"Let Us Tell Baba Sorry, We Are His Children" - Gov. Lamido Tells PDP

Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido on Tuesday 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.

“If you do any political DNA of our blood, you will find his blood in us. 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. 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 abandone his own children like that. Wherever we are, we are right in his heart. He feels for us, he cares for us”.

Asked whether with his advise, PDP leaders would go back to the Obasanjo to beg him for reconciliation, Governor Lamido observed that such things are not done or announced in the media, adding that the former president might be feeling some pains over the issue..

“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?”

Source: The Leadership