THE leadership of the Southern Forum has given some conditions which former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, must fulfil to get the support of the West in the 2011 elections. The forum asked the dictator to produce in real life, the late Chief MKO Abiola and the late Mr. Dele Giwa whenever he was coming to the South West to launch his presidential campaign.
In an apparent fallout from the kickback-induced press coverage given to the dicator, Ibrahim Babangida, recently, some of the journalists involved have started recounting, rationalizing and attacking. One ridiculous attempt by Eze Anaba of Vanguard Newspapers is filled with many holes as he tried to explain each of media executives did not receive N10 million - while still failing to confess how much money he had collected from Babangida.
Eze Anaba - Vanguard, August 21, 2010 - I want to make this clear. This piece is not a defence neither is it an apology. At the end of the day it might turn out to be a clarification. Of course I am talking about the now famous trip to Minna by some media executives to chat with former Military President General Ibrahim Babangida. The trip has been made famous following allegations that the General gave the ‘malleable’ editors 10million Naira to support his presidential bid.
 The cream of the Nigerian press travelled to Minna to collect the dicator's bribe and feed the nation with his denial of established truth. Top journalists even presented Babangida with a birthday card, in total disregard for the canon of their profession. It was not a surprise, therefore, that the journalists allowed the former dictator, Ibrahim Babangida, to issue another of his boring denials at the restricted media parley, where they allegedly collected N10 million in “transportation money.”
HE has survived the murky waters of Nigeria’s power game, including bloody military coups and counter-putsches since the 1970s. And as the waters get murkier towards the 2011 presidential polls in which he plans to participate, he may have unwittingly let us in on his staying power in mines field of Nigerian power play. The African steeped in the wise sayings of his or her forebears would readily recall one in this instance, to wit: “The yam mould of yesteryears scalds still the dipper’s hands”
with Reports by Nigerian Tribune
It was like a birthday without the celebrant in Ibadan, where Evil Genius, Ibrahim Babangida, failed to appear at the event organized to kick off his second attempt at returning to power. Hungry, discredited, paid politicians and other mercenaries were deservingly disappointed at the non-appearance of Babangida in deflation of the media hype that had been unleashed for two weeks. The politicians, who were gaily dressed, waited to receive him at the Ibadan end of the defunct Lagos-Ibadan expressway toll gate, while many cars and over 60 buses were also there waiting. But Babangida could not come to his dance because of ‘security risk alert’ posed by college students who threatened to stone the dictator.
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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.
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.
 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.
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.
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Those who thought the outrage over the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election had been doused may be far from the reality, as Nigerians were admonished to vehemently resist Ibrahim Babangida, the dictator responsible for the scuttling of the polls described as the freest and fairest in the history of the country.
Let's face it - we have all always suspected Ibrahim Babangida of being a drug dealer. The story of Gloria Okon, Dele Giwa's death, the burning of the Ministry of Defence and other stories are all allegedly tied to an official drug ring during IBB's regime. We researched the rumors, and this is what we found.
Nigeria's military dictatorship, led by General Ibrahim Babangida, annulled the Jun 12 presidential election and canceled plans to return the nation to civilian rule. 
Most Nigerian leaders have been corrupt, but Ibrahim Babangida added new, historic elements to corruption. One prime example is what he did with the defunct BCCI Bank. BCCI's activities in Nigeria were so profoundly, overwhelmingly corrupt as to suggest a very significant level of corruption in Nigerian officialdom generally. 
