Nigeria, Feb. 20 -- Nigeria's former military president, Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), says he regrets the annulment of the 12 June 12 1993 presidential election, 25 years after the event.

Mr Babangida stated this in his speech at the launch of his autobiography - "A Journey in Service", in Abuja on Thursday.

The retired army general took responsibility for cancelling the exercise in which the late Moshood Abiola of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) defeated the late Bashir Tofa of the National Republican Convention (NRC).

Mr Babangida's junta announced the annulment of the poll days after stopping the electoral commission's final collation of the results.

The annulment threw Nigeria into a political impasse, forcing Mr Babangida to hand o...