Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi, the wife of late Nigerian head of state, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, is d*ad.
The former first lady passed on Monday morning, August 23. She was 97.
Victoria’s husband Aguiyi-Ironsi was the supreme commander of the National Military Government for six months before being overthrown and a*sa*sinated in the 1966 Nigerian counter-coup.