Ex-SGF Lawal quits ADC, says working for Atiku means automatic 2nd term for Tinubu

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, has announced his resignation from the African Democratic Congress (ADC), alleging that the party’s recently concluded primary elections were manipulated in favour of former Vice President and presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.

In a statement titled “The Kachalla Series Part 1,” shared on his Facebook page on Monday, Lawal accused the party leadership of conducting what he described as a “disgraceful charade” during the primaries, claiming that results were altered to favour Atiku and his allies.

According to him, winners of some contests were allegedly replaced with individuals loyal to the former vice president, while results in several cases were purportedly rewritten.

“I am exiting the ADC because its just concluded primaries were at all levels massively rigged in favour of Kachalla Abubakar Atiku,” Lawal said.

He alleged that there was a “conspiracy of silence” within the party over the conduct of the primaries and stated that he could no longer remain in the ADC under such circumstances.

The former SGF further claimed that remaining in the party would amount to supporting what he described as a political structure designed to manipulate the outcome of the 2027 general elections.

Lawal was particularly critical of Atiku’s presidential ambition, arguing that the former vice president would not provide the kind of leadership needed to address Nigeria’s challenges.

He also accused Atiku and his supporters of promoting ethnic and religious interests.

The former SGF suggested that an Atiku presidency could ultimately be more detrimental to Nigeria than a second term for President Bola Tinubu.

“Working for Kachalla Atiku means giving Tinubu an automatic ticket to a second term,” he stated.

Lawal also expressed disappointment with northern political actors whom he accused of backing Atiku’s emergence despite what he described as the region’s worsening economic and security conditions.

While announcing his departure from the ADC, Lawal said he would consult with political associates on strategies to prevent Atiku from winning the presidency in 2027.

He added that he would, for the time being, return to his village and observe developments in the political landscape ahead of the next general election.

Full Statement Below:

The Kachalla Series Part 1

I am exiting the ADC because its just concluded primaries were at all levels massively rigged in favour Kachalla Abubakar Atiku. I sense a conspiracy of silence of which i want no part of Most members of the party are behaving as if this is the normal thing to do. Results were just written or rewritten to favour him and his coven. Even where they allowed some semblance of election to hold, the winners were simply replaced with members of his syndicate. In the real sense it was a disgraceful charade.

I am doing so because I do not intend to be part of Kachalla Atiku’s rigging machine in the 2027 general elections and I cannot avoid doing so if I remain in the party. The man and his cabal are just irredentist Fulani and religious hegemonists. For me, working for Kachalla Atiku means giving Tinubu an automatic ticket to a second term which gives me nightmares. I believe Tinubu might, comparatively speaking, end up a better Nigerian president than Kachalla Atiku could ever be (as bad as Tinubu currently is and possibly could ever be). The choice in 2027 it seems will be a Morton’s fork.

I did not join the ADC to make Nigeria progressively worse so my beliefs and conscience won’t allow me partner with the evil that Atiku and his people represent. For, with close to 25 adult children, 6 wives (past and present, some offshore) and a heavily shrunk decapitated business empire, I foresee 25 Seyi Tinubus and 6 Remi Tinubus; a prospect that has been keeping me awake all night with worry. And who knows which Chagouri’s might be lurking around the corner waiting for an Atiku bazaar?

I would have thought that the Northerners who helped rig the primaries for a near-senile octogenarian they all know to be an incompetent, tribal and religious bigot would be the ones that should crave the most a good post-2027 governance seeing as Tinubu has driven its people to total destitution. I would have thought that when Northerners insist on a northern president they would be thinking of one that will stop the downward spiral into poverty and insecurity not an ineptocrat like Kachalla Atiku. Alas, a leopard cannot change its spots. The North, it seems, is perpetually doomed to self-harm.

While I will be tweaking my plans for the future and consulting with like-minded colleagues on how to stop this incompetent octogenerian from coming close to the presidential office, I will in the meantimd retire to my village farm from where I will be watching Kachalla Atiku and his band of wicked vote riggers and result manipulators mercilessly out-rigged and beaten to pulp by Tinubu’s ruthless and superior rigging machine.

Then, it will be bye bye to this octogenarian presidential wannabe. It will be bye bye to the North for preferring a religious hegemonists over a competent world-renown economist and corporate guru.

BD