Atiku accuses Babachir Lawal of making baseless claims over ADC primary

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has rejected allegations by erstwhile Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) statesmanlike superior was manipulated successful his favour.

In a connection released on Tuesday by his media aide, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku said Lawal had failed to supply immoderate grounds to enactment the claims, describing the allegations arsenic speculation without grounds and “an unfortunate cocktail of bitterness, conjecture, and governmental revisionism masquerading arsenic nationalist interest.”

“Mr Lawal spent astir an hr making sedate accusations astir the behaviour of the ADC statesmanlike primary. Yet helium failed to nutrient a azygous portion of verifiable evidence,” the connection said.

“No document. No petition. No effect sheet. No witnesser statement. No recording. Nothing.”

The ADC statesmanlike campaigner argued that Lawal’s comments were driven by disappointment aft his preferred campaigner mislaid the primary.

“What the interrogation yet revealed was not a whistleblower exposing wrongdoing but a disappointed governmental histrion struggling to travel to presumption with the nonaccomplishment of his preferred candidate,” Atiku said.

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