2015: WHOEVER WILL EMERGE PRESIDENT MUST RECEIVE MY BLESSING –IBB

Former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida yesterday said any 2015 presidential candidate would have to receive his blessings before emerging president of the country.

Gen. Babangida also explained how former President Olusegun Obasanjo was installed in 1999 as president, saying he was the best candidate at the time to fix the nation.

Babangida, featuring on ‘Guest of the Week’ on Liberty Radio (91.7), Kaduna said, he was the founding father of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and he would never disown the party.

He further commended the emergence of the All Progressives Congress, APC, pointing out that the merger was good for the polity and the unity of the country.

His words: “I will belong to those who will choose a credible candidate, a candidate that can lead this country. It is not difficult to find. Out of one hundred and seventy million people, there must be a candidate, that is what the constitution provides. If the party is silly and chooses the wrong candidate, the ordinary person is not silly. He knows ‘this man cannot lead me’, so he won’t vote for him. If you choose a wrong candidate, he stands the chance of losing.”

“The emergence of Obasanjo came about as a result of what happened in the country. The country was in a very serious crises and we had to find the solution to these problems. Therefore, we needed a leader, that leader who is known in the country. We did not believe in foisting somebody who is not known, so we looked for a man who had been involved in the affairs of this country, who held position either in the military or in the cabinet who had certain beliefs about Nigeria.

All of us that were trained in the armed forces, there is one belief that you cannot take away from us; we believe in this country because this is part of our training. We fought for this country, so when you have a situation like hast, you need a leader that has all these attributes, and quite frankly, he quickly came to mind, Babangida explained.”

The former military president maintained: “If Buhari and Jonathan become candidates, both of them will have to sell their ideas to us, the ordinary people, we (the voters) and they have not done that. I have enough time to think and I am thinking and they will be anxious to come and see me. They will visit me or any other person. This is what I intend to do. We are talking about a new and emergent scenario, so I will wait and see.”

Source: National Mirror