Lamido said, “Obasanjo is my boss, I believe in him, but he is also a human being, he can make mistakes. So he made a mistake.”
By Jeffrey Agbo
A former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, as “a big mistake.”
Lamido, who was a Foreign Affairs Minister during the Obasanjo administration, spoke while answering questions from reporters at Bamaina, his country home, near Birnin kudu Local Government Area of Jigawa.
“Obasanjo is my boss, I believe in him, but he is also a human being, he can make mistakes. So he made a mistake,” said Lamido.
“It’s a big mistake for him to endorse a candidate outside his own party which gave him the relevance, the importance, the image globally to become what he is. You don’t do that because of the younger generation.
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“Whatever he said, whether power rotation or power shift, whatever it is, people are being a little bit dishonest.”
The former governor said that people failed to understand that when a party honoured them, dignified and made them who they were, they were expected to respect that party.
Lamido said, “So to me, Obasanjo or anybody else, he (Obasanjo) was talking because he was former Nigeria’s President, if he wasn’t, will he talk like this? Whatever he is saying now is because he is a Nigerian former President from PDP.
“So PDP invented and dignified him. A leader is supposed to be inspiring, motivating and should be able to charter a new course for Nigeria so that his disciples will be able to carry on with that.”
Obasanjo’s endorsement of Obi has raised dust, with many saying elder statesmen should not be involved in such partisanship.
