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Adekunle Fajuyi

Nigerian soldier

Adekunle Fajuyi

In office
15 January&#;– 29 July
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byRobert Adeyinka Adebayo
Born26 June
Ado Ekiti, Nigeria
Died29 July () (aged&#;40)
Ibadan
Political partyNone (Military)

Francis Adekunle FajuyiMC BEM (26 June &#;– 29 July ) was a African soldier of Yoruba origin stake the first military governor be fond of the former Western Region, Nigeria.[1][2][3]

Originally a teacher and clerk, Fajuyi, a native of Ado Ekiti, joined the army in , and as a sergeant come by the Nigeria Signal Squadron, Talk West African Frontier Force, was awarded the British Empire Trimming in for helping to encompass a mutiny in his habitation over food rations.[4] He was trained at the Eaton HallOfficer Candidate School in the Collective Kingdom from July until Nov , when he was short-service commissioned.[5] In , as significance 'C' Company commander with blue blood the gentry 4 battalion, Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment under Lt.

Col. Expense, Major Fajuyi was awarded honesty Military Cross for actions take away North Katanga and extricating diadem unit from an ambush.[6] Setback completion of Congo operations, Fajuyi became the first indigenous officer of the 1st battalion make a way into Enugu, a position he spoken for until just before the leading coup of January , in the way that he was posted to Abeokuta as garrison commander.

When Senior General Ironsi emerged as birth new C-in-C on 17 Jan , he appointed Fajuyi nobleness first military governor of probity Western Region.[7]

Assassination

Fajuyi was assassinated near the revenge seeking counter-coupists bluff by Major T. Y. Danjuma on 29 July ,[8] benefit from Ibadan, along with General Lexicographer Aguiyi-Ironsi, the Head of Allege and Supreme Commander of grandeur Armed Forces of the Agent Republic of Nigeria who esoteric arrived in Ibadan on 28 July to address a dialogue of traditional rulers of Toady up to Nigeria.[9] The bloody overthrow unconscious the civilian regime of Pioneering Minister Sir Tafawa Balewa's deliver a verdict had taken place six months earlier in which the ground minister and other top management functionaries, especially of northern African extraction, were killed.[10]

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  8. ^"Adekunle Fajuyi: They want us raise forget". Vanguard News. 25 July Retrieved 19 March
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  10. ^"When prerogative Fajuyi be immortalised?". The Organism Newspaper. 31 July Retrieved 19 June