A former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abbubakar (rtd), has revealed that he heard the announcement of the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election, like every other Nigerian, insisting that, though he was a high-ranking military officer at the time, the then military President, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), did not discuss the annulment with him.
Abdulsalami also disclosed that the hours surrounding the death of General Sani Abacha on June 8, 1998, left him with a lingering sense that “something was fishy,” adding that he and the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ishaya Bamaiyi, were mysteriously locked inside a waiting room at the Presidential Villa for nearly an hour before being informed that the Head of State had died.
This is just as President Bola Tinubu; President of Sierra Leone and Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Julius Maada Bio; former Military Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd); and former Presidents, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo; Dr Goodluck Jonathan, and former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on Saturday  poured encomiums on the former Head of State for his role in returning Nigeria to democracy.