Former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, has said the decision of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to look for a political platform to birth his presidency is not a “crime in Nigeria.”
Lamido said Atiku might not have found a platform that would
offer him fairness and openness in the process of picking a presidential
ticket.
Featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today, the
former governor said politicians have been crossing between parties over the
past 20 years.
He said: “There are people whose personal aspirations is to
run for political office, it’s different being PDP, APC, or any other platform.
“It happened in 2014 when a number of people left the PDP to
APC as a platform.
“I think Atiku wants to run for the presidency and he has
not seen the fairness and openness to sincerely pick the ticket, otherwise he
looks for another platform.
“Looking for another platform is not a crime, in the last 20
years, people have been jumping looking for platforms.
“For instance, Ortom left the party in 2014 and ran under
APC, Ortom was PDP Minister, NEC member, and he left the party because he
couldn’t get the platform.
“There are people who are pursuing a platform and are
different from being members of the party.”
Atiku recently resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party
and joined the opposition coalition.
In June, the opposition coalition adopted the African
Democratic Congress, ADC.
There is speculation that Atiku may run for the presidency
on the platform of ADC.
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