NewStats: 3,262,133 , 8,176,162 topics. Date: Saturday, 31 May 2025 at 09:37 PM 1w28l

She almost cried after the PM's remarks. They taught her a lesson

(Val Ozigbo) he who the gods want to kill...
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well said

Xisnin:

Pa Fasoranti himself started the tradition of appointing successor while alive when he appointed Ayo Adebanjo.
So, this statement is null and void.

Ask him ooo

yarimo:
IBB you are contradicting yourself, in your book you said abacha told you he don't want abiola a civilian to become his commander in chief, now why allowing shonikan a civilian to become abacha commander in chief knowing he won't accept it. Why leaving him with a civilian? Why didn't you retire him since he already told you this? IBB you are just lying to the dead who can't say his own side of the story

Small rogue. What do you know about inaugural speech?

Abacha wont take orders from Shonekan

ElSudani:

The military never left, Shonekan was basically their captive. I doubt if he could have done that without it leaking which would have made his exit much faster.
Babangida was indeed an evil genius.

he thinks Nigerians are mugu

ElSudani:
He knew Abacha would stage a coup but left him to provide "strength" for the interim government.

I knew my cat was hungry but I left him to protect the fresh fish I just cooked.

Nice.

Still very expensive. Something Tinubu met at N187 per litre now at almost N900

Wasted elephant project

Story story

They are lovers

Take her to Redemption Camp

Former chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN) says former Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) never wanted the late MKO Abiola to be sworn-in as president after winning the June 12 1993 presidential election.

In his autobiography titled ' A Journey In Service', Babangida had blamed the late General Sani Abacha largely for the annulment of the results of the June 12, 1993 presidential election which he (Babangida) now its was won by the late Abiola.

Babangida, who stepped aside as Head of State and installed the late Chief Ernest Shenekan as head of an Interim National Government on August 27, 1993 to run the nation’s affairs, denies speculations that there was a pact in place for the late Abacha to succeed him in office.


However, speaking in an interview with TheScrutinyNG, Sagay argued that putting the blame of the annulment squarely on Abacha as IBB did is not justified as he (IBB) was the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.


He further argued that IBB could have retired the late Abacha to render him powerless rather than promoting him as Minister of Defence, which was the most senior military position back then after the Head of State.

“By putting the blame on Abacha, he just doesn't want to accept responsibility. He was the Head of State, he was the Commander-in- Chief. He was the most powerful man in the country. I believe IBB let the country down with his actions over the annulment. If he wanted the election to be upheld and MKO Abiola to assume office and some Generals were opposing it, he could have retired them immediately”.


“If you retire a senior military officer, he is as powerless as the next civilian. There is nothing he can do again. He can't give an order to anybody. Rather than retire them, IBB was promoting Abacha as his Khalifa (successor). He was holding hands with him in public. When he was leaving, he made him Minister of Defence, in other words, he gave Abacha the authority to assume power as the most senior military person left behind”.


“IBB prepared the stage for Abacha to take over from him so there is no way he can blame Abacha. He must have known that Abacha will do what he did. So, he has no excuse. I think he didn't want Abiola as president but he didn't want to be the one to say so. So, he put it on the head of Abacha who is a more headstrong man and more honest man than IBB. IBB is the Artful Dodger, the Maradona. He wanted to dodge the June 12 annulment blame but he is solely responsible because the bucks stops on his desk”.


Sagay however commended Babangida for writing the autobiography, saying leaders should endeavour to write their stories so that people can gain deep insight into what transpired while they were in office and learn from their mistakes.


“Well, I think it is always very important that those who have held public office should public their autobiography and make it public so that the world can learn from their experiences and people can clarify hidden facts that were not clear before. No matter what you think of the person, one ought to know what went on when he was there”.


