Obi won 2023 Presidential election. Tinubu came third - Former SGF Babachir Lawal says.

Obi won 2023 Presidential election. Tinubu came third - Former SGF Babachir Lawal says.

A former Secretary to the Federal Government, Babachir Lawal, said that the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, won the February 25 presidential election, and not Bola Tinubu. 

Lawal, a close ally of Tinubu, said this in Abuja on Tuesday, Oct. 17. 

He claimed that data from independent sources indicated that Obi got the majority votes while Atiku came second in the election.  

According to him, Bola Tinubu came a distant third in the number of votes scored. 

Lawal’s statement read, “I have resisted the temptation to engage in the contemporary political discourse since the May 2023 election faux pas. 

“I did this for two reasons; the first being that as an active player in the drama, I needed time to analyze and digest the data that led to the outcome(s) so I could arrive at an informed decision; the second, being that the rainy season had just set in and I needed to focus my attention on my farms which are the mainstay of my livelihood. 

“The current topical issues for political discourse and inquiry are whether or not Bola Tinubu won the presidential election and/or that he was apriori, qualified to participate in the election given his murky biodata as is now being publicly unveiled daily in an avalanche. 

“My answer to the first inquiry is that regardless of whatever INEC or Appeal Court said or did, Bola did not win the election. 

“Right from the start of the campaigns, Bola knew he was not going to win the election in a free and fair contest so he decided to go by all means. 

“Available factual data as aggregated from several independent sources indicate that Obi got the majority votes while Atiku came second. Bola came a distant third in the number of votes scored.” 

He urged the president to resign to prevent public humiliation and embarrassment.