Lamido: If you follow social media, you would think APC has won 99% of the votes

Sule Lamido, governor of Jigawa state, says
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will defeat
the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the
general election contrary to the impression
being created in the social media.
He was speaking on Tuesday after meeting with
President Goodluck Jonathan at the
presidential villa in Abuja.
He said what Nigerians read on the social
media is different from reality.
“If you go through the social media, what
they paint is that APC has won almost 99
percent. In Nigeria?” he said.
Lamido described APC as an “amalgamation”
of desperation, saying the country is too big for
them to govern.
“What is APC? An amalgamation of pain, anger
and desperation. And this country is too big for
them,” he said.
“What is this opposition In Nigeria? You must
know Nigerian history. Nigeria cannot be
governed by an aggregate of pain, anger and
frustration. And I have been saying those called
opposition who are now abusing us, whatever
might have been our crime, it was that crime
that made them.
“We created that for them to become either
governors, or legislators, we created room for
them to emerge. So whatever they think is our
evil, they are the manifestations of the evil.
Believe me, you don’t know Nigeria.”
Lamido also described former President
Olusegun Obasanjo, who on Monday
relinquished his PDP membership card, as a
father who is angry with his children.
He said: “Baba is more than a party man. He is
an icon, a national symbol and a leader and an
inventor, a creator of all the institutions today
in Nigeria from the presidency to the governors
who are his own sons, are all his creations.
“And so, when a father is angry with his own
children, we will only say we are sorry to him.
But then we cannot be renounced for whatever
it is. If you do any political DNA of our blood,
you will find his blood in us. No matter what we
are, we may not be able to live up to his
expectations.
“We might have made some mistakes, but
abandoning us is not the solution because the
country is first before anything else. So, he is
our Baba even up to the president. Baba is our
Baba no matter what. He is angry with us, but
then, what do we do? He gave us the life at a
time when Nigerians were fighting us, he stood
for us.”
Lamido served as Obasanjo’s foreign minister
from 1999 to 2003.