Nigerians no longer take him seriously because he
annulled the June 12, 1993 Presidential election
adjudged as the most credible election in the history
of Nigeria .
Babangida said this during a programme on Channels
Television titled , ' Roadmap 2019 ' on Monday.
When asked to explain further if it was true that
people dismissed his words because of the
annulment of June 12 election , he said , " That is
right. They say, ' he cancelled the freest election in
the history but he annulled it ' but nobody gives me
credit for conducting the freest election in the
country ."
The former maximum ruler said he was hopeful that
the younger generation would understand why he
annulled the election .
He added, " We try to rationalise why we did what we
did but nobody is prepared to listen to us. So , it is a
matter of time . One day , the younger generation will
say they have heard one side and want to hear the
other side of the story .
" Maybe by then we will have a better society that is
prepared ; that is well -informed of what happened
within a period of their existence . They will then be
able to say this is the true story ."
When asked if he would publish his biography soon
to tell his story , Babangida said nobody would read
it because of his past .
Babangida said no one had ever reflected the fact
that he and the acclaimed winner of the election ,
MKO Abiola, were friends before and after the
annulment .
When asked if he would publish his biography, he
said , " I don' t know . People may not read it because
it is coming from a dictator . A lot will say ' he is the
one who cancelled June 12 and that will kill
everything that I have to talk about .
" I hope that one day God will spare my life so that I
can discuss it because I still believe people don' t get
what we were trying to do . Nobody has ever sat
down to say the two personalities are friends , what
went wrong.
" I
have
never seen anybody write about this to try to give
people another version of things . I knew his feelings
and he knew my own. We even talked about it
during the crisis itself."
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