{"id":71299,"date":"2025-07-23T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71299"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:19:37","slug":"2027-lamido-debunked-defection-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/23\/2027-lamido-debunked-defection-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Lamido Debunked Defection Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido has dismissed rumours of his defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), describing the party as a \u201csmaller skin\u201d unfit for his political legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists in Kano on Tuesday, Lamido reaffirmed his loyalty to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) despite its internal crises. He said he would support any alliance, within or outside the PDP, that would \u201csecure and save Nigeria\u201d ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still in PDP, even though PDP has some problems, but I cannot renounce my history. I can\u2019t simply walk out of my skin and crawl in flesh and blood and be conferred with a smaller skin called ADC. I cannot,\u201d Lamido said.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that PDP shaped his political journey, having made him Minister of Foreign Affairs and governor of Jigawa State. \u201cSo, I cannot simply renounce my history, my legacy and my heritage and say, \u2018Today I got something new\u2019. I am out of PDP. I will not do that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On the agitation for new states, Lamido said the move would not solve Nigeria\u2019s pressing problems. \u201cWill the creation of new states solve our problems insecurity, poverty, hunger and division between the North and the South? There are more pressing issues than creating additional states,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lamido also reacted to Senator Rabi\u2019u Kwankwaso\u2019s recent visit to President Bola Tinubu, saying the former Kano governor had every right to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; Former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido has dismissed rumours of his defection to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), describing the party as a \u201csmaller skin\u201d unfit for his political legacy. Speaking to journalists in Kano on Tuesday, Lamido reaffirmed his loyalty to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) despite its internal crises. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71301,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71299\/revisions\/71301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}