The widow of Nigeria first military Head of State, Lady Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi has been reported dead.
The late Chief Mrs. Aguiyi-Ironsi died peacefully Monday morning, from our sources.
Lady Aguiyi-Ironsi was to clock 98 years November this year.
The deceased widow’s husband, General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi was killed in a bloody coup led by Lt. Col Yakubu Gowon and TY Danjuma.
He was killed in Ibadan in the home of his host and military governor of Western Nigeria, Adekunle Fajuyi who refused to surrender him to Danjuma for assassination in the July 1966 coup.
The coup was staged as counter to an earlier one led by Major Kaduna Nzeogwu and four others of his rank in January 1966.
Lady Aguiyi-Ironsi never remarried ever since.
In the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, one of her sons was appointed a minister and Obasanjo always kept close contact with the family which he visited last in December 2019.
