The government has promised to revisit the care-free wastage and theft of public funds by former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida. Attorney General , Mohammed Bello Adoke, acknowledges receiving a requested signed copy of the Pius Okigbo Report, which is known to have implicated Babangida.
The Okigbo document had been hidden by successive administrations, but with a petition from the human rights coalition, Social-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, requesting the Ministry of Justice to prosecute the Evil Genius, the road may have been cleared for the most important trial of this generation.
The group of Nigerian youths, True Face of Lagos, has warned the Evil Genius, General Ibrahim Babangida, to avoid Lagos at all costs in his presidential campaign, except he wants trouble. The group berated Babangida for nursing the ambition to become Nigeria’s democratically elected president in 2011 after annuling the fairest and freest election ever held in the history of the country and causing the death of the acclaimed winner of the election, Basorun M.K.O. Abiola.
Residents of Abeokuta, the capital city of Ogun State, woke up to posters promoting the presidential ambitions of Ibrahim Babangida, on the morning of Thursday May 6, 2010. Angry, they began to remove the posters, whose sponsors are still hiding. “If those behind and responsible for the pasting of the posters are sure of what they were doing, why should they be hiding under the cover of midnight and odd hours to carry out the assignment? It is conscience that is worrying them,” said a man who gave him name as Baba Sule.
Methodist Bishops in Nigeria have faulted the bid of former military dicator, General Ibrahim Babangida, to contest the presidential election in 2011, describing Babangida's attempt at having another shot at the nation’s presidency as an insult to Nigerians. In a communique issued at the end of their meeting in Kaduna, signged by the Prelate of the Church in Nigeria, Dr. Sunday Makinde, and the Conference Secretary, Rt. Rev. Raphael Opoko, the Church concluded that Babangida’s action was an insult to Nigerians.
 We now have details of how the Evil Genius, General Ibrahim Babangida, crash-landed in his flight to use the “One Man One Vote” rally in Benin to bolster his 2011 presidential aspiration. Babangida was shocked by deep-seated anger against him and promptly aborted his planned campaign stops by lying that he had pains in his leg. Sunday Tribune reports that the plot by his supporters failed because of hostile reception by the civil society in the inside rooms of the Governor's house and on the floor of the event.
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The Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, has urged Nigerians not to support the presidential ambition of the former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. Okonkwo's call follows the path laid by Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Save Nigeria Group.
He advised IBB to forget the ambition. According to him, IBB ruled the nation for about eight years and played some unsavoury roles, especially in the annulment of June 12, 1993 election won by the late Chief MKO Abiola.
The hope of Ibrahim Babangida, former Nigerian military ruler, or any other military general, to get the support of former president Olusegun Obasanjo for the 2011 presidential elections was dashed in far away United States of America last Thursday, April 29th in Washington DC.
The salvo was fired by Mr. Obasanjo himself at the ‘Dialogue on Nigeria' forum hosted by the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation' where he declared that it is now time for the younger generation to take charge of the leadership of the country."The generation before mine fought for and got independence for Nigeria. My own generation fought for unity and stability to keep Nigeria one. It is now left for generation after ours to move the country forward.
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Sleeky former labor leader and Governor of Edo State almost completely deceived progressives and politicians, including Professor Wole Soyinka, who made a quick U-turn at the Benin Airport on learning that the seminar Adams Oshiomhole invited them to attend was, in fact, staged to aid the presidential bid of Master manipulator, General Ibrahim Babangida. Deeply disappointed invitees fled, but were shocked by Oshiomhole's deception.
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.
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