In 2010 gross domestic product growth was just 3% compared to 19% under Ibrahim Babangida in 1991...
Mayson is very close to Nigerian former military ruler General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida who local reports said helped to finance Johnson Sirleaf’s 2005 campaign...
IBB and OBJ fear revenge Former leaders such as Ibrahim Babangida and Obasanjo will seek to win over the successful candidate to ensure they are not called to account...
Its presidential candidate then was Olu Falae a Yale-trained economist and former Secretary of Finance in Ibrahim Babangida’s military regime...
Despite their promises northern PDP heavyweights such as Ibrahim Babangida Aliyu Mohammed Gusau and Abubakar Bukola Saraki failed to back Atiku...
To complicate matters another northern contender former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida has launched a legal case against what he claims is Jonathan’s unconstitutional bid for the presidency in breach of party rules...
Security officers then arrested Raymond Dokpesi manager of the former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida’s campaign for the PDP nomination...
Although Jonathan's office dismissed Okah's claims as fantasy the political temperature is rising ahead of the ruling People's Democratic Party's primary elections that will pit Jonathan against three northern candidates - former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former head of military intelligence Aliyu Mohammed Gusau...
All of the candidates have held power and the two frontrunners – former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida (aka IBB) and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar – had controversial tenures which saw them forced from power...
