Former Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido, on Wednesday, wrote off the President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressive Congress’ ‘change’ slogan.

Lamido noted that more than 80 percent of the APC members were members of the People’s Democratic Party who have served in various capacities while the PDP was in power.

He warned Nigerians not to expect any change from the APC government.

The embattled former governor, who, along with his two sons, have been battling with corruption allegation for a while now, stated this while addressing Global Watch members who had paid him a visit

He further said that with the pedigree of PDP defectors who are serving in various capacities in the Buhari administration and had joined the APC to fulfill their personal ambition, it would be hard for the Presidency to fulfill his campaign promises to Nigerians

“How can President Buhari say he is fighting corruption when he is surrounded by people of questionable characters, a group of people who were part of the government he is criticizing,” He said.

“Is not only corruption. We as leaders have failed the nation and the ideologies of our founding fathers that fought for our independent. The many years of illegal military regimes and political eras where people joined politics for personal reasons are the bane of our current predicament.

“Today, the APC government is fighting only PDP members; they are being persecuted for alleged corruption, when there are records that past military administrations who took over government by force and civilian administrations who ruled before PDP also abused their position.”

“The challenge before us is not about politics, it is about the chemistry of our nation. What are we not doing right as a people that needed to be corrected? Unless they are corrected, things will continue to deteriorate”

Lamido also accused the federal government of scaring Nigerians, stating that a leader is supposed to remove fear and not put fear in people by imprisoning people indiscriminately.

“Democracy should be able to address our problems, unite us and not to put fear in the land, compelling people to be pretending to be what they are not because they don’t want to be imprisoned,” he added.

Mazi Emeka