ThisDay Newspaper June 29, 2010


2011: Babangida to Set up Offices in 32 States
•Pro-Jonathan group chides ex-president over zoning
From Emmanuel Bello and Chuks Okocha in Abuja, 06.29.2010

Former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, will officially launch campaign offices in 32 states of the federation next month.
THISDAY gathered that Babangida and his associates are going to embark on a nationwide commissioning of the offices.
Babangida has also appointed states coordinators who in turn have been charged to get offices in the local government areas of their domains.

When contacted, his Spokesman, Prince Kassim Afegbua, neither denied nor confirmed the report, saying there was nothing outlandish about opening campaign offices.
He said: “There is nothing wrong if General Babangida decides to open offices nationwide. That is a confirmation of his readiness to go the whole hog in his quest for the presidency in 2011. Why do you people like reading meanings to every step taken by our boss, General IBB? As far as we are concerned, there is no going back on his aspiration. Those who are wishing him to drop his aspiration or others who think he will pull out later are in for a shocker.”

There are talks in some political circles that at the appropriate time, the contenders may have to dissolve their aspiration and allow a consensus candidate to run, but Afegbua is ruling out the possibility of Babangida stepping down for anyone.
THISDAY gathered Babangida’s campaign offices may have been provided by top states officials sympathetic to his cause.
Some of the addresses provided include IBB Road , opposite Stella Obasanjo Library, GRA, Benin in Edo State while in Niger State; the office is along Bosso Road.

In Imo state, the office is situated on No. 30, Nbari Street Owerri, though THISDAY has not independently verified the addresses.
Since he showed interest in the 2011 presidency, Babangida has remained the focus of many commentaries, with critics stressing that the military leader has no business running for office.
Meanwhile, a pro-Goodluck Jonathan Support Group has called on him to emphasis less on zoning in the forthcoming presidential election, as what is needed at the moment in Nigeria is not a zonal president, but a president with national appeal.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the Goodluck Support Group, Alhaji Samaila Sambawa, said what is needed is a President elected by all Nigerians on merit and who is competent to free the nation from teething problems of development.

“The North for instance has got the opportunity of giving Nigeria most of her leaders yet the vast majority of our people live in abject poverty. What Nigerians need therefore is a President whose capacity to deliver is his greatest asset,” he said.
The group said that emphasis on zoning is not only a superficial solution to achieving a fair, stable, balanced and acceptable formula for election, but a process consigns the democratic mechanism of the presidential contest into an unnecessary ethnic and religious orchestra.

The spokesman of the group, a former minister of sports in the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, said: “What the nation needs is the proper restructuring of the nation and the entire electoral system using the extant democratic framework to ensure equal opportunity for every citizen irrespective of tribe or religion to contest and be elected the President on the platform of merit and unrestricted electoral contest.”

He said the group's position is predicated on "historical fact that the founding fathers of Nigeria did not envision zoning in their agenda for a great nation. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Ahmadu Bello and Obafemi Awolowo did not campaign to rule Nigeria on the basis of zoning.”

thank God for democracy, and goodluck,if obasanjo was president, he wouldnt even dare, obasanjo would have brought out okigbo report biam, anyway he should setup oh,it would give employment opportunities to the youths vis a vis rent a crowd and other miscellaneous,campaign supplies etc

If he likes let him set up 1000 offices,that one na Better life and employement for rural dwellers and unemployed youths,But the end justify the means, He has already missed his way to Aso Rock by Facing Aba

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ThisDay Newspaper June 29, 2010

2011: Babangida to Set up Offices in 32 States
•Pro-Jonathan group chides ex-president over zoning
From Emmanuel Bello and Chuks Okocha in Abuja, 06.29.2010

THISDAY gathered Babangida’s campaign offices may have been provided by top states officials sympathetic to his cause.
Some of the addresses provided include IBB Road , opposite Stella Obasanjo Library, GRA, Benin in Edo State while in Niger State; the office is along Bosso Road.

