Exactly 50 years ago, a group of Northern soldiers purpotedly led by TY Danjuma bombarded the ancient city of Ibadan to take the revenge on those who killed Sardauna and Balewa. Their target was clear and unambiguous.....Aguyi Ironsi.
Ironsi had come to Ibadan on a state visit. The Military Administrator of the SW was a Gentleman Adekunle Fajuyi. Immediately they apprehended Ironsi, Fajuyi resisted. He said his guest cannot be taken away. The Soldiers then gave Fajuyi two options "Get out of our way, it's none of your business, we aren't here for you. Stay away and stay alive or Resist our mission and go with him (Ironsi)".....Fajuyi chose the later and died with his guest....He did this for Nigeria and the Yorubas....That in Yoruba land, we are Omoluabis, we don't trade in the market of betrayal.....While the Igbos killed Akintola together with Balewa (not same place), the North killed Fajuyi together with Ironsi.....
Yorubas are fantastic friends to have....Our love for Nigeria is more than that of any other group in the country.....We are dependable, reliable, full of genius, patriotic and accommodating!!!
The Fajuyi Spirit!

Adekunle Fajuyi did not commit any crime than the fact that he was playing host to Ironsi --the then military head of state-- on July 29,1966 when Northern officers who staged a revenge coup following the Kaduna Nzeogwu-led coup of January 15,1966 struck.

modath:





Humans are either good or bad, other people can't make you or themselves to be or go against what is innate.... We've always been great, genial and wonderful hosts and that we shall remain, no matter the level of provocation from ingrates !!!

Beremx:
He died not only defending his superior, but an Igbo man being a Yoruba man himself.

May they rest in peace.

iflywithbuhari:
Adekunle Fajuyi was a coward, a traitor and a coup plotter. He intentionally alerted the fulani jihadist murderers of the time and security scope of his residence. The fool was deceived into thinking that if he helped the fulanis, they would reward him with the position of Head Of State. But the Fulanis showed him that he was just another Afonja. It's a disgrace and wicked that the Yoruba media covered up their folly and then wrote him into history as a martyr and loyalist. So annoying.

iflywithbuhari:
Adekunle Fajuyi was a coward, a traitor and a coup plotter. He intentionally alerted the fulani jihadist murderers of the time and security scope of his residence. The fool was deceived into thinking that if he helped the fulanis, they would reward him with the position of Head Of State. But the Fulanis showed him that he was just another Afonja. It's a disgrace and wicked that the Yoruba media covered up their folly and then wrote him into history as a martyr and loyalist. So annoying.

Hagm0nd:
it's such a pity that Yeebos will call Yorubas cowards.
The noble action of fajuyi is greater and braver than what Ojukwu ever accomplished,Ojukwu that protacted a war that claimed the lives of millions of his people but couldn't wait to receive just one metallic bullet,only to bolt away to Ivory coast.

iflywithbuhari:
Adekunle Fajuyi was a coward, a traitor and a coup plotter. He intentionally alerted the fulani jihadist murderers of the time and security scope of his residence. The fool was deceived into thinking that if he helped the fulanis, they would reward him with the position of Head Of State. But the Fulanis showed him that he was just another Afonja. It's a disgrace and wicked that the Yoruba media covered up their folly and then wrote him into history as a martyr and loyalist. So annoying.

Aigbofa:
Hate monger, Fajuyi's place in Nigerian history is already assured. You called him a coup plotter but his later killers later gave him a state burial will full military honors.
He did what no ibo, dead or alive has ever done.

36xtr93r:
Adekunle Fajuyi - the military Governor of Western Nigeria

Lt Walbe: 
As far as I am concerned it was a lie (Yoruba publications). We arrested him as we arrested Ironsi. We suspected him of being party to the January coup. You remember the Battle Group Course which was held at Abeokuta . . . Fajuyi was Commander of the Battle Group course. He ran the course. All those who took part in the January coup were those who had taken part in that course. It gave us the impression that the Battle Course was arranged for the January Coup, so he had to suffer it too. I am sorry about that but that is the nature of the life of the military man...


Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi was killed alongside Aguiyi Ironsi by T.Y Danjuma and his Northern coupists in the counter coup of July 29, 1966.
The irony of the whole saga is that till date Yorubas have maintained a deafening silence and would rather point accusing fingers on Igbos.

Ironsi and Fajuyi's deaths were not officially announced for six months, and during the tense days of August 1966, the military governor of the eastern region, Lt-Col Ojukwu, repeatedly asked Gowon "where is the Supreme Commander?".

36xtr93r:


Frustrated IPOO chest-pounder:

The counter-coup was carried out almost exclusively by northern officers. However, consternation at Igbos was so great that a few southern officers also participated. Six Yorubas are known to have taken part. Of these, four were northern Yorubas from the Ilorin and Kabba provinces of the northern region. One of them (Major Shittu Alao) later became the head of the Air Force. One mid-western officer also took part (see Luckham).

Aigbofa:
You killed their leaders and they killed yours, end of story. Fajuyi was just unfortunate to be hosting Ironsi, they would have killed Ironsi anyway.