“So, I think it was a very good thing that IBB wrote his autobiography. One of my greatest regret was that Chief FRA Williams who played such a large role in our pre-independence life and in the early life of Western Region and the country did not write an autobiography. A lot of information was lost as a result of that”.

https://thescrutinyng.com/ibb-never-wanted-abiola-as-president-he-left-abacha-behind-to-do-the-job-sagay/

Tinubu should pity and find him something

Sounds true though

shortIGBOman:


Yes.
Ganduje just dey follow Tinubu so that he won't go to jail for stuffing Dollars in his Babanriga. But deep down inside him, he no like Tinibu

Nobody including Ganduje right

shortIGBOman:



Nobody likes Tinubu in the North. Those who pretend they like him are his political appointees from the North

They beat up his ers in Ogun state

happney65:
I very well. The Gap toothed General already had campaign offices throughout Nigeria. He opened his Ibadan office at Yemetu.

June 12 and others will forever be a saint on his memory.

Oloshi

Jester

Afenifere died the day Yinka Ogunmakin died

Read the article before commenting. It says September 2010

sweerychick:
I very well that year it was actually 2010 not 2011 shortly after Yaradua death, my uncle ( I won’t mention his name was part of IBB campaign managers) IBB shared billions, even Mike Adenuga owner of glo was part of IBB team, he was rumoured to be a front for IBB for Globacom. I think IBB withdrew because of Oputa report on him and he knew he won’t win.

Thr earlier Akpabio is Impeached, the better

That's not what we need. Use air force to locate terrorists hideouts and eliminate them

So they had semi-final and final primaries

yarimo:
He was defeated by ATIKU and in the main primaries Jonathan defeated ATIKU for PDP ticket

El rufai and northerners should field him in 2027

Late elderstatesman and Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, will be buried in his hometown, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, on May 3, 2025.

Adebanjo died on Friday February 14 at the age of 96.

This was contained in a statement signed by Ms Ayotunde Ayo-Adebanjo, Mrs Adeola Azeez, and Mr Obafemi Ayo-Adebanjo on behalf of his family.

According to the statement made available to TheScrutinyNG , proceedings will commence with a Day of Tributes/ Service of Song at Harbour Point, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The burial ceremony is scheduled for Friday, starting with the Wake at Adebanjo’s Country Home, Isanya Ogbo, ljebu Ode, Ogun state, followed by the interment and entertainment of guests at his country home.

A Thanksgiving service is scheduled for May 4 at St Phillips Anglican Church, lsanya Ogbo, ljebu Ode, Ogun state by 10am.

The statement urged friends, family , political and business associates, as well as the general public, to the family with prayers for a befitting burial.

It reads, “We covet your prayers for the family and your professional as we continue with preparations to give him a most befitting burial. We also look forward to your esteemed presence at all the events. Please accept the assurances of our highest regards.”
https://thescrutinyng.com/afenifere-leader-ayo-adebanjo-for-burial-may-3/

he financed several coups

Killerofpigs:
So Abiola the So called DEMOCRACT as Yoruba people claimed. Is a Bloody Coup plotter!!!
.So Abiola na Coupist..and very close friend to Abacha wey all of them dey Abuse

Yoruba people stay one place haba!!!

Beerfraud
Legendhero

Come here now!!!

This is what IBB said in the book:
He wrote: “It was heinously callous for Nzeogwu to have murdered Sir Ahmadu Bello and his wife, Hafsatu, because not only were they eminently adored by many but also because they were said not to have put up a fight. From that moment the putsch was infiltrated by “outsiders” to its supposed original intention and it took on an unmistakable ethnic coloration compounded by the fact that there were no related coup activities in the Eastern Region”- President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, ‘A Journey In Service: An Autobiography’, February 2025.

NairalandVDM:
Nairalanders , abeg how many of una don read the book? Help us confam wetin ffk yarn abeg

common thug. see his beer-filled belly like demola own

Very true.i think he still works for IBB. I saw him on the podium at the book launch

ElevationD:
Kaseem Afegbua was an insider too, in his capacity as PA to IBB for many years.

When will all these problems stop

So Abiola thought Abacha will plan coup and hand over to him?