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==Assassination == Murtala Mohammed was killed on February 13, 1976 in an abortive coup attempt led by Lt. Col Buka Suka Dimka, when his car was ambushed while en route to his office at Dodan Barracks, Lagos. Several top officers, including his predecessor and at the time, graduate student in Warwick University, England, Yakubu Gowon, were accused of either planning or approving the coup attempt. He was succeeded by the Chief of Staff, Supreme HQ Olusegun Obasanjo, who completed the plan of an orderly transfer to civilian rule by handing power to Shehu Shagari on October 1, 1979. [[Category:Male]] [[Category:Deceased]] [[Category:Honorable Villains]] [[Category:Evil vs. Evil]] [[Category:Power Hungry]] [[Category:African Villains]] [[Category:Warlords]] [[Category:Islam]] [[Category:War Criminal]] [[Category:Presidents]] [[Category:Anarchist]] [[Category:Jingoists]] [[Category:Nigeria]]
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