***Says, senility, dementia attributes of old age may have set in
Former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido and one of the founding fathers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken on the former Governor of Osun State and pioneer Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) over what he described as unkind, disparaging and discouteous comments on the PDP.
The PDP Chieftain said he can forgive Akande because his retentive memory may be failing him due to old age as elements of dementia will begin to manifest due to the realities of life as humans grow very old.
Akande had spoken in Ila Orangun, Osun State on Saturday as part of activities marking his 85th birthday anniversary where he indicated that the proposal by the opposition parties to form a coalition and dislodge the ruling party at the federal level would not offer Nigerians respite from the current hardship.
He was responding to a poser regarding the plan by the opposition parties to form a coalition with the intent to defeat the ruling APC at the national level.
It would be recalled that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar had offered to lead a coalition against APC in the 2027 election.
But Akande, who led a coalition of the opposition parties, as the Interim National Chairman of the APC which defeated incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election was of the opinion that returning PDP to power would mean a continuation of suffering for Nigerians.
He said, “If PDP was rejected and the same PDP coalesced again and people say, okay we will go back to it, the people will go back to their suffering. PDP was defeated because it had no clue.
Lamido who waited for the PDP NWC to respond but to no avail took to his verified Facebook page to reply Akande in his personal capacity saying,
“Recently at a function in Abuja former Gov of Osun State and former Chairman of All Progrwaaives Congress (APC) His Excellency, Bisi Akande made some very unkind, disparaging and discouteous remark on my beloved party the PDP.
“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 Gov 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!
“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 fertilized 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 fertilize it.
“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 ‘evilized’ 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 Gov Bisi Akande from an obscure local little AC/ACN into national limelight.
“Has His Excellency former Gov former Chairman forgotten that my PDP political DNA is now in his blood?
“While the fore finger he is pointing at what he calls the ‘dirt’ in PDP, his other three fingers are pointing to the PDP dirt in him!
“But like I pointed out earlier, he can be forgiven and must be forgiven. Senility and dementia are an attribute of old age!”