A report on Supreme Military Council of Nigeria (1966–1979), Olusegun Obasanjo and Yakubu Gowon

Obasanjo in 2001
Gowon in 2007
"Colonel Olu Obasanjo, Commander, 3d division". New Nigerian Newspaper, page 7, January 1970. End of the Nigerian civil war with Biafra.
As a soldier
U.S. President Jimmy Carter with Obasanjo on the former's state visit to Nigeria in 1978
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In 1986, Obasanjo met with the imprisoned South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela (pictured in 1998). He related that it "was an encounter never to be forgotten. I saw in [Mandela] a South African indeed an African and a world leader of no mean order. He towered physically and metaphorically above all the leaders we met inside South Africa."
Seal of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Olusẹgun Obasanjo with Donald Rumsfeld at The Pentagon in 2001
Obasanjo with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in 2001
Obasanjo with the Iranian President Mohammad Khatami in 1999
Olusẹgun Obasanjo and the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in 2005
AU Observation Head – President General Olusegun Obasanjo visits President Robert Mugabe -Zimbabwe General Election 2013
Obasanjo speaking at the African Development Bank Group annual meeting in Kigali in 2014
Statue of Olusegun Obasanjo in Owerri, Imo state, Nigeria.

After the triumvirate's leader, Murtala Muhammed, was assassinated the following year, the Supreme Military Council appointed Obasanjo as head of state.

- Olusegun Obasanjo

Yakubu Gowon, Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

- Supreme Military Council of Nigeria (1966–1979)

He was replaced by Murtala Muhammed (in 1975) and Olusegun Obasanjo (in 1976) in successive coups.

- Supreme Military Council of Nigeria (1966–1979)

On 4–5 January 1967, in line with Ojukwu's demand to meet for talks only on neutral soil, a summit attended by Gowon, Ojukwu and other members of the Supreme Military Council was held at Aburi in Ghana, the stated purpose of which was to resolve all outstanding conflicts and establish Nigeria as a confederation of regions.

- Yakubu Gowon

The end of the war came about on 13 January 1970, with Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo's acceptance of the surrender of Biafran forces.

- Yakubu Gowon

General Yakubu Gowon took power.

- Olusegun Obasanjo
Obasanjo in 2001

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Murtala Muhammed

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Nigerian general who led the Northern counter-coup forces in overthrowing the Republic of Nigeria and featured prominently during the Nigerian Civil War and thereafter ruled over Nigeria from 30 July 1975 until his assassination on 13 February 1976.

Nigerian general who led the Northern counter-coup forces in overthrowing the Republic of Nigeria and featured prominently during the Nigerian Civil War and thereafter ruled over Nigeria from 30 July 1975 until his assassination on 13 February 1976.

Car in which Murtala Muhammed was assassinated
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Murtala was briefly considered as Supreme Commander before the appointment of Yakubu Gowon.

Three years later the Federal military government declared victory which bolstered Murtala's image over Nigeria and in particular the north as a military leader through the post-war era of "reconciliation, reconstruction, and rehabilitation".

At the same time, his regime transitioned from being authoritarian into consensus decision-making with Murtala the leader of a military triumvirate, alongside Generals Olusegun Obasanjo and Theophilus Danjuma.