Former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido on Monday visited former president Olusegun Obasanjo at his home in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital seeking support for his 2019 presidential bid’
Lamido who spoke with journalists after a two-hour closed-door meeting with Obasanjo, at the Presidential Library in Abeokuta decried the acute poverty in the country and promised to tackle it.
”I see poverty in the faces of Nigerian journalists, as well as Nigerians,” he stated.
He told journalists that he came to see Obasanjo to seek his fatherly advice and guide over his 2019 presidential ambition.
In Nigeria, when they say who is baba’s son? They say it is Sule Lamido and as a result of this, I have only come to my father to seek guidance, as well as talk about Nigeria and tap from his wisdom about Nigeria,” he said.
