CORONA VIRUS KILLS JUDGE WHO ANNULLED JUNE12 ELECTION

                                                                      

Dahiru Saleh, the judge who pronounced the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, is dead.
Saleh had since been  buried in his hometown of Azare,  Bauchi, on Thursday evening.

Until his death, he held the title of “Mutawalle” of Katagum emirate in Bauchi. He was the chief judge of the federal capital territory (FCT) high court.

MKO Abiola, the Social Democratic Party candidate, was leading Bashir Tofa, his National Republican Convention rival, by a wide margin but the exercise was cancelled ahead of the final announcement of results.

This threw the country into months of chaos as protesters hit the streets, calling on Ibrahim Babangida, then the military president, to step down.
Babaginda had eventually stepped aside, while Ernest Shonekan took over as interim president but Sani Abacha, the late military dictator, overthrew Shonekan less than three months later.

Abiola was later arrested by the regime of Abacha and he died in detention.