Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir Lawal, has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will go for a third term if he wins the 2027 presidential election and God keeps him alive.
Lawal, who stated during an interview with Symfoni Tv, stated that the only thing that would stop Tinubu from not going for third term is if he looses the 2027 presidential election.
He said; “Bola Tinubu will go for a third term if God gives him the long life to do it”.
The former SGF also said that while he would continue to insist on the conduct of elections, the fact remains that lections are “no longer free, fair, and credible in Nigeria”.
He pointedly accused political parties of rigging their primary elections, emphasising that the same practice would be replicated during the 2027 elections:
In the words of Lawal; “They would allow you to go to polling units pretending that INEC would do the needful, but would only succeed in doing “some bojuboju” and announce the result that has already been handed over to them.
“I think that will be the end. The problem would now be the reaction of the people. My own assessment is that every Nigerian should just remain in his house while candidates would go to their courts and SANs’ would collect billions of naira, improvise the figures further and that is the end.
“Nigerians would succumb to what we used to say in the military that with one bullet in your rifle, you can get one thousand people to surrender because nobody wants to take that one bullet.
“Every Nigerian would just go home and sleep as a lot of people will not come home that day but after the election they would come out to protest,” he said.
Lawal also said that President Tinubu and his supporters would deceive themselves that they are campaigning, but it would end there,
He further said; “Every political party rigged their primary, up till now they are still fighting, they are still fighting as everybody can’t beat their chest that we did a free and fair primaries.
