Buhari is not corrupt, says Lamido

A Peoples Democratic Party
governor, Sule Lamido, has
described the All Progressives
Congress presidential candidate,
Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.), as an incorruptible and
honest leader.
A report by the News Agency of
Nigeria, on Monday, said Lamido,
who is the governor of Jigawa
State, stated this while addressing
supporters of the PDP at a rally in
Maigatari.
He explained that he had no
problem with the former Head of
State, but that he had with some of
Buhari’s supporters, especially
those that left the PDP to the APC.
“I agreed like every other persons
that Buhari is an incorruptible,
honest, clean and patriotic
Nigerian.
“My concern has always been
defectors who our party, PDP, had
made ministers, governors,
speakers and members of the
National Assembly, who left us after
benefitting so much,” he said.
Lamido urged the electorate in the
area to vote for PDP candidates in
the coming elections.
According to him, the party’s
governorship candidate, Ibrahim
Ringim, and his running mate, Dr.
Nurudeen Mohammed, will
“continue from wherever I stopped
and will not betray the trust, if
elected.”
The relationship between Lamido
and President Goodluck Jonathan
has been mired in controversy for
several months.
Lamido, who was aspiring to be
President, was said to have been
prevailed upon by the leadership of
the PDP to step down so that
Jonathan could emerge as the
consensus candidate of the party.
The Jigawa State governor had at
different occasions complained
about the refusal of the President
to keep to the promises he made to
the people of his state in 2011.
He had also vowed that keeping to
such promises would determine if
he and the people of the state
would vote for Jonathan during the
February 14 presidential election.
Though the PDP had named him as
the North-West presidential
campaign coordinator, Lamido was
absent when the President
inaugurated the campaign
committee in Abuja last Tuesday.
Lamido also refused to attend the
inauguration of his party’s
presidential campaign in Lagos on
Thursday.
Apart from that, the PDP
governorship candidate in Jigawa
was also not at the event to collect
the party’s flag from the PDP
National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu