I’m willing to work toward securing Nigeria in 2027 – Sule Lamido
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sule Lamido, has expressed hos willingness to join any arrangement toward defeating President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 General Poll.
Lamido, also a former Governor of Jigawa, stated this when he spoke with newsmen in Kano.
He said that such arrangement could either be within his political party, the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), or outside of it.
“I am willing to work for any arrangement within the PDP or outside the PDP for a secure Nigeria in 2027,” he said.
The PDP chieftain said however, that he had no intention of defecting from the PDP to the African Democratic Congress(ADC).
He said that he was in PDP and would continue to remain in the PDP, despite of the challenges the party was facing.
“I am PDP, I remain in PDP.Even though PDP has got some problems,I am in PDP because I can’t simply walk out of my skin and crawl in flesh and blood and be conferred with a smaller skin called ADC.I cannot,” he said.
Lamido said that he had a history in the PDP during which he went through many travails as well as many achievements and as such, he cannot leave the party.
“I got a history with the PDP. I was detained, I was harassed or blackmailed.My office was burnt, my house was about to be burnt and my family were humiliated and maligned because of PDP, ” he said.
Lamido said the PDP also honoured him and made him a Minister and also a Governor,and as such he cannot leave the party.
“The PDP also honoured me and made me a Minister and also a Governor.Therefore,I cannot simply renounce my history, my legacy and my heritage and say, look, today,I got something new.I am out of PDP.I will not do that,” the PDP bigwig further pointed out.
On the proposed creation of new states in the country, the former Jigawa State Governor said the desire and agitations are legitimate but that they must be anchored on the current issues facing the nation.
Such issues, he said, include insecurity, poverty, hunger and division between the North and the South which according to him, are more pressing and demanding than states creation.
The former Minister added that he had no problem with state creation if the exercise would address the aforementioned problems bedeviling the country.
