The Forum of former Jigawa state PDP local government council chairmen Forum has condemned the maltreatment of their political leader and former governor of Jigawa state Alhaji Sule Lamido.
The forum in a communique signed by seventeen PDP local government chairmen and submitted to Lamido advised him to find a viable political platform that will permit them to pursue their dreams for greater Jigawa state and Nigeria by extension.
“We condemned the manner in which the leadership of the party has handled our leader his excellency Sule Lamido, without regard to his honor by denying him his right to contest the national chairmanship of the party,” said Forum.
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“The PDP as a party is no longer a formidable platform at the national level as a result of prevailing factions and consistent rancor and mistrust among its members. As loyal political children of HE, Sule Lamido, do hereby mandate him in his wisdom to find a viable political platform that will permit us to pursue our dreams of a greater Jigawa and Nigeria,” he said.
“We believe and trust in his political leadership, judgment and democratic credentials right from his days in PRP as the National Leader of the PRP Youth Wing to his election into the House of Representatives in 1979, to his Chairmanship of the SDP in the old Kano and later, its National Secretary which conclusively won the Abiola election in 19921. It is also worth noting that he is the only surviving member of G9 and G18 who has never abandoned the PDP despite the late Buha and phenomenalentry into partisan politics and the intense heat wave it unleashed in the North,” said the forum.
“We request that, as a matter of urgency, the leadership of the Jigawa PDP to lead us to HE Sule Lamido, our leader, to present our position,” added the forum.
Meanwhile, Sule Lamido has commended the forum for its commitment and staying with ideology, affirming that he will soon meet the leaders to discuss the ongoing crisis rocking the party.
He assured them that despite the ongoing crisis, PDP remained the strong and leading opposition political party in the country.