Since returning to power as civilian President in 1999 Obasanjo has overhauled the military dismissing any officers who had held political postings in the military regimes led by Generals Sani Abacha Ibrahim Babangida and Muhammadu Buhari...
Ibrahim Babangida look out from their hilltop mansions in Minna central Nigeria unperturbed by the furore over the elections elsewhere...
Ibrahim Babangida whose home base is in Minna the state capital...
Ibrahim Babangida whose voting intentions are a matter of consuming national interest...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
His main opponent the northern former military ruler Major General Muhammadu Buhari from the All Nigeria People's Party crucially lacks the support of powerful former President Ibrahim Babangida...
Ekwueme's 1 December declaration was made in Minna the fiefdom of ex-President Ibrahim Babangida (1985-1993)...
'IBB [former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida] will help to consume Obasanjo...
And Nigeria's wealthiest and most influential kingmaker another retired general and military leader Ibrahim Babangida may well offer money to both sides...
The chief sponsor of the new party movement is Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida the former military leader who bankrolls the United National Democratic Party (UNDP) run by the veteran Kano politician and oil tycoon Saleh Jambo...