SAN FRANCISCO, October 17, (THEWILL) – Former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, on Monday warned political actors against playing politics of rancour and division, urging them to eschew unpatriotic tendencies.
Speaking while receiving some of the founding fathers and members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at his hilltop residence in Minna, the Niger State capital, he stated that politics should be used as a uniting factor.
“The sacrifices we made to unite the country, politicians should be able to sustain the shocks and upheavals in whatever ways to unify the country more.
“We fought a war and remained united, therefore, politics should always be geared towards the unity of the country,’’ he said.
Those who paid the visit were members of a former Minister of Education, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, for the campaign team for the national chairman of the party.
Babangida, who is a founding member of the PDP, assured Adeniran that he would always be with likeminds to guide the party and gave his blessings, describing the Ekiti State-born academician cum politician as a “capable hand”.
Members of the delegation included: Prof. Jerry Gana; former Kano State governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau; Senator Ibrahim Mantu; former Minister of Women Affairs, Hajiya Zainab Maina; Hajiya Inna Ciroma and Alhaji Shehu Gabam.
IBB counseled them to be focused in their political activities and work hard for the unity of the country instead of engaging in acts that are capable of disuniting the country.
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