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<p>Emmanuel Ifeajuna, the <a href="https://army.mil.ng/">Nigerian Army</a> Major who abducted the Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa on the 15<sup>th</sup> of January 1966 military coup was executed by Biafran War-lord, Lieutenant Colonel Chukwu–Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.</p><div class="7XTCT7zA" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>The account of how Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna was executed was given by one of the survivors of the 1966 coup that swept the first republic and led to the killing of many prominent Northerners and Westerners.</p><div class="oAs4TiG9" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>Major Adewale Ademoyega; who was the only army Major that lived longer than the coup co-conspirator in his Memoirs of the 1966 coup ‘’Why we Struck “in 1981, narrated that Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna was accused by the former Biafran rebel leader Chief Odumegwu Ojukwu of committing treason against the defunct Biafran nation.</p>
<p><a class="LinkSuggestion__Link-sc-1mdih4x-2 dcwLhi" href="https://nigeriantracker.com/2020/07/11/chris-ngige-seventeen-years-after-abduction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chris Ngige: Seventeen years after abduction </a></p>
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<p>When Major Chukuwma Kaduna Nzeogwu led the mutiny of January 15<sup>th,</sup> 1966, Major General Thomas Umunakwe Aguiyi Ironsi who tactically hijacked the coup tried to arrest Ifeajuna but escaped to Ghana and was given asylum by President Kwame Nkrumah but was deported back to Nigeria by General Afrifa of Ghana after the overthrow of President Kwame Nkrumah.</p>
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<p>By the time Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna was about to be executed by Ojukwu he was accused by Ojukwu of conspiring to overthrow Ojukwu&#8217;s government which did not even see the light of the day, by January 1970 Biafra was defeated by the Nigerian forces.</p>
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<p>Dim-Chuku-Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu fled Nigeria and went to Ivory –Coast, but before fleeing he handed over Biafran affairs to Colonel Philip Effiong.</p>
<p>Colonel Philip Effiong who died around 2010 was the one who handed overthe instrument of surrender to Nigerian authorities.</p>
<p>Nigeria&#8217;s civil war left the country more divided than it was.</p>
<p>Lieutenant Chukwu-Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu died in the year 2011.</p>
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