A former governor of Jigawa
State and presidential aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic
Party (PDP), Alhaji Sule Lamido, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of been
responsible for the widespread killings across the country under the disguise
of farmers/herders crisis.
Lamido said this, on
Monday, in Jalingo, while answering questions from journalists after his
interaction with the state government and party officials.
The former governor also
alleged that the President had earlier claimed that he was aware of the people
who were carrying out the killings, but has failed to arrest the situation or
bring them to book.
He recalled that President
Buhari had said such crisis could not continue unless government was a party to
it and so his failure to stop the continued killing was a direct indictment
that he had a hand in the killings.
In the words of Sule
Lamido, “Let me tell you that there is nothing like farmers herders crisis.
These are people killing other people.
“And the president has come
out to say that he knew the people who were behind the killing but has failed
to bring them to book.
“He also said that such crisis
could not have continued unless the government was behind it. Three years into
his government, these killings have continued to worsen it means he is behind
it. More so that he says he knows them.
“We need to flush out
Buhari for a secured and prosperous Nigeria where human lives are valued over
every other thing.
“It is unfortunate that we
have found ourselves where we are today. The police have become political tools
to victimise and punish political opponents.
He cited the “recent
mobilisation of EFCC against Governor Samuel Orton, the siege on the residents
of Senate president and his deputy Ike Ekwerenmadu and the recent cover given
to the eight members of the Benue state
House of Assembly to serve impeachment notice on the Governor Ortom as clear
instances of how the police was beng used to unleash terror on Nigerians.
Lamido said that Nigerians
needed a leader who is trustworthy like himself and promised to place high
premium on human lives.
The presidential hopeful
insisted that the PDP “would persevere and overcome the persecutions and witch
hunting to emerge victorious in 2019, against all the plans of the mighty to
ensure that the present impunity and parasitic governance continues.”
In his response, Governor
Darius Ishaku described Lamido as a ‘honest Nigerian’ who always has the
interest of the public at heart and assured him that the PDP would “chose a
competent and honest Nigerian to fly its flag in 2019 as the PDP remains the only
hope of the nation since the people have lost hope in the APC government and
its atrocities”.
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