Former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has claimed the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has never been a serious political party.
Lamido noted that the party was a creation of anger, malice and bitterness.
The former governor stated this in chapter 16, page 421 of his autobiography: “Being True To Myself”, which was unveiled to the public on May 13th.
DAILY POST reports that the ex-Jigawa governor, one of the founding fathers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said he was shocked when he got word that his PDP colleagues had joined the opposition ahead of the 2015 elections.
He added that he did not hesitate to distance himself from their decision.
“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 tags,” he stated.
Lamido further explained that he turned down several requests by promoters of the APC to join their ranks at the height of the internal crisis within the PDP, expressing the view that the honourable thing to do was to remain in the PDP and be part of the solution to the party’s problems.
