2023: I have no plan to support Atiku – Babachir

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, (SGF) Babachir Lawal, has said that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar’s ambition would be the worst form of Muslim-Muslim ticket.

He asserted that it would amount to the transition of government from one Muslim Fulani president to another Muslim Fulani president.

The former SGF warned that Atiku having his way would represent ethnic domination by one ethnic group over others.

Babachir Lawal who made this known in a statement released on Monday in Abuja, in which he clarified that he would never support the ambition of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Lawal reaffirmed his commitment to the actualisation of the ambition of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, in the 2023 general elections.

The former SGF who was provoked by trending news that he had abandoned Peter Obi to work for Atiku, dismissed the news. He however insisted that he would not support any Fulani person that may undermine Nigeria’s unity through religion or ethnicity.

The statement partly reads; “I have just seen a trending news that I have abandoned Peter Obi to work for Atiku Abubakar.

“There is nothing far from the truth as this. I have never contemplated joining PDP since its formation as I view the PDP as the worst form of a collection of oligarchs and reactionaries.

“Besides, I find myself every year battling Fulani herdsmen determined to have their animals invade my farms and eat up my crops every year. This is aside from their determination to take over the ancestral farmlands of my kinsmen as they do everywhere in the North. All these they do in a cavalier manner while their elite kinsmen dominant in the government keep mute.

“Moreover, I view a transition of government from one Muslim Fulani President to another as the worst form of Muslim-Muslim ticket. It also represents ethnic domination by one ethnic group over others. I remain a Peter Obi diehard. Any news to the contrary is fake news,” he added.