Governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has declared the unflinching support of his government to the realization of the presidential ambition of former military president , General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida(IBB). AKIN ALOFETEKUN, who was at the forum where the governor made the declaration reports

Governor Aliyu made the declaration during the community dialogue meeting otherwise called “Jama’a Forum”, held at the Palace of the Emir of Minna in Chanchaga Local Government Area. He maintained that it is highly important and necessary for the state to mobilize support for IBB in view of his origin and wealth of experience in the governance of the country.

He said that the state capital, Minna, is blessed in terms of human and material resources and that as home to two former heads of state, there is the need for the people of Minna and indeed, the entire Niger State to support IBB, so as to make history for the third time.

He stated that the essence of “Jama’a Forum” was to directly dialogue with the people on issues affecting their wellbeing, as well as to afford the government the opportunity to make amends on its policies and projects that have direct bearing on the lives of the people. He stressed that the forum also provides the platform for government to be transparent and accountable in view of the principle of good governance of his administration.

At the forum, representatives of the 11 wards of Chanchaga Local Government area were individually called upon to speak on some of the problems of their wards. Accordingly, some of the issues raised include supply of water, road rehabilitation, provision of clinics, establishment of junior and senior secondary schools, youths unemployment, and addressing the imbalance in political appointments.

Governor Aliyu assured that his administration will resolve the problems and that with the little resources available to the government, efforts will be made to tackle each problem in accordance with the financial strength.
While commending the local government councils for their ability to provide the dividends of democracy, Aliyu pointed out the need to continue to adequately fund the councils to improve the living standard of the people at the grassroots, stressing that the local government is the most important tier of government in view of their closeness to the people.
Insinuations were rife that the governor, who is chairman, Northern Governors’ Forum, was not supportive of the presidential aspiration of IBB, who happens to be his second cousin.
With that declaration, it has become clear that IBB may not be classified among the Biblical prophets who have no honour in their homes.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/politics/2010/aug/11/politics-11-08-2010-005.htm

Home support as in You and I?

Ojukwu was the FIRST to support the killer beast! I guess birds of a feather. . . . at least, Ojukwu played a major part in the deat of Mr. Saro-Wiwa!

IBB all the way

Nigeria is too primitive a society to practice democracy.What you have there is total madness and retardation.

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Aliyu or whatever he called himself has the right to supprt IBB or anybody but does his support make IBB the president? I presume No. As IBB is from his state and nobody even know how he got the ticket of becoming a governor of Niger state so he may have to pay back somehow so he has the right to support IBB and be blowing hot and cold everytime saying different things at every situation like someone suffering from Dirrohea of the mouth.

Let it be, Niger State is minority. IBB will never get there. Amen

But seriously,Aliyu is one of the more proactive and intelligent governors from the North. This coming from him means just about anyone has a price.

redsun:

Nigeria is too primitive a society to practice democracy.What you have there is total madness and retardation.

I mean what more truth can be said other than this? Only insane people will want us to continue to recycle old tired minds like
IBB and the rest and that is aside the atrocity that IBB has committed of which he is yet to apologise.

God help Nigeria with all these retard follow follow people and the so called leaders.

Expectedly! Even Hitler will if he were alive.

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!!!

That notwitstanding IBB Would still contest and lose woefully

It pains me to the marrows anytime I read IBB’s useless and unwanted stories on the pages of our newspapers and magazines concerning his presidential bid in 2011. I get offended, and feel totally devastated that we still allow the hopeless, shameless, and the bloody dictator to grace the front pages of our newspapers and magazines, talking nonsense and forcing me to remember the tragic pains and sorrow of yesterday which I copiously documented in a book for posterity.

I have cursed the day IBB came to power in Nigeria because that was the day all the devils in the world landed in Nigeria, and the centre could no longer hold as anarchy was loosed upon Nigeria.

