The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, 2019 presidential hopeful,
Alhaji Sule Lamido has fired back at the presidency for saying he is
morally and intellectually bankrupt to be Nigeria’s President.
Lamido 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.
He was responding to the presidency’s depiction of him as a man without morals.
The immediate past governor of Jigawa State 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.
In the statement issued on his behalf by his media aide, Mansur
Ahmed, the presidential hopeful 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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