1 week Ago By Guardian Nigeria
Success is not by our thinking, our wish, our personal opinion, or selfish aggrandisement. It is destined and accompanied by good attitudes of honesty, gratitude, commitment, perseverance, sacrifice, endurance, selflessness, and determination. – Sule Lamido.
Sir: When elections are approaching, political activities hasten. There has been speculation that Sule Lamido of Jigawa State will defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to join a new party. It appears the speculators based their thinking on PDP’s unexpected devastating defeat in the 2023 general election.
However, many people see the defeat as an outcome of a referendum on the PDP’s mistakes and adamant or foolish behaviour of an ordinary Nigerian, rather than a rejection verdict on the PDP, thus the party is expected to bounce back. This is expected to happen with the help of people like Lamido and other party stalwarts. Nonetheless, with speculation rife, it’s pertinent to ask, will Lamido lead a revolt to ditch the PDP and form a new party or join SDP as Malam Nasir El-Rufai calls for? Knowing Lamido’s styles of leadership and political antecedents, notably his being and ardent disciple of the late Mallam Aminu Kano of blessed memory, one may without mincing words say that Lamido will not leave PDP he helped to give birth to; nurtured and played a very prominent role in.
The above assertion is provided by the fact that Lamido does not have a history of inconsistencies in his political career, and he is not a politician that takes decisions based on the desire to play to the gallery. Furthermore, Lamido, being one of the founding fathers of the PDP and a man with well-established connections, with political friends and associates all over and who enjoys tremendous support across the country, is not likely going to ditch the PDP. If Lamido wanted to leave the PDP, he could have done it with the G7 governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2014/2015.
And Lamido could have been one of the most celebrated ‘defectors’ the APC would now be flaunting. Some people have mistakenly interpreted the recent news story of el-Rufai, defecting from APC to SDP, whereby he called bigwigs, though he dares not to mention the name of Lamido in his list or invitation because he knows perfectly well Lamido’s space to that regard is a no-go area. But Lamido has dispelled the rumours via the interview he granted with the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) Hausa service.
Lamido asserted, I have no intention to leave the party. We dey kampe for PDP; we dey shelele for PDP. PDP has honoured and dignified me, and I am not leaving it for tenants.
I am from a home background while others are from mere house backgrounds. We are well-groomed right from our homes, and we will not leave the party for anyone, especially for anger. Adamu Muhd Usman wrote from Kafin-Hausa, Jigawa State.
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