CHECK OUT WHAT IBB IS SAYING ABOUT THE EMERGENCE OF AN IGBO MAN AS PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA

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Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, former military president of Nigeria has declared that he is willing to vote for an Igbo president in 2019.

Speaking in an interview with a magazine focused on leading professionals and politicians, IBB, as he is popularly called, described the agitation for Biafra republic as a distraction. Saying,

"We do not need this distraction now, I will vote for an Igbo president in 2019, if I find one."

He was quoted as saying.

He also revisited one of the most controversial issues involving him; the death of MKO Abiola, acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 election.

He said he recieved the news of his death with shock but without regret.

Responding to the question whether he believed that Abiola died of natural causes, Babangida said: “I should know? I didn’t serve the tea…!”

The retired general spoke on a range of issues bordering on his relationship With President Muhammadu Buhari, Vasta Mamman, his childhood friend who was executed on his orders, and that of late Sani Abacha, former military ruler.

Babangida also revealed how Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia state, arranged a meeting between him and Buhari in 2006.

"One thing you guys in the media want is for us to be exchanging words with each other each time we see."

He reportedly said.

He spoke on the two ‘most traumatic’ coups during his eight-year regime – the Mamman Vatsa and Gideon Orkar coups – revealing, for the first time, a meeting he had with Vatsa before his trial began.

The interview also covered Dele Giwa and the C130 Hercules plane crash in Ejigbo, which left 150 military officers dead.