By Kingston Magare 25-5-2025
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, said it would be a mistake for the ruling party to underrate the coalition taking shape to stop President Bola Tinubu from winning reelection in 2027.
Lawal argued that despite the endorsement of President Tinubu by all All Progressives Congress (APC) governors and gale of defeactions to the party, the coalition is focused on convincing Nigerians to vote for a change.
“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.
“It is immaterial. They have only 37 votes; maybe we can add their families. Maybe you get 1000 votes. The voter is what we are targeting, and the voter is the victim of the system we are against.
“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.”