Nigeria: How I ‘discovered’ Tafawa Balewa, Okotie-Eboh’s bodies in the bush — Osoba

Olusegun Osoba, a former governor of Ogun State, has recounted how he discovered the bodies of Nigeria’s first Prime Minister, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and the then Finance Minister, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh in the bush after the January 15, 1966 coup.

Osoba, in a Vanguard interview, first published in 2010, narrated how he was informed of the bodies of the two Nigerian leaders in the bush, somewhere in Ota, along Lagos-Abeokuta road, Ogun State on January 21, 1966.

The…