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Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, (June 26,
1926 - July 29,
1966), was the first military
governor of the defunct
Western Region, Nigeria. Originally a
clerk, the late
Lt. Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi of
Ado Ekiti joined the Army in
1943 as a Non Commissioned Officer, and he was awarded the
British Empire Medal in
1951 for helping to contain a
mutiny in his unit over food rations. He was trained at the now defunct Eaton Hall
OCS in the
UK from July
1954 until November 1954 when he was short service commissioned
Lieutenant, backdated to March
1952. In
1961, as the ‘C’ Company Commander with the 4QONR under Lt. Col. Price,
Major Fajuyi was awarded the
M.C. for actions in North
Katanga and extricating his unit from an
ambush. On completion of
Congo operations Fajuyi became the first indigenous
Battalion Commander of the 1st battalion in
Enugu, a position he held until just before the first
coup of January 1966 when he was posted to
Abeokuta as Garrison Commander. When
Major General Ironsi emerged as the new
C-in-C on January 17 1966, he appointed Fajuyi the first military governor of the
Western Region.
He was
assassinated by the revenge seeking counter-coupists led by major T. Y Danjuma on July 29, 1966 at
Ibadan, along with General
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, the
Head of State and Supreme
Commander of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria; who had arrived Ibadan on July 28, 1966 to address a conference of natural rulers of Western Nigeria. By dusk, he was through with the assignment and was prepared to head back to
Lagos, but his guest,
Lt. Colonel Fajuyi, impressed on him to spend the night at the Government House, Ibadan.
The bloody overthrow of the civilian regime of Prime Minister
Tafawa Balewa’s government had taken place six months earlier in which the
Prime Minister and other top government functionaries especially of northern Nigerian extraction were killed. Ironically, Aguiyi-Ironsi who didn't participate in the violent bloodletting inherited the pieces of a shattered
Republic by virtue of his seniority in the
armed forces. Yet, he was a victim of the counter-coup that claimed his life alongside his courageous host, Fajuyi.
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