Nigeria, Feb. 21 -- It is often said that time heals wounds, but history has shown us that time also demands accountability. After decades of evasion, former military president General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has finally nurtured his wounded conscience with the truth regarding the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election.

Just as Uthman Dan Fodio once recommended that "conscience is an open wound, only truth can heal it," the former military president has finally tended to his wounded conscience by admitting the truth about the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election in his book. For decades, the ghost of that historic injustice has haunted Nigeria's democratic journey, but by coming clean, IBB has, at...