We will beg Obasanjo, says Lamido

We will beg Obasanjo, says Lamido

Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State on Tuesday emerged from a meeting with
President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, giving an indication
that Peoples Democratic Party stakeholders will beg former President Olusegun
Obasanjo who dumped the party on Monday.
Lamido, who is the North West Coordinator of Goodluck/Sambo Presidential
Campaign, told State House correspondents that Obasanjo remained the father of
all.
He said Jonathan and all the state governors are creations of the former
President.
He explained that it is only appropriate that when a father is angry with his
children, the children should beg him.
Lamido said, “Baba (Obasanjo) 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 President to the governors who are his own sons.
“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 (Obasanjo’s) 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.
“Obasanjo 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 abandon his own children like that. Wherever we are, we are right
in his heart. He feels for us, he cares for us.”
When asked to be specific on whether they will go and beg Obasanjo to return to
the party, Lamido said such issue was not the kind he would announce publicly.
“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?,” the governor said.
When told that some party chiefs had already said they would not miss the
former President, Lamido said Jonathan, who he described as Obasanjo’s first
child, had not said so.
“But then, the first child is the President, did he say so?,” he asked.
When again asked if Obasanjo’s constant criticism of the President does not
worry him, Lamido said when parents get old, they tend to manifest signs of old
age.