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Check out this throwback photo of Yakubu Gowon with Idi Amin Dada (Center) in Kampala, Uganda the day Gowon was overthrow.
On 29 July 1975, while Gowon was attending an OAU summit in Kampala, a group of officers led by Colonel Joe Nanven Garba announced his overthrow. The coup plotters appointed Brigadier Murtala Muhammad as head of the new government, and Brigadier Olusegun Obasanjo as his deputy
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