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Short of endorsing one-time military President, General Ibrahim Babangida for 2007 presidential polls, Ghanaian former President John Jerry Rawlings has said �IBB is qualified� to return to Aso Rock Presidential Villa via election, even as he disclosed that Babangida�s intervention in 1985 prevented a bloody revolution that would have swept a generation of leaders. Rawlings, speaking in an exclusive interview with Daily Independent last week in Abuja, said: �I think he is as competent as any other citizen ...but what is in it really? Wasn�t Obasanjo a Head of State as a military man? If Obasanjo was able to do it, why can�t IBB as a military man? The four-time Ghanaian leader also threw some light on how to stop coup d�etat in Africa, advising the leaders to involve the military in governance. Commenting on his role while in government vis-a-vis his associates who are still in power,Rawlings said that they were prepared to face trial after they would have left the office in 2004. Rawlings, who attended Babangida�s daughter�s wedding recently, said of Babangida: �We�ve been quite through some trying times together; what with Liberia, the internal situations that we faced in our countries, our involvement in 1979 (the Ghanaian coup) and subsequently what happened here. (Guardian) |
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