A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation SGF,
Babachir David Lawal said some key allies of President Bola Tinubu’s
administration have reached out to him following his statement on Tuesday that
Labour Party LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi won the last presidential
election.
Lawal was reacting to a Tuesday night statement by the All
Progressives Congress APC wherein its spokesman, Felix Morka, described him as
incapable of rational thought.
The former SGF was at a time the National Vice Chairman,
North East, of the party however offered his sympathies to Morka, saying he was
doing the job of a slave.
Describing APC as an Islamic party which takes decisions
using prayers where Morka is not present, Lawal insisted that Obi won the last
election, saying “The thief knows who stole the item”.
According to him, all that was now left for the party is a
change of name, adding that even this may not take long since it already has
the “Kadmul Islam”, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje as its National Chairman and a Muslim
as National Secretary.
He said the Deputy National Chairman North (who acts in the
absence of the Chairman), National Organizing Secretary, National Legal Adviser,
and three National Vice Chairmen and more, are Muslims.
The statement which was titled, ‘Political Discourse: The
APC reaction and its castigation of my person’, reads; “I woke up this morning
to a very pathetic social media trending write-up apparently, a response to my
article on the current political discourse by one Felix allegedly of the APC.
“I suspect he was assigned this role because it is in the
nature of sycophants and people consigned to second class status to be assigned
roles that their masters are wary of taking on.
“Usually, the dirty,
unsavoury jobs are contracted out to such. In the bible, a certain Felix (
after which this Felix was probably named), was a freed slave who had a
reputation of cruelty as the ruler of Judea in order to please his master, the
emperor Claudius (of whose mother Felix was a slave).
“I really do sympathize with a Christian (or is he not?) who
finds himself in an Islamic party and is desperate to please his masters and
probably to be noticed when the next round of political appointments come.
“When we founded APC way back in 2013/2014, we envisaged it
will be a national party that will carry along all the different
socio-political and religious tendencies of the nation. In those days, we were
careful not to side-line any of the religions or tribes of the country in the
composition of the membership and leadership of the party. We wanted a party
that will embrace all Nigerians. It was this that informed the principle that
both the National Chairman and Secretary will not be of the same religion,
tribe or region.
“Sadly, APC has now transited in to an Islamic Party of
Nigeria. All the members of the NWC from the North and some from the South are
Muslims. They campaigned on an Islamization platform and are striving hard to
run the government as such but for the resistance of the other religions.
“All that is now left for the party is a change of name, but
even this may not take long since it already has the Kadmul Islam as its
National Chairman, and a Muslim as National Secretary. The Deputy National
Chairman North (who acts in the absence of the Chairman), National Organizing
Secretary, National Legal Adviser, and three National Vice Chairmen and more,
are Muslims. Good for them.
“And talking of electoral value, both the National Chairman
and the National Secretary just dramatically lost in the May election. I
suspect Mallam Felix didn’t do well in his own constituency either. It is based
on these considerations that I pity a Christian who finds himself in the
position of a spokesperson of an Islamic party. Mark my words, all critical
decisions will be taken behind his back during the afternoon prayers sessions
which he will be unable to attend.
“As to the substance of the response itself, I find it
deliberately obtuse, skirting around the real issues raised in my press
statement. It was empty of substance and logic; a true product of a sycophantic
mind that has no capacity to understand the subtle nuances underlying a message
delivered to a discerning audience.
“Mallam Felix, your masters got the message loud and clear
because some of them have reached out to me for dialogue on the issues raised.
But in line with your lower status in the scheme of things you are not aware
that all the issues I raised were designed in a manner to deliver a message to
a discomfited government that is populated by longstanding friends of mine who
appear to have abandoned common sense and patriotism for unbridled personal
goals and filthy lucre. And they got the message; which you cannot. In this
discourse, you are a remote outsider, so shut up.
“We want a Nigeria that works for all. We want a Nigeria
that even sycophants can relate to and in which every one is free to pursue
their ambitions in peace in pursuit of prosperity and the good life. We want a
Nigeria that guarantees freedom of speech for its citizens just as you and I
are doing right now. If as Bola Tinubu claims he fought Abacha on the side of
democracy and free speech, it is unbecoming and unacceptable that the NBC
should threaten journalists under his watch; so is it indefensible to keep the
EFCC Chairman and the CBN governor under arrest for extended periods of time
without or before trial, just as it is also unacceptable that political parties
are used to intimidate and harass citizens exercising their opinions in the
public domain.
“I am sure even you and the APC can relate to this. I am
also sure that but for their blind hatred of other Nigerians not of their
tribes or religion, even the Islamists that you serve and desperately seek to
please can relate to this. I am sure that no Nigerian is enjoying the national
shame and embarrassment we are going through as a result of these unending
revelations as who or what our ‘president’ actually is; or that most Nigerians
cannot be sure of at least one meal a day anymore; or that we can no more
attend wedding ceremonies in Imo or Zamfara States due to insecurity. Know what
you may, say what you may; I hold firmly to my assertion that Peter Obi had the
majority votes in the May 23 presidential election. That was why both INEC and
APC had to go rogue in the election; and they know this fact even if they will
not admit it. After all the thief knows who stole the item.
‘The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of
tyranny.’…Wole Soyinka
“You have my sympathy”.
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Haba chir, he is reaching out to you or you are trying to reach out through HER. EXC. through the church? Can you survive without govt?
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