Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has disclosed that the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, actually won the election.
This comes days after former minister, Rotimi Amaechi revealed that Obi won Rivers State during the election.
Lawal, who served under late Muhammadu Buhari administration, has now stated that Obi won the entire election.
He made this revelation while answering questions in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Tonight on Monday.
He said that based on the facts available to him, Obi won the election that produced Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s 16th president.
The erstwhile SGF maintained that President Tinubu did not win the election, stressing that the result available to him at that time showed he did not win the election.
While solidifying his claim, Lawal reiterated that they monitored the election, collected data and monitored the results from the fields.
He added that some of the results were altered.
When asked who he believed won the poll, he said, “Peter Obi won that election.”
He also claimed that President Tinubu is arrogant.
“He is arrogant. The guy has an arrogance that belies definitions.
“The problem with Bola Tinubu is that he thinks I’m the one that offended him. I didn’t offend him, he offended me and he is full of himself, and he thinks that he is now so-called president…I believe he didn’t win the election,” he said.
Lawal also said he would not have coped in the current administration if he were a member of the President’s cabinet.
According to him, he would have resigned if he were a member of the Tinubu government.
“I thank God that I didn’t make the mistake of being in this government ab initio.
“If I were in this government, I probably would have been sacked a long time ago, killed or resigned.”
Lawal said he was comfortable with Tinubu’s governance style.
The former member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) accused Tinubu’s government of nepotism, citing the appointments made by the President.
“I cannot go to a meeting in which 99 per cent of the participants are Yoruba. The tendency is that they finish the meeting in their language, and I am just sitting there.
“When we were doing the campaign, after he went to Ogun and said ’emi lokan,’ there was a Bola Tinubu platform in which I was participating.
“They started insulting us, saying that northerners are illiterate. So I wrote on that platform that these are the people whose votes we would need.
“The problem with the Yoruba is that when you support them and they win, they behave as if they have subdued you. They will not count your support,” the former SGF said.