Sule Lamido
A former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has written to
inform members of the Peoples Democratic Party of his decision to seek
the party’s flag in the next presidential election.
According to a report by Vanguard newspaper on Monday, Mr. Lamido
said in his letter that all the party needs to reposition Nigeria is to
take over power in 2019 and bring the country back to the path of
recovery.
Lamenting that the nation has departed from the dreams of the PDP
founding fathers, Mr. Lamido said the PDP needs to lead the nation back
to a brighter future.
“Today, 57 years after the independence of our dear country,
can we in all sincerity claim to have achieved the dream of our founding
fathers? Where did we fail and from where did we begin to fail? Nigeria
with its natural endowment and human capacity cannot be forgiven for
being otherwise.
“We cannot even demonstrate our ability and capacity to meet
domestic, regional and global challenges which currently seems to
overwhelm us. The PDP will and must lead the nation back into a bright,
progressive, and innovative future,” the former governor wrote.
Mr. Lamido said “the PDP must rekindle in Nigeria a new hope, a
nation of united people with a common and assured destiny” and that the
country must demonstrate its “confidence, tenacity, ability and
capability to address our domestic regional and global challenges that
confront us.”
“It is against this background that I offer myself to vie for
the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2019
if my party finds me worthy to fly its flag. I am no means claiming to
be the only capable material, any PDP member given the trust and support
can fly our flag, and I expect many more aspirants will express the
desire to run.
“My hope and prayer is that at the end of all the process which
I hope will be open, fair transparent and credible is to give Nigeria
in 2019 a candidate who will lead the party and Nigeria. This is because
there is no alternative to PDP in 2019, it will be a defining moment in
the Nigerian political evolution.
“Our imperfect union as a federation should not be an excuse
for our legendary failure which appears to have found vent in the call
for restructuring, a union of multi-ethnic multi-lingual and
multi-religious can certainly task the best of human capacities, but
that is precisely the challenge and how to work on it and build a nation
of people of a common destiny, and this is where the PDP must raise to
the challenge.
“The starting point is where the PDP began in 1998 and critical
to it is creating an open environment in which every Nigerian must not
only been seen to be, but must be an equal stakeholder and therefore
restoring trust and faith in our shared union and this PDP was able to
achieve in its first four years,” Mr. Lamido said in the letter.
He said while the clamour for restructuring rages, the most
important aspects of addressing the Nigerian economy by creating
prosperity will make the debate less emotional and sentimental and that
the PDP has enough talents to salvage the nations from its current woes.
The PDP, which ruled Nigeria from the dawn of the Fourth Republic
in 1999 until it was defeated by the All Progressives Congress in 2015,
has zoned its presidential ticket to the Northern region of Nigeria.
The arrangement, however, did not deter Ekiti State Governor,
Ayodele Fayose, who last month publicly declared his ambition to seek
the ticket.
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