Former governor of Jigawa State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Sule Lamido has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari administration of running a government based on deceit and intimidation of Nigerians.

Apparently responding to the Presidency  who earlier labelled him as a man without morals, Lamido, also accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of enthroning hypocrisy and intimidating Nigerians to keep quiet even in the face of their failure in governance.

In a statement issued by his media aide, Mansur Ahmed on his behalf, Lamido said:

“During the campaigns, the APC invented lies about PDP, calling us thieves, rogues, evil and all sorts of names. Now that they are in government, they failed to metamorphose from a political party seeking election to a party in government where the culture is different.

“Also because they do not have that sense of being a government in power, they keep repeating the same thing they were saying while they were in opposition. I am a Nigerian citizen by right and not by political party that I belong to, therefore the government of Nigeria is my government.

“Unfortunately, the apparatus and culture of the APC have so demonized Nigerians such that if you speak, you are mocked. For the first time in this country, we have a government mocking its own citizens.

“When you complain, you will be called a wailing wailer. If people are wailing because of what they feel is wrong, what a responsible government should do is to find out why they are wailing.

“Today, the culture of lies has become an art of governance. When Buhari was in London for treatment, Lai Mohammed and other aides kept telling Nigerians that he was perfectly healthy but when he returned, the President himself told Nigerians that he had not been that sick before in his life, but his aides were saying a different thing.”

He recalled that when the late President Musa Yar’Adua was ill, the APC wanted to know everything about his health status, having accused the then government of keeping  it a secret but now that they are in power, they are playing a worse role than what they had accused the PDP of.