The Ogun State campaign team which will help actualise the presidential ambition of former military ruler, Ibrahim Babangida said it is determined to ensure the candidate’s victory.

The state coordinator of the campaign, Sunday Bello and its Publicity Secretary, Olumide Akinyemi said at the weekend in Abeokuta that Mr Babangida remains the answer to Nigeria’s problems as the nation attains the golden age of 50.

However, the annulment of June 12, 1993 elections, adjudged the freest and fairest in the country, has continued to haunt Mr Babangida like an albatross hanging over his political aspiration in the South-West part of the country, particularly in Ogun State where the winner of that election, the late MKO Abiola hailed from.

But the campaign team said it was going to overcome all odds, to ensure that Mr Babangida gets elected president come 2011 because they are convinced of his ability.

“If IBB could perform so brilliantly during his tenure as a military president, there is no doubt that the Minna, Niger State-born frontline Nigeria leader would perform better as a civilian president. As IBB Campaign Organization, Ogun State Chapter, we clamour for the return of the ex-military president to Aso Rock Villa as duly elected president come 2011,’ Mr Bello said.

No sentiments

The group also urged Nigerians not to allow sentiments over June 12 and other issues to stop them from supporting Babangida’s ambition, “after all, the former president was only a figure in the administration that annulled the controversial election,” he said. “The campaign team has eleven points to convince Nigerians why they should vote Babangida into power.” The group promised to release what it called a panoramic account of the 48 achievements of the former president ahead of the primaries.

They said the campaign team has already established offices at the state, local government and ward levels.

“Babangida will soon visit the state to intensify further efforts in the campaign,” Mr Bello said.

Mr Babangida is only one of two politicians who have formally launched campaigns for president under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. The other is former vice president, Atiku Abubakar.

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To Olumide Akinyemi and Sunday Bello both of you are disgrace to Ogun,Yoruba, and Nigeria entirely. If any you guys lost one of your family member during the June 12 election annulment unrest you wouldn't be here today campaigning for Maradona. May be you guys forgot all D atrocities IBB commited against the "OWU" born which the list include Dele Giwa, Fela, MKO, Kudirat, just to mention a few. I know you guys are not just waving your mouth like a goat with a mango in its mouth, it's million of Naira given to you by IBB that is speaking and you guys forgot the fate of your incoming generation.

@ wales

Why are u bothered? Have u ever heard of a Sunday Bello or Olumide Akinyemi in Yoruba politics before? Most likely some 419 jobbers trying to get their share of IBB's famed wealth. Abeg allow. I'm assuring you they are not known even in their homes.

tru talk my guy

Babangida has become a conduit pipe for folks to make serious money.what a fruitless investment !!

POVERTY & INTEGRITY , STILL RESEARCHING IF THERE IS ANY COMPARISON .

IBB don sort them that side.
Mehn, cheddar no get enemy (like water)

I do not understand why this man wants to be president by force.

SA Balogun:

I do not understand why this man wants to be president by force.

The same thing that keeps baffling me considering the fact that the fact he promise on spending just 4 years as if that 4 years is enough to solve nigeria's problem.

The Babangida years

By Tolu Ogunlesi
April 17, 2010 10:36PM  

In his first New Year Days speech as military president, months after deposing the Buhari-Idiagbon government in a bloodless coup enthusiastically welcomed by Nigerians, Ibrahim Babangida declared: I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria. Babangidas bonhomie (its trademark an endearing gap-toothed smile) - in stark contrast to the stern, unsmiling façade of Muhammadu Buhari, his predecessor - made it easy for him to be believed.
The distinction between the two regimes in fact ran much deeper than personality quirks. Babangida, in action, proved to be the complete antithesis of his predecessor. He threw open prison doors, setting free hundreds of 3rd republic politicians convicted and jailed by Buhari. He repealed the obnoxious Decree No. 4 of 1984 with which the Buhari regime had shackled the media. He promised to run an open administration that is responsive to the yearnings and aspirations of all the people - a departure from the high-handedness of the Buhari/Idiagbon era.
One of his first actions as military president was to allow Nigerians to decide, through public debates, whether to accept the $2.5 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan the Buhari government had been negotiating for.
After the terror of the Buhari years, Nigerians appeared to have found a statesman in military uniform.

