{"id":727008,"date":"2019-10-19T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/19\/june-12-annulment-will-forever-haunt-my-father-says-ibbs-son\/"},"modified":"2019-10-19T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T15:47:02","slug":"june-12-annulment-will-forever-haunt-my-father-says-ibbs-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/19\/june-12-annulment-will-forever-haunt-my-father-says-ibbs-son\/","title":{"rendered":"June 12 Annulment Will Forever Haunt My Father, Says IBB&#8217;s Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_699131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-699131\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-699131\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/5d58f3c5109f0.jpg\" alt=\"Ibrahim Babangida\" width=\"750\" height=\"449\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-699131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Nigerian President, Ibrahim Babangida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mohammed Babangida, son of former military president, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida(IBB) has said that his father told him that the annulment of the June 12, 1993, election will haunt him for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed, IBB\u2019s eldest son made this known in an interview with The SUN.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cWe were at the (Aso Rock Presidential) Villa at the time. We were in the living room when he had done the recording. He came and he said, \u2018I just annulled June 12.\u2019 We both looked at each other and we looked at him, and said: why would you do that?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he said \u2018you are too young to understand the intrigues of governance.\u2019 And we said, but it is about you and your administration. And he said, \u2018well, perhaps, this is something that will haunt me for the rest of my life.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you could see that his hands were tied. He was limited. He couldn\u2019t do what he would have wished to do. And this is probably a story most Nigerians don\u2019t know\u2026 we all understood that it would be one of the biggest things that would remain as something that would haunt us for the rest of our lives. We understand that. But I am sure deep down, my dad would have passed on the mantle of leadership to his friend. There is no doubt about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0IBB Dedicated His Life To Stabilise And Unite Nigeria \u2014 PDP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, mistakes have happened, (what matters) is how you rise above those mistakes. We have learnt as a country. There have been tremendous benefits for some group of people who benefitted from that mistake, who are in the helm of affairs currently today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it was from that, that you saw the south-west become so strong and is now developed to a point whereby their leader was able to create a bloc for the region where most of his prot\u00e9g\u00e9s were in leadership positions at that time. And these were people who benefitted from the annulment of June 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, there was always the positive side of that annulment which gave rise to what we are saying today. In as much as it was a painful experience, the nation has, I think, grown out of that by now; and we have mended fences from that hurt. The president now has been able to recognize the family, he has been able to cool the tempers, and we hope from that, we should just be able to move on. That is just my position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are a few. But the one that scared me, and that I would remember most was the attempted coup of 1990; the Major Gideon Orkar coup. I was away and the family was in Lagos. I was out of the country at that time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you can imagine not being there when all this was going. You are able to have information. You are not able to make contact with your parents; your family. And you are just in a foreign land; totally on your own. Many thoughts were just racing through my mind at that time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the fact that I was not able to make contact with them for at least 24 hours created a lot of panic and anxiety in me. That remains, perhaps, the most serious moment of my life. Those were the longest 24 hours of my life. They were the most anxious. That remains one of the scariest moments in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian President, Ibrahim Babangida Mohammed Babangida, son of former military president, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida(IBB) has said that his father told him that the annulment of the June 12, 1993, election will haunt him for the rest of his life. Mohammed, IBB\u2019s eldest son made this known in an interview with The SUN. 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