He spoke in Abuja on Monday at an interactive session Obi had with the stakeholders of the LP from the North East.
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The group stated this over the weekend in Lagos following a statement credited to former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.
The group in a statement titled “Why we have chosen to endorse the Obi/Datti ticket” signed by one of its leaders, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, said it came to the decision of supporting the Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi and his running mate Yusus Datti Baba-Ahmed after a painstaking review and analysis of the alternative tickets.
Babachir in an interview with BBC, said he and others supported the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to win the primary election, but they later realised he had been hiding his decision to pick a Muslim running mate from them.
Justice Agbaza had ruled in favour of a no-case submission made by Lawal and his co-defendants on Friday.
The court on Friday held that the anti-graft agency failed to establish a prima facie case against the Ex-SGF and the co-defendants.
The group took the decision on Saturday after a consultative meeting, where it issued a strongly worded communique.
Ganduje stated this in a statement on Wednesday by Kano State Commissioner for Information, Muhammad Garba.
The former Lagos State Governor, a Muslim, had on Sunday announced Shettima, another Muslim, as his running mate.
In Saudi Arabia, a group of his political associates organised a special prayer for him on his presidential ambition
Lawal is charged alongside his younger brother, Hamidu, who is a director of Rholavision Engineering Limited; an employee of the company, Suleiman Abubakar; Managing Director of Josmon Technologies Limited, Apeh John Monday; and the two companies: Rholavision Engineering Limited and Josmon Technologies Limited.
He said this on Monday in Abuja at a conference convened by the Support Groups Management Council (SGMC) of Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) to harmonise strategies and drum support for the actualisation of Tinubu’s presidential ambition in 2023.
The former SGF, alongside his younger brother and a director in his company, Hamidu Lawal; an employee of the company, Sulaiman Abubakar; the Managing Director of Josmon Technologies Limited, Apeh Monday; and two companies, Rholavision Engineering Limited, and Josmon Technologies Limited, were sued by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission called its first witness.
The trial, which began before Justice Jude Okeke of the FCT High Court, Maitama, Abuja on Feb. 13, 2019, was transferred to Justice Charles Agbaza following Okeke’s death.
Justice Jude Okeke of the FCT High Court on Thursday urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to put its house in order in the trial of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.
Justice Jude Okeke of a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Maitama on Tuesday adjourned the trial of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, until April 8, 2020.
The trial of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, was on Thursday stalled in a FCT High Court, Maitama on account of illegible prosecution witness document.
Justice Jude Okeke fixed the date after all counsel in the matter argued for and against the admissibility of EFCC’s documents.
Lawal and his younger brother, Hamidu David Lawal; Suleiman Abubakar; Apeh John; alongside two companies, Rholavision Engineering (fifth defendant) and Josmon Technologies (sixth defendant), are facing prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on an amended 10-count charge, bordering on fraud, diversion of funds and criminal conspiracy to the tune of over N500 million.