JONATHAN RUINED MY CAREER AND FAMILY FOR POLITICAL REASONS – SULE LAMIDO

Babatunji Wusu –

Sule Lamido, a former governor of Jigawa State, has claimed that former President Goodluck Jonathan persecuted him and his family.

Lamido alleged that Jonathan’s political involvement destroyed his family and career.

The former governor made the claim during an interview with Daily Trust.
Lamido regretted his political difficulties, saying he had faced many forms of persecution.
He, on the other hand, noted that despite everything, his attention is on Nigeria because the country has been extremely wonderful to him.

“People don’t see my contributions right from 1979 in the House of Representatives; what I went through in terms of humiliation, persecution, and suffering to the point where even my own party’s President Jonathan arraigned me and my children and docked us as thieves,” Lamido added.

“I, a senior member of the PDP and a founding member of the party, have been accused by my own president of having a political interest.” So, in order to realize his political objective, he had to destroy me, damage my job and family, and arraign me in court.

I have been through all kinds of things that I am more concerned about the bigger picture called Nigeria because Nigeria has been very, very kind to me. Whatever you do to me in terms of harassing me, trying to persecute me, will not make me give up. I’m undeterred because this country has been fair to me, it has been good to me. It gave me face to grow from my village to what I am today, passing through all kinds of difficulties to be a member of the House of Reps in 1979 (45 years ago), to being a party chairman, to being this and that…, therefore what do I do, in spite of the misconception, to pay back to Nigeria what I got.”