Presidential Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has dismissed former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s claim that ex-military President Ibrahim Babangida was Bola Tinubu’s tormentor.
At the public presentation of Babangida’s autobiography, *A Journey in Service*, held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja last week, Osinbajo, who reviewed the book, recounted how Tinubu, then a senator, opposed the military’s dissolution of the Senate following the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election.
He jokingly remarked that Tinubu, who had faced persecution from the military, including Babangida, for attempting to restore the dissolved Senate, was now present to celebrate one of his former adversaries.
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However, speaking on *Sunrise Daily*, a Channels Television program, on Tuesday, Onanuga rejected Osinbajo’s assertion, stating that Babangida was not Tinubu’s tormentor but rather an inspiration for his political journey.
“I think the former Vice President got it wrong. I think Babangida was not really a tormentor of President Tinubu, don’t forget that President Tinubu said in his own extempore speech that he held Babangida as something, that he was the person that inspired him to get into politics.
“When Babangida came in, he was talking about new breed politicians and so on, and Tinubu like many of them were already technocrats or in private business and so on. All of them came out to participate in politics, that was what brought him in. So, he came there to pay homage,” Onanuga said.
Onanuga clarified that Tinubu’s ordeal actually started during General Sani Abacha’s regime when he and some colleagues tried to reassemble the Senate in Lagos.
He also praised Babangida for acknowledging that MKO Abiola won the 1993 presidential election but noted that his admission came too late.
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