***“Ghost Party Living on Stolen Legacy”
***Says Tinubu Fled, PDP Stayed to Fight
In a searing political broadside, former Jigawa State Governor and founding PDP stalwart, Dr. Sule Lamido, has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of parasitic existence, describing it as a “ghost party” made up of political defectors living off the legacy of the PDP.
“If PDP is dead, then APC is a ghost party. Most of the people running APC today were born in PDP. Only Tinubu and maybe Oshiomhole can claim originality. The rest are PDP children in borrowed robes,” Lamido said in a thunderous interview on Arise TV.
With fire in his tone and history on his lips, Lamido didn’t stop at party labels. He launched a bold attack on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s June 12 rhetoric, calling it stagecraft built on flight, not fight.
“I find Tinubu’s stories entertaining. He dramatizes everything. But we were there. We fought. We stayed. Tinubu ran,” he said.
“He only became an activist after Abacha took over. Before then, he was a party secretary—quiet. His mother was pledging loyalty to Babangida in Abuja. That’s the truth.”
Lamido, who was detained under Abacha, insisted that the real heroes of democracy were those who endured the fire, not those who escaped and returned for applause.
“NADECO was not born for June 12. It came to fight Abacha. But the real soldiers of democracy had already stood their ground. Tinubu came in later. He inherited the product. He didn’t pay the price.”
And while some now say the PDP has collapsed, Lamido says the collapse is in reverse.
“The irony is this: if PDP is dead, then APC is a graveyard. They’re living on our ghosts. They stole our members, stole our values, even stole our crisis.”
In a blistering critique of governance under Tinubu, Lamido said Nigeria is no longer led by a government—but by a party machine.
“Today’s government is not Nigerian. It’s APC in power for APC’s sake. How do you hold a party event inside the Villa? That’s the people’s house! Not a campaign hall.”
He also lambasted Akwa Ibom Governor Umo Eno, who he said is erasing his own roots.
“Two years ago, no one knew him. PDP made him governor. Today, he disowns the party. That’s not politics. That’s amnesia.”
When asked if he was part of the new opposition realignment, Lamido was unequivocal:
“I’ll join any arrangement—no matter the name, the chemistry, the shape—to flush out this incompetent, divisive regime. Nigeria must come first.”
On those comparing his 2014 PDP exit with recent defections, Lamido replied:
“We left on principle. We didn’t hide in PDP’s shadow while jumping ship. In 1983, I resigned from PRP to join NPP. That’s character. Today, people switch parties like clothes and forget who dressed them.”
He also dismissed tribal framing of his support for Atiku Abubakar in 2023.
“I don’t do North vs. South. I believe in Nigeria. In 1983, I supported Azikiwe. Don’t reduce me to a tribe—I’m older than that.”
With sharp historical recall and an undimmed political fire, Sule Lamido didn’t just critique a government—he put a mirror to Nigeria’s political soul, asking:
“What do you call a party with no origin, no identity, and no shame? A ghost.”