Date Published: 04/29/10

IBB, Oshiomole humiliated in Benin...Ex President sneeks out of venue

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Evil genius, and ex military president,  Ibrahim Babangida, and one of his campaign coordinators, , Edo state Governor, Adams Oshiomole, were on thursday in Benin city publicly humiliated, as the ploy by the latter to launch IBB through the backdoor backfired.

Oshiomole had under the guise of organizing a " one man one vote rally" invited pro-democracy activists including Prof Wole Soyinka, but at the end of the day, IBB was sneaked out of the venue when the likes of Festus Keyamo, ex NLC chairman Hassan Sumonu, Campaign for Democracy President, , Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, etc heaped rhetorical garbage on him, while Babangida and  Governors like Timipre Silva( Bayelsa). Liyel Imoke ( CrossRiver ), Rotimi Amechi ( Rivers) watched in disbelief and embarassment.

Earlier Soyinka, and the AC entourage made up of Bola Tinubu, Akande, Kayode Fayemi, and Lai Mohammed  who  expressed disgust at the con, left when they heard of the con by Oshiomole. 

Sumonu said " We must all resist Babangida and any future annulment. Whoever annuled June 12 election is the cause of the problem Nigeria is going through today"

Keyamo on his part said" we advocate one man one vote, we therefore protest Babangida's presence here. He annulled the June 12 elections"

Okei-Udumakin said" we need a public apology, we need to know why we lost MKO Abiola. and the June 12 mandate. We need to know why Babangida annuled the freest poll in our history "

Pointblanknews.com leant that after consulting with his host Babangida decided to sneak out of the venue even though he speech was designed by Oshiomole to be the high point as planned.

At airport, he said all those who took swipes at him were entitled to their opinions since we are in a democracy.