Lady Victoria, the wife of late Nigerian head of state, Major General Johnson Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi, is dead.
The former First Lady reportedly died on Monday at 97. She would have been 98 on November 21, 2021.
Victoria’s husband Aguiyi-Ironsi was the supreme commander of the National Military Government for six months before being overthrown and assassinated in the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup.
Meanwhile, Dame Adanma Okpara, wife of the First Republic premier of the defunct Eastern Nigeria Region, late Dr. Michael Okpara, died on Sunday morning in an undisclosed hospital in Enugu State.
Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi had disclosed the incident while addressing Catholic Bishops in Enugu on Sunday.
A source in the family also confirmed her death, disclosing that she had on Saturday gone to a hospital “only to be heard that she died early this (Sunday) morning”
Interestingly, Dame Adanma Okpara also died at the age of 97.
