Peoples Democratic Party, PDP 2019 presidential hopeful, Alhaji Sule
Lamido has replied the presidency, saying the administration has enthroned a
regime of deceit and intimidation that would want Nigerians to keep quiet in
the face of its failures in
governance.
Responding to the presidency’s depiction of him as a man without morals,
Lamido, the immediate past governor of Jigawa State accused the All
Progressives Congress, APC of hypocrisy noting its 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 worse
role than Yar’Adua’s government played.’’
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