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GENERAL IBRAHIM BABANGIDA'S STANCE ON ANNULMENT OF THE JUNE 12, 1993 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS⠀
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''They will kill me; they will kill the President-Elect, Chief MKO Abiola, if I went ahead with the election and announced the winner of the elections, which we all know to be...
...Bashorun, Chief MKO Abiola. I know so; I am not daft. He won; he tried. I feel bad about the whole matter.⠀
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''Professor, I do not see how they will spare you because they know you are my principal confidant. You think they do not know you? They know; they know you are...
...with me now. They saw you coming in and they know you are with me now. I CANNOT KILL MYSELF for the sake of what the country wants. I am sorry,'' he lamented.⠀
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''Sani (Abacha) is opposed to a return to civilian rule. Sani could not stand the idea of Chief Abiola...
...a Yoruba, becoming his Commander-in-Chief; Sani seems to have the ears of the Northern leaders that no Southerner, especially from the South-West, should become the President of the country. Sani seems to rally the Northern elders to confront me on the matter.
He is winning; the Sultan and the Northern leaders are of this frame of mind.⠀
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''Where do I go from here? They did not trust me. Without Sani, I will not be alive today; without the North, I would not have become an officer in the Nigerian Army, and now the President...
...of Nigeria. I did not want to appear ungrateful to Sani; he may not be bright upstairs but he knows how to overthrow governments and overpower coup plotters.⠀
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''Sani risked his life to get me into office in 1983 and 1985; if he says he does not want Chief Abiola...
...I will not force Chief Abiola on him.''⠀
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He also named Lieutenant-General Joshua Dongoyaro and Brigadier-General David Mark as those who were against Chief Abiola.⠀
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In fact, he quoted David Mark as saying:
''I'd shoot Chief Abiola the day NEC (National Electoral Commission) pronounces him the elected President!'' #HistoryVille⠀
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Credits: ''The Tale of June 12: The Betrayal of the Democratic Rights of Nigerians (1993)'', Omorhionwan Omoruyi, Press Alliance Network Limited, 1999.
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