Former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido has indicated interest
to run for president in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP).
In
a letter to PDP members, Lamido said the party needed to reposition to take
over power in 2019 and bring it back to its path of recovery.
His
words: “Today, 57 years after the independence of our dear country, can we in
all sincerity claim to have achieved the dream of our founding fathers? Where
did we fail and from where did we begin to fail? Nigeria with its natural
endowment and human capacity cannot be forgiven for being otherwise. We cannot
even demonstrate our ability and capacity to meet domestic, regional and global
challenges, which currently seem to overwhelm us.
“The
PDP will and must lead the nation back into a bright, progressive and
innovative future.”
According
to him, the PDP must rekindle in Nigeria a new hope, a nation of united people
with a common and assured destiny.
“To
the world, Nigeria must demonstrate our confidence, tenacity in our ability and
capability to address our domestic regional and global challenges that confront
us.
It
is against this background that I offer myself to vie for the office of the
president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2019, if my party finds me
worthy to fly its flag.”
Lamido
added: “I am no means claiming to be the only capable material, any PDP member
given the trust and support can fly our flag, and I expect many more aspirants
will express the desire to run. My hope and prayer is that at the end of all
the process which I hope will be open, fair transparent and credible is to give
Nigeria in 2019 candidate who will lead the party and Nigeria. This is because
there is no alternative to PDP in 2019; it will be a defining moment in the
Nigerian political evolution.”
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