In his now regular Sunday sermon at the Lagos airport, Evil Genius, General Ibrahim Babangida, has made a somewhat cautious admission the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election was his mistake, even as he stubbornly failed to apologize. Apparently realizing that the June 12 election was a clog in the wheel of his presidential rerun, Alhaji Babangida decided to talk about it, as well as the $12.4 billion theft by his regime, which he grossly undervalued by more than 90%.

Babangida now claims, the amount realized and reported stolen is  $1.4 billion, not $12.4billion, and hopes Nigerians would buy his spin.

General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd) and Ogun State governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, have a few things in common. Both men are fiercely ambitious, self-regarding and seek to dominate every space. They both harbour undisguised desires to play a big role in the post-Yar’Adua era.They are also generous with smiles. In the last few years, because both men have discovered their similarities, their friendship has grown in leaps and bounds. In May 2008, Babangida visited Sagamu, Ogun State. His mission was to commiserate with Daniel over the death of his mother. Daniel also used the visit to get Babangida to settle the rift between him and the state House of Assembly members, which had led to the impeachment of the speaker, Titi Oseni and her deputy, Ayo Odugbesan. In Sagamu, Daniel and Babangida traded lavish praise. The wily old fox said Daniel had the qualities to play “a greater role in the future of Nigeria”, adding that he was visiting Sagamu because of the great respect he had for Daniel, whom he described as “an exemplary achiever”. Daniel “retaliated” by describing the man who annulled Nigeria’s freest and verifiably fairest election as “a great man who has been able to keep his friends in and out of power”.

The hangman's noose being wrapped around the fat neck of the Evil Genius, General Ibrrahim Babangida, has been further tightened by  a new petition to the Independent Corrupt Practise Commission (ICPC) to compel the former dictator to declare his assets ahead of the 2011 elections. Osita Mba, a member of the Anti-Corruption Committee and the Public and Professional Interest Division of the International Bar Association, sent his open petition to the ICPC on April 19, 2010, asking for the probe of the former head of state's "unexplained wealth" that threatens Nigeria's democracy.

According to the petitioner, section 44 of The Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Act 2000 of the ICPC Act, which is designed to combat corruption and promote good governance, must now be instigated as, according to the law, Mr. Babangida is required to "justify his wealth or forfeit it to the state".

Students in Oyo State have reacted to the Evil Genius, Ibrahim Babangida, as they plan a state-wide protest on May 29 to show that "Babangida and his contemporaries are not good for the Nigeria of the 21st century." The National Association of Nigerian Students, Oyo State, added that students are moving against Babangida’s plan to rule Nigeria again because it was “immoral and even gravely insulting” to the more than 150 million Nigerians.

Alhaji Abdulkarim Daiyabu, National President, Movement for Justice in Nigeria, MOJIN, in this interview with The News describes Ibrahim Babangida’s presidential ambition as wishful thinking, a mission impossible to actualise going by his unpopular record as a former military head of state.