I can’t work with Tinubu, would’ve resigned if appointed — Ex-SGF, Lawal

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, on Monday criticised the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
Lawal 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,” he said on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

“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.

During the show, he also faulted some economic policies of Tinubu, decrying the inflation rate in the country.

Lawal specifically cited the fuel subsidy that was removed in May 2023, lamenting that Nigerians had yet to see the gains of the removal.

He accused Tinubu’s government of still paying subsidy, despite the announcement by the President that it had been removed.

The ADC chieftain also weighed in on the 2023 presidential election, alleging that it was rigged by the APC.

When asked who he believed won the poll, he said, “Peter Obi won that election.”

I can’t work with Tinubu, would’ve resigned if appointed — Ex-SGF, Lawal