The Presidency has described a
former Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, as intellectually and morally
bankrupt.
The presidency was responding to
Lamido’s criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ongoing anti-corruption war
in recent media interviews.
The Senior Special Assistant to
the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a statement in
Abuja on Sunday.
According to Shehu, the attacks
on Buhari by the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential aspirant “is a
reflection of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the opposition in the
country.”
The presidential spokesman said,
“It is only in Nigeria that a leader will divert money belonging to the public
into his children’s account and then turn round to start pontificating on
public morals, in the process subjecting the nation’s honest leadership to
daily attacks based on falsehood.
“It is even worse that such a
person, facing criminal prosecution, will start going round saying he wants to
be President.
“Is this not one of the reasons
why other countries are laughing at Nigeria? This is hooliganism. It is not
opposition politics.
“The nation’s war against
corruption as spearheaded by the EFCC, was incidentally formulated by the past
PDP administration. It is a tragic irony that the leaders of the same party are
doing their utmost to weaken or destroy it. Is that why he is seeking to lead
the country?
“Time and again, President Buhari
lamented that strongmen destroyed the country’s strong institutions and that it
will take strong men to rebuild them.
“He deserves the support of
everyone to rebuild such institutions because they serve a common good.
“In his diatribe published in a
national newspaper last week, it is clear that the former governor not only set
out to mock the President but the judiciary and important national institutions
as part of an orchestrated plot to divert public attention from his
scam-related cases.
“If President Buhari’s war
against corruption , as he said , is a mockery, what does one say of former
governor Lamido ’s sworn efforts to sabotage the country ’s efforts to rid
itself of the cancer of corruption?
“If accountability of public
officials is the very essence of a mature democracy, it is, indeed, ironic that
a politician seeking the leadership of the country is making a mockery of
public institutions and the leaders seeking to entrench them.”
“Nigeria settled for President
Buhari as the watchman of their common wealth. The citizens are happy with that
and the whole world is applauding.
“African Union just named him as
the champion of the war against corruption. Opposition politicians like ex-
governor Lamido need to come to terms with the fact that their act needs
updating ,” the presidential spokesman added.
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