TheCable

Sule Lamido, the governor of Jigawa, has denied the report that he is working for the opposition party ahead of the forthcoming presidential election.

Lamido, who is the north-west coordinator for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election campaign, recently held a closed-door meeting with Rotimi Amaechi, director-general of the presidential campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC), fuelling suspicion that Lamido was working to undermine the ruling party.

But speaking on Tuesday during the PDP governorship rally in the Kaugama local government area of Jigawa, Lamido pledged his loyalty to PDP.

He said he only met with Amaechi to discuss issues bothering on avoiding heating up of the polity, adding that he was in support of Jonathan and all the candidates of PDP in the election.

“We are one and we should not allow some disgruntled elements using politics, religion and ethnicity to cause disaffection among our people,” Lamido said.

“If Amaechi, a southerner and a christian is campaigning for Muhammadu Buhari of the APC, I do not see any wrong for me, a northerner and Muslim, to campaign for President Jonathan.

“Leadership comes from God. And in his divine wisdom, [he] made people of northern and southern extraction to live in one land, our dear country, Nigeria. Ignore what they are saying; it is frivolous and cheap lies to deceive voters.”