4th January, 2011
By Aliyu Musa/Minna
The campaign posters of Mohammed Babangida, son of former military dictator, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, have flooded Minna, the Niger State capital.
The posters are pasted around Minna Central Mosque, Hilltop Road that leads to the General’s Hilltop mansion, Mobil Round About and Total Filling Station both on Bosso road.
For the past two weeks the posters have flooded these major parts of the city and other places. Though there is no clear-cut political office Mohammed is seeking as indicated on the posters, he is said to be gunning for either a seat in the House of Representatives or the Senate.
The posters are said to have been printed by a faceless group whose spokesman told our correspondent that they want Mohammed to take a shot at the House of Reps or the Senate as compensation for the failure of his father to contest this year’s presidential election due to the consensus arrangement that gave former Vice President Atiku Abubakar the upper hand as Northern candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP.
Sources said Mohammed is being prepared to take over from Muazu Babangida Aliyu as governor of Niger State in 2014. Aliyu is the incumbent governor who is gunning for a second term in the April general elections.
However, a member of the Babangida family, Alhaji Adamu Aliyu, has dissociated the family from the posters, saying they have nothing to do with the posters.
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