On calls for SGF’s resignation

The chairman of the Nigerian Military School Old Boys’ Association, Zaria, Mr. Ahmed Tijanni’s, call that the law be allowed to takes its due course regarding the purported indictment of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. David Babachir Lawal, by the Senate, is a welcome development that shows that there are still people of good conscience out there.

I agree with Tijanni that the Senate’s call for Lawal’s resignation or sack is not only hasty but motivated by an ulterior motive aimed at sabotaging the good work of the Buhari administration. This is why the Senate blinded its eyes to the enormous work the PINE had done under the leadership of Lawal.

Meanwhile, the Senate refused to allow Lawal to defend himself even when he indicated that he had abundant evidence to disprove all the allegations levelled against him.

Obviously, the Senate was out to unjustly nail him. For Lawal has a record of integrity in public service and politics. Since the Senate Committee report was an interim one, I call on the upper chamber and all other political gladiators too eager to see the fall of Lawal and, by extension, this government, to allow the law to take its course. He should be allowed to clear his name. Until that is done, no one would have the moral authority to insist on the resignation or sack of Lawal.

Muhammed Ahmed,

Maiduguri