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Aguiyi-Ironsi: The murder that birthed Nigeria’s northern hegemony

It’s 6am on 25 July 1966. Soldiers of northern extraction have surrounded Government House, Ibadan, where the Supreme Commander and Head of State, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, spent the night at the invitation of his host, Lieutenant Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi, the military governor of the Western Region.

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