IBB an issue in Nigerian politics, says Saraki

IBB an issue in Nigerian politics, says Saraki

by Joseph Anthony
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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 Babangidaโ€™s contributions to the nationโ€™s socio-economic development remained legendary and obvious across the landscape.

โ€œFrom 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.โ€

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 nationโ€™s capital to Abuja.

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