Nigeria’s ex-military ruler general Ibrahim Babangida has expressed deep regret for the first time for annulling the results of the 1993 presidential election.
The poll was supposed to bring about an end to military rule after 10 years, and the cancellation of the outcome threw the country into turmoil. The date of the vote, 12 June, is now remembered in Nigeria as Democracy Day.
Babangida was forced to resign.
Moshood Abiola, widely believed to have won the election, was later imprisoned and his wife assassinated.
Nigeria’s current president, Bola Tinubu, said Babangida had shown courage by admitting what took place.
- – WRITTEN BY: CHRIS EWOKOR
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