By Adesina Soyooye
The arrow head of the Northern Christian Caucus, Babachir Lawal, has disclosed that the Caucus is backing the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar.
Babachir, Christian, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, APC chieftain, and a former close ally of Bola Tinubu, fell out with him and the Party over the Party’s same faith ticket.
He said he had advised Tinubu against a Muslim-Muslim ticket, but was shocked that he ignored the advice.
Along with former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, also an APC chieftain, he formed the Northern Christian Caucus which has been campaigning against the Presidential victory of Tinubu and his running mate, Kashim Shettima.
The Caucus said it would never vote a Muslim- Muslim ticket. Lawal listed many occasions where Northern Christians had been humiliated and treated as nobodies. He described Tinubu’s choice of Shettima as a collective insult on all Northern Christians, and a deliberate act to divide the North. He dismissed the ticket as satanic.
On Wednesday, November 23, Lawal disclosed that the Northern Christian Caucus has decided to support the candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President of Nigeria.
He said: “PDP discussed with us, and agreed to what we want if we support them, and we agreed to support them.”
He was, however, quick to add that he would not leave the APC unless President Muhammadu Buhari leaves the Party.
