Just 3 days after Nigeria celebrated its 2017 Democracy Day
which also marked President Muhammadu Buhari’s two years in office, the
2019 Presidential campaign posters of an ex-governor of Jigawa state,
Sule Lamido have flooded some parts of Abuja – the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT).
As early as 6am on Thursday, the posters of Lamido with the
inscriptions: “Dr Sule Lamido for 2019”, written beside a photograph of
the ex-governor in which he beamed with smile were seen along Central
Business District, Ahmadu Bello Way, Cadastral Zone, Gudu and other
strategic locations within the city, indicating that they were posted
the previous night.
The campaign posters bore the logo of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
It could be recalled that Lamido had, in January, declared that only God can stop him from becoming Nigeria’s president in 2019, if he decides to contest.
He reportedly made this claim after policemen were deployed to
Bamaina village of Birnin Kudu in Jigawa, to stop a rally organized by
youths urging him to run in the next general elections.
The former governor had previously attempted to clinch the
Presidential ticket of the PDP in the 2011 general elections, but was
persuaded to drop his ambition to pave the way for the then incumbent
President, Goodluck Jonathan.