Tough times that lasted

By 1985, Nigerias foreign debt had ballooned to $18 billion, up from $3.4 billion in 1980 (it would rise beyond $30 billion by the end of the 80s), and external reserves had dwindled to less than $2 billion. Oil prices had been in freefall for 3 years running, and in January 1986 they finally fell to less than $20 per barrel, a record low since the start of the decade.
To his credit Babangida made all the right noises about revamping the economy. In his Independence Day 1985 speech, barely two months old in office, he declared a state of economic emergency for the next 15 months. That speech went on to lay down a comprehensive plan for economic reconstruction.
This plan included a moratorium on new foreign debt, promotion of agriculture and industrial development, restriction of importation to essential commodities, financial sector reform and privatisation.

Populist leanings

IBB was a master of the populist move - ambitious government programs targeted at tackling poverty, and empowering rural dwellers. His government churned out program after program, in a bid to actualize his promises to run an inclusive, people-facing government. In 1986, Babangida launched the Mass Mobilization for Self Reliance, Social Justice, and Economic Recovery (MAMSER).
In 1987, the Directorate of Food and Rural Infrastructure (DFFRI) was launched to promote agriculture and transform Nigerias rural landscape by providing modern infrastructure. Other Babangida creations include the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), National Economic Reconstruction Fund (NERFUND), Peoples Bank of Nigeria (PBN), National Board for Community Banks (NBCB), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), National Planning Commission (NPC), and the Urban Development Bank.
No other Nigerian government presided over such substantial expansion of government bureaucracy as the Babangida administration. In time, the fiscal prudence that Babangida espoused vanished: billions of naira were sunk into an endless transition programme, and in the early 90s, 12 billion dollars worth of windfall crude oil revenue (courtesy of the rise in the oil prices due to the Gulf War) could not be accounted for.
Mr. Babangida also came to perfect the art of dispensing patronage through political appointments (mostly targeted at leading members of the opposition) and a far-from-transparent allocation of lucrative oil blocks.

A man whose words mean nothing

Mr. Babangidas contradictions eventually overwhelmed his reputation so that when, in May 1993, the activist and lawyer Gani Fawehinmi described him as a man whose words mean nothing to him, evidence of this littered his eight years in power.
Only months after vowing to run a government by consultation with the people, Mr. Babangida in 1986 surreptitiously - and unilaterally - took Nigeria, an avowed secular state, into full membership of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), a body which describes itself as the collective voice of the Muslim world.
Mr. Babangida lamented the large role played by the public sector in economic activity with hardly any concrete results to justify such a role.Ironically, over the course of the next five years, he would go ahead to supervise an unprecedented expansion of government. And despite his deference to the wish of Nigerians to reject the IMF loan, Mr. Babangida went ahead to implement some of the Funds most drastic requirements - a devaluation of the naira, and removal of subsidies, chief of which were the petroleum subsidies.
Mr. Babangida promised Nigerians that the belt-tightening was sorely needed: the painful injection that would usher in vibrant economic health; the mandatory dark lining before a cloud of prosperity. Those reforms, which he christened Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), came into effect in 1986, with a far-from-pleasant impact on Nigerians. Purchasing powers dwindled, inflation rose, and the obliteration of the middle class began. In 1989, SAP riots rocked the country, as Nigerians had finally had enough of economic reforms which silver lining they waited in vain for.

