<P> He returned to Ghana in March 1966 after Nkrumah's government was overthrown by the military to serve on the National Liberation Council of General Joseph Ankrah, the military head of state; and was appointed as the Chairman of the National Advisory Committee of the NLC . In 1967 / 68, he served as the Chairman of the Centre for Civic Education . He used this opportunity and sold himself as the next Leader . He also was a Member of the Constitutional Review Committee . When the NLC lifted the ban on politics, Busia, together with friends in the defunct UP formed the Progress Party (PP). </P> <P> In 1969, the PP won the parliamentary elections with 104 of the 105 seats contested . This paved the way for him to become the next Prime Minister . Busia continued with NLC's anti-Nkrumaist stance and adopted a liberalised economic system . There was a mass deportation of half a million Nigerian citizens from Ghana, and a 44 percent devaluation of the cedi in 1971, which met with a lot of resistance from the public . </P> <P> While he was in Britain for a medical check - up, the army under Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrew his government on 13 January 1972 . Busia remained in exile in England and returned to Oxford University, where he died from a heart attack in August 1978 . </P> <P> Along with J.B. Danquah and S.D. Dombo, Busia's name is associated with Ghana's political right . The New Patriotic Party has claimed the Danquah - Busia - Dombo mantle in the Fourth Republic . </P>

Who overthrew the government of kofi busia and established military rule in ghana in 1972