When in the course of pursuing his aspiration for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu visited delegates in Abeokuta and addressed them in Yoruba, Babachir Lawal, a former Secretary of Government of the Federation, was one of those who issued a statement brimming with vitriol and highly combustible bile against Tinubu.
The former governor of Lagos State and now presidential candidate of the APC had gone down memory lane, recalling his various widely acknowledged contributions to the party and reiterating why the ticket should come to the Southwest and why he deserves to have it.
Even though he flaunts his closeness to Tinubu on every occasion, Lawal tried to abort the latter’s presidential bid by portraying him as having attacked President Muhammadu Buhari and the entire North in his Abeokuta utterances
It is difficult to understand on which pedestal Lawal could claim to be speaking for the entire North. He aimed to alienate Tinubu from Buhari and other leaders of the North so that they could work against Tinubu’s aspiration at the primary.
Luckily, this attack by Lawal and a few others failed spectacularly.
Buhari proved to be more circumspect and statesmanlike, and thus refrained from imposing any candidate on the party, allowing all aspirants to compete in open, transparent, and credible primaries.
The northern governors and other key leaders from the region played crucial roles in Tinubu’ clinching of the ticket to the obvious chagrin of Lawal and his fellow travelers.
It is thus not surprising that Lawal issued another inflammatory statement on the choice of Kashim Shettima as Tinubu’s running mate.
In his latest missive against Tinubu and Shettima, Lawal hypocritically claims that he would do nothing to stop the path of his “very good friend” to the presidency and that he has, since 2011, had a consuming passion for Tinubu to succeed President Buhari. With a friend like this, does anyone need an enemy, as the cliche goes?
But his actions speak much louder than his words of support for Tinubu’s aspiration.
It is so clear that what Lawal seeks to do is to alienate Tinubu from Christians in the North in particular and in the nation at large so that APC can lose in the 2023 general elections.
He said: “Christians all over the country will revolt against the APC to put the chance of his election in serious jeopardy.
It will also put the election of all Christians standing in Christian-dominated areas in jeopardy. This could result in APC being a minority party in both the National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly”.
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