Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, has distanced himself from a connection accredited to him connected X. IBB was quoted to person said that Nigeria had the champion years nether military, and that ideology made things worse for the nation.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
He denied the comments successful a connection from the IBB Media Office signed by Alhaji Mahmoud Abdullahi.
The connection read, “Our attraction has been drawn to a station connected a parody relationship connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, which carries the handle, @General_Ibbro, successful which erstwhile President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, GCFR, was expected to person endorsed the virtues of subject regularisation implicit antiauthoritarian governance.
“This dubious relationship carries our principal’s representation and name, and the overgarment of arms of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for added effect, but it does not beryllium to him, nor does the erstwhile President authorisation immoderate station appearing there.
“In the past, and much famously during the statesmanlike elections past year, it posted a blatant falsehood that the erstwhile President had endorsed a peculiar statesmanlike campaigner and his party, thereby causing nationalist disorder and immoderate embarrassment to the elder statesman.
“We privation to state, unequivocally, that neither the Twitter oregon X account, which is fundamentally a parody oregon unreal account, nor the connection made therein, ever belonged to the retired General.
“General Babangida genuinely believes that the epoch of subject involution successful Nigeria’s authorities is agelong gone and helium has said however arrogant helium is that the Nigerian subject has stood firmly down aggregate antiauthoritarian governments successful this state since 1999, frankincense giving america the longest tally of civilian medication since independence.
“The idiosyncratic of this unfortunate parody account, which we stitchery was traditionally expected to beryllium an relationship that imitates oregon astatine slightest reflector the sentiments of the archetypal twitter oregon X relationship that it copies, has serially chosen to usage the relationship to undermine ideology and dispersed stories susceptible of causing animosity.”
The connection advised the wide nationalist to disregard immoderate station from the X relationship that purportedly claims to correspond IBB’s sentiment adding, “Sadly, determination seems precise small we tin bash to marque the overseers of X oregon twitter to region oregon authorisation the tiresome account.
“In future, we sincerely anticipation that our media practitioners and societal media users volition beryllium much discerning and marque the indispensable efforts to get confirmation earlier sharing messages attributed to erstwhile President Babangida connected X connected immoderate societal media platform.”