Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida has denied reports that he had thrown his support for former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections.
He was reported to have done so through a Twitter account: @General Ibbro, through which he purportedly tweeted the said support on Tuesday.
The tweet read: “Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo will forever be a true elder statesman and a boss in the military. No serving General in the Nigerian Army today joined the military earlier than 1982. By then, Obasanjo had already finished his military career. I respect him a lot, with his endorsement.”
But in a riposte when contacted, the former military leader’s spokesperson, Prince Kassim Afegbua, denied that Babangida tweeted the message.
He also said that IBB had not endorsed Obi.
Afegbua cleared all doubts when he declared that “IBB does not have a Twitter account.”
Read him: “It is not true please. Ignore the report of the endorsement. IBB doesn’t have a Twitter handle. If he is going to speak, it will be through a signed statement, not Twitter. Those behind the Twitter statement are liars.”
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