Tag: Babafemi Ojudu

IBB Brazenly Seeking To Rewrite History In His Feeble Days, By ADESOLA AYO-ADERELE

ADESOLA AYO-ADERELE

They don’t call Nigeria a football nation for nothing. If anything, our running round in circles makes the appellation apt, even if that wasn’t the real reason for the nomenclature. After all, IBB was called Maradona at some point. I watched with ho.rror as Nigerian politicians jostled over themselves to launch ‘A journey In Service,’ written by one of Nigeria’s most controversial rulers, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida [IBB], who held the nation spellbound from 1985 to 1993. I came into journalism in 1988 at the peak of IBB’s dictatorship and my…

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How We Convinced Tinubu To Reject Yar’Adua’s Ministerial Offer – Ex-presidential Aide

Ganiyu Amodu

Babafemi Ojudu, former Special Adviser on Political Matters to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed how he and other allies convinced President Bola Tinubu to reject an offer to serve as Minister of Finance under the late President Umaru Yar’Adua. Ojudu disclosed this during an appearance on State Affairs, a podcast hosted by Edmund Obilo, on Monday. He noted that accepting the role would have posed significant political risks for Tinubu, who was then the leader of the Action Congress. “Tinubu called me one day and said, ‘Congratulations to me.’ I…

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How Tinubu met Sunday Igboho + His Lies, Betrayals, by Babafemi Ojudu

Babafemi Ojudu

  In this article originally entitled; “The Sunday Igboho I Knew,” President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide, Babafemi Ojudu, reveals details of a meeting between the National Leader of Nigeria’s ruling party, Bola Tinubu, and political war lord, Sunday Igboho. He uneaths Igboho’s betrayal of trust reposed in him by allies and his many lies.   It was in 2009. The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin ordered a rerun in a number of polling units in the election between Segun Oni of PDP and Dr Kayode Fayemi of ACN. Oni had in…

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