President Bola Tinubu’s led administration will likely drag many Nigerians to grave following its decision to continue with the policies and programmes of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari.
Former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, stated this in an interview with Daily Trust.
Lamido, who lamented the level of hardship in the country as well as alleged corruption in the nation’s judicial system since 2015, said Nigerians are paying the price for voting out the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in preference for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
He said : “In 1998, before we came on board, how was Nigeria in terms of internal harmony, internal reconciliation between the North and South, you know after June 12?
” There was that bond which makes us a country, it was not there. So, it was PDP which came in 1999 that restored Nigeria. Nigeria reconciled internally first and then redeemed our image outside, made us a country, a force to be reckon with, from 1999 to 2007. Under Obasanjo, I was a minister of foreign affairs.
“You seem to have forgotten what we did. There’s a saying in Hausa … like the stomach yesterday, you are full, but by tomorrow it will be screaming again, ‘I want more food’, forgetting that yesterday you fed it.
” What was Nigeria between 1992 and 1998, and see what we did between 1998 and 2014. But all that was simply ignored by who? By those who have no clue what is called Nigeria. They rallied around Buhari, calling him our own, our own.
” So, what is the benefit of ‘our own’ in power to the North, especially the North West – his own constituency?….
“Now, after eight years, Tinubu came and said he will continue from where Buhari stopped, so the next destination is our grave because the journey has started with a trailer load of poverty, hunger, insecurity, hate, despondency, frustration, pain, agony, and the destination is the grave. ”
Lamido also expressed concern over the unnecessary involvement of judiciary in the nation’s political system.
” When they try to win any election and it doesn’t work, they will say ‘okay’ go to tribunal’, and by the time you go there, they are there earlier than you, isn’t it?
” If a whole CJN of Nigeria will attend the party organised by G-5 governors and ensure they vote for them, you see it is all about the judiciary.
” They (G-5) were fighting for the APC, they were fighting against the PDP candidate, weren’t they? They professed outwardly at the function that they were anti PDP…, then the CJN.
” So, what it means is that it is part of their preparation to condition our minds that there is a programme going on and that whoever loses should go to court, but before you get to court, they are already there through the CJN, so what do you expect?”
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