June 9, 2026
By Soni Daniel, Editor, Northern Region
ABUJA — The annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election won by businessman Moshood Abiola was unjustified and remains a painful episode in Nigeria’s political history, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), George Akume, has said.
Akume stated this at a world press conference in Abuja on Tuesday to mark Democracy Day, insisting there was no basis for cancelling what is widely regarded as Nigeria’s freest and fairest election.
He argued that the annulment disrupted Nigeria’s political development and complicated the process of power rotation between the North and South.
