BABAGANA Kingibe has had it good. Nigeria has been quite fair and very kind to him. Even his Ordinary and Advanced Level education in London were paid for by the Nigerian authorities. In 1981, at 36, he was appointed Ambassador to Greece, then Pakistan and High Commissioner to Cyprus. Kingibe was Director General of the 1988 Constituent Assembly, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, one of the two official parties in 1990. He was Vice President-elect in 1993. That same year, his reward for betraying the Presidential Mandate was to be clothed in a Minister’s toga by the bloody Abacha regime first as Foreign Minister, then from 1995, as Minister of Internal Affairs and from 1997, Minister of Power and Steel.
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Instead of May 29 every year, Democracy Day will now be celebrated in Nigerian on June 12, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday. “I am delighted to announce that, after due consultations, the Federal Government has decided that henceforth, June 12 will be celebrated as Democracy Day,” Buhari said in a statement. Nigeria had its, […] …