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Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), former military ruler,
issued the proclamation that officially nullified the election adjudged to be one of the most credible poll Nigeria has ever had.
Abiola, the Social Democratic Party candidate, was leading Bashir Tofa, his National Republican Convention rival, by a wide margin but the exercise was stopped ahead of the final announcement of results.
The annulment of the election threw the country into chaos as protesters hit the streets, calling on Babangida to step down.
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Abiola was later arrested by the regime of Abacha and he died in detention.
Speaking on Sunday after his investiture as a trustee of the Abeokuta Club, a sociocultural organisation of Egba people of Ogun state, Obasanjo lamented the annulment, saying it was done out of “bad belle,” a pidgin word for jealousy.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday explained that a former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election presumably won by the late philanthropist, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola due to “bad belle.”
Obasanjo said the annulment denied the Egbaland and Ogun State the rare privilege of having three of its prominent sons occupying the number one seat at different times.
The elder statesman, who was referring to former Head of Interim National Government (ING), Chief Ernest Shonekan, himself, who was first a military Head of States and elected President, apparently noted that Abiola would have become the third if the 1993 poll was not annulled.
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