Sule Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa State, called the former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s endorsement of Mr. Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, “a big mistake” on Friday.
Lamido, who served as the Foreign Affairs Minister during the term of Obasanjo, made the declaration while responding to inquiries from reporters at Bamaina, his country residence close to Birnin kudu Local Government Area in Jigawa.
“Obasanjo is my boss, I believe in him, but he is also a human being, he can make mistakes. So he made a mistake.
“It’s a big mistake for him to endorse a candidate outside his own party which gave him the relevance, the importance, the image globally to become what he is.
“You don’t do that because of the younger generation.
“Whatever he said, whether power rotation or power shift, whatever it is, people are being a little bit dishonest,” Lamido said.
The former governor said that people failed to understand that when a party honoured them, dignified and made them who they were, they were expected to respect that party.
“So to me, Obasanjo or anybody else, he (Obasanjo), was talking because he was former Nigeria’s President, if he wasn’t, will he talk like this? Whatever he is saying now is because he is a Nigerian former President from PDP.
“So PDP invented and dignified him. A leader is supposed to be inspiring and motivating, and should be able to chart a new course for Nigeria so that his disciples will be able to carry on with that,” he said.