Greatest failings

Mr. Babangidas greatest failings were however in two key areas: his human rights record, and his political transition programme. In December 1985, a group of soldiers, which included his close friend, Mamman Vatsa, were arrested on allegations of plotting to topple the 4-month old Babangida government. After Vatsa was convicted and sentenced to death, Mr. Babangida assured a delegation of distinguished writers (Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and J.P. Clark), which had come pleading for mercy, that he was determined to do everything in my power to save (Vatsa).
Hours later, Vatsa and the other alleged plotters were executed.
As opposition to Mr. Babangidas rule grew, so did his intolerance for dissent, so that he routinely shut down or proscribed media houses; and harassed journalists, civil society and labour groups using the instruments of state (the State Security Service, Directorate of Military Intelligence and the Police).
In 1986, five students of the Ahmadu Bello University were murdered when mobile policemen invaded the campus to quell anti-IMF protests. He also promulgated a series of draconian decrees targeted at quelling all opposition, and on occasion did not hesitate to deport foreign critics (University lecturer Patrick Wilmot and journalist William Keeling).
In October 1986, frontline journalist Dele Giwa was murdered by a letter bomb in Lagos. Preliminary police investigations stated that senior officers of Mr. Babangidas intelligence services, who had hounded Giwa in his final days, had questions to answer regarding Giwas death. The mystery of the Giwa assassination remains unsolved till date.

An interminable journey

A maddeningly convoluted transition programme, whose terminal date soon became a mirage - first 1990, then 1992, and then 1993 - is one of the most significant things Babangida will be remembered for.
Early on in his administration, Mr. Babangida inaugurated a Political Bureau to kick off, as it were, the national debate on a viable future political ethos and structure for our dear country.
The political bureau was soon followed by a Constituent Assembly, which in 1989 fashioned a new constitution for the country.
Also, in 1989, he created, by presidential fiat, two political parties, the Social Democratic Party and the National Republican Convention. Then in 1991, he released a controversial list of prominent politicians whom he said were banned from participating in the transition programme.
In October 1992, he cancelled the results of the parties presidential primaries, causing new primaries to be held in March 1993. And then in June 1993 he annulled the results of the presidential elections, presumed to have been won by billionaire businessman MKO Abiola.

This was the final straw
.
By this time, Nigerians had finally had enough of his shenanigans, and violent protests forced him to step aside on August 27, 1993,My colleagues and I are determined to change the course of history, Mr. Babangida told Nigerians in his maiden speech as Head of State, on August 27, 1985.
By the time he reluctantly relinquished power exactly eight years later, he had achieved that goal, far more successfully than he, or anyone else, could ever have imagined.

Source: Next
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The Holy Book says "my people perish for lack of knowledge".
Will you allow 150m of us (Nigerians) perish or will you ALSO forward this article on the (mis) deeds of our self-proclaimed "evil genius" to all Nigerians that you know
Will you help confirm "maradona" IBB's claim (in Germany in the 90s during one of his radiculopathy treatment trips) that we, his fellow citizens are "docile" (MUGUs) by not sharing this mail
Find a way to get involved at all levels- local, state and federal- this election period for a better Nigeria!!!

what correction those ibb whant to make again when the  lil drop of water (419) is now an ocean

wake up guys IBB has already won.
so until you see the Abiola family campaign for IBB
you wont get it?

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ferari90:

wake up guys IBB has already won.
so until you see the Abiola family campaign for IBB
you wont get it?

How much did they pay you ?

stupid people!

I think it's high time we stop giving this idiots our time,  Bleep IBB. I said so,

Thunder fire all those tryin to draw Naija back, IBB won't get there. Isn't he meant to knw dat death is real nw dat his Late wife is gone, WAKE UP OLD FOOL, i said so

They are all Jokers, Ogun state? Never, the guy is just trying to get his own share of the ,

Hamid O:

Thunder fire all those tryin to draw Naija back, IBB won't get there. Isn't he meant to knw dat death is real nw dat his Late wife is gone, WAKE UP OLD FOOL, i said so

Amen.

