A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, said he and other political bigwigs supporting the presidential candidate of the Labor Party, Peter Obi, would relocate to Cameroon if the candidate loses the 2023 presidential election.
The former SGF stated this on Monday during an interactive session with Mr Obi and the stakeholders of the LP from the North East in Abuja.
Mr Lawal, a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, also expressed surprise that the APC had not expelled him from the party, despite his opposition to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
He added that the 2023 presidential poll is a must-win for Mr Obi, given the current state of the country.
“I am in APC and a member of the Board of Trustees of the party, but I am doing the Peter Obi/Yusuf Datti movement. The APC has not sacked me yet. “I don’t know what they are waiting for.
“We want Obi to win this election and must win this election. If we lose this election, we’ll all migrate to Cameroon because of the shame and disgrace of failure to win.
“It is not about whether we have options, Peter Obi must win this election. Nigerians are yearning for change and people are determined that this time around the change that we have been yearning for will come.
“Fortunately, we have a competent person in Peter and his running mate. We need an arrowhead to drive this change and these two provide it. “I am not interested in LP as a party.
“I am interested in Peter Obi as a potential presidential candidate. It doesn’t matter which party Peter Obi is, I sense that Nigerians are due for a change.
“They have been yearning for change; My own opinion is that Nigeria will vote for anybody as long as he is not part of the PDP or APC,” he added.
