IBADAN—THE presidential campaign of the former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, suffered a major setback in the South-West yesterday as youths numbering 500 staged a protest against his re-emergence as the president.

While marching on major streets in Ibadan, the youths passed through the Old Ife road to Agodi telling residents in the city why IBB should be the last to be voted for having spent eight years on the exalted position before.

Armed with placards with various inscriptions such as “Say No to IBB,” “Don’t give in to IBB’s lies, they chanted anti-Babangida songs.

The Anti-Babangida Coalition, spoke through its National Coordinator, Mr. Sina Odugbemi, “We are saying No to IBB. We don’t want Nigerians to pass through the experience again. When they come with their gimmicks, we want people to see beyond their beautiful posters and rhetoric. We need to let them know what we passed through under IBB.”

Vanguard gathered that the youths stopped at each intersection and addressed the people not to waste their votes in 2011 by voting for the former ruler.

They said, “We are saying No to IBB. We don’t want Nigerians to pass through the experience again. When they come with their gimmicks, we want people to see beyond their beautiful posters and rhetoric. We need to let them know what we passed through under IBB.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/11/2011-ibadan-youths-protest-against-ibb-candidature/

So, what next?
After all the 'ariwo'?

Blazay:

So, what next?
After all the 'ariwo'?

They will force kunu down his throat, if he ever comes back.

What does he want after sitting their for 8 yrs? He is the only one who can rule Nigeria?

supereagle:

What does he want after sitting their for 8 yrs? He is the only one who can rule Nigeria?

There's more money to loot.

Upon all the money he stole, he couldnt fix his teeth.

Like OBJ could attempt plastic surgery to fix his hideousness.
Baba wor-wor giving birth to many baby wor-wors.

fstranger:

They will force kunu down his throat, if he ever comes back.

Written like a true coward.
Why did you not force your 'kunu' down his throat during his 8 years of 'service'?

Blazay:

Like OBJ could attempt plastic surgery to fix his hideousness.
Baba wor-wor given birth to many baby wor-wors.

Written like a true coward.
Why did you not force your 'kunu' down his throat during his 8 years of 'service'?

Because we gave him the benefit of doubt, now that we know that he is just like anyother retarded Aboki, we are ready to fight till the end. He aint coming back, truss me!

OBJ was used to silence June 12 agitation and noting more than that.

Blazay:

*pukes*

Yeah, "TRUSS," that was intentional.

unfortunately, the SW is the only albatross for IBB

Blazay:

So, what next?
After all the 'ariwo'?

Written like a true coward.
Why did you not force your 'kunu' down his throat during his 8 years of 'service'?

At least they have decided not to keep quiet, they have the courage to come out and speak their minds. It is far better than sitting down in the corner of your room complaining where you know too well nobody will hear you speak. At least the whole world knows they are not FOR, they are AGAINST, they have simply taken a stand.

Abeg it's a free world, better to express yourself than to keep it locked in and not take a stand.

Our law should be blamed which supports misappropriation and  the past currupt leaders to come back without having tried in any competent court of jurisdiction.
SHAME TO IBB, SHAME TO 1999 CONSTITUTION

Good move!

This is how we can move forward, fight against the evil that has held the country captive

I am totally in surport of the protest. We need more of protests like this to pass the message to our leaders that enough is enough of them taking us Nigerians for fools.

he should go and sleep

Am in support of the protest and in for it.
BIG SHAME to IBB,his supporters and fellow leaders like him.
Hahahahahaha,i will eventually laugh at their failure.

Do wonder why all these Abokis and  Ar'majiris behave like the domestic goats they lord over!!! they have no brains, no single sense of proportion! from dan iska Babangida to  Aar'ne ATIKU ,  from Ar'majiri Buhari to aboki Nuhu Ribadu ,  wonder why Dese INFIDELS so believe that ruling this country is their sole birth-right!!!!!!!!
For Your Info, maokachi IBB, you are an outdated, retarded and retired military goat rarer and that is where u shall be confined to till death part u with this country!

to all you who still have  faith as tiny as a mustard seed, stand up and say no to these Muslim and Aboki deseases!
ENUF IS ENUF!

LONG LIVE NIGERIA
LONG LIVE GEJ
LONG LIVE DON LEGEND

Ibb should know that yorubaland is a forbidden area for him or is he waiting to be stoned until he gets the message ? Which kind stubborn goat be this ?

i keep wondering the problem with IBB, seems this man has some Mental Problem which has remain untreatable, if he is not careful, We will kill him in the south west

seanet02:

We will kill him in the south west

You should go ahead and do so.

Good news. God bless you my brothers .

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.

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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!!!

There is no doubt about that, Ibb is a stubborn he- goat. Government is to blame for allowing corrupt leaders to even rear their urgly heads & contest. If they were safely locked away in prison, where they belong, nobody will no of their existence. God has a beautiful plan for everyone of them.

The southwest are nt up to 20% of naija. Obj failed woefully in the west. Forget nuffn dey hapn.media hype

And it goes on & on! Was it not recently,in this age, that our national assembly 'ayed' that corrupt & convicted Nigerians can run for anything called 'public office' in the land? Fellow Nigerians, who then do we point our fingers @, ?

Man rules man to his own injury, however to an earthling man his way does not belong. it does not belong to a man who is walking even to direct his step. I urge everyone of us to pray for God's Kingdom to come

hmm

~Bluetooth:

Ibb should know that yorubaland is a forbidden area for him or is he waiting to be stoned until he gets the message ? Which kind stubborn goat be this ?

Tribal Marks is worrying Ibadan People. Their silly Alao Akala has done worst in that state. None of them fit front and shout at him. Dem mama want to make headline? Let them vote Akala out first.

Tribal Marks is worrying Ibadan People. Their silly Alao Akala has done worst in that state. None of them fit front and shout at him. Dem mama want to make headline? Let them vote Akala out first.