The first regime to successfully transfer power back to civil rule was
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The first regime to successfully transfer power back to civil rule was Murtala/Obasanjo's regime.
Murtala Ramat Muhammed became the head of state of Nigeria in a military coup in July 1975. He ruled for about 8 months before he was assassinated. Olusegun Obasanjo, his deputy, took over and ruled for about two and a half years before he handed over power to a civilian government in 1979, marking the end of military rule in Nigeria and the beginning of the country's second republic.