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A northern Nigeria group, Northern Youths Movement, NYM, has
tackled former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido over his recent
comments concerning the affairs of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Lamido had come hard on the Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike, calling him a “small boy in PDP history”
and asked “where he was in 1999”.
However, in a statement made available on
Sunday, which was signed by its Chairman, Mallam Ishaya Jato, the NYM reminded
Lamido that those he kept referring to as children and small boys were the ones
who did not let the PDP die “in aftermath of the 2014 rebellion in which he
(Lamido) played prominent roles before he backed out.”
The youth group said it was ironic that those who were
children when PDP was being formed had grown to maturity and were now fathers
of many political children, while some of the elders of 1998 are still acting
like children.
According to the group, “Little wonder that after being a
Minister and Governor for eight years, an elder like Lamido had no other person
in Jigawa State to present as PDP governorship candidate other than his own
son.
“If in the estimation of Lamido, who became a political
elder at 50 years, 57-year-old Wike is still a small boy, we wonder what he
(Lamido) has become 36 years after he became an elder? Should he now be seen as
an ancestral PDP elder?”
They accused Lamido of disparaging former Presidents
Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, as well as former Vice President Atiku
Abubakar in like fashion.
“Two years ago, Lamido publicly said ‘Obasanjo was an
unknown prisoner when PDP was formed.’ Ironically, he went on to admonish
Obasanjo to stop talking down on people publicly.
“In 2019, it was Atiku that Lamido described as his junior
in politics, saying that he was in the House of Representatives in 1979 when
Atiku was still an employee of Nigerian Customs Services.
“As a sitting PDP Governor, Lamido was everywhere
disparaging President Jonathan, calling his government a failure.
“Even out of office, Lamido has not stopped disparaging
President Jonathan.
“Therefore, we are not surprised that since Lamido and
others deceived Atiku to lose the 2023 presidential election, by making him to
see himself as President-In-Waiting, more than seven months before the
election, he has been venting his frustration and anger on Wike, just because
he, alongside other governors like Seyi Makinde, Samuel Ortom, Okezie Ikpeazu
and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi refused to be treated like children in a their own party,”
the group further claimed.
DAILY POST recalls that the PDP has yet to recover from its
loss at the 2023 presidential election, with a major leadership crisis
bedevilling the party ever since.
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