Rogue Candidate: Former Military Dictator, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida
Members of a group campaigning for the emergence of the former military dictator, Gen Ibrahim Babangida, as President in 2011 were on Saturday stranded in Minna, the Niger State capital.
Members of the group, Campaign Network for IBB, from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, arrived in Minna on Friday for a meeting on the general’s ambition.
Most of the participants, who spoke in an interview with our correspondent in Minna, lamented what they described as neglect on the part of the organisers of the event.
They alleged that no arrangement was made for their accommodation, feeding and transportation.
Investigations by our correspondent revealed that IBB’s campaigners in 2003 and 2007 during the immediate past administration of Alhaji Abdulkhadir Kure, were ccommodated at the state-owned Shiroro Hotel.
One of the delegates, who came from Kwara State, Mr. Shittu Mohammed, while lamenting their fate disclosed to our correspondent that against the practice during Kure ’s administration none of them was given any money nor arrangements made for their accommodation.
According to him, “We are really disappointed. In the past during the previous administration of Alhaji Kure whenever we were in Minna, we were sure of a very befitting accommodation in Shiroro Hotel with free food, at the end of the exercise.
“When we are coming for this programme, the vehicle we chartered developed a fault just after Jebba. Some of our delegates had to turn back and the four of us who managed to get to Minna had to pair in an unbefitting hotel with two male and two female sleeping in a room”.
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