incomparable Commandant, General J.T.C Aguiyi-Ironsi (the country’s first military head of state) and his companion, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, who was the sitting and first Military Legislative leader of the Western District.
Aguiyi-Ironsi was a visitor at the Public authority House, Ibadan, as he came to hold a gathering with conventional rulers in the Western locale. Ironsi showed up Ibadan the earlier day and unwittingly, he met his passing during the counter-overthrow which is for the most part accepted to be a reprisal to the January fifteenth 1966 overthrow in which conspicuous Northerners in power were killed.
The Northerners were accepted to hold resentment starting from the principal overthrow as they lost pioneers including Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (Nigerian Top state leader) and Sir Ahmadu Bello (Sardauna of Sokoto and Chief of the Northern Locale). They labeled it an ‘Igbo Upset’ as no Eastern setback was kept in both the military and public help as even the West lost Boss Samuel Ladoke Akintola in the overthrow.
This counter-upset of July 29, 1966, drove by Broad Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma was labeled the bloodiest overthrow by a lot of people throughout the entire existence of Nigeria. Ironsi Fajuyi’s passing which actually stays a questionable discussion among history specialists since how they were killed isn’t clear yet the two bodies were tracked down in a shrub in edges of Ibadan. Peruse a thorough record of how Aguiyi-Ironsi was killed here.
Beside the Head of State and Western Military lead representative, numerous different losses were kept in the military and most killed or damaged were Easterners, especially Igbos. This will be one of the many reasons the nation would go into a nationwide conflict the next year as the Eastern locale took a stab at withdrawing.
54 years later, we recollect this frightful demonstration done in the Earthy colored Rooftop City and how much has occurred or changed from that point forward.