A member of the PDP and Jigawa State Governor,
Sule Lamido has urged the PDP family to go and
apologize to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo
irrespective of his perceived shortcomings.
According to the PDP governor, Obsanjo was still
father to the current generation of politicians in
the country because he made all of them,
including President Goodluck Jonathan.
Governor Lamido 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."
He added that the former president’s DNA runs in
all their blood, including that of the president.
Fielding questions from State House
correspondents after a meeting with President
Jonathan at the presidential villa in Abuja,
Governor Lamido insisted on the need to
apologise to Obasanjo as his children, if they (the
PDP family) fell short of his expectations.
Lamido's position makes him the only PDP
member who has pleaded Obj’s cause, amidst the
outpouring of criticisms that trailed his open
show of dumping of PDP and tearing of his
membership card.

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