Nigeria’s former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (Rtd), cares to know the real reason why the presidential election conducted in 1993 was annulled, or give him credit for how fair the poll was.

General Babangida said this during an exclusive interview on Roadmap 2019, a Channels Television programme that aired on Monday.


The late Moshood Abiola, a philanthropist and successful businessman, had won the election which was later cancelled by the then military junta headed by General Babangida.

The poll, which was adjudged as one of the freest and fairest in Nigeria’s democratic history, was the first presidential election held in Nigeria since 1983 when the military took power in a coup.

The late MKO Abiola of the then Social Democratic Party (SDP) had defeated Bashir Tofa of the defunct National Republican Convention (NCP).

Twenty-five years later, General Babangida was displeased that despite explaining why the June 12 election was cancelled, nobody cared to listen to him.

He said he had a good relationship with the presumed winner of the election whom he said they had communicated at different occasions.

“Nobody has ever sat down to say the two persons are friends, what went wrong? We tried to rationalise why we had to do what we did but nobody is prepared to listen to us,” the elder statesman said.

“I have never seen anybody write anything on this to try to give people a different version altogether. He (Abiola) knew my feeling; I knew his feeling about the country generally because I do talk about Nigeria with the presumed winner of the truly democratically freest election. We even talked about it during the crisis itself.”

Babangida stressed further that the election was widely accepted to be the freest in the history of Nigeria, but he has yet to get a credit for conducting the poll.

He decried that Nigerians were instead interested in ‘he cancelled the freest election, noting that he loved being criticised.

On whether is he is planning to write an autobiography, the former military president said, “People may not read it because it’s coming from a dictator. Yea, he cancelled June 12 and that will kill the thing about the book, but I will try.

“I hope one day if God spares my life I will discuss about it (June 12 elections) because I still believe people don’t get what we were trying to put across.”

https://www.channelstv.com/2018/04/16/nobody-gives-me-credit-for-conducting-nigerias-freest-election-ibb/

Because you annulled it.

MTN ? Glo ? Airtel ? Etisalat ? Which one gangan ?

return our Yam.but who killed dele Giwa?

One of our problems in this country

Don't worry, I will give you Etisalat credit

Àbí wèrè kolu bàbá yi ní?

Credit koor.....airtime ni

Abeg which network you day use make I send the credit now now

If toh say Nigeria nah better country, you 4 spend the rest of your life in prison, cause if the people that were killed after you annulled the June 12 election.

One of the reason our economy is this bad is because of the annulment of the June 12 election, the Nigeria economy started collapsing from the day he annulled that election.

If he had peacefully hand over power to MKO abiola,the likes of abacha won't have been able to take over power.

Annulling the June 12 election was a very foolish and stupid move by IBB because it could have lead to civil war

I am very sure that the most regretable act in IBB life is that annulment!
It really showed in this utterance!
He would have been abdulsalam abubakre of Nigeria today

Dem go give u later

When I look at this shiit hole I just shake my head in pity for some Nigerians, especially One Nigeria praise singers. Most Nigerians have no idea that there's a written constitution that says a Southern Muslim will NEVER be President of Nigeria, same way a Northern Christian will NEVER be president of Nigeria. Why did you think 1993 election was annulled despite the wide claim that it was free and fair? If Bashir Tofa from north had won 1993 election, that election will NEVER be annulled!
You think Nigeria is rooted in Justice and fairness? Very soon one Nigeria singers will see the fraudness call Nigeria.

You really had time to write your name in gold, IBB..
Sir, Nigeria is still suffering today because of that annulment of the adjudged freest, fairest election in Nigeria.

The person below me sha

TFU . U WEY SUPPOSE GO TO JAIL. YOU WASTED OUR TIME AND MONEY

This guy is high on something, credit you for freest election you annulled?

With due respect, this Baba has made no sense. It was the freest election, we agree. Nice one! But why was it annulled? You handed over the country to an interim government while we had a president elect, does that make any sense to a sane mind?

The freest election was actually conducted by no other than GoodLuck Jonathan , an election so free that Buhari was allowed to contest without tendering his WAEC CERT and Jonathan the incumbent losing and congratulating the winner before counting was even over .!!! Now beat that

IBB should be annuled from making statements concerning Nigeria and Nigerians.

Maradona aka evil genius. The master planner of Nigerian misfortunes to the present day.

You tried.

Evil genius!

Str

ITT got served

Stupid old man.

baba ibb which network re u using?.since u need credit...

This man's misdeeds of yesteryears are still affecting us negatively till this day

Instead of telling us why he annulled the election he's just going round and round.

Oga IBB, abeg tell me why you annulled 'the freest election' in Nigeria.

Person wey dem suppose execute with all those stolen money
A crook personified
Still dey yarn rubbish



Oya take
#goandbuysense

An election you cancelled for selfish reasons?

You deserve ZERO credit!

Lol.
Yoruba people Don suffer.
Talk about beating up a paralyzed man then go ahead to rub salt to his injuries.