Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki has described former military President General Ibrahim Babangida as one issue that continues to define Nigerian politics 23 years after leaving office.
Saraki, in a statement yesterday by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said Babangida’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development remained legendary and obvious across the landscape.
“From the political engineering his administration introduced, which encouraged young people, particularly, professionals; those in the private sector and Nigerians in the diaspora to join politics, to the two-party system which sought to eliminate ethnicity in politics and encourage manageable political platforms with national spread, the foot-prints of General Babangida remain visible everywhere.”
He added that Babangida, who clocked 75 on Wednesday, will be remembered by history as the one, whose administration helped to realise the dreams of the Murtala/Obasanjo regime in moving the nation’s capital to Abuja.
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Yes oladimeji but one thing is clear dey will not be buried with all this wealth and they will account for all this one day look how most of them die (cancer) dey would have use all there power and money to stop death where is Dele giwa,okon,abiola and this Senator dat suppose to be in kuje is speaking on behalf of 😈 evil genius I rest my case.
They are just birds of the same feather. Even a day old child knows there’s nothing legendary about the IBB and the senate president that’s speaking
In my own opinion, there is no legacy IBB left behind other than corruption and disorderliness and misrule. I do not think the Senate president has put up a fair analysis of the IBB’s years in office but that is equally his own opinion. But it is sad for people who hold such office mislead the public or the uninformed.