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People's Democratic Party members, Sule Lamido who is being touted to
possibly represent the party in the 2019 presidential race has
questioned the President's integrity.
Sule Lamido
A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido has described the President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war as a ‘noise.’
Lamido, a former minister of Foreign Affairs, while speaking with
the BBC Hausa Service yesterday, claimed that President Buhari could not
be passed as a saint because he was “equally corrupt when he served under the late Head of State Sani Abacha.”
Buhari had served as chairman of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund
(PTF) which was established by Abacha in 1994 to provide critical
infrastructure across the country.
“He (Buhari) worked under Abacha; in fact he was the closest to
the late military ruler and when it comes to corruption, everybody
knows where Abacha’s government stands,” Lamido said.
“Buhari is just making noise; there’s no iota of truth in the
so-called commitment to the improvement of security and halting graft in
the country”, he added.
Lamido, who was reacting to the recent discovery of huge amount of
money in an apartment in Ikoyi wondered why the anti-graft agency was
yet to trace the real owner of the money.
He said, “It’s unthinkable to say that the EFCC had discovered
huge monies (nearly N15 billion) in a building (Osborne Towers) in Lagos
but could not track the real owner; who leaked the story? Who did the
source say is the owner of the find?
“No reasonable person will believe that there is no safe for
the NIA (which claimed ownership) to keep its money but a private
residence in Lagos; those in position of authority should always have
the courage to tell the led the truth because leadership is sacred.”
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