Jigawa State Governor, Alh. Sule Lamido
The Presidency is worried over the
attitude of Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido to the campaign of
President Goodluck Jonathan, The Rev4mation's World has learnt.
Lamido, who was said to have been
interested in contesting the party’s presidential primary, was among
those allegedly forced to forgo their ambition because of the adoption
of President Jonathan as the party’s sole candidate.
A lady, Prof. Akasoba Duke-Abiola, who
defied the party’s endorsement of Jonathan and paid for its expression
of interest form, was denied the form and could not participate in the
party’s presidential primary.
Since then, Lamido is being seen as not committed to the Jonathan’s 2015 project.
The
governor had at the different occasions complained about the refusal of
the President to keep to the promises he made to the people of his
state in 2011.
He had also vowed that keeping to such
promises would determine if he and the people of the state would vote
for Jonathan during the February 14 presidential election.
Though the President and the PDP had
named him as the North-West presidential campaign co-ordinator, Lamido
was absent when the President inaugurated the campaign committee in
Abuja on Tuesday.
Lamido also refused to attend the flag-off of his party’s presidential campaign in Lagos on Thursday.
Apart from that, the PDP governorship
candidate in Jigawa, Alhaji Ibrahim Ringim, was also not at the event to
collect the party’s flag from the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu.
Ringim was the chief of staff to Lamido. He resigned from the position to contest the party’s governorship primary.
A Presidency official said that Lamido only busy campaigning for Ringim as his successor.
The official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said, “He (Lamido) has not told us why he refused to be at
the rallies. Rather, he’s busy campaigning for his candidate.
“Though that is also alright, but we
expected him to also identify with the President in the state and the
zone, where he is the coordinator.”
A member of the National Working Committee of the PDP, who also spoke on the issue, said that the governor was under watch.
But the National Secretary of the party, Prof. Wale Oladipo, defended the governor’s refusal to attend the rallies.
He said the governor had been busy
campaigning for the President in his zone, adding that the party had no
doubt that the governor would deliver the state and the zone to the PDP.
“We are happy with the governor. We also
knew why he and our party’s candidate could not make it to Lagos for
the rally. It was because the programme was an impromptu one. It was due
to communication gap. But we are saying that he is working for us in
the state,” Oladipo said.
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