"Forget 2019 Presidential Ambition" Babangida Knocks Atiku

Former President Ibrahim Babangida on Thursday in Minna, was said to have advised former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar to drop his 2019 presidential ambition.

The two Peoples Democratic Party, PDP leaders, met behind closed at the uphill mansion of the former Military head in Minna.

Vanguard gathered that after spending about 45 minutes in the meeting, he former president hit a brick wall as Gen. Babangida was said to have advised him to drop his presidential ambition, although none of them speak with reporters after the meeting.

According to Vanguard, Atiku, who was besieged by anxious journalists and his supporters aiting to cheer him immediately after the long meeting, snubbed them as his security aides prevented them from even going close to him.

“Please pave way; he is not ready to speak with you,’’ the body guards chorused, as their boss made straight for his waiting vehicle that drove him to the airport.

At the airport, the former Vice President also shunned party supporters and journalists who had waited patiently to bid him bye-bye. Wearing a long face, the former vice president walked straight into the aircraft; a development Vanguard gathered arose from the negative nod from President Babangida to his presidential aspiration.