The former Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr. Sule Lamido, has predicted the collapse of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nigeria as the nation look forward to another round of elections in 2023.
Lamido who is the immediate passed governor of Jigawa state also said that APC came on board on Buhari’s personal popularity. The PDP doesn’t work on individuals but collectively.
“We work together to put somebody there, the APC is about Buhari. Now remove Buhari from APC, after eight years, tell me who will be there? So, the PDP, either at the state or national level, is owned by the people. We brought Obasanjo in 1999, he did not win anything in the South-West but he won Nigeria. So, it is a Nigerian family working for Nigeria. So, irrespective of where he is coming from, if PDP says it is you, we must support you. So, the issue of Jigawa, it’s like the issue of PDP in Nigeria. It’s not about Sule Lamido. Sule Lamido is a personal phenomenon. And so when the time comes, the extended family will come and say ‘we want Mr. A or B’.
The two-term governor of Jigawa state disclosed this in an interview with Vanguard Newspaper recently, where he explained that without some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporting APC, that the party would not have won in 2015.
In the interview, he stressed further that the merger in 2014 was a barren woman without PDP members coming to fertilize it. No matter what they did under the merger, there was no way they could have won the Federal Government.
Speaking on the insecurity issues facing the country, the former governor said; if you are talking about security, what was the promise when they came? That we were insecure, that there was Boko Haram bombing and killing of people in churches and mosques. They even brought pictures from other countries just to solidify their propaganda. Former President Jonathan was maligned; they abused him and his wife. Things became very personal. PDP was demonized so much so that nobody wanted to associate with the party.
So, we were flushed out. You are asking me about insecurity? They failed. You put in a government that cannot secure you. So why are you telling me? Because it has even gone beyond Boko Haram, it has come to a situation where a Nigerian will steal another Nigerian and demand for ransom. Friends would connive and arrange fake kidnap. A man would attack his people, burn the entire village, kill kinsmen and rustle animals. When PDP was there, we were doing very well but then we were demonized. So why are you talking about insecurity?
“Today’s warfare is Hi-Tech. United States can send a drone to Lebanon to target a terrorist and kill him. That is what they call precision killing. But in Nigeria, for us to overcome Boko Haram, Army chief Buratai must go to Maiduguri. And then Buhari, a whole general, would be giving order in public. He ordered the IG to go to Gusau. And he said it in the public. That is a security issue that normally should be classified. So the security, economy and corruption they used as propaganda, it is for Nigerians to judge and see whether they are better off”.