A Peoples Democratic Party governor, Sule Lamido, has described the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as an incorruptible and honest leader.

A report by the News Agency of Nigeria, on Monday, said Lamido, who is the governor of Jigawa State, stated this while addressing supporters of the PDP at a rally in Maigatari.

He explained that he had no problem with the former Head of State, but that he had with some of Buhari’s supporters, especially those that left the PDP to the APC.

“I agreed like every other persons that Buhari is an incorruptible, honest, clean and patriotic Nigerian.

“My concern has always been defectors who our party, PDP, had made ministers, governors, speakers and members of the National Assembly, who left us after benefitting so much,” he said.

Lamido urged the electorate in the area to vote for PDP candidates in the coming elections.

According to him, the party’s governorship candidate, Ibrahim Ringim and his running mate, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed, will “continue from wherever I stopped and will not betray the trust, if elected.”

The relationship between Lamido and President Goodluck Jonathan has been mired in controversy for several months.

Lamido, who was aspiring to be President was said to have been prevailed upon by the leadership of the PDP to step down so that Jonathan could emerge as the consensus candidate of the party.

The Jigawa State governor had at different occasions complained about the refusal of the President to keep to the promises he made to the people of his state in 2011.

He had also vowed that keeping to such promises would determine if he and the people of the state would vote for Jonathan during the February 14 presidential election.

Though the PDP had named him as the North-West presidential campaign coordinator, Lamido was absent when the President inaugurated the campaign committee in Abuja last Tuesday.

Lamido also refused to attend the inauguration of his party’s presidential campaign in Lagos on Thursday.

Apart from that, the PDP governorship candidate in Jigawa was also not at the event to collect the party’s flag from the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.