Kingibe, Obasanjo and villains of June 12
been a week of celebrating a moment in time when a nation known mostly for the negative, showed that it is possible for it to rise above its primordial divisions.
Over the last 26 years since that dark day when the result of the presidential election was annulled, Ibrahim Babangida who as military president signed off on the infamous action, has borne the bulk of the opprobrium. So traumatised was one key player in the saga – Professor Humphrey Nwosu then chairman of the defunct National Electoral Commission – who superintended what has now come to be accepted as one of the freest and fairest of elections in Nigerian history, that for over two decades he has been on a virtual vow of silence.Not a word from him giving us an inkling of what played out in those tense hours and days.
But the most intriguing of the attacks has come from Abiola’s erstwhile running mate Babagana Kingibe, who declared that the former president had foreknowledge of the annulment and did his level best to frustrate all talk about revalidation. They never believed that actualisation of the mandate was possible, neither did they expect that the fight for it would trigger the political fallout that eventually led to power shift to the South.
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