OBASANJO CREATED JONATHAN, OTHER
GOVERNORS; WE WILL BEG HIM TO FORGIVE US……….GOVERNOR SULE LAMIDO
Governor
Sule Lamido of Jigawa State on Tuesday disclosed that Peoples Democratic Party
stakeholders would beg former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who dumped the party
on Monday to have a rethink.
Lamido
made this disclosure after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday.
The
governor, who heads the North-West Council of Goodluck/Sambo Presidential
Campaign, told State House correspondents that Obasanjo remained the father of
all.
He
said Jonathan and all the state governors were creations of the former
President.
He
explained that it was only appropriate that “when a father is angry with his
children, the children should beg him.”
Lamido
said, “Baba (Obasanjo) is more than a party man. He is an icon, a national
symbol and a leader and an inventor, a creator of all the institutions today in
Nigeria from the President to the governors who are his own sons, are all his
creations.
“And
so, when a father is angry with his own children, we will only say we are sorry
to him. But then, we cannot be renounced for whatever it is.
“If
you do any political DNA of our blood, you will find his (Obasanjo’s) blood in
us. No matter what we are, we may not be able to live up to his expectations.
“We
might have made some mistakes, but abandoning us is not the solution because
the country is first before anything else. So, he is our Baba even up to the
President.
“Baba
is our baba no matter what. He is angry with us, but then, what do we do? He
gave us the life at a time when Nigerians were fighting us, he stood for us.
Since 2011, in 2007, he stood firm for us.
“He
is our father. And so, if we made some mistakes, we are only human because we
are heading human institutions. And I think by the time he reflects, how could
he abandon his own children like that. Wherever we are, we are right in his
heart. He feels for us, he cares for us.”
When
asked to be specific on whether they would go and beg Obasanjo to return to the
party, Lamido said such issue was not the kind he would announce publicly.
“When
there is some kind of misunderstanding between a father and a child, you don’t
go to NTA or any other media to say you are going to do this.
“I
mean the bond between us is so strong. I know he is equally pained. I know what
he is going through because he is our father, but I will not tell you the
strategy because when he was producing us, you were not there, when he was
making us, were you there,” the governor said.
When
told that some party chiefs had already said they would not miss the former
President, the governor said Jonathan, who he described as Obasanjo’s first
child, had not said so.
“But
then, the first child is the President, did he say so?,” he asked.
When
asked again if Obasanjo’s constant criticisms of the President did not worry
him, Lamido said “when parents get old, they tend to manifest signs of old
age.”
He
added, “What I am saying is that all of us have parents. When we were born,
they pepped us, gave us their love, gave us everything. By the time they get
old, naturally, there is what they call role reversal. We became the parents
and they became the children. So, what is wrong if our parents begin to
manifest those signs of old age?”
He
said, “What is this opposition in Nigeria? You must know Nigerian history.
Nigeria cannot be governed by an aggregate of pain, anger and frustration”.
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