A former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido says the masses in Nigeria will lose nothing if the nation disintegrates as they are “already in hell”.
Lamido, 73, stated this when youths in their hundreds converged on his residence to urge him to vie for the presidency in 2023.
Comrade Umar Danjani, the leader of the youths, said that they were convinced about Lamido’s leadership qualities, hence their insistence on him gunning for the nation’s top seat.
He said that the nation was edging towards disintegration and only a political leader of Lamido’s standing could remedy the situation due to his wealth of experience in the art of governance.
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Responding, the ex-governor said that the elite stood to lose everything if Nigeria disintegrated and would therefore do everything possible to preserve the nation’s unity.
Speaking on possible break-up of Nigeria, the septuagenarian said, “Who will break it? The ordinary person in Jigawa or the ordinary person in Sokoto or the ordinary person in Bayelsa? Is it the Igbo vulcanizer or the Yoruba woman selling kerosene by the roadside or the Okada man in Delta?
“They don’t have the capacity to unite because they are burdened by poverty. We have taken away from them their dignity, their self-esteem, their pride and self-worth so that they cannot even organize for the break-up of the country.
“Up there, we (elites) unite. We will never allow Nigeria to break because once it breaks, we will lose. But the common man loses nothing. What is he losing? He is already in hell; he cannot lose anything more than this hell.”
He accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government of adding to the suffering of hapless Nigerians.
“Our country is bleeding because there is no purposeful leadership, no justice, no peace, no security all over, only injustice, denial of people’s rights and privileges and above all, the collapse of government institutions,” Lamido said.
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