IBB denies leaving consensus
Former military
ruler, Ibrahim Babangida’s campaign organization has denied media
reports that it had jettisoned the consensus arrangement reached
between him and some northern candidates and would run in the 2011
elections.
Campaign
spokesperson, Kazeem Afegbua, said in a statement that a front page
news report published by a daily on December 5 was false. “Members of
the IBB 2011 presidential campaign organization are already being
accommodated in the Amalgamated Atiku Campaign Organization to give the
necessary support to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in the forthcoming People’s
Democratic Party primaries,” he stated. “Journalists need to be very
thorough and profound in their news reportage. They must at all times
crosscheck their facts and figures in order not to mislead members of
the public who rely on their news item for one purpose or the other.”
The organisation maintained that Mr Babangida was not contemplating
leaving the consensus agreement because its rationale was still very
much in place. “Nobody should assume the role of an unauthorized
spokesman for the erstwhile Campaign Organisation of General IBB,”
stated Mr Afegbua. “Should there be need to give any further directive,
we will use the appropriate organs to do so.”
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