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Nigeria’s former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, on Friday revealed that he was nicknamed ‘Evil genius’, and ‘Maradona’ by the media as a result of his “deft political moves”.
IBB made the revelation while speaking in an exclusive interview with Arise TV.
According to the former military president, “That’s the very good thing about the Nigerian media and Nigerian people, you have to anticipate them.
“If you anticipate them then you live well with them. They call me ‘evil genius’, I marvel at that. The contradiction — you can’t be evil and then a genius”
“The definition of Maradona I got from the media is because of deft political moves. That’s the way the media described it.”
