Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has revealed that the precocious erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari recovered it hard to negociate the Yorubas.
Lawal disclosed that Buhari wanted to usage him to negociate the Yorubas aft noticing his narration with President Bola Tinubu and a founding chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bisi Akande.
In an interrogation connected Arise Television’s Prime Time, connected Monday night, the erstwhile SGF said contempt trying to usage him, Buhari threw him nether the autobus but said they aboriginal reconciled.
According to Lawal: “Buhari ne'er fto maine go, helium threw maine nether the autobus but we aboriginal became okay. He would telephone maine and we volition gist, helium volition inquire maine what I deliberation astir this and that.
“There was inactive intelligibly immoderate benignant of quality relationship. Somehow determination is an unwritten narration betwixt america and Buhari.
“It seems similar it’s due to the fact that of my narration with Bola and Bisi Akande that helium could usage maine to negociate the Yorubas whom helium recovered hard to negociate and of people I tried my best.”
Buhari appointed Lawal arsenic SGF connected August 27, 2015 and helium served till October 30, 2017.
Lawal was suspended connected April 19, 2017, pursuing a Senate probe into a declaration ungraded termed “grass cutting” involving funds intended for the humanitarian situation successful Nigeria’s Northeast.
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