Tag: Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida

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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‘Blame Abacha,’ How He Annulled June 12 Election When I Travelled – IBB

Ganiyu Amodu

Nigeria’s former Military President, retired General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has revealed that the late General Sani Abacha forces annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election when he travelled. General Babangida made this known in his autobiography: “A Journey in Service,” which was launched in Abuja on Thursday. At the launch, which had a former Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, as the Book Reviewer, Babangida said Abacha-led forces annulled the June 12, 1993 presidential election, won by the late Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, without his mandate. ‘Contained, No Casualties’ NNPC…

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