Politics
Tinubu Adviser Sunday Dare Slams Babachir Lawal: “Bola Tinubu Won the Election, Period”
Babachir Lawal, our latest political content creator cum political soothsayer, is gasping for political oxygen. In that desperate search, everything and everyone is fair game.
He has granted several provocative and unwarranted interviews in the past, but none matches the incoherence and desperation he displayed in his Channels Television appearance on Monday.
That outing revealed a deeply troubled soul, slowly unraveling — even if wildly swinging in all directions, wearing ideological inconsistency like a badge of honor.
It was obvious that the entire performance on Channels yesterday was nothing more than a poorly scripted attempt to bait President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This is the same man Babachir once swore the “wrath of God” should fall upon anyone who stood in Tinubu’s way to the presidency.
Today, he casually flings insults at that very man, calling him names, disrespecting his office and making derogatory references. That says everything about Babachir’s character and upbringing — a fair-weather friend, an opportunist, clout chaser and clay footed political crusader.
Babachir Lawal, please look in the mirror. Your account of events wobbles and is not the only one. Those who watch closely are only tolerating your flight of fancy for now. This indulgence will not last forever. Throw your tantrums if you must, but know when to stop short of denigrating the office and person of the President.
Your claim that Peter Obi “won” the 2023 elections is not only egregious but a barefaced lie. The people have spoken, the law has sanctioned it; the courts have ruled. On that matter, let all else remain silent. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu won the 2023 count fair and square and remains Nigeira’s duly elected President until 2027. For now, face forward.
These televised outbursts do not earn you credibility — they drain it. You are operating at a deficit in conduct and public perception, and every rant pushes you deeper.
Now to your bizarre psychoanalysis: “The problem with Bola Tinubu is that he thinks I offended him… .He’s full of himself… because he thinks he’s the so-called president.” Wake up. Smell the coffee. He is Nigeria’s indisputable elected President.
And in what way exactly did President Tinubu “offend” you? Because you wanted to be vice president and President Tinubu went for a better, more qualified and more refined candidate.Importantly, if putting Nigeria’s economy back on track is an offense in your book, then yes, that’s the other possible way Tinubu could have “offended” you.
Your choice of words — “so-called president” — is not only uncouth but a disgraceful denigration of the very office you once served as Secretary to the Government of the Federation. Have you forgotten the dignity that comes with that office?Your descent into playing ethnic politics exposes your narrow mindedness and the threat your likes can pose to national unity.
You also declared you “would have been sacked” in a Tinubu administration. Instructively, you were sacked — but under President Buhari’s government, not Tinubu’s. You claim you would have resigned if you were part of this administration.
The truth? Whether under Tinubu, Buhari, or even your preferred Peter Obi (who still perches on the wings of mere “desperation” or is it aspiration), your overinflated sense of self-importance would have led to the same outcome: a quick exit.
Your arrogance is not new. Was it not you, in 2017, who on hearing of your sack as SGF scoffed, “Who is the Presidency?” — as though the presidency were a one-man office, and no one could remove you without your own permission? Such hubris then, such hubris now.
Babachir Lawal, these televised monologues do not make you relevant. They merely remind Nigerians why you are no longer in office and fast sinking into political and community oblivion. It is not too late to retrace your steps!Sunday Akin Dare Sunday Dare Aso Rock Villa
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Adamawa APC Showcases Tinubu’s Two-Year Achievements, Applauds Ribadu’s Role as Stakeholders’ Meeting Kicks Off in Yola
Joel Ajayi
Stakeholders of the ruling APC in Adamawa State have identified the achievements of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the last two years since assuming the Nigerian presidency, describing such achievements as monumental and unprecedented.
The stakeholders also commended Mr. President for appointing one of their sons, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as National Security Adviser, an appointment they emphasize has been justified by current results.
In a one-day grassroots engagement and sensitization meeting organized by APC lawmakers in the State Assembly, which was attended by various stakeholders of the Party from across the State and beyond, Monday, in Yola, speakers at the event posited that no Nigerian leader since Independence had in so short a time taken the various bold steps President Tinubu has undertaken in the last two years of his emergence as President.
Speaking as keynote speaker at the well-attended event, Director General of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps,Rt.Hon.Yusuf Buba Yakub identified such projects as the construction of the 750-kilometre super highways from Calabar to Lagos and another one from Sokoto to Badagry in Lagos, as well as the one from Akwanga to Gombe and Yola and the one from Calabar to Abuja, including the Southeastern corridor railway lines,as monumental projects that are aimed at opening up the Nigerian hinterland for greater accessibility and overall development.
All of these, the Adamawa-born former federal lawmaker and leader said would not have been possible had the President from the first day of taking the oath of office not removed the hydra-headed fuel subsidy and floated the nation’s currency to bridge the yawning gap between the subsisting highly manipulated black and official foreign exchange markets.
“President Tinubu during his swearing-in ceremony took a bold step that no Nigerian leader in the past forty years in the history of our dear country was able to take. He removed the fuel subsidy before even taking over office!
“That move has turned around the fortunes of Nigeria such that today we can proudly beat our chests to say that we have become an exporter of finished petroleum products. In the past, despite our abundant crude oil we were busy importing petrol, which was very disgraceful.”
Buba, who commended President Tinubu for the two major decisions of removing the fuel subsidy and floating the Naira, against subsidizing the US Dollar as was the case in the past, said the decisions have saved Nigeria trillions of Naira. He recalled that during the 9th National Assembly one-third of the national fiscal budget for a particular year was completely eaten up by fuel subsidy claims.
“These decisions which have increased revenue earnings in our States in the last two years are the reasons you see today in serious States of the Federation the kind of monumental development taking place all over the place.”
Buba also commended President Tinubu for appointing one of their own as the National Security Adviser. He said Mallam Nuhu Ribadu’s appointment, which was hailed across the globe as placing a square peg in a square hole at a time Nigeria was almost becoming ungovernable owing largely to the unfortunate activities of insurgent groups, was a masterstroke by Mr. President that has convinced all doubting Thomases as to the genuine intentions of Mr. President.
While chronicling other achievements of President Tinubu in the first two years of his Presidency, including the efforts at repositioning Nigeria in the global community through the TAC Scheme and the grand diplomatic engagements of the Foreign Affairs’ Ministry, his many social intervention programmes for the poor, investment in technical and vocational training as well as scholarships for students and many other highly commendable good governance initiatives, the NTAC DG concluded that Nigeria has never had it so good. He called on the people to brace up for the return of Mr. President for a second term in office.
Also speaking at the event, the National Vice Chairman of the APC in the Northeast Zone, Comrade Barrister Salisu Mustapha drew comparison of the state of insecurity in the land before the coming of President Tinubu and the present moment. While thanking the people for their support for answering the call to duty ,which gave them victory at a recently conducted bye election in the State, he said the message must be carried far and near that the Party was prepared to reclaim victory in the State in 2027.He acknowledged the significance of such a gathering initiated by members of the Party in the State Assembly.
He thanked other members of the Party from the neighbouring States of Taraba and Gombe and also solicited commitment from the Party stalwarts in Adamawa towards ensuring that such a gathering be replicated at the Ward level of the entire State.
Among those who attended the event were some members of the National Executive Committee of the APC from the Northeast Zone, the Adamawa State Chairman of the Party, Barr. Idris and members of the State Working Committee, Local Government as well as the Ward Executive Committee members of the Party and various stakeholders.
The event concluded with the endorsement of Mr. President and other leaders of the Party for onward movement to the next level.
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