If Nigeria is not a failed nation that works for those who failed it, tell me the reason why IBB at 70 will want us to vote for him as president in 2011? Do you promote somebody who scored zero in all subjects in an examination to the next class? If Nigeria has not excelled hopelessly in several dubious departments, no newspaper or magazine worth its salt in Nigeria will allow its front page to be used to celebrate a man that ruined and destroyed Nigeria, a man deficit in honour, deficit in character, deficit in integrity, a man without shame, a man who cannot be trusted.

There are thousand and one reasons why IBB must not preside over any serious office in Nigeria again, even as a local government chairman. Just like General Abacha, IBB’s tenure was characterised by sectionalism, state sponsored killings, crass sycophancy, brazen mismanagement, arrogance, violent rule, nepotism, deception, press gag, destruction of judiciary, destruction of democratic institutions, stigmatization of Abuja, violation of international protocol and diplomacy, looting of national till, reducing Nigeria to a pariah nation, annulment of free and fair elections, suppression of pro-democracy and human rights activists, putting Nigeria in a state of war, setting ethnic groups against one another.

During his administration, he violated Nigeria’s secular status, created dubious millionaires and billionaires overnight, destroyed Nigerian armed forces, sowed seed of discord among 150 million Nigerians, wasted 40 billion Naira in a Transition Programme he never believed in. This list is endless!

Make no mistake about it, whatever Nigeria is going through today was kick-started by IBB in 1985 and he sealed it up on June 23, 1993. Since June 12, 1993 Nigeria has not held a free and fair election and it may continue to elude us if the likes of IBB is not brought to book.

Until we have the courage, the boldness and the political will to deal with the enemies of Nigeria, the world will continue to laugh at us. No nation rises above its potentials. The nation is what the leaders have made it and I do not care whether those leaders were civilians or military men.

In body language, IBB may be pretending that all is well, trying to be fearless and unperturbed in the face of mounting criticisms against his inordinate ambition but beneath the bravado is a man whose past hunts him to hell.

After so many attempts on his life failed, Hitler believed more in his invincibility and of a divine providence protecting him and having a special purpose for him blah blah blah. How did he end up? SUICIDE! So all assassination attempts on him failed just so he could take his own life with his own hands?

Likewise, IBB should not delude himself into thinking he's invincible on the grounds that he's apparently immune to and untouched by the effects of his craftiness and misrule in 9ja. May be he's just being prepared by divine providence to undo himself.

some stupid morons are commenting off target!!!!!

lol , IBB You think you can outsmart him Nigerians need to develop a strategy to checkmate him without that, Nothing but GOD can stop him.
He's got the resources to get whatever he want, to compel people, to change peoples idea, name it. We need prayer, either he step down or he become our next president, simple!

I thought those who failed classes are asked to repeat? Whats bad in IBB repeating 'this class' that he failed woefully?


Just asking sha!!!!

IBB is the write man to take Nigeria to the promise land.he has all it takes to do so.it is time for us to put sentiments aside and support this man come 2011.

NA ONLY ALIYU AND HIS FAMILY GO VOTE FOR IBB,

ochusule:

IBB is the write man to take Nigeria to the promise land.he has all it takes to do so.it is time for us to put sentiments aside and support this man come 2011.

Write man and Wrote man indeed!!!!

In my heart of hearts i strongly that IBB will not and cannot rule this country again.I cant explain it but it's very certain in my heart.U may call it intuition or?and that is what gives me joy anytime i read this IBB stories that a man who does not know shame will be shamed surely if Goodluck decides to contest.For those of you that still pray and believe in this country please pray IBB out of our national life.

That Facebook link is not up

HATE HIM OR LOVE HIM, IBB 4 PRESIDENT, HE RULEZ!!!

