The youth wing of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has urged President Buhari to immortalize the late Head of State, Gen. Johnson Thomas Aguiy Ironsi who was brutally murdered 50-years ago on July 29, 1966 during a counter-coup.
In
a press statement issued by Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, the National
President of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC), the group has called on the
President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to immortalise the
slain Head of State, Gen. Johnson Thomas Aguiyi Ironsi.
Fifty
years after the first military coup d’état which tragically claimed the
life of the then Head of State, the Ohanaeze Youths argued that the
late Ironsi staked his life for the unity of the country and therefore
deserved to be immortalized and given his proper place in the annals of
Nigerian history.
OYC said that the Federal
Government should name the nation’s seat of power, Aso Rock after the
late head of state in recognition of his invaluable sacrifices for the
unity of Nigeria, adding that those (names witheld) behind the
assassination of the late senior military officer should tender an
unconditional apology to Ndigbo and Aguiy Ironsi’s family over the
dastardly act.
According to the statement, while the masterminds of the heinous act “are
still moving around and parading themselves as statesmen, the members
of Aguiyi Ironsi’s family have continued to wallow in pains and
poverty.”
It therefore enjoined the federal
government and as well as the various state governments to give
attention to the welfare of the family to assuage their pains.
Meanwhile,
the Aguiyi Ironsi family is organizing a memorial service in Umuahia to
mark the 50 years anniversary of the tragic death of their father.
According
to the matriarch of the family and wife of the late General, Lady
Victoria Aguiyi Ironsi, a church service will hold today at the Mater
Dei Catholic Cathedral, Umuahia, which will be followed by a reception
at the family house.
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