Angry Presidential aide bashes ex-Gov Lamido for attacking Buhari

Former Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, on Sunday got himself some dosage of vituperations of the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, for attacking President Muhammadu Buhari.
Shehu, who was apparently angry over alleged attacks carried out by the former governor on his boss, described Lamido as an intellectually and morally bankrupt politician and wondered how he could dare attack Buhari’s ongoing anti-corruption war.

Lamido is said to have made the attacks in recent media interviews. And like some others who have dared toed his path, he got a good dosage of bashing by Buhari’s media aide, who found it appalling that such a person, as the former governor, who is “facing criminal prosecution, will start going round saying he wants to be President.”

Shehu said in a statement on Sunday, “It is only in Nigeria that a leader will divert money belonging to the public into his children’s account and then turn round to start pontificating on public morals, in the process subjecting the nation’s honest leadership to daily attacks based on falsehood.

“It is even worse that such a person, facing criminal prosecution, will start going round saying he wants to be President.

“Is this not one of the reasons why other countries are laughing at Nigeria? This is hooliganism. It is not opposition politics.

“The nation’s war against corruption as spearheaded by the EFCC (Economic Financial Crimes Commission) was incidentally formulated by the past PDP administration. It is a tragic irony that the leaders of the same party are doing their utmost to weaken or destroy it. Is that why he is seeking to lead the country?

“Time and again, President Buhari lamented that strongmen destroyed the country’s strong institutions and that it will take strong men to rebuild them. He deserves the support of everyone to rebuild such institutions because they serve a common good.”

Shehu, who called on the opposition to give Buhari the support he needs to rebuild national institutions as the EFCC, said that a person like Lamido should convince Nigerians that his incisive attacks against the government and the judiciary were not a smokescreen to becloud the atmosphere of his criminal prosecution.

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“In his diatribe published in a national newspaper last week, it is clear that the former governor not only set out to mock the President but the judiciary and important national institutions as part of an orchestrated plot to divert public attention from his scam-related cases.

“If President Buhari’s war against corruption, as he said, is a mockery, what does one say of former governor Lamido’s sworn efforts to sabotage the country’s efforts to rid itself of the cancer of corruption?”

 

 

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