Former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido on Monday,
said that he was not desperate for the position of Nigeria’s president in the
2019 general elections.
Lamido
said this in Abakaliki when he led his campaign team on a courtesy
visit to Gov. David Umahi.
The
former governor said he would accept the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
decision on its torchbearer for the election.
Lamido
urged the party to concentrate on nominating its best candidate for the
position, noting that the party is blessed with talented and patriotic
Nigerians who would represent it and the country equitably.
“I will administer a new direction for Nigeria if nominated
because I aspire to unite Nigerians and make the country prosperous and secure.
“I
believe that I am qualified to win the party’s nomination because I am a party
man by history and character with the party giving me everything I am in life.
“The
party discovered me from my obscure village in Jigawa, made me its state
chairman and after I lost initial bids to become the state governor, made me
Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister during a period of its pariah status.
“The
party further made me the state governor and I want to presently pay it and the
country back with selfless service that would unite, reconcile and prosper the
citizens,” he said.
He
urged the governor to give all aspirants that would be visiting the state equal
attention, noting that all of them including himself, belong to one large
family.
“We
are around nine aspirants jostling for the position presently but the emphasis
should be on the nomination of the best man that would be seen as the country’s
torch bearer.
“The party is looking upon its governors for direction and as
the convention to pick its candidate approaches, it should concentrate on
reclaiming the confidence reposed in it by Nigerians,” he said.
The
former governor thanked the party faithful for standing by it through its
trying times, noting that those who decamped were ungrateful and lost touch
with its ideals.
“The
decampees who include former governors, ministers, legislators among others,
are those who were hitherto unknown until the party gave them the platform to
be known in the country.
“The
loss of the 2015 elections was bitter because members from the northern part of
country were seen as infidels with some flogged, their houses burnt including
my office,”
He
noted that as president, he would permanently check the farmers and herdsmen
clashes among other crisis points in the country and ensure that every part of
the country gets a fair share in the polity.
Gov.
David Umahi, who is the chairman of the South East Governors Forum, commended
Lamido for his doggedness and noted that the PDP was in the right direction
with the way aspirants pursued their ambitions.
“Aspirants
into various offices in the last national convention toured the country to show
they were serious over their ambitions and it is pleasing that presidential
aspirants are towing the same line.
“This
will ensure that those who would eventually occupy the offices would realise
that they actually competed for it and wound not take the losers and party’s
generality for granted,” he said.(NAN)
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