I Pity Jonathan For Considering Joining APC – Ex-Gov. Sule Lamido

Former governor of Jigawa State, Malam Sule Lamido has said that he feel so sad for former President Goodluck Jonathan for contemplating defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Lamido, who featured on an interview programme on Arise TV, specifically said that he feel pity and awfully bad for Jonathan to consider dumping the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), that gave him the greatest reward anybody in the Party can attain.

The former governor said that he was called a pastor in the north because of his loyalty to Jonathan, stressing that the former president was not known in Nigeria some years ago but became a director in OMPADEC and later deputy governor to Governor, Vice President and President.

Lamido, who was responding to a question on the rumoured defection of former President Jonathan to the APC to contest for 2023 Presidency, said he feels really sad for Jonathan.

In his words; “I stood by him through thick and thin. In the north, I was seen as somebody that is against the northern interest because I believed in Nigeria.

“Now for Jonathan to begin to contemplate going to APC to run for Presidency makes me pity him a lot. I just pity him. I really pity him.

I don’t believe in APC because they removed him from office by blackmailing him and PDP. I was called a pastor in the north because of Jonathan.

“Look at the rise, it is all through PDP. PDP gave him everything in life. PDP gave him the greatest reward anybody in PDP can attain. Only three people had attained that position in PDP, Obasanjo, late Yar’adua, and him.

“The party made him what he is and gave him the limelight and international recognition. He Is a PDP invention; he is a PDP facilitation. So, how could he run under APC, the very party that vilified him, demonized him, and called him names? I feel sad,” Lamido stressed.