He said that if the PDP continues to misbehave, it would suffer defeat in the hands of APC in the 2015 general elections.
Lamido said, “PDP has been misbehaving and if it continues to misbehave in this way, the APC would take over the country in 2015. I now see the wisdom in the formation of the APC. Since the PDP is really misbehaving, the party will give PDP a good fight in the forthcoming election.”
Lamido said that with the formation of APC democracy had been made more vibrant in the country. He spoke yesterday while receiving the leadership of the Kano and Jigawa chapters of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) when they paid him a courtesy visit at the government house.
“I was amongst the G-7 governors for a certain ideology we shared, yet I was called names. I was called the black sheep from the North, I was called anti-North in the past, because of what I believed in,” said Lamido.
He said that he had been vilified by the public in the past, but that it would not force him to change his stance on what he thinks is right.
Lamido noted that it was sad that people resort to insults and abuse when one does not do what they think should be done.
G-5 governors are against PDP’s impunity, not Jonathan – Gov. Ahmed
Kwara State governor, Abdulfattah Ahmed, yesterday clarified that the movement of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC) was not a fight against President Goodluck Jonathan, but against a party that had lost all traits of democratic ethos; a party that pursues personal rather than collective aspirations.
Ahmed made the clarification in Ilorin, the state capital, during a radio programme, “Focal Point” on the privately owned Royal FM station, saying that the PDP had refused to be reinvigorated, reformed and rehabilitated, as a culture of impunity had taken its toll on the party and like minds had become disenchanted with developments in the party.
He said that he and the governors of Adamawa, Kano, Rivers and Sokoto states had found the APC an enabling platform to advance the cause of their people and other Nigerians. He, however, gave an assurance that they remained open to collaborating with the presidency on matters that would advance the development of the country.
APC commends Tambuwal’s stand against corruption
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, for his patriotism and dedication to the nation, following his principled stand on the Jonathan administration’s tepid fight against corruption.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday by its interim national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the speaker exhibited a leadership trait that is rare in these parts by shunning partisanship to say that the president’s body language does not indicate that he has the political will to fight corruption in the country.
‘’Hon. Tambuwal and President Jonathan belong to the same political party, but this did not deter the speaker from rising above crass partisanship when the issue involved bordered on national interest.
This is the stuff of good leadership. Hon. Tambuwal has shown that he is indeed the speaker of the Federal House of Representatives and that the entire country is his constituency. Unlike President Jonathan, who has transformed himself into a PDP and a sectional leader by viewing serious issues of national importance from the prism of partisanship and sectionalism,’’ the statement said, expressing the hope that other Nigerians would emulate the speaker.
APC said the party was delighted to be on the same page as the speaker on President Jonathan’s nonchalant stand on corruption, which has eaten deep into the nation’s fabric under the present administration. ‘’We have raised the same issues raised by the Hon. Speaker several times in our regular intervention, but the administration has dismissed our concerns on the altar of partisanship. However, now that no less a personality than the country’s number four citizen and a top member of the PDP is the one raising the issue, and coming against the background of Nigeria’s slide in the 2013 ranking released recently by the global anti-corruption body Transparency International, we hope the administration will realise that it has only been paying lip service to the anti-graft battle and perhaps make amends,’’ the party said.
It said that the speaker was right in talking about the president’s body language, which is a reflection of the deceptive actions he (President Jonathan) had taken repeatedly over very serious issues of corruption, including the monumental fuel subsidy scam, the pension scam, the fraud involving the excess crude account, the Sure-P scandal and ‘Oduahgate’.
‘’These are slam-dunk corruption cases that should have been handed over to the anti-corruption agencies for summary disposal. Instead, the president - thinking Nigerians will merely scream and forget after some time - engages in his usual distracting method of setting up committees, the reports of which he will then put away to gather dust... until another corruption case rears its ugly head. Nigerians are not stupid and they understand very clearly that the president is shielding corrupt people, as long as they are willing and able to contribute massively from their ill-gotten funds, to his campaign slush funds.
“Now that a person of the calibre of the speaker of the House of Representatives has added his voice to this burning issue, the die is cast for Mr. President. He can either move to redeem the image of his administration, or continue to swim in the ocean of corruption,’’ the APC said.
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