Babachir Lawal, ex-Nigeria’s SGF, is a burden unto himself, in need of counselling: APC

*Felix Morka, Esq., National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress, replies to Babachir Lawal, states the former Secretary to the Government’s analysis the country’s last Presidential Election is ‘based entirely on the figment of his warped imagination rather than on hard facts and figures’

Isola Moses | ConsumerConnect

Babachir Lawal, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), has 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.

Mr. Felix Morka, Esq., National Publicity Secretary of the ruling

All Progressives Congress (APC), said this in a statement issued Tuesday, October 17, 2023, in a direct response to Lawal’s earlier statement in the media, that Peter Obi won the Presidential Election held February 25, 2023.

The party stated that it

noted that after a long hiatus licking his wounds from the monumental electoral loss of his candidate in the last presidential election, “Lawal unabashedly is out again, peddling gibberish, rather than learn from his political misadventure with equanimity.”

Morka stated: “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.”

The statement also said: “We challenge 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.

“That he did not provide these facts to help Obi prove his case before the Presidential Elections Petitions Court is a massive disservice if not betrayal of his political principal.”

The National Publicity Secretary further said: “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.”

According to Morka, it is obvious the former SGF 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.”

The statement noted: “Thankfully, Nigerians across all ethnic and religious divides, saw through Babachir Lawal’s and Peter Obi’s shenanigans and voted for the best candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

“Furthermore, it is very uncharitable for Mr. Babachir Lawal to call to question the professional competence of President Tinubu’s appointees, some of whom he cannot hold a candle to their political and professional accomplishments.”

He averred: “Babachir Lawal is one lightweight politician who thinks himself a heavyweight.

“He failed spectacularly as a politician in his State of Adamawa where in three election circles he could not deliver his ward and local government in his Hong Local Government.

“Despite his legendary failure as a politician, former President Muhammadu Buhari in deference to diversity appointed him to the high office of SGF where he was unceremoniously sacked on account of very poor performance and dishonourable conduct.”

The ruling party stated: “A man like Babachir Lawal is in no position to offer an opinion on the competence of President Tinubu’s appointees.

“We are convinced that these appointees would justify the confidence reposed in them by the President by delivering on the promises of the Renewed Hope Agenda of this administration.”

Morka added: “And while they are at it, we would admonish Babachir Lawal to concentrate on managing his farm and stop constituting himself into a needless distraction unbefitting of his age and status.”