Gumsu, daughter of the late military head of state Sani Abacha, has shared a cryptic post on X, seemingly responding to former military president Ibrahim Babangida’s claims about her father’s role in the annulment of the June 12 presidential election.
In a one-word post on her X handle on Friday, Gumsu wrote:
“Weakling.”
She made the post amid the ongoing conversations on the
book, ‘A Journey in Service,’ the autobiography of Babangida, launched in Abuja
on Thursday.
In the 420-page memoir, Babangida addressed issues about the
annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, which was won by the
late MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
Babangida described the annulment of the election as an
“accident of history” that is “most regrettable”.
The former military president, who oversaw the annulled
election, said he was in Katsina when the cancellation of the election was
announced by the press secretary of his second-in-command without his knowledge
or permission.
Babangida said he later discovered that the forces against
the June 12 election were led by Abacha, his then chief of defence staff, who
later became military head of state.
The former military leader said after several brainstorming
sessions with various groups, he had contacted Abiola and offered him an
interim position.
Babangida hinted that Abiola was hobnobbing with Abacha
while being deceived that the election would be revalidated once he was
overthrown.
In the wake of the protests that trailed the annulment of
the election, Babangida stepped down as president in August 1993 and installed
an interim government, led by Ernest Shonekan, which Abacha would remove from
power in November 1993.
Abacha later clamped Abiola into detention for declaring
himself president.
Some individuals have argued that Babangida painted the late
Abacha as the villain in the annulment of the June 12 election.
Gumsu had also reposted some of the sentiments suggesting
that Babangida knew that Abacha could no longer defend himself.