Former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has
claimed the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has never been a serious
political party.
Lamido noted that the party was a creation of anger, malice
and bitterness.
The former governor stated this in chapter 16, page 421 of
his autobiography: “Being True To Myself”, which was unveiled to the public on
May 13th.
The ex-Jigawa governor, one of the
founding fathers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said he was shocked when
he got word that his PDP colleagues had joined the opposition ahead of the 2015
elections.
He added that he did not hesitate to distance himself from
their decision.
“I once had cause to explain to some members of the public
after the APC was formed, that it was created out of anger, malice and hatred.
It was not and has never been a serious political party; its proponents were
only parochial scavengers, who see politics as a huge enterprise.
“In 1999, we had the PDP, AD and APP as the three major
national parties and the AD and APP jointly fielded Olu Falae against PDP’s
candidate, Obasanjo, who won the election.
“The AD/APP alliance later dissolved into the ANPP, but they
lost the elections; it was these losers that later came together to establish
the APC.
“What the APC did was to turn history upside down and
promote a so-called ‘Mr. Integrity’ and hoodwinked Nigerians with false tags,”
he stated.
Lamido further explained that he turned down several
requests by promoters of the APC to join their ranks at the height of the
internal crisis within the PDP, expressing the view that the honourable thing
to do was to remain in the PDP and be part of the solution to the party’s
problems.
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