{"id":174975,"date":"2025-08-19T08:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/farotimi-counters-adesina-on-ibbs-statesmanship"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:51:34","slug":"farotimi-counters-adesina-on-ibbs-statesmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/farotimi-counters-adesina-on-ibbs-statesmanship","title":{"rendered":"Farotimi Counters Adesina on IBB&#8217;s Statesmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has faulted the description of former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), as a statesman.<\/p>\n<p>Farotimi, in a post on X on Tuesday, said celebrating Babangida with such titles only helps to normalize the \u201cevils\u201d he claimed the former leader visited on Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot telling these ruinous cretins exactly what they are, contributes towards the normalization of the evils that they have visited on the people, and this mutual affirmation strategy is what has helped to sustain the evil. IBB is no statesman, and you can stop lying to yourself,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>His reaction followed a congratulatory message by the former president of the African Development Bank, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, who had hailed Babangida as one of Nigeria\u2019s \u201cforemost elder-statesmen\u201d in a birthday tribute.<\/p>\n<p>Adesina praised the former Head of State\u2019s \u201cpatriotic fervor, devotion and commitment to Nigeria\u2019s peace, unity and progress,\u201d while wishing him continued good health as he marked his 84th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Babangida, who ruled Nigeria from 1985 to 1993, celebrated his 84th birthday recently.<\/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. Human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has faulted the description of former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), as a statesman. Farotimi, in a post on X on Tuesday, said celebrating Babangida with such titles only helps to normalize the \u201cevils\u201d he claimed the former leader visited on Nigerians. \u201cNot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":174973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1220,9586,4222,254],"class_list":["post-174975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adesina","tag-farotimi","tag-ibb","tag-nigeria"],"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>Farotimi Counters Adesina on IBB&#039;s Statesmanship - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, has faulted the description of former military president, Gen. 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