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Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has declared that Nigeria will be doomed if the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is re-elected into power in 2027.

Babachir Lawal made the assertion in Bauchi on Tuesday, at the Ramat House, Presidential Lodge of Government House, after a closed-door meeting with the Governor of Bauchi State, Sen Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, Speaker of Bauchi State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Abubakar Y Suleiman, Deputy National Chairman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hamza Koshe Akuyam, State Chairman, Pharmacist Samaila Adamu Burga, and members of the State Executive Council on the possibility of joining the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Speaking, he stated that “We are here in Bauchi today at the instance of our leader, Senator David Mark, the national chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).”

According to him, “Senator Mark sent us here because he’s fully aware that the coming battle between us in 2027 to elect new people to lead Nigeria can only be successful if all the various segments of the country that have good intentions and goodwill towards the Nigerians are able to unite to stand and resist the impending disaster that is waiting for us in 2027.”

He stressed that, “We are fully aware that if we make a mistake and allow this government to continue post-2027, Nigeria will probably be no more as we know it.”

“By then, we probably will be packing people of starvation in trailers. By then, we’ll be packing people in trailers who are unable to afford medical services and everything, and the insurgency will get to the level that they will be running from room to room, harassing and killing and maiming people,” he added.

The former Scribe added, “So, with this in mind, Senator David Mark sent us to speak to the current Bauchi State Governor to join the ADC because he’s a noted fighter; he’s a warrior; he’s fearless. And his synergies will contribute to what we already have in ADC. And so that’s why we are here.”

According to him, “We’ve had very fruitful discussions in a very friendly, brotherly manner. We understand the task before every Nigerian and the task before Kauram Bauchi as a Governor, that, when he joins ADC, he will be one of our field commanders. And that’s why we are here. And as I said, we’ve received a very warm reception, and we thank you for it. And we hope that the subsequent discussions will be concluded by our massive registration of the people of Bauchi, as did happen in Kano yesterday.”

He concluded, “We know that the entry of Kauram Bauchi into ADC will frighten this government to the extent that they will manipulate the situation and what they intend to do to rig the 2027 elections. But we are all Nigerians, and we know the strength of every one of us. We are confident that if we carry our agenda, we will have invited the state party-ready people to confront this government, and victory will be ours. Thank you very much.”

In his response, Bauchi State Governor, Sen Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, stated, “The elder statesman has said it all. I’m here this morning with a delegation from the ADC headquarters, where my mentor, my boss, Senator David Mark, is leading, and he has sent an olive leaf to me to reconnect me with the umbilical cord of the opposition, where I have always emerged from.”

Bala Mohammed lamented, “Sadly, as a leader in the PDP, we have found ourselves really in a very serious ambivalence, where our party is headless, and of course, I have pursued all avenues for reconciliation, but it has not worked, and our people are putting me under extreme pressure.”

According to him, “And we have set up two committees, one in Abuja at the national level, because of my position as a leader of the party on the other side, and one here in Bauchi, to look at where to go. We laid all our options on the ground, including the APC itself, but sadly, we have discovered that we cannot be where we are not wanted. We have to find a place within the opposition.”

“That’s where our future and political destiny are taking us. And ADC appears to be a very enduring and, of course, alluring and more acceptable platform by the people that are talking to me so far. And because I’m managing two constituencies, both here and the federal, so that we don’t make mistakes. And that’s where we are,” he added.

The governor further stated, “We are very grateful for that recognition, because when you are facing a very serious political problem like ours, and somebody offers a hand, we are very modest, and our humility is so that we are nothing until we go to the field.”

He stressed, “We believe in winning elections, and elections are done at the polling unit, and won at the polling unit, and we are not scared of anybody. We have done all we could do to be able to go for self-preservation, to sketch it, and of course, I am a political participant, but it is not working.”

Bala Mohammed added, “Therefore, we have to face the challenges of this existential solution that is being provided to us by ADC. We, on behalf of the people and government of Bauchi State, and indeed the PDP, the other party that helped me to scout, thank the National Chairman of the ADC for offering this opportunity to us.”

The ADC delegation included former minister Sen Batagarwa, Sen Tunde Ogbeha, and other leaders of the party.

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Grass Cutter!

He carelessly spoke himself out of any meaningful political relevance during the last election cycle.

One thing I am certain is that no sane Nigerians would remove the Tinubu regime just to have an Atiku regime.

Babachir is doomed if his party ADC do not get power in 2027.

