Fulani celebrating his ADC ticket — Babachir Lawal speaks on calling Atiku ‘Kachalla’

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, has defended his determination to notation to erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar arsenic “Kachalla,” saying the rubric is commonly utilized by radical specified arsenic notorious bandit person Bello Turji to code their section leaders.

Lawal made the remarks portion speaking connected Channels Television’s Politics Today programme connected Monday, soon aft announcing his resignation from the African Democratic Congress, ADC.

According to him, “Kachalla” is simply a rubric utilized by radical successful the bush to code their leaders, adding that Atiku, being a Fulani man, should not find the statement unusual.

The erstwhile SGF besides alleged that immoderate Fulani groups were celebrating Atiku’s emergence arsenic a statesmanlike campaigner due to the fact that they believed it would amended their chances of producing Nigeria’s adjacent president.

Lawal further accused the erstwhile vice president of failing to publically condemn killings, kidnappings and convulsive attacks successful parts of the country, peculiarly successful bluish Nigeria and his location authorities of Adamawa.

He questioned Atiku’s effect to caller attacks that claimed respective lives, including incidents successful Adamawa, alleging that the erstwhile vice president had neither condemned the unit nor visited affected commu...