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Adekunle Fajuyi was a Nigerian military officer and the first military governor of the Western Region of Nigeria. He was born on 26 June 1926 in Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. He attended the Nigerian Military Training College in Kaduna and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Nigerian Army in 1951. Fajuyi was appointed the first military governor of the Western Region of Nigeria in 1966. He was a strong advocate of Nigerian unity and was known for his commitment to the cause of Nigerian independence. Fajuyi was killed in a coup attempt on 29 July 1966, when he refused to surrender to the coup plotters. He was posthumously awarded the Nigerian National Order of Merit in recognition of his service to the nation. Fajuyi was married to Mrs. Comfort Fajuyi and had three children. He was 40 years old at the time of his death. His net worth is unknown.

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Age 40 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 26 June, 1926
Birthday 26 June
Birthplace Ado Ekiti, Nigeria
Date of death (1966-07-29)
Died Place Ibadan
Nationality Niger

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1966

Originally a teacher and clerk, Fajuyi of Ado Ekiti joined the army in 1943 and as a sergeant in the Nigeria Signal Squadron, Royal West African Frontier Force, was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1951 for helping to contain a mutiny in his unit over food rations. He was trained at the Eaton Hall Officer Candidate School in the United Kingdom from July 1954 until November 1954, when he was short-service commissioned. In 1961, as the 'C' Company commander with the 4 battalion, Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment under Lt. Col. Price, Major Fajuyi was awarded the Military Cross for actions in North Katanga and extricating his unit from an ambush. On completion of Congo operations, Fajuyi became the first indigenous commander of the 1st battalion in Enugu, a position he held until just before the first coup of January 1966, when he was posted to Abeokuta as garrison commander. When Major General Ironsi emerged as the new C-in-C on 17 January 1966, he appointed Fajuyi the first military governor of the Western Region.

He was assassinated by the revenge seeking counter-coupists led by Major T. Y. Danjuma on 29 July 1966, at Ibadan, along with General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, the Head of State and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; who had arrived in Ibadan on 28 July 1966 to address a conference of natural rulers of Western Nigeria. The bloody overthrow of the civilian regime of Prime Minister Sir Tafawa Balewa's government had taken place six months earlier in which the prime minister and other top government functionaries, especially of northern Nigerian extraction, were killed.

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Francis Adekunle Fajuyi MC BEM (26 June 1926 – 29 July 1966) was a Nigerian soldier of Yoruba origin. and the first military governor of the former Western Region, Nigeria.

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