1975 Nigerian coup d'état

1975 coup in Nigeria against General Yakubu Gowon August 2026 1975 Nigerian coup d'état 315px File:Location Nigeria AU Africa.svg July 29, 1975 Nigeria Coup succeeds. Yakubu Gowon is ousted and replaced with Murtala Mohammed. Nigeria Military government Supreme Military Council (SMC) Flag of the Nigerian Armed Forces.svg Nigerian Armed Forces Armed Forces faction Supreme Military Council (SMC) Yakubu Gowon Joseph Nanven GarbaMurtala MohammedOlusegun Obasanjo First Nigerian Republic The 1975 Nigerian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup which took place in Nigeria on 29 July 1975https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/30/archives/gowon-outsted-in-nigeria-coup-ends-nineyear-rule-gowon-deposed-as.html Gowon Ousted in Nigeria; Coup Ends Nine-Year Rule 30 July 1976 The New York Times 16 July 2019http://www.dawodu.com/omoigui38.htm Military Rebellion of July 29, 1975: The Coup Against Gowon 2006-07-28 Omoigui Nowa 2006-07-11 when a faction of junior Armed Forces officers overthrew General Yakubu Gowon (who himself took power in the 1966 counter-coup). Colonel Joseph Nanven Garba announced the coup in a broadcast on Radio Nigeria (which became FRCN in 1978).http://www.onlinenigeria.com/links/adv.asp?blurb=79 End of a Diplomatic Guru Online Nigeria 2002-06-14 2006-07-28 At the time of the coup, Gowon was attending the 12th Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Summit in Kampala, Uganda. The coup plotters appointed Brigadier Murtala Mohammed as head of state, and Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo as his deputy.Falola Toyin A History of Nigeria 2008 Cambridge University Press Cambridge 978-0521681575 Heaton, MatthewNdaeyo Uko, Romancing the Gun: The Press as a Promoter of Military Rule, Africa Research & Publications, 2004. 978-1592211890The Inaugural Addresses and Ascension Speeches of Nigerian Elected and Non-elected presidents and prime ministers from 1960-2010 Solomon Obotetukudo University Press of America 2011 66–68 The coup was motivated by unhappiness of junior officers at the lack of progress Gowon had made in moving the country towards democratic rule, while Garba's role as an insider is credited with ensuring that the coup was bloodless. Mohammed, whose policies and decisiveness won him broad popular support and elevated him to the status of a folk hero,Third World Politics: An Introduction Christopher Clapham Routledge 1985 0-7099-0757-5 stayed in power until 13 February 1976 when he was assassinated during a coup attempt. Obasanjo succeeded him as head of state.Siollun Max Oil, Politics and Violence: Nigeria's Military Coup Culture (1966–1976) 2009 Algora 9780875867090 193 References Category:Coups d'état in Nigeria Coup d'état Nigerian coup d'état Nigerian coup d'état, 1975 Nigerian coup d'état Category:Olusegun Obasanjo