Photo of Festus Okotie-Eboh ,wife and entourage on their way to the State house,Marina .

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Festus Okotie-Eboh ,wife and entourage on their way to the State house,Marina . The Royal Tour of 1956.

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Festus Okotie-Eboh (July 18, 1912 – January 15, 1966) was a Nigerian politician and Minister of Finance during the administration of Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. As a flamboyant dresser and fashionable stylish impressionist he was given the nickname , Omimi-Ejoh,or Ejoh bilele, translated as ‘the man with long feature and flowing wrappers’.

A well-travelled man, Okotie-Eboh was a personal friend of the late United States President John Kennedy in the sixties. His visit to the Papacy, where he met Pope John XX111 twice, became his greatest religious voyage.

He was ambushed and killed somewhere around Lagos Island, ernoute Ikoyi road during the 1966 coup lead by Major Nzeogwu. . It was said that bullets couldn’t penetrate his body when he was ambushed by the coup plotters,so they tied him to a car and dragged him as they move along. Reports of those who saw his body say he was mangled beyond recognition.

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