Tinubu, Akande Invested In Human Beings- SFG

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir
David Lawal, yesterday, said the National Leader of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and Chief Bisi Akande made it possible for
him to emerge as a member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.

Speaking at a thanksgiving service in his honour, the SGF
said the two leaders of the APC played a prominent in his emergence, saying it
is fundamentally important for Nigerians to know that goodness is not
restricted to tribe, religion or political party.

“My wife has not met Bisi Akande, she has not met Asiwaju,
she has not met Buhari, yet we have been with him. But, it is fundamentally
important for Nigerians to know that goodness is not restricted to tribe, religion
or political party.

“My opinion is that if you have no investment in human
beings and you just invest in yourself, like most politicians present in this
church do, you will end up as nothing. If you look at just your community
for  friendship, or you look at your
religion or in the same church with you for friendship, I doubt if you will go
any where.

“I am Secretary to the Government today, because those
people that I mentioned were the very first to put the idea in the mind of the
President. They were the ones that made it possible.

“Because if it has been left to northerners, it is doubtful
if they will take a Christian man to make Secretary to the Government of the
Federation”.

“But these friends 
know me, they know that I am not ambitious. I just want to eat today and
tomorrow I will find my way. By the grace of God, I am today the Secretary to
the Government of the Federation, something I did not look for, people say it
is hard work and dedication. It is not true, it is just by the grace of God
that the President will just pick you and say this is your position,” he said.