Nigerians Regret Voting APC - Ex-Gov Lamido

Former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido has stated that Nigerians are now regretting voting the All Progressives Congress into power.

Lamido called on the aggrieved PDP members ‎who dumped the party to immediately return as the party had bounced back strongly.

He made this known on Thursday at a stakeholders’ meeting held at the party secretariat in Dutse, Jigawa State.

According to him, arrangement has gone far to reconcile all aggrieved PDP Governors, Ministers, Senators, members of House of representatives and other members who dumped the party due to internal crisis that bedevilled it.

The former governor, who described the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) as a disaster to Nigerians said, ‘reasonable Nigerians are regretting for voting APC into power.’

According to him, “the pattern of APC leadership lacks focus and direction as the party is a combination of minor political parties that have no good manifestos and prominent politicians that cannot take the country to the promise land.

“The PDP would soon hold an emergency stakeholders meeting on the possibility to extend the tenure of caretakers leadership of the party from 12 August to next three months to allow for a better restructuring of the party ahead of 2019 general elections.”

While speaking on the Jigawa State politics, the former governor said, Governor Muhammad Abubakar Badaru would soon regret sending him to prison as the action was nothing but an insult to the entire Jigawa people.

He added, “as a father in Jigawa, sending me to Kiyawa prison by the present governor Badaru is an insult to all Jigawa people, and I am assuring you that the governor must regret taking this action, and to me as politician, jail is nothing but rather just a fashion”.

By Ameh Comrade Godwin

Jigawa Council’s Elections: Your Intimidation Will Not Change Anything Lamido Tells Badaru

A former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has said that no amount of intimidation from the incumbent Governor, Mohammadu Badaru Abubakar, will make the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lose steam towards winning the forthcoming local government council elections in the state.

Lamido said this at the weekend when he went to Kiyawa Prison to sympathise with three former commissioners and three ex-LGA chairmen that served under him.

Lamido was recently detained in prison custody for three days after the state government accused him of making inciting statements at a PDP gathering.

The former commissioners and LGA chairmen were on Thursday remanded in prison custody after their arraignment before Dutse Chief Magistrate Court II.

They were charged for criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust by public servants, disobeying direction of the law with intent to cause injury to the public, theft and forgery when they held sway as public office holders.

“It is simply a ploy to intimidate, terrorise, malign and demean so that they can be broken in terms of their courage to tow the line of the APC before the coming election.

“No power on earth can avert what God ordained. Those who are there now, before them there were others who were there,” said Lamido.

By Aliyu M. Hamagam

Court Grants Sule Lamido Unconditional Bail

The Magistrate Court 2 sitting in Dutse on Thursday granted unconditional bail to Sule Lamido, as a former governor who was democratically elected.

Lamido is standing trial on four count charges that bother on inciting disturbance, criminal deformation, criminal intimidation and disturbance of public peace which is contrary to sections 113, 114, 394 and 397 of the penal code of Jigawa state.

In his ruling, the presiding judge, Magistrate, Usman Muhammed Lamin said all allegations against the accused person are ordinary bailable under section 341 of Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).

Lamin rejected a submission by the prosecution counsel, objecting the bail application by the defending counsel.

He said, “the prosecution fail to convince the court to denied the accuse person bail on their claim that the accuse release may course break of peace in the state.”

“Based on the provisions of the law, power and right of this honourable court the accused person is granted bail on self-recognition.

“I hereby adjoining the case to 5th July 2017 for hearing.”

By Wale Odunsi

Ex-Gov. Lamido Moved To Dutse for Trial

Former Governor of Jigawa state, Sule Lamido has been taken to Dutse, the Jigawa state capital to face trial over his utterances.

This is as the Ahmed Makarfi-led Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has ‎called for his release.

It was gathered that heavily armed policemen from the Nigeria Police Force Zone 1, led by a senior officer, escorted the PDP chieftain on the one-hour journey to Dutse.

The convoy had left Kano for Dutse around 5.30am Tuesday morning.

Security has been heightened in Dutse as Lamido’s supporters are expected to demostrate publicly.

Zone 1 Police Public Relation Officer, Sambo Dasuki, has confirmed Lamido’s movement to Dutse and trial to follow.

Lamido has reacted to his ordeal.

He said he’s being persecuted because of his presidential ambitionin 2019.

The ex-foreign affairs Minister was detained in Kano on Sunday after honouring police invitation for alleged “inciting comments”.

By Wale Odunsi