Sule Lamido, governor of Jigawa state, says the Peoples Democratic Party<\/p>\n
(PDP) will defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the general
\nelection contrary to the impression being created in the social media.<\/p>\n
He was speaking on Tuesday after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan
\nat the presidential villa in Abuja.<\/p>\n
He said what Nigerians read on the social media is different from reality.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you go through the social media, what they ‎paint is that APC
\nhas won almost 99 percent. In Nigeria?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Lamido described APC as an \u201camalgamation\u201d of desperation, saying the
\ncountry is too big for them to govern.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is APC? An amalgamation of pain, anger and desperation. And this
\ncountry is too big for them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is this opposition In Nigeria? You must know Nigerian history.
\nNigeria cannot be governed by an aggregate of pain, anger and frustration.
\nAnd I have been saying those called opposition who are now abusing us,
\nwhatever might have been our crime, it was that crime that made them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe created that for them to become either governors, or legislators, we
\ncreated room for them to emerge. So whatever they think is our evil, they
\nare the manifestations of the evil. Believe me, you don\u2019t know Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n
‎Lamido also described former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who on
\nMonday relinquished his PDP membership card, as a father who is angry with
\nhis children.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cBaba is more than a party man. He is an icon, a national symbol
\nand a leader and an inventor, a creator of all the institutions today in
\nNigeria from the presidency to the governors who are his own sons, are all
\nhis creations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so, when a father is angry with his own children, we will only say we
\nare sorry to him. But then we cannot be renounced for whatever it is. If
\nyou do any political DNA of our blood, you will find his blood in us. No
\nmatter what we are, we may not be able to live up to his expectations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe might have made some mistakes, but abandoning us is not the solution
\nbecause the country is first before anything else. So, he is our Baba even
\nup to the president. Baba is our Baba no matter what. He is angry with us,
\nbut then, what do we do? He gave us the life at a time when Nigerians were
\nfighting us, he stood for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lamido served as Obasanjo\u2019s foreign minister from 1999 to 2003.<\/p>\n
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