RIPPLES NIGERIA
Former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido has lent his voice to the criticism that has continued to pour on some Northern governors following their recent trip to the United States of America to attend a symposium on insecurity organized by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).
Lamido, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who expressed his disappointment with the governors for abandoning the mounting insecurity in their region and electing to travel to the US for the summit, said it was an embarrassment to Nigeria as well as a display of ignorance on the part of the governors to attend the summit when their region was in the grip of terrorism and terrorists.
In a post on his official Facebook page on Sunday titled ‘Advancing our shame and embarrassment beyond our frontiers,’ Lamido said the Northern governors’ trip to the US exposed their ignorance of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Our Northern Governors as concerned leaders traveled all the way to the United States of America to attend a lecture at the American Institute for Peace titled ADVANCING STABLITY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA as to find a lasting solution to the intractable problems of insecurity bedeveling their respective states,” he wrote.
“Their concern, commendable as it were, ended up exposing their ignorance at understanding the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria the very instrument which gave them the legitimacy and the authority to be Governors!
“If the Governors had traveled to the US to engage on how to boost agriculture or health issues or any other pressing local problems listed on the Concurrent List of our Constitution this could be quite understandable!
