By Adadareporter
Mr Babachir Lawal, former secretary to the government of the federation, Tuesday, said the 2023 presidential election was won by Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi.
Lawal, who served in the administration of former president Muhammadu Buhari, advised President Bola Tinubu, who was declared winner of the election by the Independent National Election Tribunal, to vacate the office.
He said he had analysed data, arguing that contrary to Tinubu’s declaration as the winner, Obi was the actual winner. He added that PDP’s Atiku Abubakar came second.
Quoting him, “I have resisted the temptation to engage in contemporary political discourse since the May 2023 election. I needed time to analyse and digest the data which led to the outcome. This is to enable me to arrive at an informed decision.
“The current topical issues for political discourse and inquiry are whether or not Bola Tinubu won the presidential election and/or that he was apriori qualified to participate in the election given his murky biodata.
“Regardless of whatever INEC or Appeal Court said or did, Bola did not win the election. Right from the start of the campaigns, Bola knew he was not going to win the election in a free and fair contest. He decided to go by all means.
“Available 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.”
The former SGF advised Tinubu to resign. According to him, “Given the unfolding information about who or what Tinubu is, morality should have convinced him to voluntarily excuse himself from participation in the election.
“I believe he still has time and opportunity to save himself this public humiliation and embarrassment to his person, both locally and internationally, by resigning, he will give more attention to his health.
“After all, no one knows about the truism of these severely embarrassing and humiliating exposures about his person other than the man himself. Leadership is all about integrity, sound pedigree, trustworthiness, and the ability to unite and instil hope and confidence in the people one seeks to lead.
“During the campaign, Bola mouthed about his competence, but we are so far yet to see it reflected in his political appointments. It seems more like he is rewarding people who supported him to get the Presidency at all costs. This band of appointees that Bola is assembling into his government don’t care about Nigeria at all.
“Fuel prices will continue to gallop upwards until only they can afford it. The naira will continue to race downhill in a free-fall until only they can afford anything in the market. Insecurity will continue its escalation until every community in the nation is consumed by it.”
