Big B1:

The key is: He's older, he's wiser, he has powerful followers and unbreakable connections.

You must be a complete f0ol[b] if you think IBB will spend Kobo from his pocket for his campaign.[/b]

Really So can you tell us where exactly the money would come from?? Probably not from his pockets, but maybe from the bank accounts he stashed with our money that was supposed to be used in building power infrastructure, Hospitals, roads and the like. Obviously not from his pockets.

If IBB is going this far, then the road is clear.

It was IBB way back in 1999 that brought back Mr Obasanjo.

These guys do their work under-ground but opposition only talk and no action.

Soon they would import babangida face caps and T-shirt.bunch of losers as if that would address the numerous unanswered questions.Awon oloriburku somebody

If IBB is going this far, then the road is clear.

It was IBB way back in 1999 that brought back Mr Obasanjo.

These guys do their work under-ground but opposition only talk and no action.

This is correct.
Have you noticed that IBB is the only candidate that has publicly revealed his intention and also doing several things about? The others are too scared and also have no confidence to make anything happen. Even your president has no balls to reveal his intention

You haven't seen nothing yet; guys, please just be patient and see what next week will bring.

~Bluetooth:

Soon they would import babangida face caps and T-shirt.bunch of losers as if that would address the numerous unanswered questions.Awon oloriburku somebody

good but that wont do anything.

This is correct.
Have you noticed that IBB is the only candidate that has publicly revealed his intention and also doing several things about? The others are too scared and also have no confidence to make anything happen. Even your president has no balls to reveal his intention

these guys have strategies and they are following it.

what strategies do we have the opposition adopting? Nothing and come 2011, they will loose again.

Soon they would import babangida face caps and T-shirt.bunch of losers as if that would address the numerous unanswered questions.Awon oloriburku somebody

@Yellowtooth: The campaign hasn't started yet and you have already wet your pant, and also started to sound like one of them (losers).

Take it easy my man.
To win the game, you have to be part of the game.

Well i knows Gods we surprise many people comes 2011.I'm waiting to study the way things are going before i make comment

Big B1:

@Yellowtooth: The campaign hasn't started yet and you have already wet your pant, and also started to sound like one of them (losers).

Take it easy my man.
To win the game, you have to be part of the game.

sorry. . .i don't liase with losers which you and babangida happen to one.

If you say so, I'll buy it; but it is written all over your face.

Big B1:

If you say so, I'll buy it; but it is written all over your face.

rotflmao. . .tell me what is written over my face.

The Mind Construction Cannot Be Read From The Face

EXCERCISE IN FUTILITY
People should just help themselves to some of the $12 billion Gulf war windfall,this criminal of monumental proportions stole and dump him so he can easily die of heart break

Elections in Nigeria in last 15 years have all been rigged.

IBB only has to pay off the right people in power and he wld be selected as the next leader.

The cars are probably not for the campaign, but gifts / bribes.

God Help Nigeria

GenBuhari:

Elections in Nigeria in last 15 years have all been rigged.

IBB only has to pay off the right people in power and he wld be selected as the next leader.

The cars are probably not for the campaign, but gifts / bribes.

God Help Nigeria

Of course,with nigerians fascinations for cars in the jungle,the cars are enormous temptations.Some nigerians can sell the souls of their unborn generation for a car key,because they think car is a mystery,forgetting that they can make cars if they are on the right direction with the right leaders

IBB, see the handwritting on the wall:

"Mene mene tekel urphasin"

I can't believe that guy is for real,i thought it was a just a mere speculation.

That he is allowed to contest for the presidency of nigeria with his catastrophic and evil track records shows that nigeria is a rogue state,worse than aghanistan and even somalia

What if IBB wins the election come 2011??

Just, what if??

Elections in Nigeria in last 15 years have all been rigged.

IBB only has to pay off the right people in power and he wld be selected as the next leader.

The cars are probably not for the campaign, but  gifts / bribes.

God Help Nigeria

Nigeria of today is more aware than Nigeria of many years back.
The consciousness of today far outweigh the wherewithal of yesteryears.
The crack on the corporate  existence of Nigeria is more visible now than the bond of yesteryears.
The masses are more daring these days than 15 years back.
The weapons in the hands of individuals are more than those of 15 years back
The hatred  and audacity of the masses towards looters have grown considerably.

As things are now, I believe that the masses are looking for "mugu" politicians like IBB to chop their own share and do wetin dey their belle.
So, IBB watch out.

Big B1:

@lagbaja: come next year May, free palmwine for you for the next 4yrs. what do you say, are you in or out?

The bolded text has given them away, what they intend for the people is palmwine and nothing else

NIGERIA BEWARE OF THE EVIL GENIUS!!!

Please lets encourage him to spend our money o!!

Maybe some people will benefit from it after all these years.

Too bad he will loose, rigging or free and fair.

In support of IBB; a true and charismatic leader

@Big B1, tofiakwa! Oloun maje! No way for Babangida to rule again, He'll rather rule in the grave not in this land of the living. ni bo, kojo rara

ketori:

@Big B1, tofiakwa! Oloun maje! No way for Babangida to rule again, He'll rather rule in the grave not in this land of the living. ni bo, kojo rara

Take it or leave it come 2011, Babangida would be inaugurated President Federal Republic of Nigeria.

IBB an enigma

OMO IBO:

What if IBB wins the election come 2011??

Just, what if??

HOW ?

unbelievable

Y r ppl wasting their time on this thread. Even Mariam his dead wife wouldnt have voted for him.

Jonathan for president 2011.

@ Big B1 and kennyblues, if you're not him, how much were you given that has made you to forget your future & that of your coming generations. This evil genius has nothing good to offer Nigerians, he wants to come and replenish his fat pocket that is getting dry & deal with those that are against him. He has absolutely nothing positive to offer the Nigerian citizens.

@ Big B1 and kennyblues, better wake up from your slumber.

a man who have money to buy 1000 cars/what is he comming to be president for, ?this country na wa oh.dis man has rule us for almost 10 yrs, what did he forget at the state house dat he wants to come and collect, i thnk ibb should go and relax and eat is money and wait for death,

Big B1:

A leader you can count on

@Big B1,how can I get the supporters ticket for south south.Am really interested.

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!!!

a man who have money to buy 1000 cars/what is he comming to be president for, ?this country na wa oh.dis man has rule us for almost 10 yrs, what did he forget at the state house dat he wants to come and collect, i thnk ibb should go and relax and eat is money and wait for death,

I have said it that IBB  is bored to death in his 50 bedroom mansion and only wants to be in the midst of people to  keep him company.
He has failed already.

I am not a supporter of the “evil genius” and never will I be. However, I always admire his courage and sagacity in making a reality his dream and ambition. Sometime ago the Evil Genius threw a challenge at us all youths, how many came out to defend the allegation and accusations – none. This is a man who has all it takes to rule the volatile nation called Nigeria, he can decide on his own what he wants and what he does not want because he is a master strategies. Nairalanders, tell me; what is your fear about this genius coming back to rule?

Let the truth be told,