Lamido Tells Atiku, Saraki, ‘Your Political DNA Is PDP’

Former Jigawa Governor, Sule Lamido, has described ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and Senate President, Bukola Saraki, as “PDP children” who will return to the Peoples Democratic Party after testing the waters.

Lamido, who had just recently declared his intention to run for president in 2019, said the duo were free to return from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the PDP because their political backgrounds are rooted in the party.

​“​Atiku, Saraki and all of them are most welcome back. Because they are all PDP invention, they are all PDP children, they are all our own material, no matter where they go, their political DNA is PDP. No matter how they tried to run away, you cannot run away from your soul”, he told Premium Times.

​“They are welcome back to where they are cherished, where they are admired, where they were made what they are,” he said.

The former governor further criticised the performance of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, saying the APC came into power “unprepared”.

“They went into the government unprepared, that is why they must continue churning out lies to mask their failure. During the campaign they kept saying PDP is Boko Haram, we are evil, and we were demonised. Now they are in government, they failed to move away from a political party seeking position to a party as an institution and a government.

“But because they have no simple sense of what is known as government and governance, they kept on with the same propaganda. And if you speak about the government which you have the right to speak, the operators and propagandists of the party called APC will mock you. It is very dangerous for a government to be mocking its citizen.

“They are utterly irrational and don’t know what is called leadership. They are simply sitting there on privilege, but they are thinking the government is their own right. Somebody who contributed nothing to the evolution of political Nigeria is today calling the shot in Nigerian government. And the culture of lies became their art of governance.

“When President was sick, he was taken abroad. Lai and Adesina were saying he was taking some antibiotics, he is just resting, and he is healthy, bla, bla. But when Buhari came back, he said he was sick. “When Yar’Adua was sick, the same Lai and others were demanding for their right to know their president’s health condition, even the way he eats. But now they are in the government, we are now overwhelmed with tonnes of lies,” said Lamido.