By the way, ADC will never get that presidential power, they will remain as option for 100 years. If any party will topple APC, it will be PDP.

I dey complain about government, you dey tell me make I list wetin Peter obi don do for anambra.
You Dey craze

The whole APC data boys go join their monthly 30k to buy 1 bread to share amongst dem. As it is now, Helinues can't afford one egg now. Dem nor born im papa well to steal foodstuffs again

Look at the mirror Babachir Lawal. 🪞, You are a comedian

Everybody is fighting for their own selfish interest as long as this administration is concerned we need men of integrity and accountability to tell us the way forward

Throwback:
Grass Cutter!

He carelessly spoke himself out of any meaningful political relevance during the last election cycle.

The man dey talk am everywhere say Tinubu go lose 2023 election like say he don see future.

Tinubu defeated him with all their propaganda and landmine they set for him.

Alter 2027 election, Asiwaju should be crowned the 1st KING 👑 of politics in Nigeria

Look at the mirror Babachir Lawal. 🪞, You are a comedian

COMRADES, no one needs to tell you this fact

But Nigeria was not doomed when you were cutting Grass abi ?

Flame333:
Everybody is fighting for their own selfish interest as long as this administration is concerned we need men of integrity and accountability to tell us the way forward

There is no man of integrity left in Nigeria. You just have to go with one that will align or take care of your interest as a person, as an ethnic, as a geopolitical region, and as a country.

This thief sef dey talk. So Nigeria was not doomed when you alone carried over 200 million naira go cut grass?

Shameless grass cutter that embezzled money meant for IDP.
Structure of Criminality

we already won
who want defeat us??

The country is doomed already

The way Nigeria is fast spiralling out of control should be of great concern to any patriotic Nigerian who loves the country irrespective of tribe or religion. The downward spiral is on a dangerous trajectory and some people are still playing politics of tribe and religion.
When you feed a baby snake, it eventually turns to a harmful beast that will harm you.
Nobody is immune to the consequences of a failed state.

But you're part of the APC that destroyed this country during Buhari's regime

Only God will save the common man after this party with religious agenda has finish with Nigeria 🇳🇬 division will be the next option

This are the sponsors of the recent killings.

Thief calling others thieves

No be only babachair na babatable..
You and ya family and the the disgruntled eleeements are d..ooo. oooo..m .
Majority of Nigerians support Tinubu ..

Association of Displaced Criminals! ADC

Look who is talking, most of these thieves were the ones that put us where we are today.

CBN was just awarded the Central Bank of the year by a GLOBALLY recognized organization……….you think we are joking here??

These criminals are intent on REVERSING the great strides made by the government.

June 12, 2013 by The Nation

PDP, Jonathan have failed Nigerians, says Tinubu

ACN leader lashes govt on economy, security
President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is confused about how to tackle Nigeria’s challenges, especially poverty and insecurity, a leader of the newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said.

He said the Federal Government promised peace and security, but under its “unwatchful eye” insecurity has grown and Boko Haram “has turned large tracts of northern Nigeria into no man’s land”.


But, a bright future, he said, is on the horizon as the APC, which he called “the government in-waiting”, would rescue Nigeria from its confused state.


“As leaders of the new party and government in-waiting, we intend to pursue dynamic, time-tested and bold policies that will liberate our people by making sure our wealth works for us,” Tinubu said.

Nigerians, said Tinubu, have become increasingly divided as a people because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government continues to take faulty steps in addressing poverty and injustice.

“They have ignored the cause and gone after the symptoms,” the former Lagos State Governor told a packed audience inside the Grand Committee Ballroom, Westminster Hall, House of Parliament, London on Monday. He identified failed policies on power, employment, economy and security as evidence of bad leadership.


Tinubu, the keynote speaker at the British African Diaspora Conference, spoke on “Leadership, national development and the people”.

He urged the Federal Government to apply a consistent policy of targeted law enforcement operations along with an active programme of economic development, negotiations and potential amnesty for penitent Boko Haram members.

He said rather than take this step, the nation has been treated to series of government inaction and indiscriminate use of force, which culminated in the declaration of a state of emergency in three states.


“The Jonathan government set up a special Committee on Boko Haram and Security matters, but sadly before they could perform, he declared State of Emergency in three Northern states: Yobe, Borno and Adamawa.

“This is symptomatic of a confused leadership. If there is security in this jumbled policy, neither I nor the majority of Nigerians can find it!”

