June 12: Why People May Not Read My Biography – IBB

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Former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida has said that Nigerians may not want to read his biography because he cancelled the June 12, 1993 election, adjudged the freest in the nation’s history.

He equally said that Nigerians accuse him of cancelling the “freest election” but do not give him credit for organising the “freest election” in the first place.

IBB disclosed that Nigerians fail to take cognisance of the fact that him and Chief MKO Abiola, the presumed winner of the election, were always friends and remained friends even after the crisis.

However, he expressed hope that the younger generation will one day desire to hear his own side of the story.

Speaking on a Channels Television programme on Monday, IBB said, “We try to rationalise why we did what we did (cancellation) 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 .”

On whether he will write a biography, the former dictator 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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