The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Ahmed Gulak, said in an interview with Punch correspondent that President Goodluck Jonathan was not afraid to contest the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential ticket with Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State in 2015.
In his response to a group called National Forum for Lamido 2015, which urged the governor to contest.
The group stated, “We have gone to Jigawa State. We have seen what he has done. Go to Jigawa State, you will see it yourself.
“Jigawa State is the only state you
will go in this country and you will get tap water to drink. You don’t need to go and buy pure water,” it added.
It said that the President should honour an agreement he had with some governors that he would spend one term.
Gulak said there was nothing wrong for the governor to test his popularity at the party’s primaries, adding that it is only at that point that “men will be separated from boys.”
He said Lamido’s ambition had not been hidden from the beginning as shown in the way he and four other northern governors had been carrying on.
Gulak said while the Presidency did not have any problem with the governor’s ambition, it was the way he had been going about it that was of concern.
Who shall win the battle?
Who shall win the battle?
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