{"id":22275,"date":"2025-02-20T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22275"},"modified":"2025-02-20T19:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:58:49","slug":"how-abacha-annulled-the-june-12-presidential-election-babangida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=22275","title":{"rendered":"How Abacha Annulled the June 12 Presidential Election \u2013 Babangida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Nigeria\u2019s former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retired), has disclosed that the late General Sani Abacha-led forces annulled the June 12, 1993, presidential election while he was away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Babangida made this revelation in his autobiography, <\/span><span class=\"s3\">A Journey in Service<\/span><span class=\"s2\">, launched on Thursday in Abuja. The event featured former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, as the book reviewer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">According to Babangida, the annulment of the election\u2014won by the late Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola\u2014was carried out without his authorization. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He recounted that while he was in Katsina, the Press Secretary to his then deputy, Retired Admiral Ebitu Ukiwe, issued a statement declaring the election void, unbeknownst to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">He later learned that Abacha, who was the Chief of Defence Staff at the time, was the mastermind behind the move to overturn the election results.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retired), has disclosed that the late General Sani Abacha-led forces annulled the June 12, 1993, presidential election while he was away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10156,312,10148,10155],"class_list":["post-22275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-annulled","tag-babangida","tag-june-12-presidential-election","tag-sani-abacha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22277,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions\/22277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}