If the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, is to be believed, a repeat of the June 12, 1993 Presidential election result awaits the Peoples Democratic Party’s Candidate, Atiku Abubakar in the upcoming Presidential election in 2023. Lawal is sure that Atiku will get the Bashir Tofa treatment.
In 1993, Tofa, the Presidential candidate of the National Party of Nigeria, NPN, was beaten in his own Kano State by Chief MKO Abiola of the Social Democratic Party, SDP. It was an unprecedented defeat.
Speaking in an interview with Channels Television, Lawal said the same treatment awaits Atiku in his home State, Adamawa. He said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from Lagos, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will defeat Atiku in Adamawa.
Both Lawal and Atiku hail from Adamawa State. The State is a PDP State.
Insisting Atiku is, politically, no match for Tinubu, Lawal said Atiku had lost the State as a Presidential candidate to former President Goodluck Jonathan and the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari.
Lawal: “We are there, and we are the ones from Adamawa who will deliver Bola Tinubu in the same way that we delivered Buhari while Atiku was contesting; in the same way, Adamawa delivered Goodluck Jonathan while Atiku was contesting, so it is not a new thing.
“We have our tentacles all over the state; it is our state, and we know our tendencies. Bola Tinubu will win Adamawa state.
“Whether he makes it or not, only God knows, but we will work towards it and we believe that we have the instruments, we have the resources – both material and intellectual – to deliver Bola Tinubu as the President.
“Tinubu is a very good man. He is a very kind man, and you need to hear from some of the people he has helped, so many all over the country.
“He has sponsored people in Taraba, in Adamawa, in Gombe; he is somebody that has been helpful to almost every politician across the country.”
Lawal is a staunch Tinubu loyalist and supporter. He was one of those who personally went to purchase Tinubu’s Presidential Expression of Interest and Nomination forms. He was also, personally, present to submit the completed forms.
However, last week, he had dismissed Tinubu’s claims of installing President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 as “bullshit”, adding that such bragging make it difficult to trust the Yoruba in politics.
In the same Channels interview, Lawal also warned Tinubu against a Muslim-Muslim ticket, saying it is a recipe for failure as Christian Northerners will never vote for such ticket.
Lawal is a Christian, but said he is not interested in being Tinubu’s running mate.
For the records, he has not been offered.
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