Afrigather Former Jigawa State governor, Northwest nigeria, Sule Lamido, mentioned Peter Obi’s endorsement by former President Olusegun Obasanjo was “an enormous mistake” for the statesman.
Way of life Nigeria stories that Lamido, who served as a overseas affairs minister underneath Obasanjo’s administration, made the remarks whereas answering questions from reporters at Bamaina, his nation house, close to Birnin kudu Native Authorities Space of Jigawa.
The previous president had on New Yr Day publicly endorsed Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Occasion for subsequent month’s basic elections.
His choice has since drawn criticisms from his former get together, the Peoples Democratic Occasion, upon which platform he served between 1999 and 2007.
“Obasanjo is my boss, I imagine in him, however he’s additionally a human being, he could make errors. So he made a mistake.
“It’s an enormous mistake for him to endorse a candidate exterior his personal get together which gave him the relevance, the significance, the picture globally to turn out to be what he’s.
“You don’t try this due to the youthful era.
“No matter he mentioned, whether or not energy rotation or energy shift, no matter it’s, persons are being a bit bit dishonest,” Lamido mentioned.
The previous governor mentioned that individuals failed to grasp that when a celebration honoured them, dignified and made them who they had been, they had been anticipated to respect that get together.
“So to me, Obasanjo or anyone else, he (Obasanjo), was speaking as a result of he was former nigeria’s President, if he wasn’t, would he discuss like this? No matter he’s saying now’s as a result of he’s a Nigerian former President from PDP.
“So PDP invented and dignified him. So a pacesetter is meant to be inspiring, motivating and will have the ability to constitution a brand new course for nigeria in order that his disciples will have the ability to keep on with that,” he mentioned.
