Buhari Is ‘Fatigued’, Has Been Abandoned By Atiku, Tinubu – Lamido

Ex-Jigawa Governor and 2019 presidential aspirant, Sule Lamido, has claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari is “fatigued” as he is rather faced with “political party management” than properly running the country’s affairs.

Lamido equally suggested that President Buhari has been abandoned by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the aclaimed National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The former governor said if not for Tinubu’s influence, Buhari would never have smelt the presidency in 2015 because the president, according him, came from a very “tiny party”.

“Buhari came from a very small party called the CPC. Without the influence of the ACN and the governors who left the PDP, there was no way he would have won because he came from a very tiny party. If those who came together to make him what he is, are no longer in the party, then he has my sympathy for failing to understand this. Look here, Buhari is no threat to the PDP,” he told SUN.

“In PDP, we do not give a damn on whoever the APC presents for 2019 because we are more than two-third. We know that as a party, we have made some mistakes and we apologise to Nigerians. If the likes of Tinubu and Atiku feel concerned about what is happening in APC and those who were originally in PDP leave, what will become of him? He would only be left with his tiny CPC, I don’t know how he would do it, but that is his problem, not mine. In any case, the Buhari of today is not the Buhari of 2015.

“The Buhari of today is fatigued; he is faced with what you call political party management in a democracy. It is not where you give orders; here, you have to build some consensus. You can see he cannot even relate well with the Senate President of his own party.

“So, the Buhari of today is not the Buhari of 2015. Before 2015, he was Buhari the puritanical. Buhari, who they saw as the only man at the helm of 20 million people that Nigerians in the APC were ready to surrender their trust, their reasoning, their honour and everything because they are so lazy. Look at what (Professor Itse) Sagay said about the APC. He said they are all thieves. So if they are calling the PDP thieves, their own man is saying they are all thieves,” he said.