{"id":30291,"date":"2014-08-17T21:03:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T20:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30291"},"modified":"2014-08-17T21:03:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T20:03:25","slug":"2015-ibb-endorses-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2015-ibb-endorses-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: IBB endorses Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Retd), has given approval to the anticipated 2015 re-election bid of President Goodluck Ebele Jona\u00adthan, just as he urged Ni\u00adgerians to be patient with the president in his ef\u00adforts to tackle the myriad of problems facing the country.<\/div>\n
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In an interview with journal\u00adists at his Minna country home to mark his 73rd birthday, Ba\u00adbangida said there is nobody in Jonathan\u2019s shoes who would not take advantage of a second term.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWell, if you were in his shoes, won\u2019t you want to come back if you are there? If you believe in what you are doing, and you are doing well, why shouldn\u2019t you? I think we once got it right, and we can still get it right, and you guys have to get it right.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI think what is lacking is what I have always referred to as voter education, the level of understanding, the level of belief are still below what we expect. For instance, if you (the journalist) were elected as the governor of your state today, you should be able to take a sur\u00advey of whether people like you because you are doing well, but they may not like you because you are not fulfilling the prom\u00adises you made to them.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe only means is for the people to be patient and at the time of next election, the leader gets voted out. So, we have not reached the stage where the or\u00addinary voter would say no, as a matter of fact, their leaders have not done well, let us vote them out. Once you do that, I think in the next dispensation, somebody else would come in and I really hope we would reach that stage where ideas are the main issues, not which zone should produce X, Y, Z posi\u00adtions. I think this is still part of the little problems that we are facing.\u201d<\/div>\n
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As to what the old genera\u00adtion of leaders is doing about the multifarious problems con\u00adfronting the country, Baban\u00adgida said the leaders are doing a lot, and if there is any set of Nigerians who understand the<\/div>\n
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\u200eproblems of this country, they are those of them who have had the opportunity to be at the helm of affairs at various times in the life of the country.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWe know what the problem is, we appreciate what the Pres\u00adident is doing, and the best we can do, and what we are always doing is to be of help or assis\u00adtance to him in forms of advice, meetings, interaction and so on.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI think this is one of the luckiest countries, which has got seven living heads of state including interim head of gov\u00adernment, and we have always availed ourselves through the President and we have also ap\u00adpreciated the problems the Pres\u00adident, is facing, and because we were once there, we appreciate it more than any other person in the country. The best we could do is to always sit with him in an environment that is really conducive and then give him advice, and I think I am glad to say that we are doing the best we can to assist him, while we urge Nigerians to be patient with Mr. President.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI have always said that there would be Nigeria in 1,000 years to come and, therefore,everybody who has followed the history of this country would have observed that every administration from the late Tafawa Balewa period to the current regime, every administration had faced one challenge or the other during the course of it\u2019s time and this one cannot be the end because the last administration had its own challenge too. The impor\u00adtant thing is that we the people should strive hard to overcome the problem and then move for\u00adward. I think what is happening to us is not new in any develop\u00ading country.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Reacting to a question on the level of insecurity in the country, especially as it affects the abducted Chibok girls, the former leader responded thus: \u201cI am aware of what the gov\u00adernment is doing now, and I know that there is a lot of com\u00adpetition. It is no longer an issue that you could ask the military to move inside Sambisa forest and release these young girls.<\/div>\n
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