“Rewind” the Babangida Memoirs Book, by Suleiman Abubakar

Hoopla generated by the Memorie book by General Babangida; “A Journey in Service” was generally synonymous with his greatest image of life; An image that is immersed in “controversy”. Whatever Babangida, for better or for worse, just or wrong is always news. Babangida is provided with different Polopoidal parts, which represent a community of anti-babangid pro-e feelings. Man enjoys a mix like the ideal combination of human emanations. His book has already worn the chief of controversy, a mix of different interpretations and pots -tourri of ideas, reality and occurrences that have made a fact that the trajectory of the former president from birth to today. The man seems to enjoy all the “noises” and the “controversies” while looking at human follies in us, trying to take on his authorial presence in an effort deliberate to “rewrite” the memories of man.

The experiences captured in the book are his, the stories told were taken from his perspective of eye testimony, the presentation was a function of his own cognition, the prose florit was his creation, yet the average reader wants to assume the first person of the author, who put in touch on the author’s right of the author to have an opinion. Speaking introspectively, I would have been pleasantly surprised if the IBB book did not generate such public debates and disputes by the various anecdotes that dominated the narratives. Ibb is a topic of several magnitudes. It is also a research material with gigantic diffusion. It represents a puzzle that is still revealed. Cut the picture of a deep thinker waiting to exploit all the knowledge plotted in his criticism boxes, in an attempt to “rewrite” a book called autobiography. Since then his critics have taken on his authorial deposition, trying without effort to mark him with their clothes borrowed, in order to deny him his unassailable right as a citizen of this great country.

He hated it or like him, Ibb has become the main element in the list of menus of most scholars in Nigeria and elsewhere. His thoughts bring the weight of a leader who is less understood, but occupying a special place in the annals of the history of the nation. His experiences are immersed in uncertainties and realities, between fear and suspense, between possibilities and impossibility. It includes the Nigerian mind and the complexities that have co-manufactured in a country of over 470 dialects and ethnic consanguinities. He crossed the country during his professional career as an officer as a gentleman. He fought a war of unification. He led the country for eight uninterrupted years. He interacted with several fellow citizens taken from any social class, helping him to form an opinion on the human mind, yet his critics would not have allowed him to go away with his thoughts. They simply want to think for him, rewrite a book of memories that would please their ears, to certify their non -scientific profiling of the issues that had dominated the public discourse for so long. When the topic is iBB, be sure to enter another level of speech. It is almost certain that man’s premonition is anchored to “controversies”.

Babangida is undoubtedly, a behemoth; A community of ideas and experiences, of glorious reminiscences and unequivocal anecdotes that make his person pleasantly unique and undoubtedly thick. His sneeze is provided with an unpredictable verbosity, his effusions another test of the litmus test to decipher. His misunderstandings loaded themselves in enigmas and dribbling and his delivery always a topic of many colors and interpretations. The man is never irreverent having been an integral part of the hegemonies of power, whether they are soldiers or democracy, in the soberness of West Africa. It remains stoic, adamant in most cases to the suggestions of its critics in an attempt to reveal it. He chooses his path, nobody traveled by many, but who cultivates his vision of the world. He tries in the mind trying to cause a speech to sit down your intentions. He tells you almost disarming, in a tone full of benevolence, how the human mind works according to the individual socio-political environment. Buy your request trying to satisfy the inner recesses, also ensuring that it maintains the biggest details for another day. His recall rich as his memory. His aura, charm and quintessence, enough ingredients that support his relevance. In addition to being a resolver of problems for many, he has ears for all categories of people.

Without a doubt, the IBB memories book is a journey itself. Try the heart of those who were the real actors of his journey, those who were part of the inner hegemonies to support the oligarch of power that lasts to date. His book, a collector object, who details the stories that have never been told but known; Stories that were the bitter truths that is not said. Raise curiosity and dazzles the reader with the narrative of the eyewitness; Remembering special events that have cooked his knowledge of life and his complexities. His critics want to rewrite the history of man for him, take off his right, capture his experiences like them, tell his eye narrative and implant their stories to adapt to their impressions on him. We must rewrite the book of Ibb as a documentary and encyclopedia of all negativity in Nigeria, a thesaurus of the ridiculous geometry of the journey of our nation and the sum of all the defects of a nation called Nigeria that has been hindered by antide-swittle factors. Only these narratives would adapt to the pure collapse of his critical ears. We must “rewrite” the Ibb memories book to paint it in the colors of the Devil and its government with a negative brush of infamy, such as the surviving narration of its trajectory. Whatever shortness of such an indecent verbosity will always attract the hammer of critics.

But I don’t care about IBB. He tells his critics with magisterial taste that he is completely responsible during his country’s guide, but that being in command must come with a little subtlety; A government with a human face. He first marked in many aspects of our national life; He liberalized the private media sector, liberalized the private banking sector, has redesigned the infrastructure development, opened rural areas through pipes, supported a public discourse and mobilization through mamser, also as a military government, has exploited some of the best granules in the country. His primary health care initiative, led by the late Professor Olikoye Ramson Kuti remained unparalleled in the health development sector in Nigeria. He was a head hunter, looking for brightest minds to manage our delicate subsectors for optimal growth and development. Until now, his lieutenants have remained constantly faithful to the ideals that have supported their participation in the eight -year Ibb rule. Those high narratives are what his critics want to deny him because they were superlative that could not be shiny. Once the narrative focuses on negatives, its critics are at home with that. But its story remains its story, not anyone’s story or nobody’s narratives. While we wait for his critics to rewrite his memories and mark him in their frugality, we also wait for those who will perform the review of what they have decided to write. For now, we are very home with the book of Memoirs by Ibb, a book that has become an instant best-seller with the rich flow of anecdotes, stories, references and nostalgia, captured in prose and lucid poetry. Reading it will be enough, ignoring it to usually.

● Suleiman Abubakar writes from Kano and can be reached to [email protected].