The evil genius Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) has finally turned the corner and confessed how he wickedly annulled the freest election ever to hold in black Africa! On June 12th 1993 Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida annu
lled the election of Alhaji Mudasiru Kolawole Oluwole Abiola as President-elect of Nigeria for no justifiable reason whatsoever. In his own very loud mouth and egoistic rambling, he admitted to this infamy and expects Nigerians to applaud him? Really? Shame on you Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.
lled the election of Alhaji Mudasiru Kolawole Oluwole Abiola as President-elect of Nigeria for no justifiable reason whatsoever. In his own very loud mouth and egoistic rambling, he admitted to this infamy and expects Nigerians to applaud him? Really? Shame on you Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.IBB spoke against the backdrop of the outcry that greeted the book written by former National Electoral Commission (NEC) Chairman, Professor Humphrey Nwosu, where he attempted to absolve Babangida of blame in the episode. Babangida explained in a statement issued through his Media Spokesman, Kassim Afegbua, that the criticism against Nwosu is unnecessary because he has the right to write a book on his knowledge of events at the time. According to the spokesman, "Babangida has repeatedly said that given the circumstances at that period, it was better to take a decision, no matter how judgmental, than not to take one at all. And that he should be held 
responsible and accountable for whatever happened during his tenure as President". And Icheoku will like to add, that this includes the parcel-bombing of journalist Dele Giwa? Bravo Babangida! Kudos to you the evil one, the evil genius of Nigeria! Nigeria will forever vilify you for this stupidity and reckless disregard for the will of the millions of Nigerian electorates who for once freely decided on the candidacy of MKO Abiola as President of Nigeria; but which you thwarted. However, Icheoku says your confession is the way to go, IBB; one down and one more to go.
responsible and accountable for whatever happened during his tenure as President". And Icheoku will like to add, that this includes the parcel-bombing of journalist Dele Giwa? Bravo Babangida! Kudos to you the evil one, the evil genius of Nigeria! Nigeria will forever vilify you for this stupidity and reckless disregard for the will of the millions of Nigerian electorates who for once freely decided on the candidacy of MKO Abiola as President of Nigeria; but which you thwarted. However, Icheoku says your confession is the way to go, IBB; one down and one more to go. The question now is, when are you going to confess to your complicity or otherwise in the parcel-bomb assassination of Dele Giwa? Dele Giwa of Newswatch magazine, whom your henchmen killed to silence
his investigative effort to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of Gloria Okon; who was a victim of a cover-up dispatch. Anyway, Icheoku awaits that time when your ignoble self will also come around to make this once in a lifetime confession! Nigerians will finally exhale at that time and we pray it will be very soon. As for your aspiration or lack thereof to the presidency, just remember that you are no longer in uniform and that General Yakubu Gowon once ran for that office but was stopped cold by your one and only successful achievement, OPTION A4! May be a trial will convince you on how despicable you are in the eyes of Nigerians. Nigeria loathes and despises you for thumbing your nose on them on their historic June 12th, 1993. How dare you think that what you did to MKO Abiola will not turn around to hunt you? The chicken will finally come home to roost as soon as you declare your candidacy. What you denied MKO Abiola, you now want to enjoy? Dream on IBB! Nigeria will place you where you belong at the proper time, Mr. EVIL GENIUS!
his investigative effort to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of Gloria Okon; who was a victim of a cover-up dispatch. Anyway, Icheoku awaits that time when your ignoble self will also come around to make this once in a lifetime confession! Nigerians will finally exhale at that time and we pray it will be very soon. As for your aspiration or lack thereof to the presidency, just remember that you are no longer in uniform and that General Yakubu Gowon once ran for that office but was stopped cold by your one and only successful achievement, OPTION A4! May be a trial will convince you on how despicable you are in the eyes of Nigerians. Nigeria loathes and despises you for thumbing your nose on them on their historic June 12th, 1993. How dare you think that what you did to MKO Abiola will not turn around to hunt you? The chicken will finally come home to roost as soon as you declare your candidacy. What you denied MKO Abiola, you now want to enjoy? Dream on IBB! Nigeria will place you where you belong at the proper time, Mr. EVIL GENIUS!
June 12: Only IBB can say what happened – Tahir
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
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Second Republic Minister of Internal Affairs, Dr. Ibrahim Tahir, says unless former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida opens up on the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election, which results were announced recently by Prof. Humphrey Nwosu the truth will remain elusive.
Nwosu had said, at the launch of his book in Abuja recently, that Chief MKO Abiola scored over eight million votes to win the election which was later annulled. He, however, failed to say who voided the election and his comments had attracted widespread criticism.
Tahir told Daily Sun, in Bauchi, that he was not surprised that Nwosu exonerated Babangida, describing revelation in the controversial book as “wayward”.
According to him, Nwosu’s exposition remains an exercise in futility until Babangida opens up on who annulled the poll.
“It is apposite to say that we are in Nigeria becoming a little bit too wayward in presenting, or unearthing, or exposing, or dilating matters, which, in many political cultures, would have been subject to what we might call the 50th year rule, whereby certain epochal events are closed to public view until after 50 years,” he said.
Tahir, who is the Talban Bauchi, added: “We shall have to wait to know the truth and the full facts.”
He pointed out that June 12 annulment, “was a complicated situation of power play in which all sort of currents were playing. There was one current, which was floated by a lot of people saying after this vote, there should have been a continuation of the Babangida administration with a French type system of government and the winner of the election simply styled prime minister, in the French way, to work as a kind of staff for the president.
“There was another current, which said no, there should have been a more interim period controlled by civilians headed by Abiola himself as head of government business. Quite a lot happened after the ouster of Shonekan.It would not be easy to get to the bottom of this information until IBB himself speaks.”
The former minister observed that it does not do anybody any harm for Nwosu to have gone the way he did in his book.
He said: “A lot of people have reacted that IBB could not be absolved, that he was part of the military machinery. But that is the problem with leadership and which is what Africa has somehow not learnt to accept, which is that it doesn’t matter what happens, so to that extent you could not exonerate IBB, but in the details of what happened, different scenario might have been. But it would not be easy to get to the bottom of this information until IBB himself speaks.
“Key characters have gone, Abacha is gone; some of the key movers in the top echelon of the military have also died, so maybe we have to wait a little to know the full facts. In the meantime, anybody’s interpretation is as good as anybody’s.”