Obasanjo Is Still Our Father - Governor Lamido
Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido has said that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo still remains an icon and a political father to him, despite OBJ quiting the ruling party.
He said this as he left the Presidential villa after meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday.
He said that Obasanjo's political grandsons (Jonathan, himself) might have made some mistakes which angered the ex-President for him to have resolved to dump the party.
Mr. Lamido said: “Baba 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 presidency 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.
“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.
READ ALSO: Goodluck Jonathan Media Chat: Expectations Vs. Reality
“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 if OBJ might return, he said: “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?”
READ ALSO: Where Was Goodluck Jonathan
As of the issue, if OBJ would be missed, he said “But then, the first child is the President, did he say so?”
Mr. Lamido explained “What I am saying is that all of us are parents. When we were born, they pampered 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?”
READ ALSO: Sanusi And His Wives
He then blasted the APC, calling them an aggresive bunch, 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. And I have been saying to those so-called opposition who are now abusing us, whatever might have been our crime, it was that crime that made them. We created that for them to become either governors, in the legislature , we created room for them to emerge. So whatever they think is our evil, they are the manifestations of the evil. Believe me, you don’t know Nigeria.”
The PDP had blasted former president Olusegun Obasanjo after he tore down his membership card to the party in public.
Source: Legit.ng