For an authoriative source, Ibb is said to sponsoring Abiola's daughter's campaign for a seat in Ogun State

Good news at least some smart fingers jobers will use this opportunity too to get some large share of the cake from him.

see this political jobbers, PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION

WHY DID YOU REFUSE TO LET PEOPLE KNOW YOUR IBB CAMPAIGN OFFICE IN ABEOKUTA ?

WHY DID YOU NOT PASTE YOUR SATANIC POSTERS IN BROAD DAY LIGHT?

WHY DID IBBS CAMPAIGN RALLY FLOPPED AT IBADAN?

DO YOU KNOW THE REASON WHY GBENGA DANIEL IS IN TROUBLE? LET ME HELP YOU IN THIS, HE IS SUPPORTING IBB AND THE MOMENT THE EGBAS TOOK NOTE OF THIS, HE LANDS IN TROUBLE, THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY IS NO MORE UNDER HIS CONTROL, THE HOUSE REFUSE TO SIGN HIS 100B NAIRA BOND. LOOK LET ME TELL YOU, DONT BE SURPRISED IF IBB WAS ABLE TO WIN JUST 12 VOTES IN ABEOKUTA.

AND LET ME INFORM YOU ABOUT THIS.

MRS. BISI ABIOLA, THE ABIOLAS WIFE SAID TO BE SUPPORTING IBB HAS ALL HIS CHILDREN FOR ABIOLA DISGRACED BY THE DNA TEST. NONE OF HIS CHILDREN PASSED THE TEST.

wales:

Amen.

Amen(X2)

is IBB truly the worst of all the pack? he has said if you have enough evidence against him you should sue him for the crime .let us accord him the right of a nigerian to stand for an election.let your vote speak for or against him.simple.

IBB and Vasta relationship


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TTlf7WZx4U&feature=search

@SEANET.

IS IT REALLY TRUE THAT NONE OF DR DOYIN ABIOLA KIDS DIDNT PASS THE DNA TEST?


if it is not, it a most cruel thing to say about her in a public space.

Not really a big deal cause I ALREADY KNOW that hes getting no SW votes-

The Only way he can get SW votes is if, HE INVEST ALL HIS BILLIONS ACROSS THE SW(from Ondo to Oyo even kawara and Kogi sef) and he has a yorubaman as his VP.

IF HE DOESNT THEN THERES NO WAY THE SW WILL VOTE FOR HIM.

josite:

@SEANET.

IS IT REALLY TRUE THAT NONE OF DR DOYIN ABIOLA KIDS DIDNT PASS THE DNA TEST?


if it is not, it a most cruel thing to say about her in a public space.

seems you dont know what is happening, The woman is only using her support for IBB the evil genius to get back at the Family which insists to follow Abiolas will to the later, all her Children are OMO ALE PARAKU. Though she is rumoured to be instigating a law suit to the effect that the will was tampered with and that there is no where in the original will which says every son/daughter of Abiola must undergoes a DNA test. surely she will fail as usual

josite:

@SEANET.

IS IT REALLY TRUE THAT NONE OF DR DOYIN ABIOLA KIDS DIDNT PASS THE DNA TEST?


if it is not, it a most cruel thing to say about her in a public space.

see i say you are a political jobber, i followed everything happening here, its not DOYIN, ITS BISI

sjeezy8:

Not really a big deal cause I ALREADY KNOW that hes getting no SW votes-

The Only way he can get SW votes is if, HE INVEST ALL HIS BILLIONS ACROSS THE SW(from Ondo to Oyo even kawara and Kogi sef) and he has a yorubaman as his VP.

IF HE DOESNT THEN THERES NO WAY THE SW WILL VOTE FOR HIM.

lol  

he knows there is nothing for him in SW and South south will most likely follow Jonathan, that is why he is romancing with SE

i was about to ask if it was bisi or doyin being discussed.

imo, dna test has no place in polygamy. ie it's not necessary.