Lamido faults Tinubu’s rating by ex-leaders, seeks Nigerians’ verdict

Former Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has described the confidence vote in the President Bola Tinubu’s administration by members of the Council of State as self-adolation and an insensitive disposition to the welfare of Nigerians.

The council, on Tuesday, at its maiden meeting since Tinubu became President on May 29, 2023, after giving the endorsement, also flayed the #EndBadGovernance protests and condemned the call by some of the protesters for the resignation of the president.
  
The Council of State, whose membership includes former Presidents and Heads of State, governors, the incumbent President and deputy, is an organ of the Federal Government saddled with advising the executive on policymaking.
 
But Lamido, who was miffed by the vote or confidence passed on the President by his predecessors and some sitting governors, argued that the action was an irony and self-praise, stating that they should have allowed Nigerians to carry out the exercise.
  
His words: “Ironically rather than allowing Nigerians to pass judgment on their collective performance in the last 16 years, it is they who are patting their backs in adulation of their performance. 
 
“Passing a vote of confidence on the performance of President Tinubu, and by extension on theirs, shows a clear disconnect between them and the people they are leading.” He said whatever situation Nigeria finds itself today was also caused by the same persons that gathered to gave the endorsement.