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Nostalgia: Babangida and Vasta .....apparent 'best friends' ?
Ibrahim
Babangida (left) and Mamman Vasta (right)...Circa 1967...Babangida was
Vatsa's best man when Vatsa wedded...Babangida was to later hang Vatsa following accusations of his involvement in an abortive coup.
“When
we got married, I thought IBB and my husband were of the same family.
The two wore the same size of dress and pair of shoes. IBB would drop
his dirty wears in our house and put on my husband’s.
When IBB traveled out, for a further military training my husband took
care of Mariam and her children. General Vatsa, apart from mounting the
horse when IBB married Mariam, bought their first set of furniture from
Leventis on hire purchase.
IBB was also my husband’s best man during
our wedding. Whenever Maryam’s Mercedez car broke down, she used to
drive my Peugeot 404. We were close.” - Hajia Sufiya, Widow of General
Mamman Vatsa
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