{"id":62445,"date":"2025-03-09T23:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62445"},"modified":"2025-03-09T23:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:20:41","slug":"abachas-family-rejects-babangidas-claim-on-june-12-annulment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/09\/abachas-family-rejects-babangidas-claim-on-june-12-annulment\/","title":{"rendered":"Abacha\u2019s Family Rejects Babangida\u2019s Claim on June 12 Annulment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The family of late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, has dismissed claims by former military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida, that Abacha was behind the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, Mohammed Abacha, son of the late leader, accused Babangida of rewriting history to shift blame.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that as Head of State, Babangida held absolute power and was solely responsible for the controversial decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Abacha family urged Nigerians to reject \u201crevisionist narratives\u201d and assess Abacha\u2019s legacy with fairness and objectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The family of late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, has dismissed claims by former military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida, that Abacha was behind the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, Mohammed Abacha, son of the late leader, accused Babangida of rewriting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62447,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62445\/revisions\/62447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}