However with his own supporters in Kaduna uneasy over the prospective choice in 2007 between Atiku Abubakar the current Vice-President and retired general and former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida no one is ruling out Buhari's chances of standing again or even of an appeal for popular support against the current government...
Vol 45 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Frontrunners vying to take over the governing People's Democratic Party after Obasanjo are Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and former military leader Ibrahim Babangida...
Since returning to power as civilian President in 1999 Obasanjo has overhauled the military dismissing any officers who had held political postings in the military regimes led by Generals Sani Abacha Ibrahim Babangida and Muhammadu Buhari...
Ibrahim Babangida look out from their hilltop mansions in Minna central Nigeria unperturbed by the furore over the elections elsewhere...
Ibrahim Babangida whose home base is in Minna the state capital...
Ibrahim Babangida whose voting intentions are a matter of consuming national interest...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
His main opponent the northern former military ruler Major General Muhammadu Buhari from the All Nigeria People's Party crucially lacks the support of powerful former President Ibrahim Babangida...
Ekwueme's 1 December declaration was made in Minna the fiefdom of ex-President Ibrahim Babangida (1985-1993)...
'IBB [former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida] will help to consume Obasanjo...