Nigeria: Ibrahim Babangida At 85 - A Conversation With History

Nigeria: Ibrahim Babangida At 85 - A Conversation With History

"I was very surprised," my friend said over the phone, "to see your endorsement of General Ibrahim Babangida's autobiography--and on the front cover, no less."

Ibrahim Babangida at 85: A Conversation with History, By Kingsley Moghalu

“I was very surprised,” my friend said over the phone, “to see your endorsement of General Ibrahim Babangida’s autobiography—and on the front cover, no less.” “And why are you surprised?” I asked. “I thought you were a democrat,” he replied heatedly. “This man was a military dictator!” He then launched into the June 12 debacle: the annulment of the 1993 presidential election results and the truncation of the military government’s own transition …