Jigawa 2023: Sule Lamido In Dilemma
OpenLife Nigeria reports that Alhaji Sule Lamido, a man described as the godfather of Jigawa State politics, is in dilemma.
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP stalwart is said to be critically worried over the unsuspecting fate that befell his 2023 aspiration.
Ahead the 2023 general election, Sule Lamido who is Atiku Abubakar’s staunch supporter in Jigawa State has literarily conquered the State by ensuring that he won a Senate ticket, his son, Mustapha Lamido, won the governorship ticket, his daughter won the House of Representatives ticket, another of his son, Aminu Lamido won the State House Assembly ticket as well as his nephews, Nakudu and Faruk Adamu Aliyu who won Reps and State Assembly tickets respectively.
However, as the campaigns begin with hopes of winning all the positions for his family, the former governor has been dumped by his followers.
Information has it that over 3000 supporters of the People’s Democratic Party PDP have decamped to the ruling All Progressive Congress APC in Ilirowa village in Buji local government, Jigawa State
Receiving the decampees on Monday, state Assembly member representing Birnin Kudu constituency Siraja Muhammad Kantoga appreciated their efforts for dumping the PDP and embraced the progressive journey for the development of the state.
The member who was represented by his co-ordinator, Nura Suleiman Jidawa assured them of equal treatment like any other member of the party
He however urged them to work hard for the success of the party in the upcoming 2023 general elections.
“Ilirowa village is one of the strongholds of the PDP and with this development, I am sure there will be no more PDP in the area”
Speaking on behalf of the decampees, Malam Lasisi said that they decided to dump PDP for APC based on its good policies and programs for the development of the state and the country.
He, however, assured us to work for the victory of the party’s coming 2023 poll.
Born on 30 August 1948 in Bamaina, Birnin Kudu Local Government Area of Jigawa State Nigeria, Lamido entered politics as a member of the left-of-center People’s Redemption Party (PRP) in the Nigerian Second Republic. He became National Secretary of the Social Democratic Party during the Nigerian Third Republic, where he received criticism for his handling of the June 12, 1993 presidential elections won by Moshood Abiola, who was prevented from taking office
When the military ruler General Sani Abacha announced his plan to return to democracy, Lamido was a founding member of the Social Progressive Party, and was National Secretary of the new party. He was imprisoned in 1998 by Abacha for criticising Abacha’s plan to perpetuate himself in office. After Abacha’s unexpected death in June 1998, General Abdulsalami Abubakar announced a revised transition strategy and new parties were formed to contest the 1999 elections. Lamido became a member of the PDP.
He ran for Governor of Jigawa State in the 1999 elections at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, but was defeated by the All People’s Party (APP) candidate Ibrahim Saminu Turaki.
President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Lamido Foreign Minister in June 1999, causing friction with Lamido’s patron Abubakar Rimi who had been turned down as Obasanjo’s Vice-Presidential partner and was lobbying for the Foreign Minister job. Tensions between Lamido and Rimi lingered on. In December 2003 the two disagreed over the choice of chairman of a committee to investigate the zonal chairman of the party, with the argument degenerating into what one delegate described as “unseeming behavior”.
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