APC slams Babachir Lawal over claims Peter Obi won 2023 presidential election
All Progressives Congress APC has reacted to a statement credited to the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal that the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi won the Feb 25 presidential election, and not Bola Tinubu.
Spark News reports that Babachir Lawal claimed that data from independent sources indicates that Obi got the majority votes, while Atiku came second in the election. Tinubu came a distant third in the numbers of votes scored.
APC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Barr. Felix Morka on yesterday 17 October in Abuja, said Babachir Lawal is a burden unto himself and in need of counseling.
The statement read, “Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, emerged from his hibernation slinging incoherent aspersions on the person of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the exalted office he occupies.
“After a long hiatus leaking his wounds from the monumental electoral loss of his candidate in the last presidential election, Mr. Lawal unabashedly is out again, peddling gibberish, rather than learn from his political misadventure with equanimity.
“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 election held in May 2023, rather than February.
Barr. Felix challenged 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.
“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”, he stated.
