Former Governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, says Nigeria
would have an emperor as President if the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,
collapses.
Lamido, a founding member of the PDP, said this on Channels
Television’s Political Paradigm programme on Tuesday.
He maintained that the PDP is an integral part of Nigeria’s
democratic history, adding that the continued existence of the party is tied to
the country’s survival.
“If the PDP collapses, Nigeria will collapse. Where there is
no opposition, then there will be an emperor. When the party collapses, then
you have an emperor all over Nigeria, and all emperors are destroyed by their
greed.
“The PDP is Nigeria’s history in the last 25 years,
therefore, look at the bigger picture. If the party collapses, it is Nigeria’s
history which collapses,” he said.
According to the ex-foreign affairs minister, if the PDP
hadn’t restored Nigeria’s democracy in 1999, there was no way ex-military head
of state Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress would have taken
over power as President in May 2015.
He stated further that without the PDP laying the foundation
for Nigeria’s democracy in the Fourth Republic, incumbent ex-Lagos governor
Bola Tinubu wouldn’t have taken over from his party man, Buhari, in May 2023.
Lamido reiterated that Tinubu needs the PDP as a focal
opposition party to keep him in check.
“More than anybody, Tinubu needs PDP to be chasing him, to
be on his toes, but when it collapses, nobody will be chasing him; he will be
chasing himself,” he added.
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