Bloodshed in 2015: Press misquoted Buhari – IBB

Former military president General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida yesterday said the media misquoted General Muhammadu Buhari over his comment on the 2015 election. Speaking at a book presentation by a former national president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Mallam Abubakar Gimba, in Minna, Babangida, IBB said, “I wanted to speak in Hausa but now that I see journalists like Mohammed Haruna here I will speak in English because I don’t want to be misinterpreted.” Journalists, he said, should go for translation training, suggesting that Buhari was misinterpreted because he spoke in Hausa. Babangida and General Abdulsalami Abubakar were among dignitaries who witnessed the presentation of the book Gimba wrote in honour of Rev. Father Jeremiah Derry O’Connell, a citizen of Ireland who has been principal in Niger State for 45 years .