Former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), has remarked that the N40 billion naira budgeted for Crude Oil exploration in the Northeast by President Muhammadu Buhari, may not only resulted to efforts in futility, but be seen by an average Nigerian as systematic looting by trick.
IBB, who played host to a group, The Coalition of Nigeria Future Leaders, in his Minna country home over the weekend, explained that nothing survives massive destruction in the war front, as far as he knew as a retired general.
He said: “It was least expected of caliber of President Buhari to have even nurtured such unrealistic idea or embrace such destructive advice from any of his Aides or Ministers.
“President Buhari is a retired general and a trained combatant in whom I never believed such move or plan could survive a day.”
The group was on a courtesy visit to the retired general and one of the nation’s statesmen, to officially notify him of his new appointment as the group grand patron.
In his opening remarks, the leader of the group, Comrade Edison Godwin, appreciated the spirit of statesmanship in General Ibrahim Babangida, as he described his silence in the present APC-led federal government as golden and meaningful.
He said no one can compare the retired general to his colleagues who have retired and yet get involved in dirty politics around the Southwest.
