Former Governor of Jigawa State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sule Lamido has lambasted the Northern governors over their recent trip to the United States.<\/p>\n
Lamido said the Northern governors trip to the US exposed their ignorance of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The former governor made this assertion in a statement via his official Facebook page on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Recall that the Northern governors traveled to the United States to attend a peace summit organized by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).<\/p>\n
Lamido said, \u201cOur Northern governors as concerned leaders traveled all the way to the United States of America to attend a lecture at the American Institute for Peace titled \u201cADVANCING STABILITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA\u201d, as to find a lasting solution to the intractable problems of insecurity bedeviling their respective states.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir concern, commendable as it were, ended up exposing their ignorance at understanding the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the very instrument which gave them the legitimacy and the authority to be Governors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the Governors had traveled to the US to engage on how to boost agriculture or health issues or any other pressing local problems listed on the Concurrent List of our Constitution, this could be quite understandable.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut to engage on issues which are on the Exclusive Legislative List such as security says a lot about the substance they are made of.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecurity is a very wide subject which their Excellencies must have capacity to grasp. Most urban towns in their states lack portable drinking water, and refuse dumps have taken over some streets.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur children attend primary schools under the trees and where there are classes, they take their lessons sitting on the floor, yet the security implications of this cannot be discerned by their Excellencies.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeliberate and harshly induced poverty by unplanned government policies have made citizens lose their esteem, honour and self worth by lining up scrambling to collect palliatives from patronizing and condescending leaders yet the Insecurity of this is of no worry or concern to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the governors were serious and wanted to have a lecture on security, they need not have embarked on such a wasteful journey with the accompanying expenditure of flight tickets, hotels with all their aides and above all the valuable time wasted at the expense of running their states.<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly, they could have gotten more than they wanted from our resourceful institutions such as NIPSS in Kuru Jos or ASCON in Badagry or even NIA.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese three institutions have more than enough materials, essays and templates on the problems on security in Nigeria more than the far fetched American Institute.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former governor, however blamed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the NIA for failing to properly guide the governors.<\/p>\n
Lamido said, \u201cI blame the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the NIA for failing to properly guide the governors for this folly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe governors could not have traveled without the facilitation of the Ministry or our Embassy in Washington.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigeria and Nigerians now carry the image of \u2018advancing our shame and embarrassment beyond our frontiers\u2019 caused by their Excellencies!\u201d<\/p>\n
He further stated, \u201cOne is inclined to believe Rufai Oseni when he recently said \u2018Nigerian madness has no bound or limits.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo in Nigeria today, one\u2019s biggest challenge is how one remains sane in this insane country,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
Former Governor of Jigawa State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Sule Lamido has lambasted the Northern governors over their recent trip to the United States. Lamido said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n