Ibrahim Babangida and the Abubakar lobby is advertising its candidate's presidential qualities every day in the local press...
The clear frontrunners are former military leader General Ibrahim Babangida and former military state governor Colonel Mohammed Marwa...
It's conceivable that both former military leader Ibrahim Babangida and current Vice-President Atiku Abubakar might be persuaded to cooperate given certain assurances of a political and personal kind...
Former military ruler and presidential candidate in 2007 Ibrahim Babangida is close to Mike Adenuga of Devcom bank Conoil and Globacom...
Obasanjo must repay political debts to his forerunner Ibrahim Babangida and to state governors such as Peter Odili who faces allegations of corruption and thuggery by supporters of the Niger Delta rebel leader Mujahid Dokubo Asari...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Battle lines for 2007 are already being drawn between Vice President Atiku Abubakar former President Ibrahim Babangida and Mohammed Buba Marwa with little popular enthusiasm...
NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT General Ibrahim Babangida Head of State August 1985-August 1993...
Ibrahim Babangida between 1986 and 1993...
However with his own supporters in Kaduna uneasy over the prospective choice in 2007 between Atiku Abubakar the current Vice-President and retired general and former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida no one is ruling out Buhari's chances of standing again or even of an appeal for popular support against the current government...
