Femi Adesina, President Muhammadu Buhari’s special adviser on media and publicity, has disclosed that he had a long-standing disdain for former Nigerian military ruler Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB).
Adesina asserted that he thought Babangida’s 1985 palace coup to depose Buhari was motivated by self-interest.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, in August 1985, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was overthrown by several Armed Forces officers under the leadership of Major-General Ibrahim Babangida, who was then the Chief of Army Staff and had already seized power in a coup in 1983.
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Adesina, who on Thursday wrote a flattering essay about the recently dead Duro Onabule, who served as IBB’s chief press secretary during his administration, claimed that Babangida’s behavior following the death of his own mother softened him.
He claimed that even though he opposed IBB, Onabule never held his disapproval of his own principle against him.
In the words of Adesina, “I had been incurably opposed to IBB, simply because of my love for Buhari. I believed he did us in, simply to satisfy a personal ambition. And I took a trenchant position against him as a columnist, till he showed me friendship and goodwill in 2013, when my mother died. He saw the news in the media, and placed a phone call to me. He also sent a high powered personality to the burial. I softened.
“All the while I was opposed to his principal, Chief Onabule never took it against me. He would only say; you this young man, only God would settle the matter between you and IBB. And laugh.”
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