Former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has never been a serious political party. He recently revealed that the party was a creation of anger, malice and bitterness.
Speaking via his autobiography titled “Being True To Myself”, which he released on May 13th, Lamido shared that he was surprised when he heard that his PDP colleagues had joined the opposition party ahead of the 2015 elections.
Lamido disclosed that he never hesitated to distance himself from their decision because all the APC did as a party was turn history upside down and present weak candidates as potential saviours.
According to him, after AD and APP’s candidates lost to PDP’s Obasanjo in 1999, both parties eventually dissolved into the ANPP. However, after losing more elections, the losers decided to come together to establish the APC.
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“I once had cause to explain to some members of the public after the APC was formed, that it was created out of anger, malice and hatred. It was not and has never been a serious political party; its proponents were only parochial scavengers, who see politics as a huge enterprise.
In 1999, we had the PDP, AD and APP as the three major national parties and the AD and APP jointly fielded Olu Falae against PDP’s candidate, Obasanjo, who won the election. The AD/APP alliance later dissolved into the ANPP, but they lost the elections; it was these losers that later came together to establish the APC.
What the APC did was to turn history upside down and promote a so-called ‘Mr. Integrity’ and hoodwinked Nigerians with false tag. Before Buhari came onto the scene we had leaders with established record of integrity and powerful reputation, like Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, Mallam Aminu Kano, Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe and General Murtala Mohammed.
Unfortunately, even Buhari himself, with time, came to accept the praises of integrity being showered upon him by his political promoters. For example, he had not been heard to acknowledge the clean records of General Murtala or Aminu Kano during his political rallies in Kano,” he said.
Lamido noted that he rejected several requests to join the APC amid PDP’s internal crisis because he wanted to be part of the solution to his party’s problems.
Sule concluded by saying that staying loyal always felt like the honourable thing to do, and he stands by that decision.