@ANONIMI, after all your histories and stories, i find it difficult to be deceived by your antics.
Lets face it, GEJ is a sissy, he isn't man enough to be a leader. Nigeria needs ppl like IBB, i thank God that MKO never made it to the presidency, otherwise, we would have been doomed.
You yoruba and ur media cannot keep confusing us. We need IBB to make life difficult for all of you who took our money to sponsor yourself, your wives and children abroad! We need IBB to give us a new direction as a nation and not being an extension to the US/EU, just exactly what Ahmadenijad of Iran is doing! Iran today is far better than all these American/EU leaning countries like nigeria. Jonathan is a coward and a romote in the Hands of one Old otta farmer! Forget all these Abiola/June 12 rants because he had his own hidden agenda and IBB knew him very well, he was power hungry just like all these "democrats" parading themselves around. Hate him or love him, PDP or not, North or South, Home or Abroad, IBB rulez, IBB 4 PRESIDENT, COME MAY 29 2011! God bless Nigeria,

macfarland:

It pains me to the marrows anytime I read IBB’s useless and unwanted stories on the pages of our newspapers and magazines concerning his presidential bid in 2011. I get offended, and feel totally devastated that we still allow the hopeless, shameless, and the bloody dictator to grace the front pages of our newspapers and magazines, talking nonsense and forcing me to remember the tragic pains and sorrow of yesterday which I copiously documented in a book for posterity.

I have cursed the day IBB came to power in Nigeria because that was the day all the devils in the world landed in Nigeria, and the centre could no longer hold as anarchy was loosed upon Nigeria.

If Nigeria is not a failed nation that works for those who failed it, tell me the reason why IBB at 70 will want us to vote for him as president in 2011? Do you promote somebody who scored zero in all subjects in an examination to the next class? If Nigeria has not excelled hopelessly in several dubious departments, no newspaper or magazine worth its salt in Nigeria will allow its front page to be used to celebrate a man that ruined and destroyed Nigeria, a man deficit in honour, deficit in character, deficit in integrity, a man without shame, a man who cannot be trusted.

There are thousand and one reasons why IBB must not preside over any serious office in Nigeria again, even as a local government chairman. Just like General Abacha, IBB’s tenure was characterised by sectionalism, state sponsored killings, crass sycophancy, brazen mismanagement, arrogance, violent rule, nepotism, deception, press gag, destruction of judiciary, destruction of democratic institutions, stigmatization of Abuja, violation of international protocol and diplomacy, looting of national till, reducing Nigeria to a pariah nation, annulment of free and fair elections, suppression of pro-democracy and human rights activists, putting Nigeria in a state of war, setting ethnic groups against one another.

During his administration, he violated Nigeria’s secular status, created dubious millionaires and billionaires overnight, destroyed Nigerian armed forces, sowed seed of discord among 150 million Nigerians, wasted 40 billion Naira in a Transition Programme he never believed in. This list is endless!

Make no mistake about it, whatever Nigeria is going through today was kick-started by IBB in 1985 and he sealed it up on June 23, 1993. Since June 12, 1993 Nigeria has not held a free and fair election and it may continue to elude us if the likes of IBB is not brought to book.

Until we have the courage, the boldness and the political will to deal with the enemies of Nigeria, the world will continue to laugh at us. No nation rises above its potentials. The nation is what the leaders have made it and I do not care whether those leaders were civilians or military men.

In body language, IBB may be pretending that all is well, trying to be fearless and unperturbed in the face of mounting criticisms against his inordinate ambition but beneath the bravado is a man whose past hunts him to hell.

Right words!

chosen04:

I thought those who failed classes are asked to repeat? Whats bad in IBB repeating 'this class' that he failed woefully?


Just asking sha!!!!

Hey! Young man, hold on _ you are menstruating. Check yourself.

fugocisse:

some silly morons are commenting off target!!!!!

When a layman, an astronomer and an astrologer are looking at (and commenting on) the same constellation of stars, who among them would most likely make such a comment?

It is not the case of some one repeating class here
all we are saying is that we don't want old gargos again!!!
let them go and rest after all they have stolen our money and treasures.
let them go and enjoy their stolen money
shebi the money don start to the finish small, small him wan com steal another again?

teskyg:

NA ONLY ALIYU AND HIS FAMILY GO VOTE FOR IBB,

the thing tire me o. .as if that home signifies the whole of nigeria

Let's leave this man and face the future.I think he has the constitutional rights to contest.What if he had repented?Let God judge.