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- Former SGF Babachir Lawal has dismissed President Tinubu’s sojourn to Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration arsenic a lobbyist-arranged event
- Lawal criticised the Muslim-Muslim statesmanlike ticket, saying Tinubu’s Vatican sojourn insulted Christians and wouldn’t person happened with a Christian VP
- Furthermore, Lawal revealed that the PDP has been excluded from the 2027 absorption conjugation owed to an “incurable virus"
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has downplayed President Bola Tinubu’s caller sojourn to Rome for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, saying the travel was not a large accomplishment but alternatively a effect of lobbying efforts.
Legit.ng had earlier reported that President Tinubu attended the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV pursuing an invitation from Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State.
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Speaking successful an interrogation connected Arise Television, Lawal said,
“You cognize that going to spot the Pope is conscionable a substance of your lobby. How good you tin lobby, however galore friends you person retired determination successful the Vatican that tin lobby for you? "So, it is not arsenic if it’s a large accomplishment to sojourn the Pope connected his inauguration. It tin beryllium arranged successful beforehand by lobbyists, astir apt with the close inducement. So, Bola Tinubu going to sojourn the Pope is simply a non-issue.”Muslim-Muslim summons insulted Christian population, says Lawal
Lawal argued that Tinubu’s beingness astatine the Pope’s inauguration lone reinforced the insult caused by the Muslim-Muslim summons of the presidency, suggesting that a Muslim president should not beryllium starring eminent Christians to the Vatican.
He said,
“His gathering with the Pope further reinforced my sentiment that a Muslim-Muslim summons was an insult to Christians. "A Muslim should not beryllium starring eminent Christians to the Pope. The President would not person attended the lawsuit if helium had a Christian Vice President.”Lawal: PDP excluded from conjugation talks up of 2027
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On the ongoing efforts to signifier a conjugation against Tinubu successful the 2027 election, Lawal revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is being excluded, describing it arsenic having an “incurable virus.”
“In each the meetings I’ve attended truthful far, cipher has ever bothered astir adopting the PDP arsenic the platform. "We each hold that PDP has an incurable virus. No antibiotics tin cure what is ailing the PDP and we don’t privation to spell into a location that we cannot modify that is not consenting to change," Lawal said.He confirmed that erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar is actively progressive successful the coalition’s run to unseat Tinubu and that discussions are ongoing astir whether to registry a caller enactment oregon upgrade an existing 1 arsenic the coalition’s platform.
Lawal promised the conjugation would soon denote its caller level to easiness nationalist concern, amid the PDP’s ongoing enactment situation that has deepened since the 2023 statesmanlike predetermination loss.
What Tinubu told Peter Obi, Fayemi astatine Pope’s inauguration
Previously, Legit.ng reported that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu met with the 2023 Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi and erstwhile Ekiti authorities politician Kayode Fayemi astatine Pope Leo XIV's installation wide astatine the Vatican City successful Rome.
According to statesmanlike aide, Bayo Onanuga, it was Fayemi who suggested they conscionable with Tinubu. He shared details connected what happened among them, stating that the erstwhile Ekiti Governor broke the ice.
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