APC also claimed his outburst was a result of his failed dream of running on a joint ticket with President Tinubu
By Kehinde Okeowo
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, after his recent comment on the
2023 presidential poll.
Lawal had on Tuesday in Abuja claimed that Labour Party (LP) candidate in the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi won the poll despite Independent National Electoral Commission’s declaration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the winner.
According to him, the president came a distant third in the number of votes scored.
He said: “Whatever INEC or Appeal Court said or did, Bola did not win the election”
Lawal went on to add: “Available factual data as aggregated from several independent sources indicate that Obi got the majority votes while Atiku came second. Bola came a distant third in the number of votes scored.”
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Reacting to his comments, APC via a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, said Obi’s defeat at the 2023 presidential poll did incalculable damage to the ex-SGF.
The party also wondered why Lawal was peddling gibberish, rather than taking his evidence to court to prove his case.
APC further alleged that his outburst was a result of his failed dream of running on a joint ticket with President Tinubu.
The statement partly read: “Clearly, the defeat of his principal, Peter Obi, at the poll has done incalculable damage to Mr. Lawal’s psyche and his capacity for rational thought as evident in his analysis based entirely on the figment of his warped imagination rather than on hard facts and figures. A clear sign of his disconnect from reality was his reference to the election held in May 2023, rather than February.
“We challenge Babachir Lawal to give a detailed breakdown of his so-called ‘aggregated facts sourced from independent sources,’ which he claimed proved that Obi won the election or forever keep mute.
“That he did not provide these facts to help Obi prove his case before the Presidential Elections Petitions Court is a massive disservice if not betrayal of his political principal.
“Babachir Lawal ought to have known that running a jaundiced commentary on a matter before the Supreme Court is the height of irresponsibility.
“But he is still nursing bitterness and vindictiveness over his failed dream of running on a joint ticket with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“Indeed, Babachir Lawal is in dire need of professional counseling and deserves our collective pity. It is obvious he may never get over the pain of being tossed into the dustbin of political ignominy by President Bola Tinubu who, against all odds, defeated Mr Peter Obi that exploited our religious and ethnic fault lines in his campaign for the nation’s highest office
