{"id":917287,"date":"2026-07-03T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/babachir-lawal-critiques-adc-primary-claims-amaechi-outworked-atiku\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:33:54","slug":"babachir-lawal-critiques-adc-primary-claims-amaechi-outworked-atiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/babachir-lawal-critiques-adc-primary-claims-amaechi-outworked-atiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Babachir Lawal Critiques ADC Primary, Claims Amaechi Outworked Atiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div role=\"main\" id=\"content\">\n<article id=\"the-post\">\n<div>\n<figure><img width=\"778\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_6381.jpeg\" alt=\"Babachir Lawal Critiques ADC Primary, Claims Amaechi Outworked Atiku 1\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Babachir Lawal Critiques ADC Primary, Claims Amaechi Outworked Atiku 1\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has continued his public criticism of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) following the party\u2019s May 2026 presidential primary. Lawal, who recently resigned from the party, insists that the process which produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate was \u201cmassively rigged.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a pointed comparison, Lawal highlighted the efforts of another major contender, former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi, suggesting that Amaechi\u2019s campaign was far more robust and transparent than the eventual winner\u2019s. \u201cSomeone like Rotimi Amaechi was very confident that if we go to primaries he would win. Everybody around him was extremely confident that Amaechi would win,\u201d Lawal noted.<\/p>\n<p>He further contrasted the two aspirants\u2019 approaches to mobilization: \u201cAmong the three candidates, Amaechi was the one moving around, working hard to see that he got the ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawal\u2019s comments come in the wake of his formal resignation from the ADC on June 1, 2026, which he justified by citing the \u201cdisgraceful charade\u201d of the primary election. According to reports, Atiku Abubakar secured the ticket with over 1.8 million votes, while Amaechi and Mohammed Hayatu-Deen finished second and third, respectively. Both runners-up initially raised concerns regarding irregularities and disenfranchisement during the exercise.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Chinenye Ogbonna<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/2026\/06\/10\/babachir-lawal-critiques-adc-primary-claims-amaechi-outworked-atiku\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has continued his public criticism of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) following the party\u2019s May 2026 presidential primary. Lawal, who recently resigned from the party, insists that the process which produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the presidential candidate was \u201cmassively rigged.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150770,119729],"tags":[150769,119728],"class_list":["post-917287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-babachir","category-lawal","tag-babachir","tag-lawal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}