The All Progressives Congress (APC), has on Monday reacted swiftly to the declaration of former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido for the 2019 Presidential election, saying it was a welcome development.
The ruling party said that Lamido has the constitutional rights to aspire for whatever office he feels like, but warned him against fanning the embers of religion and ethnicity.
Lamido, who is the immediate past governor of Jigawa State, had declared at the weekend that he would contest for presidency on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019. Former governor was the person favoured by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to run for the presidency on the ticket of the PDP in 2015 before the party decided to yield the party to former President Goodluck Jonathan, with calamitous. consequence
APC spokesman in the South-East, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, who reacted to Lamido’s declaration for the 2019 presidential race, said the challenge before Lamido would for him to to tell Nigerians what PDP could not do while in office for 16 years that he is coming back to correct.
He spoke to newsmen at the party’s National Secretariat, in Abuja.
Okechukwu said, “Why not, as long as the person saved us the agony of not telling us that the South has been marginalised or the north has been marginalised then we are on the same berth. It is now incumbent on him to tell us his programme what he want to do that PDP did not do in the last sixteen years or whether for him, PDP did so well, if he tells us the PDP did so well, then we have enough armour and arms to confront him with.
“The most important thing is that he has the constitutional right to run for the office and if he is running for the office, he helps the Nigeria situation. Number one, he will not deal with the issue of ethnicity and religion, he comes from the same ethnic background with President Muhammadu Buhari.
“So at lease he has killed the two fault-lines. But then we should now know what is coming with, we will like to hear from him further what are his agenda, but anybody that parties along that line, he has save the Nigerian people the headache of ethnicity and religion I welcome that as a person because that is why the issue of the convention of zoning whether written or unwritten means.”
