The City Reporters
IBB
Weeks after endorsing the candidacy of President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 election, former military president Ibrahim Babangida, has taken a u-turn to declare his support for Mohammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“All of us will support you in this course to salvage this country,” IBB, as Babangida is popularly called, told Buhari who came calling on his Niger resident, Monday.
IBB had earlier declared the same support for the incumbent president, a member of his own party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Babangida had on December 27 called for support for President Goodluck Jonathan when the president visited him in Minna.
“Anybody who means well for this country should support the President to make sure that Nigeria survives as a united country,” IBB told Jonathan.
“What I will say is simple: The President means well for this country and he is working well for this country,” he had said.
However, Babangida may have finally ditched the president for a fellow quondam head of state in the person of Buhari.
The Monday declaration of support for Buhari could hurt the chances of the President in the North.
President Jonathan seems to have lost the support of former president and political godfather, Olusegun Obasanjo who has accused the president of corruption, impunity and economic mismanagement.
