FLASH BACK QUESTION THAT NEEDS AN ANSWER: Ojukwu Or Emir Of Kano, Who Owned The Rolls-Royce Used By The Queen Of England?

Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria for the first time on February 27, 1956.

Then, she was just four years into her reign as the Queen of England. She spent 20 days in Nigeria.

During that visit, she was chauffeured around in a 1952 long-wheelbase Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith LWB with registration number ALW 11.

For a long time, the ownership of this Rolls-Royce remained a subject of several debates.

Some groups believe that the British authorities in colonial Nigeria “borrowed” the Rolls Royce for the occasion from the wealthiest Nigerian at the time, Sir Louis Ojukwu – the father of the late Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu.

Another group believes that the British authorities in colonial Nigeria “borrowed” the Rolls Royce for the occasion from the then Emir Of Kano, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi I.

So, who actually owned the Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith that the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Duke of Edinburg, Prince Phillip rode in?