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Ibrahim Taiwo was the military governor of kwara state at the time of 13 February 1976 during a failed coup in which the then Head of State Gen. Murtala Mohammed was also killed, he was also killed by the coup plotters because he was an ally of the late Head of state. General
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ancestry. Ibrahim Taiwo was educated at Senior Primary School,
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