Nigeria: Lamido - PDP Ticket Won't Guarantee Jonathan Second Term

8 July 2013

Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido, at the weekend said President Goodluck Jonathan had more hurdles to scale in realising his yet-to-be declared second term ambition than just clinching the presidential ticket of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Lamido, who is speculated to be nursing a presidential ambition, while fielding questions from journalists at the Jigawa State Government House, Dutse, said the president would have to win the 2015 presidential election to make his ambition a reality, irrespective of the posturing by his supporters who are threatening others over his re-election.

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