{"id":151881,"date":"2025-02-20T21:21:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler"},"modified":"2025-02-20T23:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:53:40","slug":"i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler","title":{"rendered":"I thought IBB would jail me \u2014 Tinubu recalls confrontation with former military ruler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Tinubu has recounted how former Military Head of State Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, gave him a handshake after he confronted him over the postponement of the inauguration of the then Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the launch of Babangida\u2019s memoir, \u201cA Journey of Service,\u201d in Abuja on Thursday, Tinubu stated, \u201cwithout you (IBB), people like me would not be in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cOne thing I cannot forget\u2014you were in office, you recalled that we were elected, yet you kept postponing the inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou summoned us to Abuja, and we became rancorous. I did not expect to speak; I only planned to listen, convinced in my radical manner that this man would delay the inauguration again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut before we returned to the hotel, the doors were locked, no keys. Then, when I was summoned by Dele Cole to make a remark, I confronted you. I told you that you had an opportunity to make history that day, and you failed to do it. Why not inaugurate us? Why were you calling us back and postponing the inauguration again?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought I would end up in jail. But at the end of the remark, you stood up and shook my hand. I will never forget that. You said, \u2018You\u2019re courageous.\u2019 That was an inspiration that had a profound impact on my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Bola Tinubu has recounted how former Military Head of State Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, gave him a handshake after he confronted him over the postponement of the inauguration of the then Senate. Speaking at the launch of Babangida\u2019s memoir, \u201cA Journey of Service,\u201d in Abuja on Thursday, Tinubu stated, \u201cwithout you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":151880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[4222,254,945],"class_list":["post-151881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-ibb","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I thought IBB would jail me \u2014 Tinubu recalls confrontation with former military ruler - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu has recounted how former Military Head of State Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, gave him a handsh ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I thought IBB would jail me \u2014 Tinubu recalls confrontation with former military ruler\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu has recounted how former Military Head of State Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, gave him a handsh ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-20T20:21:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-20T22:53:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740076098.84348.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"563\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"I thought IBB would jail me \u2014 Tinubu recalls confrontation with former military ruler\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-20T20:21:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-20T22:53:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler\"},\"wordCount\":249,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/02\/sm_1740076098.84348.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"IBB\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/i-thought-ibb-would-jail-me-tinubu-recalls-confrontation-with-former-military-ruler\",\"name\":\"I thought IBB would jail me \u2014 Tinubu recalls confrontation with former military ruler - 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