Immediate past governor of Jigawa State, Dr. Sule
Lamido, has said that those who masterminded his recent
incarceration wanted to humiliate and crush him.
Sule,
who
spoke
exclusively to Sunday Vanguard in Kano, said that his
travails over alleged money-related crime had rather
emboldened than break his spirit and resolve to be involved in
the Nigerian project.
According to him, though the main goal of his traducers was
to humiliate, destroy and crush him, he had decided to forge
ahead in the strong belief that a leader must pass through
good and tough times in the course of service.
He, however, admitted that the joy of leaving office and
settling down with his family was temporarily shattered by
the trauma of seeing himself and his two sons in prison.
Asked what he told his two sons in prison, Sule said he made
them to realize that he was a governor and that there would
be people who might not be happy with him and would be
going after them.
Lamido said: “I told my two sons that ‘don’t forget that your
father was a governor and that there are people who do not
like me and they will go after me”.
When asked if he felt bad about the treatment,the former
governor fired back: “It is not my problem; it is their own
problem. I am not worried about what happened to me. I am
a Muslim; it is part of my faith. The purpose was to
humiliate, destroy and crush me and my two sons.”
Prodded on what his children said to him when they found
themselves in prison, Sule went biblical, saying: “We have a
very strong bond and understanding and, as they say,
children are gifts from God and, therefore, a gift from God
is more than anything to me.
“You cannot rewrite what God has ordained. God has set
destinies for all his children and, as such, no one can take the
place of another. But God will test His servants with some
difficulties to see whether they appreciate His mercies. So,
to me, what happened was just a test and, with Allah, I will
go through it”.
The former governor, who sounded defiant, said he had
resolved to work ever harder to help make Nigeria a better
country but did not elaborate on what he was going to do to
bring about a better society.
Lamido and his two sons had been arraigned by the EFCC
over allegations they accepted N1.3 billion gratification from
a contractor who had completed a N13 billion road project the
governor awarded the Nigerian firm.
After appearing in a Kano Federal High Court with his
two sons, the judge remanded them in prison until five days
after when another jurist in Abuja admitted them to bail.
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