IBB admits Abiola won June 12, 1993 presidential election
M.K.O. Abiola
Abdullateef Fowewe
Nigeria’s former Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida alias IBB has officially confirmed that late Moshood Kashimawo Olawale widely called MKO Abiola won the June 12, 1993 presidential election.
This disclosure was made in Babangida’s newly launched autobiography, ‘A Journey in Service’, during a book unveiling event in Abuja on Thursday.
In a statement conveyed by the book’s reviewer, former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Babangida acknowledged that MKO Abiola, who ran under the Social Democratic Party (SDP), had garnered both the highest number of votes and the necessary geographical spread to secure the presidency.
Osinbajo said, “He (IBB) also answers the question whether Abiola actually won the June 12 election, and I quote him, ‘although I am on record to have stated after the election that Abiola may not have won the election, upon deeper reflection and a closer examination of all available facts, particularly the detailed election results, which are published as an appendix to this book, there was no doubt that MKO Abiola won the June 12 elections’.”
