Atiku Abubakar
Former Vice-President and PDP presidential aspirant Atiku Abubakar
is pleading with former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido to step down
for him in the party’s presidential primary, according to a report by
TheNation.
The report revealed that Atiku made the plea yesterday at the
Jigawa State PDP secretariat. He was in the state to seek support ahead
of the primaries. Atiku visited the former governor in his Bamaina
country home.
Atiku said his visit was to seek Lamido’s support. He explained that he “did not go to Jigawa to campaign but to visit PDP members and his junior brother Sule Lamido”.
Atiku related the incident with what happened in 1993 election
under the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Katsina State where two
brothers – Shehu Musa Yar’Adua and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua were contesting.
The latter stepped down for the former.
He recalled that elders told Shehu Musa Yar’Adua that there was no
way they could support him as president and support his brother as the
governor.
“Junior brother cannot contest against his senior brother. The
junior brother instantly stepped down for his brother due to his
loyalty,” he said.
Atiku explained that the country needs repairs because of what he
called a system failure around all sectors, including security and
economy.
“The government inherited an economy growing at about 7% and
crashed it to recession in its first year and currently going below 2%,”
Atiku noted.
“Most of the parts of this country are currently feeling excluded” Atiku added.
To the former Vice-President, the APC administration is a failure
and disappointment. He advised Nigerians to vote out APC next year.
Lamido said the visit was a homecoming visit.
All the presidential aspirants declined to comment on the issue.