Major General David Akpode Ejoor

Major General David Akpode Ejoor (Rtd) (10 January 1932 – 10 February 2019) was a pioneer officer of the Nigerian Army from Ovu, Ethiope East LGA, Delta State (Urhobo) who served as the first Military Governor of the Mid-Western Region (January 1966 – August 1967), first Nigerian Commandant of the NDA (1969–1971), and Chief of Army Staff (January 1972 – 29 July 1975, ending with the coup that toppled Gowon). He famously escaped the August 1967 Biafran invasion of Benin City on a bicycle after three assassination attempts. Designer of the Nigerian Army cap badge and rank insignias; commanded the army guard at the midnight Independence Day ceremony 1 October 1960. Honoured with OFR and GCON. He was widely regarded as a man of integrity who publicly *defended* Gowon against the 1975 charge that the regime was corrupt. The corpus surfaces **no credible corruption allegation against Ejoor personally** — all four JSON entries are social-media artifacts or sidebar-widget keyword scrapes. Recommend `contextual` for the Delta archive. His governorship of the Mid-Western Region also overlaps with the modern Edo archive and the same `contextual` recommendation should apply there.