What was the result when a military coup seized power in ghana

The 1966 coup, called by its perpetuators as Cold Chop Operation, refers to the civic-military action perpetuated in Ghana on February 24, 1966, which overthrew the one-party and autocratic government of Kwame Nkrumah and established a military dictatorship calling itself the National Liberation Council. Nkrumah was not in Ghana at the time of the coup, but on a diplomatic trip in China, so he quickly went into exile in Conakry, Guinea.

Initially carried out with immense popular support, and even with the active participation of several disgruntled government officials, the resulting military government quickly lost support largely due to its delay in calling for elections (one of its main promises). Finally, the military regime organized the transition to a civil government, maintaining the republican system as a form of government but restoring the parliamentary democracy that the country had before its passage to presidentialism in 1960. Free elections were held on August 29, 1969 and the NLC handed the power on October 1 of that same year.

The 1966 coup, despite being historically justified as necessary to put an end to the abuses and economic erosion under the Nkrumahist regime, inaugurated a persistent political and institutional instability in the country, which would open a repetitive coup-election cycle in 1972, 1979, and 1981. Since the democratic restoration in 1992, there have been no coups d'etat in Ghana.