From Sunday Okoh, Abuja

Barely a week after the National Solidarity Association (NSA) was floated ostensibly to advance the presidential ambition of former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), a human rights group has come out with a counter move to frustrate the pro-IBB campaign.

The Global Human Rights Alternative (GLOHRA) will, this week, kick off a nationwide mass enlightenment campaign on why Nigerians should reject IBB should he present himself as a presidential candidate in 2003.

The campaign, according to GLOHRA’s President General, Comrade Ibrahim Nuhu, will kick off from the home state of the former head of state, Minna, and extend to the other 18 states in the North between now and May.

The campaign will thereafter move to the South-east, South-South and South-West.

"At each rally, we will tell Nigerians why we feel IBB lacks the credentials to rule Nigeria once again," Nuhu said.

He advised those he claimed were scheming for the return of IBB to reflect and see the ruins he visited on the country during his tenure.

Nuhu described the involvement of the likes of Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar and former Lagos State Military Governor Brigadier Raji Rasaki (rtd) as unfortunate, adding: "These opportunists who ruled and ruined this country and reduced it to a beggar state should be resisted by all well-meaning Nigerians."

In a statement circulated to media houses in Abuja, the GLOHRA boss cautioned IBB and his cohorts who he said ruined Nigeria to check their steps and desist from any political activities capable of dragging the country into yet another political instability and religious strife.

In a passing reference to the annulled 1993 presidential elections and those responsible, Nuhu cautioned that "the architect of such calamity should not be left free in our society, let alone being allowed to come back to leadership position."