Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, the wife of late Nigerian head of state, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead.
The former first lady passed on Monday at 97. She would have been 98 on November 21, 2021.
Victoria Nwanyiocha Aguyi-Ironsi was the second First Lady of Nigeria from 16 January 1966 to 29 July 1996.
Victoria’s husband Aguiyi-Ironsi was the supreme commander of the National Military Government for six months before being overthrown and assassinated in the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup.
Aguiyi-Ironsi who was the first Nigerian military head of state who was killed in Ibadan a countercoup led by Murtala Muhammed and led to the installtion of Yakubu Gowon.
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