Babachir Lawal, former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), has said the endorsement of President Bola Tinubu’s second-term bid by All Progressives Congress (APC) governors is irrelevant to the coalition plans of opposition parties.
Gatekeepers News reports that on May 22, all 22, state Governors elected under All Progressives Congress (APC) endorsed Tinubu as the party’s sole candidate for 2027 presidential election.
While speaking to Nigerian Tribune in an interview on Sunday, Lawal said the coalition of opposition leaders is focused on mobilising voters, not courting political officeholders.
He said, “Look, the way we are going, eventually, it is to voters at the polling booth that we will appeal, not any political party.”
“Let the governors continue to defect, we don’t care. If we wake up one morning and heard that all the 36 states Governors and the FCT are in APC, we don’t care.”
“I have been hooked up in this town for the past five months, participating in this. If I knew it wouldn’t succeed, I would be on my farm. I started farming since the season, but I stayed back. So, I must be an idiot if I leave my most important vocation to take coffee and snacks.”
“Whoever says we aren’t serious doesn’t know who the people are, because they don’t know who they are, because we don’t take photographs. We don’t take minutes of meetings. We take time to make sure that information on strategies doesn’t leak.”
“I am sure that is the reason for all the speculations. But I can tell you that the coalition is very serious; we are experienced and we know what we are doing. At the appropriate time, we will go public with what we are doing.”