IBB Road?? That address is non-existent in Benin.

That's great! Another opportunity for the unemployed.

The youths should erase babangida offices with fire where they find them.

Burn them down.

Abeg make the mufu open office make i apply

The only thing we can do is to continue praying for our dear country. The greed is so much that i'm begining to think there is a curse on leadership seats in the country. They are mostly the same.O GOD SAVE US!!!

For a traitor like babangida to be accepted by the ruling prty in nigeria shows  that nigeria is run by traitors and fugitives.

yomola:

Abeg make the mufu open office make i apply

them go use u slave trade

IBB Road, lol

I have not heard of such street name in Benin

Baro:

IBB Road?? That address is non-existent in Benin.

@Lokoja, Kogi state

Me I don't want to go by saying no to this
reason : this is a big opportunity for all Nigerians who are applying for job
Let him go ahead with his plann
Babangida carry go
This is the time to reduce employment saga in this Country.

But Wait a minute, Does these people take  us"Nigerians" as fools, ?How can u rule a country from 1985 - 1993,8 solid years without check and balances and still want to rule the same country, No no, , its strange 2 understand

Men its official!!! I stand to be corrected,whether it is Jonathan,Pat Utomi ,IBB or Obasango,they are one and the same, so all we need right now is change"paradigm Shift" and not constitution or electoral reforms.So the fuckin.g dude should go and mourn his dead wife before karma bestowe on him again.

The man that know what will make Nigerians hand over the presidency to him has launched . . . . . Let the fun begins

Babaginda is only coming back to reimburse himself with the hard earned money of even unborn nigerians

He is broke.Money to a fool like him is like bubble,over 12 billion dollars of nigeria money has gone wiyth the wind and he wants more,

redsun:

Babaginda is only coming back to reimburse himself with the hard earned money of even unborn nigerians

He is broke.Money to a fool like him is like bubble,over 12 billion dollars of nigeria money has gone wiyth the wind and he wants more,

IBB could not possibly be broke.
I am not sure you know what he could do with 12B Naira

Babangida shame on you, shame to your linage. it is true that you are broke, you ruled nigeria for 8 years and lead us into doom and now your planing to come back and die on the throne just like ur brothers have been doing. you wont succeed this time.

a desperate Thief. No shame

Fhemmmy:

IBB could not possibly be broke.
I am not sure you know what he could do with 12B Naira

Come easy,go easy man.

Babaginda is only coming back to reimburse himself with the hard earned money of even unborn nigerians

He is broke.Money to a fool like him is like bubble,over 12 billion dollars of nigeria money has gone wiyth the wind and he wants more

Redsun, are you serious? I thought you were smarter than what you have just presented.

Mark it down today, IBB will be willing to pay Nigeria for every single month in spends in Aso Rock as our president.
Trust me, money is not the issue and it will never be, as a matter of fact, power isn't the issue either.
IBB just simply feels that he's responsible to bring this country back to the top.

Couldn't this man have thought of other productive thing that could be done in these Offices than
making it a campaign office?
Anyway he should open as many offices as possible but nothing has changed about him(coruption minister).

IBB needs to keep stealing to maintain the kind of lifestyle he has set for himself with our stolen loot.

Maintaining that palace alone that he built with our stolen money will be costing him millions annually and without a viable business acumen that brings back huge returns,money goes fast.

His only reason for coming back is to reinvigorate because nothing is easier than stealing nigerians money by the politician,a gate way to instant massive wealth.

At least he will be creating jobs in 32 states.

Fhemmmy:

IBB could not possibly be broke.
I am not sure you know what he could do with 12B Naira

You mean $12 billion! That is what it was.

This man should respect himself and go and rest

biggy4joe:

But Wait a minute,[size=13pt] Does these people take us"Nigerians" as fools[/size], ?

