Those familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons.
Babachir Lawal, former secretary to the government of the federation, says Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of PDP deserves a second term in office.
The former SGF was once a staunch ally of Mr Bola Tinubu until the APC presidential flagbearer picked a Muslim running mate.
In democratic politics, these implicit bargains begin, of course, with the understandings that govern membership of political parties.
Mr Lawal’s latest slam on Mr Tinubu came barely a few hours after he declared support for Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party.
State-run newswire NAN cited a statement released in Abuja on Thursday, indicating that the group comprising some northern Christian politicians had settled for Mr Obi.
Mr Lawal, however, maintained that he will remain in the APC even if he is insulted unless his principal, Muhammadu Buhari dumps the party.
An intelligence report warned the country could face renewed sectarian hostilities in the likelihood of a Muslim-Muslim presidency.
“There has been gloom among the Christian community all over the country since Tinubu announced Kashim Shetima as his running mate.”
The agenda of the meeting between the president and the former Lagos governor could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.
