Alleged rigging: Stop grandstanding, bring your evidence, Atiku dares ex-SGF Lawal

June 9, 2026

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar

By Omeiza Ajayi, ABUJA

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has dismissed allegations by a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr Babachir Lawal, over the conduct of the African Democratic Congress ADC presidential primary, describing them as a cocktail of bitterness, conjecture, and political revisionism dressed up as public interest.

Atiku’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, in a statement on Tuesday, said Nigerians who watched Mr Lawal’s recent television interview were confronted with a curious spectacle: “a man armed with outrage but bereft of evidence; rich in allegations but poor in facts.”