Coming to lagos today, After Ibadan I decided to check my daughter who is schooling in OOU. She lives along ijesha road in Ago Iwoye. After attending to her and was going, I decided to pray in a near-by Mosque. As I was trying to park well beside the mosque, I saw a monument with inscription 'Babafemi Ogundipe'.

I said 'waw, this is where this great man was burried. Or is it a cenotaph ? 'Cos I know that the gallant hero died in London.

Anyway, he remain a hero.
He was the First Chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters from January 1966 to August 1966 when Igbos started the confussion thinking Ogundipe will save them.
But as a no-nonsence man, he angrily left.

Yoruba don produce men.
Rest on baba

Ok

Where is the cenotaph?

Ogundipe should have stayed and rallied the loyal troops however difficult it was then.

But he opted to run and hide at the port when his orders were disregarded by the Northern NCOs.

But what he should have never done was to agree to leave Nigeria so that a junior Gowon could take over as the most senior Northerner when many more officers like Emeka Ojukwu and Adeyinka Adebayo were around and still in service.

He had no excuse for that failure.

But even Fajuyi who stood like a man to die with Ironsi, he is never valued by the revisionists who want to prove he did not do anything gallant or noble.

At least, Ogundipe lived longer to the benefit of his family when he later appeared in the UK to become Nigeria's ambassador to the UK.

He did not need any glory, and his family did not suffer over what would have been an avoidable death like the case of Fajuyi.

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Throwback:
Ok

Where is the cenotaph?

Ogundipe should have stayed and rallied the loyal troops however difficult it was then.

But he opted to run and hide at the port when his orders were disregarded by the Northern NCOs.

But what he should have never done was to agree to leave Nigeria so that a junior Gowon could take over as the most senior Northerner when many more officers like Emeka Ojukwu and Adeyinka Adebayo were around and still in service.

He had no excuse for that failure.

But even Fajuyi who stood like a man to die with Ironsi, he is never valued by the revisionists who want to prove he did not do anything gallant or noble.

At least, Ogundipe.

He did not need any glory, and his family did not suffer over what would have been an avoidable death like the case of Fajuyi.

Fajuyi remain eternal saviuor for the Yorubas. Imagine he did not die alongside Ironsi, how will yoruba explain to Igbos that they did not sell him

Throwback:
Ok

Where is the cenotaph?

Ogundipe should have stayed and rallied the loyal troops however difficult it was then.

But he opted to run and hide at the port when his orders were disregarded by the Northern NCOs.

But what he should have never done was to agree to leave Nigeria so that a junior Gowon could take over as the most senior Northerner when many more officers like Emeka Ojukwu and Adeyinka Adebayo were around and still in service.

He had no excuse for that failure.

But even Fajuyi who stood like a man to die with Ironsi, he is never valued by the revisionists who want to prove he did not do anything gallant or noble.

At least, Ogundipe lived longer to the benefit of his family when he later appeared in the UK to become Nigeria's ambassador to the UK.

He did not need any glory, and his family did not suffer over what would have been an avoidable death like the case of Fajuyi.

Ogundipe did the right thing for his family, Northerners in the army were no longer obeying orders from their Southerners superiors.

He was not part of any of the 1966 coups so why should he be a victim.

Ogundipe, the Yoruba coward that ran away from his junior colleagues,

Heroes are not forgotten

Entprys:


Fajuyi remain eternal saviuor for the Yorubas. Imagine he did not die alongside Ironsi, how will yoruba explain to Igbos that they did not sell him

The burden of that explanation is on Ironsi's ADC, not Fajuyi.

Beside, has anyone ever wondered where the ADC was all along while his principal was being manhandled?

Runaway soldier