Third Nigerian coup-Gowon loses power and enrols as student in UK
July 29, 1975: And while Gen. Gowon was attending an OAU Heads of Government summit in Uganda, some disenchanted officers in a broadcast by the then Col. Joseph Garba took over the reins of power in a bloodless coup d’etat on July 29, 1975. Consequently, Gowon and his other surbodinates were the major victims in the change of baton that took the nation, as usual, by surprise.
National Movements and New States in Africa