Adebayo Fajinmi
Mustapha Sule Lamido, the son of a former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido has picked his governorship nomination form in quest for his ambition.
This comes barely one week after he formally declared his intention to contest in the governorship race in Jigawa.
In a statement made available to newsmen, one of his aides, Mansur Ahmed, said a one-time Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nuruddeen Muhammad, led a large delegation of supporters to the Wadata House national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to purchase the governorship nomination and expression of interest form for Lamido.
The National Financial Secretary, Daniel Woyengikoro, said in a statement that he handed the forms, electoral guidelines, party constitution, timetable and the list of documents required for screening to Dr. Nuruddeen.
His father was a two-term governor of Jigawa state and was appointed as Foreign Affairs Minister by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999.
In 2015 Lamido and his two sons were briefly jailed after being arrested and tried for allegedly arranging for contracts to be placed by companies that they controlled. Lamido, however, blamed this on his enemies.
