- Sule Lamido, the former governor of Jigawa state, fires back at the federal government
- The former governor said Buhari's administration had enthroned a regime of deceit and intimidation
- Presidency said the 2019 presidential hopeful is morally and intellectually bankrupt to be Nigeria’s president
The immediate former governor of Jigawa state Alhaji Sule Lamido has fired back at the presidency for saying he is morally and intellectually bankrupt to be Nigeria’s President.
NAIJ.com gathered that 2019 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential hopeful in his response to the presidency’s depiction of him as a man without morals said the current administration had enthroned a regime of deceit and intimidation that would want Nigerians to keep quiet in the face of its failures in governance.
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The former governor accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of hypocrisy, noting the contradictory stances of its chieftains to the absence of the late President Umaru Yar‘adua and that of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Lamido in a statement issued on his behalf by his media aide, Mansur Ahmed, said: ”During the campaigns, APC invented lies about PDP; calling us thieves, rogues, evil and all sort of names. Now that they are in government, they failed to metamorphose from a political party seeking election to a party in government where the culture is different.
“Also, because they do not have that sense of being a government in power, they keep repeating the same thing they were saying while they were in the opposition. I am a Nigerian citizen by right and not by the political party that I belong to, therefore, the government of Nigeria is my government.
Unfortunately, by the apparatus and culture of the APC, they have so demonized Nigerians such that if you speak, you are mocked. For the first time in this country, we have a government mocking its own citizens. When you complain, you will be called a wailing wailer. If people are wailing because of what they feel is wrong, what a responsible government should do is to find out why they are wailing.
“Today, the culture of lies has become an art of governance. When Buhari was in London for treatment, Lai Mohammed and other aides kept telling Nigerians that he was perfectly healthy but when he returned, the President himself told Nigerians that he had not been that sick before in his life, but his aides were saying another thing.’’
“It is very sad. Buhari is Nigeria’s president. When Yar’Adua was ill, the opposition wanted to know everything about him. They accused the then government of hiding the true state of Yar’Adua’s health. Now that they are in government, they are playing a worst role than Yar’Adua’s government played.’’
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In a previous report by NAIJ.com, the Nigerian Presidency reacted to alleged verbal attacks on President Muhammadu Buhari's anti-corruption war by presidential aspirant, Sule Lamido.
The president's spokesperson, Garba Shehu, while reacting to several interviews done by Lamido said there was a plan by politicians seeking the destruction of national institutions such as the courts, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and everything good that the nation stands for, Premium Times reports.
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Source: Naija.ng
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Wednesday 15 November 2017