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In an interview with Channels TV, Babachir Lawal, a former secretary to the Government of the Federation, stated why he opposed Nigeria’s Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket, citing worries about giving Islamic extremists more power.

Lawal explained why they were protesting the ticket. “One of the reasons why we protested the Muslim-Muslim ticket was because it was going to give Islamic fundamentalists, the impetus, the courage to go ahead, feeling that now is their government,” he stated. “They have a stamp of approval at the federal level.”

The former SGF cautioned about the political decision’s domino repercussions. “So it’s now an excuse for them to go down the line. It does happen,” Lawal said.

Lawal used a personal story to demonstrate his point. “I gave you a story one time when a Fulani man entered my farm with his cows, and we arrested him and took him to the police station, and he was boasting that, ‘Do you think that I can come to your farm without somebody giving me permission? This is our government,’” he recounted.

Given his position at the time, Lawal highlighted the incident’s boldness. “I was even then a SGF, and for a Fulani man to tell me that Buhari authorized him to enter my farm was very annoying,” he said.

He clarified the reasoning behind his acts by saying, “But you see, at his level of education, he thinks that because the president was a Muslim, he had the right to do whatever he wanted and get away with it.”

Lawal continued by making a clear link to present affairs, saying, “And now that is the consequence of the Muslim-Muslim ticket. It has given them the courage to go the last mile: persecuting people, intimidating people, and killing people where they refuse to be intimidated.”

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