Aigbofa:
The people who planned the January 1966 coup did not hide their own identity, Nzeogwu even described in chilling details how he killed the sarduana of Sokoto. Only a fool will even believe Ironsi and Fajuyi had anything to do with the coup.

ChemicalReaction:
I don't understand what the yorubas and igbos are even dragging! Pls, madam, .... PS: I'm neither Igbo, Yoruba nor Hausa/Fulani.

ChemicalReaction:
Blood of Buhari! So Fayose was right afterall.. Wonders never ceases to happen in the zoo..

1after:


Here comes the shameless Osu Ibo whose tiny god ojukwu died senile, dejected, blind, deaf, dumb and crippled while FFK pummel his wife. You dont even have shame that your pedophile god ojuku lost 3m animals and ran away. Pathetic.

36xtr93r:


Loudmouthed Afonja and July 29, 1966 coup plotter:

OGUNDIPE IN DISTRESS

Following  the murders of 200-300 Igbo soldiers (names, ranks, units and numbers are listed in Hilary Njoku's: "A Tragedy Without Heroes" and the Eastern Ministry of Information's "January 15th: Before and After", Brigadier Babafemi Ogundipe (a mild mannered Yoruba officer with no political ambition) was now the most senior surviving officer in the army. When the British handed over command of the Nigerian army to indigenous soldiers in 1965, the outgoing General Officer Commanding, Major-General Welby-Everard had recommended Ogundipe as his replacement without success. However, as mayhem ensued following the mutinies across the country, Ogundipe could not assert his authority over the northern troops. Via telephone, Ogundipe informed the military governor of the Eastern region; Lt-Col Ojukwu, that northern troops had stated their conditions for a "ceasefire": the killing of Igbos would continue until the northern region seceded from the Nigerian Federation, and northerners and southerners were repatriated to their respective regions of origin. Ojukwu replied "if that is what they want, let them go" and replaced the receiver (see N U Akpan - "The Struggle For Secession".

The Ikeja cantonment became the undeclared Headquarters of the mutineers. Ogundipe dispatched a platoon from the Federal Guard to Ikeja cantonment. However the northern troops refused to accept their orders and turned them away. Ogundipe's own orders received a similar response. The "limit" came for the Brigadier when a northern Sergeant quipped to him: "I do not take orders from you until my (northern) captain comes". To a seasoned professional soldier like Ogundipe (accustomed to unquestioning obedience of his orders during a military career spanning over 20 years), such disobedience was beyond comprehension. A northern private similarly refused to obey orders from the Military Governor of Lagos State: Major Mobolaji Johnson.

The exasperated Ogundipe sent the Chief of Staff (Army), Lt-Col Yakubu Gowon to bargain with the mutineers. Gowon like other senior northern officers Lt-Col Hassan Katsina, and Lt-Col Mohammed Shuwa was not personally involved in the mutiny. However, when the smoke temporarily cleared, they gave their assent to the fait accompli and were brought in to participate in the Ikeja negotiations. When Gowon arrived, it appears that he was not a free agent and was held in circumstances amounting to arrest (see Ruth First: "The Barrel Of A Gun". The northern officers were joined by a number of federal secretaries, two Judges, prominent northern civil servants and by British and American diplomats who asked the northern soldiers to drop their plan to secede from the federation. As negotiations continued in Ikeja, the explosive Lt-Col Murtala Muhammed was the most vociferous and uncompromising advocate of northern secession. The civilian participants managed to persuade the northern soldiers to drop their secessionist plan, and their most senior member; Lt-Col Gowon was appointed Head of State.

AgentOrange:



“Papa Awolowo was invited for a meeting with President Ibrahim Babangida who was then staying at Dodan Barracks which was the seat of power as at then and the truth of his clandestine meetings was revealed to him by the gap –toothed General

“He gave Papa some options and that was for him to be ready to face a court martial , be ready to go to a prison or better still go on exile
“At this stage Papa felt instead of allowing some ambitious khaki boy to mess him up he should just pack it in and call it a day ,so Chief Awolowo decide to commit suicide so as to save himself from the ignominy of going to prison for the second time in his lifetime .


“Before he gave up the ghost , he said his prayers and then took the poison(Ratak) which killed him almost immediately but the public was not fully aware as they were given a different account of what happened.


http://247ureports.com/how-awolowo-committed-suicide-by-abdulmumini-adeku/

1after:
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Ojuku died senile after wasting 3miilion animals. May his cursed soul rest in hell.

pazienza:
Fajuiyi was not only involved in the coup, he was also one of the principal reason Ironsi never punished Nzeogwu and co, as he kept defending them and pleading their case before Ojukwu.

For this reason, he was on the July counter coup death list, his name was even higher on the death list than that of Ironsi.

Fajuiyi never died defending Ironsi, he died defending himself, he was marked for death by the July coup plotters. That lie of Fajuiyi pleading for Ironsi Lie is part of the Yoruba propaganda, when they realized that it was difficult selling the January coup as an Igbo coup, without lying about Fajuiyi involvement and the true events that led to his death.

1after:
Ojuku died senile after wasting 3miilion animals. May his cursed soul rest in hell.

AgentOrange:


Na wa for babangida sha...

After dealing with awolowo, he now gave aere onakankanfo foreign tea to drink.