ibb rekindles war with obasanjo

Date: 08-09-2011 6:56 pm (12 years ago) | Author: ayo ogundele
- at 8-09-2011 06:56 PM (12 years ago)
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after weeks of recess in the verbal war between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-Military President Ibrahim Babangida, the battle appeared to have resumed yesterday with General Babangida insisting
that General Obasanjo's administration was characterized by high level squandering of the nation's money.


 
*IBB and OBJ
 Babangida also said yesterday that he never recanted his earlier statement made on Obasanjo before his birthday, noting that he still stands by the contents of that interview where he made allusion to the squander-mania that characterized Chief Obasanjo's government with particular reference to the $16 billion dollars reportedly wasted on a fruitless power project, as revealed by the National Assembly power probe panel.

In a statement issued yesterday on behalf of General Babangida by his media spokesperson, Prince Kassim Afegbua, he said, "we have read several news reports suggesting that former President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, recanted his comments on former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.


He wishes to state very clearly and without fear of contradiction that there is nothing like "recant" on his part. What General IBB stated on the 30th August, 2011 was that the media misquoted him on his earlier interview granted prior to his birthday of 17th August, 2011. The contents of the newspapers' reports were different from the screaming headlines that were carried. That perhaps informed Chief Olusegun Obasanjo's misplaced outburst to the effect of calling General IBB a fool at 70.

"General IBB still stands by the contents of that interview where he made allusion to the squander-mania that characterized Chief Obasanjo's government with particular reference to the $16billion dollars reportedly wasted on a fruitless power project, as revealed by the National Assembly power probe panel. There was nothing extra-ordinary in what General IBB said to warrant Chief Obasanjo's outburst and scathing remarks on the person of General Babangida.

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