The Senator representing Abia North Senatorial district, Sen.Orji Kalu has congratulated former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) on the occasion of his 82nd birthday anniversary.
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As Gen Babangida willingly restructured Nigeria from a state-run enterprise to a private sector-led economy, “the government should voluntarily restructure from a federal government-controlled entity to a more diversified control structure”.
In a goodwill message on the occasion of Babangida’s 80th birthday anniversary on Tuesday, 17th of August, Atiku stated that Babangida established a record of an inclusive government that reflected Nigeria’s ethnic and religious diversity.
Last Friday, while fielding questions from the Arise TV, self-styled military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, attempted to borrow the tool of satirists to analyze the decay in Nigerian leadership and the Buhari government’s love to go the way of traducers of Ojewumi. IBB, mostly likely accidentally, then zeroed in on satire to critique the government of Buhari while ostensibly dwelling on the manoeuvring, undulating curve of Nigeria’s leadership. His most subtle but profound pillory of Buhari in that interview was his largely satirical analysis of the persona of Nigeria’s widely vilified president from Daura. If you discover the satire in that analysis, you would realize that not for nothing did the Nigerian media nickname Babangida the evil genius.
He said this when he and Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger, visited IBB at the UpHill Mansion to felicitate with him on his 78th birthday in Minna on Monday.
Babangida, popularly called IBB, made the remark on Saturday at his Hilltop residence in Minna, while entertaining guests during his 78 birthday anniversary.
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Shittu, who made the remark on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said since the former Nigerian leaders “are not God, there should be no apprehension’’.
Hassan quoted Babangida as saying it when he received members of the House of Representatives, led by the speaker, in his Hiltop residence in Minna on Saturday
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The second lesson, he said, was that there is reward in perseverance and hard work as exhibited by Buhari, who has contested the country’s presidential election several times in the past
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The former military leader, who arrived in a chartered flight, landed at the Minna International Airport at about 2:50pm, spotting a navy blue Kaftan with golden stripes and a cap to match
General Babangida, who spoke with newsmen over the telephone at the residence of the Niger State Governor, Dr. Muazu Babangia Aliyu, in Tunga, Minna, when General Abdulsalami Abubakar paid the governor a Sallah homage, said: “I will be back very soon
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