•Declares ex-Osun governor suffering from old age
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
Former governor of Jigawa State and Nigeria’s erstwhile Foreign Affairs Minister, Sule Lamido, has slammed former protem national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, stating that the ruling party could not have achieved any electoral success without any contribution from the PDP.
Lamido was reacting to Akande’s recent disparaging remarks on the PDP.
Lamido, in a statement, stated: “The former governor of Osun State, His Excellency, Bisi Akande, recently at a function in Abuja, made some very unkind, disparaging and discourteous remark on my beloved party the PDP.”
He said the victories of the APC from 2015 to date could not have reached the electorate victories of the PDP, adding that the APC at inception was a barren party
He said the APC as a barren political party benefited from the ‘civil war’ and crisis with the PDP.
Lamido who went down memory lane, said, “Now let me take Bisi down the memory lane of PDP history from 1999 to early 2014 before the birth of his party the APC.
“If you look at all the results of the presidential elections of 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011, one could see that at each election, the results scored by the PDP were more than that of all the other political parties put together!
“From the above statistics, it is clearly obvious that whatever arrangements put by whatever alliance and by whatever nomenclature named, APC or whatever, the outcome will not change or threaten the dominance of the PDP in any future election more so that of 2014.
“Bisi must have known this as an indisputable fact because he was fairly mentally alert at that time. So, when the APC alliance or contraption was formed in 2014, anybody with ordinary common sense knew that it was a barren woman, who could not conceive unless it is fertilised by special seed! This much is a very undisputed fact!
“The major task then before the desperate barren APC after formation/contraption was how to woe and elope with any seed that could fertilise it,” Lamido stressed.
According to him, “Of course, this period coincided with the then ‘Civil War’ in the PDP! In this desperation, the APC took in the PDP seed, which it had all along disparaged and ‘evilised’ to no end.
“Bisi and co called PDP ‘looters, Boko Haram, a plague and everything unimaginable! As God will have it, it is this ‘evil’ that gave birth to what catapulted His Excellency, Governor Bisi Akande from an obscure local little AC/ACN into national limelight.
“I have made every effort to suppress the urge to respond to him hoping and believing that the NWC of the PDP or at least its National Publicity Secretary will stand up and give Governor Akande an adequate reply in equal measure.
“But having heard nothing yet from my Party, I can no longer suppress the this urge to respond to Bisi in my personal capacity.
“Let me state from the onset that I can forgive Bisi if his retentive memory is failing him because all of us at a stage in life, elements of senility or dementia will begin to manifest as the realities of life as we grow very old,” he said.
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