The historical significance of what happened yesterday in Abuja should not be lost in responding to the momentous event of the launch of former President Ibrahim Babangida’s memoirs. The well-produced book is entitled “A Journey in Service: An Autobiography.” The occasion was also that of a fund-raising for the IBB Presidential Library, which is magnificently conceived.
It is not often that you have an incumbent president and former presidents and heads of state converging in an occasion of a book launch to discuss the past, giving hitherto unknown insights.
In a rare honour of Babangida, President Bola Tinubu sat for hours in the hall with former head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, former President Goodluck Jonathan. Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s message was delivered by a representative.