Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi  Babangida has said that he would not renege on his resolve to be president of Nigeria in 2011, no matter the obstacle before him, just as he denied that former president, Olusegun Obasanjo pressurised him to drop his presidential ambition.

Babangida said he was in the presidential race to make a statement and has been preparing for the presidential seat of Nigeria with every seriousness, right vision and untainted mission to save Nigeria.

Babangida said it was time to pay back what he had gained from Nigeria, a reason he resolved to join the presidential race, noting that at his age, he and others like him should be thinking of re-building Nigeria and setting it on a path of recovery for the youths of the country to take over.

IBB said the meeting between him and the former president, Chief Obasanjo, was not on Jonathan and neither was it on zoning issue, as reported by the media, stating that they both discussed issues of common interest, the two having for long shared mutual respect for each other.

The former military president also said that the meeting between him and Obasanjo was not the reason he did not attend the rally planned for him at Ibadan as earlier reported.

He said the planned rally was meant to accomplish the opening of a campaign office for him at Ibadan, noting that he would formally visit Oyo State and Ibadan at the appropriate time.

Babangida spoke through his media aide, Kaseem Afegbua.