General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB)

After the civil war ended in 1970 Israel reinforced military and diplomatic cooperation with the victorious federal government in Nigeria providing security and intelligence assistance to successive northern Muslim leaders including Generals Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Babangida...

1990 – August – The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) submits the Ogoni Bill of Rights to General Ibrahim Babangida's military government demanding regional autonomy...

Their annulling by General Ibrahim Babangida was followed by a palace coup led by Gen Sani Abacha who presided over the country's most brutal and corrupt military regime to date...

PDP leaders backed by northern stalwarts such as Sadiq Ango Abdullahi and former military leader Gen Ibrahim Babangida voted for former President of the Senate Bukola Saraki and governor of Bauchi State Bala Mohammed as two 'consensus candidates' for the party's presidential ticket...

Instead the contenders will mainly be drawn from those who came to national prominence after General Ibrahim Babangida's annulling of the presidential elections in 1993...

1992: The military regime under General Ibrahim Babangida sets up the first SARS unit with that name under the Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department in the NPF...

As military governor of Sokoto State under Ibrahim Babangida's regime Magashi also belonged to the 'kitchen cabinet' of the dictator Sani Abacha commanding the Brigade of Guards Abacha's personal protection unit...

The other executive insider will be the new Defence Minister Major-General Bashir Salihi Magashi a lawyer and former commander of the Brigade of Guards who held senior posts in the military juntas of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha (AC Vol 60 No 15 The Gang of 43 breaks cover)...

These include retired general Bashir Salihi Magashi (Kano 70) whose last stint in government was thirty years ago as military governor of Sokoto State during General Ibrahim Babangida's regime...

General supportThe arrival of former head of military intelligence General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau on the second day of the congress telling PDP officials that he and his fellow northern generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar would support Atiku's campaign if he got the nomination was the final boost...