Sule Lamido, former Jigawa State
Governor has described President Muhammadu Buhari as “intolerant and vengeful.”
The former governor made the
remark while alleging that Buhari never forgave the late Musa Yar’Adua for
defeating him during the 2007 presidential election.
Speaking in Abuja on Thursday,
Lamido claimed that despite not attending Council of State meeting while
Yar’Adua was alive, upon the death of the late president, Buhari attended the
next meeting.
Lamido accused the All
Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government of lying itself to power.
Speaking directly to the
president, Lamido said, “If you destroy too much, one day you will also lead.”
He spoke further, “Typical of you
APC, you have not been able to metamorphose from an opposition party to a party
in government. Same old rhetorics. More blame games, more problems. Telling
lies. That is what you are. Your party, not you as a person.
“The election in 2007 was among
three northerners who are Fulani. Gen. Buhari, Atiku Abubakar and Umaru Musa
Yar’adua. We are talking about tolerance and making sacrifices which you
(Buhari) tried to allude to.
“After the elections, PDP with
about 27 governors and a number of local governments in Nigeria won the
elections. The two other northerners went to the tribunal and lost; went up to
the Supreme Court and lost. If you go by their pedigree, and again I mean no
offence, Yar’Adua was the most qualified democrat among them.
“He was a northerner, a Fulani
like them. He was not Ijaw. He was not Jonathan, but even at that, they never
forgave Yar’Adua up till when he died. For the over two years that Yar’Adua was
president, Gen. Buhari never attended the Council of State meeting. He never
did.
“When Yar’Adua became sick, the
pressure and harassment he went through in the National Assembly, some of us
stood by him but we were not being seen as northerners or PDP. When God took
him, the first (Council of State) meeting that the then President Jonathan
called, the first to be there was Gen. Buhari. It says so much about tolerance.
It says so much about vendetta. It says so much about hate.
“Thereafter in the PDP, somehow,
Jonathan ran in 2011 and those who are now preaching tolerance were not
tolerant. He (Buhari) refused to concede and in the north, people like us were
villified and blackmailed.
“I was called a ‘pastor’, a
preacher because I had a contrary opinion. At that time, you were either for
them or you were not a northerner and a lot of people were killed in the north
because of the hate speeches. APC won in 2015 by creating disaffection among
families. In Gusau, they went from house to house flogging PDP members.
“APC is telling us what
government should do after three years in power. APC should tell us what they
have failed to do.”
Sule Lamido easily forgot that even Yardua himself admitted that his election that brought him to office was full of manipulations.. Plz don't remind Nigerians about that mess u called election.. International observers, UN, EU concluded that ,that was not an election.. Meaning he did not win..and u expect them to applaud him...who mocked Yardua in d National Assembly? PDP ...who mocked Yardua in 2015 election under Jonathan's noise? Fayose, and the same PDP, which u were a part of..u all were laughing, while Yardua was being ridiculed..
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