ready to vote for an Igbo president in 2019.
In a chat with The Interview, a magazine focused on leading
professionals and politicians, IBB, as he is fondly called,
described the agitation for Biafra republic as a distraction.
“We do not need this distraction now,” he was quoted
as
saying, adding that, “I will vote for an Igbo president in
2019, if I find one.”
According to Azu Ishiekwene, managing director of The
Interview, the retired general also spoke on his relationship
With President MuhammaduBuhari, Vasta Mamman, IBB’s
childhood friend who was
executed on his orders, and Sani Abacha, former military
ruler.
Ishiekwene said the magazine, will be out next week.
Babangida was also said to have revealed how Orji Uzor Kalu,
former governor of Abia state, arranged a meeting between
him and Buhari in 2006.
“One thing you guys in the media want is for us to be
exchanging words with each other each time we see,” he
reportedly said.
Ishiekwene added that “Babangida spoke on the two ‘most
traumatic’ coups during his eight-year regime – the Mamman
Vatsa and Gideon Orkar coups – revealing, for the first time,
a meeting he had with Vatsa before his trial began.
“The interview also covered Dele Giwa and the C130 Hercules
plane crash in Ejigbo, which left 150 military officers dead.”
A statement issued by Ishiekwene, revealed that Femi Falana,
notable human rights lawyer, also spoke with The Interview.
“In the same edition, frontline lawyer and Senior Advocate
of Nigeria, Femi Falana, spoke on why he was dropped from
the ministerial list, while the new President of Mauritius,
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, gave African leaders some homework
to do,” the statement read.
“The edition also features interviews with leading South
African Editor-In-Chief of City Press, Ferial Haffajee;
young prodigy and Bill Gates scholar at Oxford, Ify Aniebo;
and the D-G of NIMASA, Haruna Baba Jauro, with an
extended version of Interview
Confidential, the inside news in whispers.”
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