Tinubu Paid Obama’s Consultants Over ₦2 Billion To Fund Osinbajo’s Marketing campaign – Babachir Lawal

Former Secretary to the Authorities of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has alleged that President Bola Tinubu spent greater than ₦2 billion to rent political consultants linked to former United States President, Barack Obama, to finance the marketing campaign of ex-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo throughout the 2015 normal election.

Naija Information experiences that Lawal made this recognized throughout an interview with Symfoni TV launched on Saturday whereas recounting Tinubu’s contributions to the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential marketing campaign that introduced late former President Muhammadu Buhari to energy.

In keeping with him, Tinubu mobilised substantial funds for the marketing campaign and individually financed Osinbajo’s marketing campaign actions as a result of the previous Vice President was not financially buoyant to assist the marketing campaign.

He mentioned, “By way of him (Tinubu), we have been in a position to increase enough funds to do the marketing campaign.

“Not solely did he try this, Osibanjo’s portion of the marketing campaign, he funded it, employed a chair to funded the journey as a result of our Osibanjo’s marketing campaign was just a little bit damaged away from the principle marketing campaign.

“Osibanjo on his personal was a pastor, his ethnic nationalities and Christians had some doubts about Buhari. He was on that aspect. He wasn’t on our personal space, and he was simply doing kind of semi-independent of the principle marketing campaign. Tinubu was funding it.

“Then I do know of one other place when he employed some consultants for us from the US, who have been doing various skilled work.

“I don’t know their names. I simply know that they have been Obama folks, and so they got here and so they remodeled our marketing campaign, and I knew that the cash he paid them was in extra of two billion naira equal of {dollars}.”

Lawal additionally claimed that Tinubu personally bore the price of main marketing campaign expenditures as a substitute of drawing from the marketing campaign’s central funds.

He added, “And there’s one other factor about Bola Tinubu: if there’s a necessity for an expenditure, regardless of how huge, he doesn’t come to the marketing campaign purse; he spends from his personal purse.

“All these items I informed you. Some folks don’t know this, however I used to be there, and I knew this. And he did all these items.”