The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed their confidence in the pedigree of the former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido as a national leader of the party, the face of PDP and face of democracy in Nigeria.
The governor of Bauchi State, Bala Muhammed who spoke on behalf of the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum chairman, Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State said the party cannot afford to lose the wisdom of Sule Lamido at this point when they are strategising for the 2023 presidential election.
Governor Muhammed in the company of leaders of PDP in Bauchi State spoke in Baimaina the country home of the former Governor during a Salah Homage.
The visit which follows a recent publication alleging unease in PDP over anti-party allegations where the North-West Zonal leadership was alleged to have accused the former Governor of being the brain behind the crises in the party in Jigawa.
The Bauchi Governor indicated that the Jigawa chapter of the PDP is going to have a caretaker committee, “Our colleagues the PDP Governors say I should come and assure him that his integrity, pedigree and his respect is intact. We cherish him, we adore him, he is the face of PDP and the face of democracy.
He said Lamido is PDP and PDP is Lamido, “We just came to appease our leader who we found that there are some tendencies that will make him unhappy.”
He added that all those opposing Lamido were his boys adding that the party acknowledges him as a national leader of great repute.
“What we are doing is planning for 2023 because without him in the PDP it is not only Jigawa that will suffer, but the entire country so we discussed so many issues.
“I am paying a visit or a courtesy call like paying a visit to a parent. So we came to socialise, discuss the issues at the national and State levels and took some advise and we heard some of the issues happening in Jigawa because they are of interest to us. Anything that happens to Jigawa Happens to Bauchi.
“We are here on a normal courtesy call on our leader, a national leader of the Peoples Democratic Party and one of the pillars of democracy in Nigeria.
“I am here to celebrate with him the Eid-El-Fitr because it is our tradition of the most respected prophet that you pay courtesy call and visitation at the end of every Ramadan and I carried the entire stakeholders of Bauchibto Jigawa,” he said.
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