Mr. Rights Blog

Mr Rights has gathered that People’s Trust, a mega party led by former president of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), which has members and political groups, including the Third Force led by former president Olusegun Obasanjo has identified the Presidential candidate of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), Mr Gbenga Olawepo Hashim as a possible presidential candidate of the third force, sources claimed. The third force coalition is holding a meetings today and tomorrow in Lagos, Nigeria to resolve on the candidate of the coalition. In a statement by the party’s national secretary, Mallam Naseer Kura, the party’s first national convention, billed for today and tomorrow in Lagos, would be headlined by Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka. Recall that on 3rd October 2018, 593 delegates of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) at its national convention held in Abuja endorsed Olawepo Hashim as its authentic presidential candidate. The party also ratified its strategic Alliance ...

IBB DEBUNKS STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT BUHARI My attention has been drawn to a report making rounds especially online in which I was quoted as advising Nigerians not to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the coming 2019 election. Not only is the said statement untrue, it is in its entirety, an inaccurate representation of my view of the state of our dear Nation. As a former President and an elder statesman, I have existing communication channels through which I reach out to President Muhammadu Buhari on topical issues of national importance, should there be the need so to do. The media, both online or mainstream and indeed the unsuspecting public are advised to disregard such false reports. Thank you and God Bless you all. Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Rtd) (GCFR) Former Military President Federal Republic of Nigeria Hilltop Mansion Minna, Niger state. 4th February 2018

The dust raised by an open letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo is yet to settle and the nation has been hit with another bomb shell from another ex-president, Ibrahim Babangida, who has also advised President Muhammadu Buhari to step down after his first tenure in 2019. IBB in the statement signed on his behalf by his spokesman, Prince Kassim Afegbua said it was a thing of irony that the country that himself and other Nigerians fought to keep together is daily being drawn to the seems by the flow of blood across the land. Full Statement “In the past few months and weeks, I have played host to many concerned Nigerians who have continued to express legitimate and patriotic worry about the state of affairs in the country. Some of them have continued to agonize about the turn of events and expressly worried why we have not gotten our leadership compass right as a country with so much potential and opportunity for all. Some, out of frustration, have elected to interrogate t...