Cika wannan jumla:
Janairu 1966 ya kasa juyin mulki, wani rukuni na jami'an sojoji, karkashin jagorancin Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu, ya kifar da gwamnatin tsakiya da na yanki, ya kashe firaminista, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa kuma ya yi kokarin karbe iko da gwamnati. Janar Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi ya yi adawa da Nzeogwu, ya kama shi kuma ya daure shi. An nada Janar Aguiyi-Ironsi a matsayin Shugaban Sojoji.