FAKE NEWS ALERT: IBB did not endorse Obi for president, says aide | TheCable

Ibrahim Babangida, former head of state, has denied endorsing Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) for the position of president.

There had been claims in recent days that Babangida had aligned with the position of former President Olusegun ObasanjoA post from the Twitter account had alleged that the former head of state had declared his support for the LP presidential candidate.“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.

Although the Twitter handle states that the Babangida page is a parody account, there have been responses to the tweet which indicate that several persons assume that the account belongs to Babangida.When contacted on Wednesday night, Kassim Afegbua, media aide to Babangida, denied the claim that the former head of state had endorsed Obi.

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