IBB to dress up as Father Christmas
30 Nov 2010
Imagine him saying Ho, ho, ho!
Mina - Not at all dismayed by the choice of Atiku as the North's consensus candidate, former President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has vowed to dress up as Father Christmas this December.
In keeping with the principle of zoning, the People's Democratic Party, PDP, decided to seek a Northern candidate to compete against their own incumbent president for the party's ticket to compete in the next presidential election. Our political analysts have since given up trying to understand how this makes sense hence we can not provide any further information on zoning.
The PDP party elders shunned Babangida, Gasua, and Sariki, and settled for former vice president, Atiku, because he's the tallest of the four.
News of Atiku's selection gave some bad belle people extra ammunition to launch a tirade of insults at IBB. Particularly unkind people have even gone as far as asking the rhetorical question, "Does he think he can ever be elected?"
IBB, isn’t ready to return to his mansion in Minna. Even as he accused his party of rigging and ageism, he assured his group of followers that he had a plan B.
With the hope of embarking on an expensive presidential campaign now over, he revealed that he would dress up as Santa Claus this Christmas and simply give money away.
"What people don't understand," said the former President "is that I just want to give back to the country that has made me what I am today. If I can't do that through a presidential campaign, I may as well hand the money out randomly. Either way, I'll achieve the same objective."
- Joe Aibozaw