Alhaji Sule Lamido, the former governor of Jigawa State, has come under fire from the Northern Youths Movement (NYM) in northern Nigeria for remarks he made recently about the PDP’s operations.
In his harsh criticism of Chief Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Lamido referred to him as a “small boy in PDP history” and inquired as to “where he was in 1999.”
However, the NYM reminded Lamido that the PDP was sustained by the individuals he insisted on referring to as children and young boys following the 2014 uprising in which he (Lamido) was a key figure before withdrawing.
This was mentioned in a statement that its chairman, Mallam Ishaya Jato, signed and provided to Daily Post on Sunday.
According to the youth group, it is ironic that some of the elders from 1998 are still acting like children, while those who were young when the PDP was founded have grown up and are now fathers to numerous political children.
As stated by 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 claimed that Lamido had made similar derogatory remarks about former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, as well as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
“Two years ago, Lamido publicly said, ‘Obasanjo was an unknown prisoner when the 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.”
Peoplesmind