[size=13pt]Y- E- S [/size] . . yes!

redsun:

Babaginda is only coming back to reimburse himself with the hard earned money of even unborn nigerians

He is broke.Money to a fool like him is like bubble,over 12 billion dollars of nigeria money has gone wiyth the wind and he wants more,

I hate to agree with u but u damn right!!!! Dude is broke!

redsun:

IBB needs to keep stealing to maintain the kind of lifestyle he has set for himself with our stolen loot.

Maintaining that palace alone that he built with our stolen money will be costing him millions annually and without a viable business acumen that brings back huge returns,money goes fast.

His only reason for coming back is to reinvigorate because nothing is easier than stealing nigerians money by the politician,a gate way to instant massive wealth.

Think of this real quick: If that is really Babahginda's house (and he clearly can afford it), then he'll have maybe 50 more scattered all ova the globe, plus full staff all year round for maintenance and beautification (not withstanding that he aint gonna see some of those cribs for like 4 years), Private jets all ova the world (stand-by pilots, air-hostesses,maintenance, hangar costs ect), yachts/boats, luxury cars, businesses, security ect all of these require operational costs! Big money! If 50 cent spends $20,000 every week on security to guard him from "just" hood niggaz, imagine how much the most hated General (who counts among his security staff ex agents of the Mossad and FBI) spends to defend himself from the wrath of Nigeria's well-known blood spilling politicos! Then factor in the global meltdown that turned billionaires into thousandnaires!

    The point of all of this? GEN.BABAHNGIDA IS FUNXCKING BROKE!!! Not broke in the sense that he aint got maybe 1 or 2 billion dollars left. But, broke in the sense that his accountants have told him that "Yo, this dough aint gonna last you the next 3 years considering your expenses. . . . . ". Being the hustler that he is, and seeing Nigeria as his personal "crack-spot", getting back to the seat of power is his chance to "re-up". Let Nigerians deny him his wish and watch him get exposed, sooner rather than later. But then again, Ojukwu already endorsed him, so, who are we kidding!?!?

redsun:

For a traitor like babangida to be accepted by the ruling prty in nigeria shows  that nigeria is run by traitors and fugitives.

Are u calling Ojukwu a traitor and a fugitive becus he remains the only relevant Nigerian to endorse him as next President of ur country!

Think of this real quick: If that is really Babahginda's house (and he clearly can afford it), then he'll have maybe 50 more scattered all ova the globe, plus full staff all year round for maintenance and beautification (not withstanding that he aint gonna see some of those cribs for like 4 years), Private jets all ova the world (stand-by pilots, air-hostesses,maintenance, hangar costs ect), yachts/boats, luxury cars, businesses, security ect all of these require operational costs! Big money! If 50 cent spends $20,000 every week on security to guard him from "just" hood niggaz, imagine how much the most hated General (who counts among his security staff ex agents of the Mossad and FBI) spends to defend himself from the wrath of Nigeria's well-known blood spilling politicos! Then factor in the global meltdown that turned billionaires into thousandnaires!

The point of all of this? GEN.BABAHNGIDA IS FUNXCKING BROKE!!! Not broke in the sense that he aint got maybe 1 or 2 billion dollars left. But, broke in the sense that his accountants have told him that "Yo, this dough aint gonna last you the next 3 years considering your expenses. . . . . ". Being the hustler that he is, and seeing Nigeria as his personal "crack-spot", getting back to the seat of power is his chance to "re-up". Let Nigerians deny him his wish and watch him get exposed, sooner rather than later. But then again, Ojukwu already endorsed him, so, who are we kidding!?!?

good arithmetics, also factor in inflation and other write offs from lost investments to failed projects and ventures etc (like u said the dude has no known successful and running business(es) he's invested in); i too think the guy is broke jooor, and too, he somehow comes across as desperate for the position.

AJIBOLE OLE; AJIBOLE OLE!

he will be disgraceddddddddddddddd