Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, wife of the late head of state, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, has passed on at the age of 97.
The former first lady died on Monday. She would have been 98 on November 21, 2021.
Her husband was the supreme commander of the national military government for six months before being overthrown and assassinated in the 1966 counter-coup.
Her husband, Gen. Johnson Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi, was the first Nigerian military head of state; and he was in office from January 17, 1966 till July 29, 1966.
He was killed in Ibadan in a counter-coup led by Gen. Murtala Mohammed, also deceased.
Born on 21st November, 1923, Lady Ironsi was the second First Lady of Nigeria from January 17, 1966 to July 29, 1966.
She married Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi as a student of Holy Rosary Convent School, Okigwe, in 1953.
Her death follows that of Adanma Okpara, wife of the First Republic premier of the defunct Eastern Nigeria late Michael Okpara, who died also at the age of 97.
Mrs Okpara reportedly died on Sunday morning in an undisclosed hospital in Enugu.
