Only days after Godwin Daboh advised Ibrahim Babangida to roll his mat up to avoid political disgrace, Babangida showed him who was the better con man, as he set Daboh up to publicly apoligize before TV cameras in Abuja. In a classic case of betrayal, Babangida got Daboh's friends to fool him into a face-to-face encounter that Daboh did not expect. The former dictator and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, General Babangida, got Godwin Daboh, who is currently at the vanguard of one the Goodluck Jonathan for President groups, to plead for forgiveness and assure Babangida that he would drop his opposition to the latter‘s ambition. But Daboh told Daily Sun later in an exclusive interview in Abuja that he was tricked into the meeting through former governor of Niger State, Abdulkadir Kure, where television cameras were beamed on him to portray him as a double dealer. He also denied begging IBB.
Maverick politician, Mr. Godwin Daboh, has called on military kingpin, Ibrahim Babangida, to withdraw from contesting for the Peoples Democratic Party presidential ticket “so as to avoid being disgraced at the party’s presidential primary.”
Daboh, who is Deputy Chairman of a group called Move Nigeria Project, spoke to newsmen in Abuja where he said his group had gone round the country and that the response gathered was not favourably to Babangida contesting the 2011 presidential election.
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Sections of the former military president, Ibrahim Babangida’s campaign organisation collapsed at the weekend as state coordinators of his campaign in the 2007 general election dumped him for President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team.
Nigeria's former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, has said that if he contests election and wins, nobody can annul it. Mr. Babangida, who was responding to questions from journalists shortly after he paid a courtesy call to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, implied that he was able to annul the 1993 election because at that time, he operated as a military ruler. That sword he murdered with, according to IBB, can not be used to kill him. Mr. Babangida had in 1993 annulled the election of the late Moshood Abiola, who was believed to have won the election.
Evil Genius, General Ibrahim Babangida, has come out heavily on the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, over his stance on zoning in the party. In a statement signed by Babangida, the former military dictator said it was not proper for Nwodo to criticise zoning because Nwodo himself “is a direct product of zoning.”
Text of the statement reads: “I am pleased to read the position of the PDP Chairman, Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo, and the newly selected Party Chairman who was first among equals when he was zoned-in from a group of other persons from the South-East Zone. “He is a direct product of zoning after waiving some encumbrances that would have mitigated his emergence as the new Chairman of our great Party."
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Known faces within the biological and political family of the deceased Lamidi Adedibu, acclaimed ‘strongman of Ibadan politics’, dominated the crowd that flagged off the campaign for the presidential ambition of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB), a former military ruler of Nigeria. Held at the KS Motel, Ibadan, Saturday evening, the event was to formally inaugurate the state and local government executive committees for the IBB Presidential Campaign Organisation.
Daughter of M.K.O. Abiola, Mrs. Hafsat Abiola-Costello, has described Nigeria’s former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, as a case study of policy and administrative inconsistencies. Hafsat recalled that IBB’s eight years of administration between 1985 and 1993 was marred by betrayal of public interest.
Hafsat, whose mother, Kudirat Abiola, was murdered by the military, later founded the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND). Speaking during a training programme organised by KIND to sensitise women in politics ahead of the 2011 elections, she observed that IBB messed up an eight-year opportunity he had to make a difference in people’s lives and to contribute in promoting the quest for democracy in Nigeria.
After years of prevarication by several governments, the chicken might be coming home to roost for Ibrahim Babangida. NEXT gathered in Abuja, the seat of power, last night, that the Federal Government has raised a committee to probe the eight-year military government of Mr. Babangida. The former military president is alleged to have mismanaged over $12.4 billion that accrued from crude oil sales during the Gulf War.
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), told our correspondent in a telephone conversation that the committee is chaired by the Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Abdulahi Yola.
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