|
IBB groups intact,
campaigners insist
By Sola Shittu
Reporter, Ibadan
Project 007, a group
campaigning for the election of former military president, Ibrahim
Badamasi Babangida, in 2007, has denied media reports of a crack in its
ranks, describing the report in some media as a figment of the imagination
of detractors.
Addressing a press conference
in Ibadan, the Deputy Secretary General of the group, Princess Bisi
Sangodoyin, dismissed the former leader of the group, Mr. Remi Tella, who
allegedly defected to Marwa�s campaign organisation, MAP 007, as nobody in
the IBB group.
�I can tell you that no member
has left Project 007. It�s all a figment of their imagination. I wonder
how someone who has never been a member of a group could defect from a
group he doesn�t belong. We don�t have any Remi Tella as a member of
Project 007. All our members are loyal people,� she said.
She described the defectors as
a group of people trying to make name through frivolous means and which
should not be encouraged.
Ogundoyin added that those of
them who are in Project 007 are satisfied with the candidature of General
Ibrahim Babangida for the 2007 presidency.
�Project 007 is a group
composed of people of like minds and a coalition of political parties as
well as professionals championing the course of former president, Ibrahim
Babangida, to come back to power in 2007,� said Ogundoyin.
She explained further that the
group has done its homework and found that the present political climate
favours Babangida�s come back bid.
Similarly, the IBB Vision
2007, another campaign organisation, described the Tella-led group as
political prostitutes who were only trying to seek relevance.
The group in a statement
issued by Mr Goke Owoeye said: �We can authoritatively assure Marwa camp
that those dubious coordinators who claimed to have crossed carpet to his
group would still abandon Marwa camp after they might have achieved their
devilish aims.�
The statement described Tella
as someone who is not honest with his followers and has betrayed the
confidence reposed on him by the state chapter of Project 007.
�Those who claimed to have
defected are known to be political robbers who have no interest of the
masses in their heart. They don�t have anything to offer this country.
Their aim is only to dubiously serve and embezzle our nation�s money,� the
statement added.
| 
