 chieftain of the All Progressives 
Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has asked the former Governor of Jigawa
 State, Sule Lamido, to be ready to tell Nigerians what his party, the 
People Democratic Party (PDP) did in the last 16 years to warrant 
another shot at the presidency.
chieftain of the All Progressives 
Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has asked the former Governor of Jigawa
 State, Sule Lamido, to be ready to tell Nigerians what his party, the 
People Democratic Party (PDP) did in the last 16 years to warrant 
another shot at the presidency.
Okechukwu who is the spokesman of the 
South-east zone of the APC, described Lamido’s declaration for the 2019 
presidential ambition as a welcome development, saying the former 
governor has to tell Nigerians what his party, PDP could not do while in
 office for 16 years that he is coming back to correct.
Lamido had declared monday that he would contest for presidency on the platform of the PDP in 2019.
However, while reacting to the Lamido’s 
declaration yesterday at the national Secretariat Abuja, Okechukwu said 
Lamido has a constitutional right to run for the office but he must save
 Nigerians all form of sentiments.
“Why not as long as the person saved us 
the agony of not telling us that the South has been marginalised or the 
north has been marginalised then we are on the same berth. It is now 
incumbent on him to tell us his programme what he want to do that PDP 
did not do in the last sixteen years or whether for him, PDP did so 
well, if he tells us the PDP did so well, then we have enough armour and
 arms to confront him with.
“The most important thing is that he has
 the constitutional right to run for the office and if he is running for
 the office, he helps the Nigeria situation. Number one, he will not 
deal with the issue of ethnicity and religion, he comes from the same 
ethnic background with President Muhammadu Buhari.
“So at lease he has killed the two 
fault-lines. But then we should now know what is coming with, we will 
like to hear from him further what are his agenda, but anybody that 
parties along that line, he has save the Nigerian people the headache of
 ethnicity and religion I welcome that as a person because that is why 
the issue of the convention of zoning whether written or unwritten 
means.”
The APC chieftain, however, said it is not too early for anyone to start planning for the 2019 general election.
Posted by Oscar Jonathan
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