Former Jigawa State Governor and PDP founding member, Sule Lamido, has said he is ready to support any political arrangement or coalition that seeks to remove President Bola Tinubu’s APC-led government from power in the 2027 general elections. He accused the government of incompetence, divisiveness, and betraying the spirit of democracy.
In an interview on ARISE NEWS on Saturday, Lamido described Tinubu’s administration as one driven by political self-interest, and lacking national vision.
“I am part of any arrangement, no matter by whatever nomenclature or name, to remove the current government of incompetency, of insecurity, of dividing Nigerian family between North and South, out of power. I’ll go into any arrangement for that purpose,” Lamido said.
“Today in Nigeria, we’ve got a government which is dividing Nigerians along north and south, dividing Nigerians along ethnicity lines, and also using institutions of the state in manipulating and controlling and coercing the opposition,” he added.
“So to me, any arrangement, I’ll be part of any arrangement of any chemistry, any configuration, whatever you may call it, if it’s going to move this government out of power, because the government for the first time in Nigeria is now a government not for Nigerians, but then for the political party. The entire government today in Nigeria is not for Nigeria, it’s for the political party.”
Lamido also challenged President Tinubu’s widely circulated legacy as a pro-democracy figure, saying the President was aligned with General Ibrahim Babangida at the time of the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, won by Chief M.K.O. Abiola.
“He was part of those people who were supporting Babangida’s annulment of June 12. His own mother, Hajiya Mogaji from Lagos, was organising Lagos working women to come to Abuja to pledge support for Babangida. I’m saying this because it’s simply history. I mean no harm. I don’t mean to embarrass him. But you see, he was actively handing gloves to Babangida.”
Lamido accused Tinubu of reconstructing and distorting history to suit his personal image as he said, “When Tinubu today, after being a general president, decided to rewrite history, well, trying to maybe deconstruct history and then rewrite it, then it is very, very amusing because he was part of the Babangida support of June 12th. He was part of it. Now, it was only when Babangida took over government that Tinubu then became our so-called activist of June 12th.”
Lamido further described Tinubu’s style of governance as autocratic and self-serving, claiming the President is loyal to no principle, ethnicity, or region, only to his own ambition.
“Tinubu is not about Yoruba. Tinubu is about him and him alone, his own interest. And whoever is going to play his own role, who is going to do his own bidding, he’ll bring him. I’ve been saying so. It’s not about Yoruba. All the Yoruba in APC today, in government, are his own boys who are going to do his own bidding, no more, no less. He’s willing to go and bring somebody from the south-south, southeast, or even from the north, so long as they are going to do Tinubu. So Tinubu is behaving like the emperor he is.”
While supporting a coalition to unseat APC, Lamido warned that such a coalition must be issue-based, not motivated by vengeance or personal ambition like the 2014 APC alliance.
He said, “The coalition I’m talking about is not similar to what we had in 2014 — a coalition of anger, revenge, hatred, and nothing but ambition,” while reiterating that it should be based on national unity, security, economy, and restoring Nigeria’s honour.
Ozioma Samuel-Ugwuezi
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