Nigeria, Feb. 9 -- The events leading up to and succeeding the elections of 12 June, 1993, were remarkable in several respects in Nigeria's political (and if all their consequences are included, economic) annals. The near farcical nature of the election's annulment. The latitude that key players looked to in order that they could plausibly deny their respective roles in certain events. The cozenage that characterised the accounts of witnesses to the same events. The seeming, and in this sense, unprecedented willingness of civil society to undergo hardships in pursuit of higher ideals. Even now much sentimental guff still surrounds descriptions of these events from certain cohorts of our society. All of which leads to one question "Was Jun...