THE results of the June 12, 1993, presidential election have been made public nearly 32 years after the poll.
The election, which was contested between MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention (NRC) was annulled by Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB), the head of state at the time.
In his autobiography titled ‘A Journey in Service’ launched in Abuja on Thursday, IBB affirmed that Abiola won the poll, which has been adjudged to be the most free and fairest election in Nigeria’s history, despite his initial denial.
The former military dictator published the result of the election in each of the 30 states of the federation at the time in the appendix of the book.
“Although I am on record to have stated after the elections that Abiola may not have won the elections, upon deeper reflection and a closer examination of all the available facts, particularly the detailed election results, which are published as an appendix to this volume, there was no doubt that MKO Abiola won the June 12 elections,” IBB affirmed.
“Upon closer examination of the original collated figures from the 110,000 polling booths nationwide, it was clear that he satisfied the two main constitutional requirements for winning the Presidential elections, mainly majority votes and geographical spread, having obtained 8,128,720 votes against Tofa’s 5,848,247 votes and securing the mandatory one-third of the votes cast in 28 states of the federation, including Abuja.”
Here are the results of the election as published in the book:
