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naptu2:
Major General Johnson Thomas Umanakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi, Head Of State And Supreme Commander Of The Armed Forces Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

General Aguiyi Ironsi had 3 ADCs (serving concurrently), one each from the army, navy and air force.

ADC = Lieutenant Sani Bello (Nigerian Army).

Sani Bello became a Colonel and Governor of Kano State. He is the father of the present governor of Niger State.




ADC = Lieutenant Andrew Nwankwo (Nigerian Air Force).

Andrew Nwankwo retired with the rank of Captain and later became a senator.





Picture 1: Colonel Sani Bello

Picture 2: Senator Andrew Nwankwo.

When it got to his turn he decided to have an Igbo and a northerner as his ADC , this man must have been driven by something else and not patriotism.

naptu2:
Major General Muhammadu Buhari, Head Of State And Commander In Chief Of The Armed Forces Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

ADC = Colonel Mustapha Haruna Jokolo (Nigerian Army).

Colonel Jokolo later became the Emir of Gwandu.

Jokolo was also the ADC to TY Danjuma. He was a major then. The man really served top people.

History class don commence

OP,I say a Big Kudos to you on this very informative topics!
You deserved an award!

What about Ernest Shonekan

AdolfHitlerxXx:
Don't put an Okoro as ADC.

They ALWAYS flee the battle field.

Zik, Ojukwu and Kanu all ran away at first gunshot. Even Peter obi ran from PDP primaries before it started.

Victor Banjo, a Yoruba man led the Biafra Army while Ojukwu was shivering in his wife's skirts.

Wow!
This is a great deal of information.

@naptu2 👏👍🏻

naptu2:
Lt. Col Nurudeen Alowonle Yusuf has been appointed as the ADC to the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

He will not serve.

Uniquekriss:
He will not serve.

over your dead body, right?

naptu2:
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, President And Commander In Chief Of The Armed Forces Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

ADC = Colonel Mustapha Dennis Onoyivetta (Nigerian Army).


Colonel Mustapha Onoyiveta from Delta State served as ADC to President Yar'Adua from 2007-2010. He played a controversial role while protecting the President during his illness, especially when the President suddenly returned to Nigeria from Saudi Arabia.

He was subsequently promoted to the rank of Brigadier General and posted to the Army Headquarters as head of the Army Operations Monitoring Team. He later served as Chief of Staff to the Chief of Army Staff (Generals Ihejirika and Minimah).

Loyalty!

Naptu2 and his threads always very informative.

Weldone sir.

naptu2:
Dr Goodluck Jonathan, President, Head Of State And Commander In Chief Of The Armed Forces Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria

ADC = Colonel Ojogbane Adegbe (Nigerian Army).

Colonel Adegbe served as the ADC to President Goodluck Jonathan from 2010 to 2015.

Colonel Ojogbane Adegbe graduated from the Nigerian Defence Academy with a BSc in Mathematics. He also has a masters degree in Intelligence and International Security from Kings College, London. He has served in the 26th Motorized Battalion, Ecomog in Sierra Leone, the Office of the Defence Adviser at the Nigerian High Commission in London, the Intelligence Production Centre of the Headquarters of the Nigerian Army Intelligence Corps and the 81 Division Intelligence Command, Lagos.

He is My Favourite and I Love His Aura .... He Could Wrap the Entire GEJ like a Newspaper & Fold Him in his Pocket Peradventure there is Crisis !

Same as I Love Dambazzau and Owoeye Azazi!

.. These are Armies, They are My Sweethearts !

naptu2:
Photo 1: President Ronald Reagan and his ADC, Colonel John Kline (US Marines). Colonel Kline is carrying the nuclear football. He later became a member of the US House Of Representatives.

Photo 2: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his army ADC, Major General Edwin Martin "Pa" Watson. Notice that the President is supporting himself with his cane on his left hand and he has his right hand in his ADC's arm (remember Yar'Adua?). (Roosevelt was usually assisted by his son or his ADC when he had to stand in public).


Photo 3: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Naval ADC, Captain Daniel J. Callaghan, taking the salute of a composite Battalion of the 14th Infantry at Gatun Locks, Panama Canal Zone, as they were disembarking from USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37) on 18 February 1940. (Daniel Callaghan attained the rank of Rear Admiral before he was killed during the 2nd World War when an enemy shell hit his flagship).

Photo 4: President Barrack Obama's former ADC from 2012-2014, US Marine Corp Lieutenant Colonel Lee Meyer (extreme right on the stage) assists the President as he presents medals of honour to military veterans.

