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“You go die”. Kill the Doctor!
January 15th 1966.
Time: 2:14am
After Major Ifeajuna, Second Lieutenant Ezedigbo and the rest of the coupist had killed Lt Colonel Abogo Largema at Ikoyi Hotel. They hurled his body into the booth of their car and drove off to kill the “Number 2” person on their hit list.
Their target was Dr Moses Majekodunmi, Medical Doctor of great repute and former Administrator of Western Region. He was appointed to manage the June 1962 Western Region Political Crisis
In his autobiography book “My Lord, what a Morning”, he narrated that night
“It was the providential visit of Theophilus Fagbola that early morning of 15th of January, 1966 which probably saved me from assassination. Since early December 1965. I had been getting telephone calls twice a week. It was a female voice and as soon as I lifted the receiver she would say “you go die”
At Midnight on the 15th of January 1966, there was a total black out, just a few minutes earlier Doctor Majekodunmi around 2am had just received a telephone call from the mystery female voice. He got up from bed with a pistol in his pocket, went over to the veranda of his house in preparation for the worst.
Luckily the arrival of Theophilus Fagbola an Ijesha man who was the head of Special Brand of the Police Force saved him. It was Fagbola who told Doctor Majekodunmi that the Prime Minister had been abducted and Okotie Eboh killed.
As the Killers approached the house of Dr Majekodunmi to kill him, the Police truck and headlights of Theophilus Fagbola ‘s car made them turn away.it was he who later told Dr Majekodunmi that his name was number 2 on the list to be eliminated that night of January 15, 1966.
Dr Moses Majekodunmi would later go to establish St Nicholas Hospital in 1968, he contributed heavily to the research of the HIV AIDS control in Nigeria and his impact in the primary healthcare system in Nigeria has laid a bedrock of what it is today.
Chief Moses Adekoyejo Majekodunmi died on the 11th of April 2012 at the age off 95.
Text Credit: Autobiography of Chief Moses Majekodunmi “ My Lord What a Morning"./© ASIRI Magazine

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