Major-Gen David Ejoor: Adieu, war hero

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THE death of the Military Governor of the defunct Mid-Western Region and one-time Chief of Army Staff, Major General David Akpode Ejoor, represents a further depletion of Nigeria’s first generation military officers who were active participants in the events that shaped the country’s slowly evolving nationhood.

Born on January 10, 1932, Ejoor who hailed from Ovwor in Olomu Kingdom, Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, was the first Nigerian Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, and the first Urhobo to attain the position of a Major-General in the Nigerian military.

Ejoor was a quintessential patriot, given the heroic role he played during the Civil War to help keep Nigeria one. Ejoor, a Lieutenant Colonel and Commander of the Army Battalion in Enugu, played a major role in neutralising the first military coup of January 15, 1966 which truncated the First Republic.

Thereafter, Ejoor was appointed the Military Governor of the then Midwest Region and…



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