Former military president General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida yesterday defended General Muhammadu Buhari over his comment on the 2015 election.
At a book presentation by a former national president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Mallam Abubakar Gimba, in Minna, Babangida, who was guest of honour, said he would speak in English instead of Hausa language to avoid misrepresentation, in apparent reference to Buhari's statement which generated controversy. Buhari reportedly spoke in Hausa in Kaduna when he received the Niger State delegation of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
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