Former Secretary to the federation under the Late Muhammadu Buhari Administration, Babachir Lawal has strongly faulted President Tinubu and his administration adding that he wouldn’t have accepted to work under the current administration even if he was appointed.
Babachir Lawal made this disclosure while speaking as a guest on a television programme on Monday. He stated that if he was appointed, he would reject the offer.
In his words, “I thank God that I didn’t make the mistake of being in this government ab initio,” Lawal said.
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“If I were in this government, I probably would have been sacked a long time ago, killed or resigned.”
Babachir Lawal stressed that he was at ease with Tinubu’s style of governance but accused the President’s administration of nepotism, pointing to the appointments made under his leadership.
“I cannot go to a meeting in which 99 per cent of the participants are Yoruba. The tendency is that they finish the meeting in their language, and I am just sitting there.
“When we were doing the campaign, after he went to Ogun and said ’emi lokan,’ there was a Bola Tinubu platform in which I was participating.
“They started insulting us, saying that northerners are illiterate. So I wrote on that platform that these are the people whose votes we would need.
“The problem with the Yoruba is that when you support them and they win, they behave as if they have subdued you. They will not count your support,” he said.
The former SGF, meanwhile, bemoaned the nation’s rising inflation and lambasted several of President Tinubu’s economic initiatives.
Babachir Lawal cited the elimination of the fuel subsidy in May 2023, pointing out that Nigerians had not yet benefited from the ruling.
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He said that the government was still covertly funding subsidies in spite of the president’s declaration.
In his remarks, the ADC chairman said that the 2023 presidential election was rigged to benefit the APC.
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