From left to right: Sam “Agbam” Agbamuche, a Nigerian foreign service officer who was the only civilian physically involved in Nigeria’s first military coup, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, a Commonwealth Games champion and leader of the country’s first military coup, Michael Echeruo, a William Safire Professor of Modern Letters at Syracuse University, New York, and Ukpabi Asika, a later administrator of East Central State.
Later, on September 25, 1967, in Kuti Hall, University College, Ibadan, Agbam would be executed by Gen. Odumegwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu during the civil war, along with Ifeajuna, Alale, and Banjo.
