Politics: Babangida Threatens Buhari

A few hours after President Goodluck Jonathan and ex-Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari took a swipe at former leaders, ex-Military President Ibrahim Babangida fired back.


He asked Dr. Jonathan to learn to accept criticisms and threatened to expose the “holier-than thou-attitude” of Gen. Buhari.

Gen. Babangida, who spoke through Prince Kassim Afegbua, his media adviser, reminded Gen. Buhari that those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. He also advised Dr. Jonathan to look elsewhere, not him, if he is blaming past leaders that are criticising him.
Kassim said: “On President Jonathan, there is nothing wrong in criticism if it is constructive and in the interest of the country. Gen. Babangida is one unique former President who does not criticise a sitting President as a matter of courtesy.

“If President Jonathan is blaming past leaders, he should look elsewhere, certainly not IBB. “On Gen. Buhari, it is not in IBB’s tradition to take up issues with his colleague former President. But for the purpose of record, we are conversant with Gen. Buhari’s so-called holier-than-thou attitude. “He is a one-time Minister of Petroleum and we have good records of his tenure as minister.

“Secondly, he also presided over the Petroleum Trust Fund ( PTF) which records we also have. “We challenge him to come out with clean hands in those two portfolios he headed. Or, we will help him to expose his. “records of performance during those periods.” “Those who live in glass houses do not throw stones. Gen. Buhari should be properly guided.”

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Olympics: It’s Disappointing We Didn't Get Any Medal From The London Olympics – IBB

 Former military president Gen. Ibrahim Babangida has also joined in the fray and called not only for the immediate overhaul of the sports administration in the country but also insisted that preparation for the 2016 Games in Brazil should begin immediately.

Answering questions from sports writers in his Hill Top mansion, Minna yesterday, Gen. Babangida said, it was disappointing that the country ended without any medal at the just concluded Olympics in London.

“I think the sports administration needs to be strongly looked into and overhauled. We should also stop this our last minute preparation towards various championships as it cannot work,” the former military president advised.

Gen. Babangida described the outing as unfortunate especially with the resources, sports personnel and talents that abound in the country adding, however, that Nigeria can still reclaim its lost glory in sports if necessary steps were taken.

“ We have the people; we have the talents, the facilities are there and what we need to do is to upgrade them to world standard. It is on record that we have done well and ruled the world in sports before and we can still do it with adequate preparations” IBB remarked.

He said with the recent dismal outing, the country, especially, the sports administrators and other stakeholders must have learnt bitter lessons pointing out that the only path to success in anything, especially sports is good preparation saying, “The best time to start that preparation is now.”

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