Colonel Meyer said that he was told, when he was appointed as the President's ADC, that it's a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week job. “I really realised that I was married when I told my wife that I couldn’t do something she wanted me to do because my president needed me ... and she said that wasn’t a good enough excuse,” said Meyer, who has been married for about a year


Photo 5: US President Jimmy Carter at Dodan Barracks. Beside President Carter is the parade commander. Behind them is the Commander of the (Nigerian) Brigade of Guards, Colonel Mamman Vatsa and beside Vatsa (in white) is President Carter's ADC.

Photo 6: Presidents Obasanjo and Clinton with their ADCs. I think President Clinton's ADC in this picture was Colonel Dana Pittard, while President Obasanjo's ADC was the late Colonel Solomon Giwa-Amu.

Photo 7: US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson and President Bill Clinton. Lieutenant Colonel Patterson was President Clinton's Air Force ADC from 1996-1998.

In an extremely unusual move, Colonel Patterson wrote a book (after he had retired from the Air Force and Bill Clinton had left the White House) in which he viciously criticised President Clinton (I think it was in this book that he revealed that President Clinton once lost "The Biscuit" [a small notebook that contains the codes for launching a nuclear strike). The book is called, "Dereliction of Duty: Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security".

Photo 8: President Obama with David Kalinske and his family.


Photo 9: President Obama with David Kalinske and family on Colonel kalinske's last day as the President's ADC.

Nice one. Good one.

xevove2061:
Look at then in the 50s, these men were in their late 20s and very early 30s when they took the helm of affairs of the nation at the time, but a 30 year old man in present day nigeria has not dome anything meaningful with his life yet.

Without making excuses for anyone or any generation, I should mention that there is a deeper historical reason for this - and it rests with the fact that as a new nation just coming into its own, the younger generation formed the majority of the educated class at the time, while much older people were, more often than not, either illiterate or semi-literate.

Needless to say, as time went along and things evened out, that younger generation has grown into an educated and experienced older generation. That's the reason.

@ naptu2 you are a legend.

naptu2:
Lt. Col Nurudeen Alowonle Yusuf has been appointed as the ADC to the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Alowonle is like a nickname attached to a child named Nurudeen.
It became generated from the name of a popular business man in 60s named Nurudeen Omotayo Alowonle.
A well known name in music industry then.

Just like in 60s-70s some people named their son yakubu, just to be called baba gowon.

kettykings:
When it got to his turn he decided to have an Igbo and a northerner as his ADC , this man must have been driven by something else and not patriotism.

You don't know history. The late General had the highest-ever non-kinsmen that surrounded him during his regime.
No Nigerian Head of State or civilian President has ever done that.

AdolfHitlerxXx:
Don't put an Okoro as ADC.

They ALWAYS flee the battle field.

Zik, Ojukwu and Kanu all ran away at first gunshot. Even Peter obi ran from PDP primaries before it started.

Victor Banjo, a Yoruba man led the Biafra Army while Ojukwu was shivering in his wife's skirts.

What did you just say?

xevove2061:
Look at then in the 50s, these men were in their late 20s and very early 30s when they took the helm of affairs of the nation at the time, but a 30 year old man in present day nigeria has not dome anything meaningful with his life yet.

They are busy shouting that they want Igbo and shayo

helinues:
Interesting.

Weekend is for history lesson.

why are they running

That Obasanjo's ADC Colonel Chris Jemitola was the most handsome ADC ever. Tall, handsome, straight and fit

Pootle:
why are they running

To read the history now..

Who is the ADC to Obi?

History.

naptu2:
Muhammadu Buhari, President, Head Of State and Commander In Chief Of The Armed Forces Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

ADC = Colonel Muhammed Lawal Abubakar (Nigerian Army).



Colonel Abubakar was President Buhari's ADC from 2015 till 2021. He has served the longest period of time as ADC to the president since 1999 and the second longest period of time as ADC to a Nigerian head of state (after William Walbe). He holds a bachelor of science degree in biological sciences from the Nigerian Defence Academy, masters in law enforcement and criminal justice and masters in international affairs and diplomacy (MIAD) both from A B U Zaria.

ADC = Lieutenant Colonel Yusuf Muktar Dodo (Nigerian Army). Colonel Dodo is President Buhari's current ADC.

The current ADC to buhari Col. Yusuf dodo was NDA adjutant

Very malicious and brutal Modafucker!

Uniquekriss:
He will not serve.

If you turn to a fly and near Tinubu, you will be dealt with