Former military president Gen.
Ibrahim BadamasiBabagida,
yesterday clearedthe air on his
supported for the emergence of All
Progressive Congress (APC). He said,
“If there is one party state, because the smaller parties don’t have the
strength, then there will be a lot of
impunity, a lot of lawlessness.” Asked whether he would run for the
presidency in 2015, hereplied: “No, no,
no; I am out of 2015.” Gen. Babangida, who spoke on
Kaduna-based radio programme
Liberty Radio monitored by our
correspondent, said two-party
system was good for Nigeria. “I am a firm believer of two-party
system and I also studied the
emergence of political parties in this
country immediately after
independence and it showed that this
country will be heading for a two- party system.You heard about the
national alliance, parties coming from
the north aligning with those from
the south, NEPU aligning with NCNC and
so it started again during
ShehuShagari time. “So when we came into office, the
two-party system was
favouredbecause democratically you
have a choice and can vote without
belonging to a political party. “You vote for the quality of the man
you want to represent you, so it is
not anything new because I believe in
two parties and I see signs of the
possible emergence of a two-party
system, I welcome it, it is good for the polity, it is good also for the unity of
this country. “When we were doing it in 1989 some
of you write us in the media that no it
is going to be one Christian party, one
Muslim party, it did not work then you
said it was going to be one northern
and one southern party and it did not work and everybody blended. The chairman of NRC was Chief Tom
Ikimi, the chairman of SDP was
Dr.BabaganaKingibe and everybody
was in one or the other, you just have
to have an accommodation. I am a
founding father of the PDP and I cannot disown what I founded,” he
said. On Obasanjo’s election in
1999,Babangida said itwas due to
what happened in the country.“The
country was in a serious crisis and we
have to find the solution to the
problem and therefore we needed a leader who is known in the
country.We did not believe in foisting
somebody who is not known on
Nigerians, so we looked for a man
who has been involved in the affairs
of this country, who held position either in the military or in the cabinet
and believedin Nigeria. “He (Obasanjo) quickly came to mind.
Remember those days the fight was
against the north’s perpetuation in
power. But here, we have someone
who knows the north, knows the
south and who fought a war, who says what he means.Obasanjo’s
emergence saved Nigeria. At least, we
did not disintegrate because we
believe he can go to war again, to
keep this country,” Babagida stated. On 2015, Babangida said: “I will belong
to those who will chose a credible
candidate that can lead this country
and it is not difficult to find out of
170 million people, there must be a
candidate that is what the constitution provides, if the party is
silly and chooses the wrong
candidate, the ordinary person is not
silly. He knows this man cannot lead
me so he doesn’t vote for him. So if he
chose a wrong candidate you stand the chance of losing the election.” Speaking on Gen.DimkatBallialleged
claim that he would have become the
head of state, IBB said, “He could have,
but there was an understanding that
we follow seniority in the service, we
did not want to truncate the seniority order. That is why we still
maintain that in 1975. DomkatBalli no
doubt was our senior.” On the recent arrest of Iranian who
claim they were on mission kill him and
former Sultan of Sokoto,Alhaji
Ibrahim Dasuki, Babangida said that “I
do not think that the Iranian have
any reason to kill me.”
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count you out? before nko?

Is it out of this life? Ur opinion doesn't matter to Nigerians anymore.