To the fomer Lagos governor, if Nigeria is to mature as a democracy, its electoral system must be improved. He decried the fact that those who control the system manipulate elections with such impunity that they now see misconduct without sanction as a normal way of life.


Said he: “Look at the recent controversy surrounding election of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) chairman… A group comprising all the nations’ governors could not even conduct a simple 35-person election without a disputed outcome.

“With this recent experience, I fear the length those in power would go and the means they would employ to manipulate results when the battleground is the entire nation and the stakes are the general elections in 2015.

“The NGF debacle symbolises a disdain for democracy and the popular will. If we are to save Nigeria, we must rescue the electoral process from its abusers,” Tinubu said.

In his view, a great philosophical gulf separates the government from the progressives. “This current Nigerian government is a retrogressive one. Much of what they claim as growth is but the harsh redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. The bottom gets squeezed while the top expands. They are serving us the salad of corruption.

“They consume our today and squander the nation’s tomorrow. For 14 years, the PDP-led government cannot turn anything around. A new leadership is required to put a stop to this.”

Tinubu criticised Nigeria’s economic policies, saying the economy is being reconstructed “as an oasis for a small few and a stark desert for the many” while the government pretends to endorse the same budget-cutting austerity policies as much of Europe.

“We are not Europe; we are a Third World economy. That these policies have failed in European nations with higher standards of living than Nigeria gives our leaders no concern.”

Tinubu said the people live in dire straits, yet the government would rather waste the money than spend it on public benefit because they do not believe the people deserve it.

He said the progressives would bring pragmatic solution to the country’s woes because in their approach to the political economy, they do not rely on textbook answers as they do not “live in textbooks.

He said: “We live in the real world and thus seek answers from real world experiences. Here is a real world fact: No large nation has ever attained sustained growth without government running budget deficits to build the required infrastructure and without other government policies promoting development of the key industries that would become the spine of national development.

“Here is another such fact: No populous nation ever attains prosperity solely by extracting its raw material to exchange them for the finished goods of other large nations. We must industrialise and diversify our economy

“It is for this reason – to save the nation from the stranglehold of permanent poverty and poor governance – that the members of the progressive opposition political parties have decided to put aside personal ambition (including my own ambition) to form a new party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). We do this because Nigeria has entered a critical state of economic depression.”

According to Tinubu, because of the unfair nature of the electoral processes and the gross imbalance of its political economy, the people have been props in a drama for which they should have been the main characters. “We must change this,” he said.

He said the progressives must move Nigeria away from a place where the whims and narrow wishes of self-centered reactionary elite dictate the fate of over 150 million people.

“On our side, we will take our chances with a free and fair election, for we shall offer the people an innovative programme consisting of a national industrial policy that includes radical infrastructural development and employment targets,” he said.

The former Lagos governor spoke of “the Glorious Nigerian Revolution”, which he said has nothing to do with force of arms.

His words: “The Revolution of which I speak has two major parts. First, is the peaceful conversion of our quasi-democracy into a full-fledged one. Second, is the implementation of policies turning the political economy away from its retrogressive, elitist bearings.

“We seek policies pointing in a progressive direction affording the average person a chance at a dignified life. This will be through the provision of gainful employment, quality education and essential social services for those who need the helping hand of government to survive.

“I see no shame in believing progressive government can improve the political economy and the lives of the people.”

I heard they call him grass cutter now.
Una no dey forget something o.

They have been unleashed on Nairaland...

But this time una go fail...BIG TIME.

Awolowo used his hand to bring tribalism into Nigeria politics and later his people complained.

Tinubu is introducing destruction of opposition parties, tomorrow his people will complain and protest in Ojota.


We just need to remind them because of tomorrow o!


I'm still watching and smiling because I know how the end will always be.


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Very true sir. Even th blind, deaf and dumb know

I wonder at the correlation between the two

Ceenachi:
I dey complain about government, you dey tell me make I list wetin Peter obi don do for anambra.
You Dey craze

God will not allow Tinubu to destroy Nigeria. Snti democrat.

If not as the country be, many people in positions of authority today, in Nigeria , should be in jail or publicly executed for rabid corruption.

EponObi:
If not that this country gets as e be, this Babachir guy should be rotting in jail or hell or both.

Presenters that interview this guy on TV, what goes though their mind when says these things? Na waooo

This guy is supposed not be seen in public self. For Buhari, the most non-challant dude ever liveth, to remove him from his government tells you how terrible, dirty, and nasty the grass cutting scandal was.

Tueh!