FRESH facts have emerged  that  former Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF) Babachir Lawal dumped the African Democratic Congress (ADC), because his  ambition to become the running mate to former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has crashed .

Competent sources within the ADC revealed that the former SGF’s personal interest of becoming the party’s  Vice Chairman from the North East also fuelled the Nafiu Bala Gombe crisis of the ADC.

According to our sources, Mr Babachir had positioned himself as running mate to any southern candidate that would emerge and was rattled when Mr Peter Obi who was his first option ditched the ADC.

Our source said Mr Lawal then turned attention and vigorously worked for the emergence of former Rivers State Governor , Rotimi Amaechi behind the scenes but again unsuccessful .

Although Babachir in his statement took a deep swipe at the Presidential candidate of the ADC Atiku Abubakar and accussed the party for rigging the process , investigations reveal otherwise .

Babachir also in his statement appeared siding foremost economists Mohammed Hayatu-Dee while describing Atiku in derogatory words , our sources said , his crashed  ambition was the main reason for leaving the ADC.

According to our source: “I am not surprised because I know the man you are talking about . This is not the first time he will be leaving a party because of personal vision.

“In 2022 he left the APC because he wanted to be running mate to Tinubu and he was denied that opportunity . This time he was rooting to becoming Mr Peter Obi’s running mate untill Obi left the ADC, he then focused on Rotimi Amaechi .

“The moment Amaechi could not make it I knew he will come up with an excuse and try to discredit the process ,but unfortunately his departure won’t change anything because I can’t see his electoral value be it from the  North East or Adamawa state where our presidential candidate also hails .

“Let me so remind you that it was so because of his personal ambition of becoming National Vice chairman that has led to the Nafiu Bala Gombe conundrum. He assured us that he would address  Gombe and he should be allowed to have the National Vice chairman , the moment he got it he said to hell with Nafiu Bala. So I know the individual we are dealing with and please you people should not take what he says seriously because I have read the statement and all he says is not true about his departure .

“I want to say it straight away as a member of the NWC of this party that we all know the backend story ,it is about personal interest and nothing more , dont forget that at every  point, our National chairman cautioned about personal interest  .”

Babachir in his statement said:”I  am  exiting the ADC because its just concluded primaries were at all levels massively rigged in favour Kachalla Abubakar Atiku. I sense a conspiracy of silence of which I want no part of Most members of the party are behaving as if this is the normal thing to do.

“Results were just written or rewritten to favour him and his coven. Even where they allowed some semblance of election to hold, the winners were simply replaced with members of his  syndicate. In the real sense it was a disgraceful charade.

“I am  doing so because I do not intend to be part of Kachalla Atiku’s rigging machine in the 2027 general elections and I cannot avoid doing so if I remain in the party.  The man and his cabal are just irredentist Fulani and religious hegemonists. For me, working for Kachalla Atiku means giving Tinubu an automatic ticket to a second term which gives me nightmares. I believe Tinubu might, comparatively speaking,  end up a better Nigerian president than Kachalla Atiku could ever be (as bad as Tinubu  currently is  and possibly could ever be). The choice in 2027  it seems will be a Morton’s fork.

 “I did not join the ADC to make Nigeria progressively worse so my beliefs and conscience won’t allow me partner with the evil that Atiku and his people represent.

“For, with close to 25 adult children, 6 wives (past and present, some offshore) and a heavily shrunk decapitated business empire, I foresee 25 Seyi Tinubus and 6 Remi Tinubus; a prospect that has been keeping me awake all night with worry. And who knows which Chagouri’s might be lurking around the corner waiting for an Atiku bazaar?

 “I would have thought that  the Northerners who helped  rig the primaries for a near-senile octogenarian they all  know to be an incompetent, tribal and religious bigot would be the ones that should crave the most  a good post-2027  governance seeing as Tinubu has driven its people to total destitution.  I would have thought that when Northerners insist on a northern president  they would be thinking of one that will stop the downward spiral into poverty and insecurity not an  ineptocrat like Kachalla Atiku. 
“Alas, a leopard cannot change its spots. The North, it seems, is perpetually doomed to self-harm.

“While I will  be tweaking   my plans for the future  and consulting with like-minded colleagues on how to stop this incompetent octogenerian from coming close to the presidential office, I will in the meantimd  retire to my village farm from where I will be watching Kachalla Atiku and his band of wicked vote  riggers and result manipulators  mercilessly out-rigged and beaten  to pulp by Tinubu’s ruthless and superior rigging machine.

“Then, it will be bye bye to this octogenarian presidential wannabe. It will be bye bye to the North for preffering  a religious hegemonists over a competent world-renown economist and corporate guru.”

As at the time of filing the report the ADC had yet officially responded to Babachir’s exit.