Sule Lamido
Former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, says the government of President Muhammadu Buhari cannot function properly, because the formation of his ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) was based on frustration, bitterness and divisive politics.
Lamido described APC as a group of strange bedfellows, adding that it cannot survive one per cent of the problems the PDP had been through.
“The APC has failed woefully and miserably,” he said yesterday during his visit to Thisday head office in Lagos.
“In the next three years, those being sheltered, protected and favoured against those who are now being seen as human things instead of human beings, their activities would be looked into by another government”, he added.
He insisted that no government was clean and that after four years in government, Buhari’s government might not be found to be too clean if probed.
Lamido argued that contrary to the impression being created by the President, most of the stupendously rich Nigerians were either retired or serving military officers.
He stated that this explained why most of the shocking amounts of money stolen during civilian governments were being linked to serving senior or ex-military officer.
“Yet, we the politicians are the ones maligned as corrupt. Corruption is not a civilian culture, it is a culture instituted by the military,” he said.
Lamido maintained that PDP problems were caused by the then leadership, a situation he recalled led to the exit of the party’s five governors who joined APC and helped Buhari win the presidential election.
On why he chose to remain in the PDP, the former Foreign Affairs Minister replied: “I didn’t leave the PDP because it was not right to do so. It is like renouncing myself, even if I want to, I could not.
“The party and the country have dignified me. How do I renounce my history?”
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