PDP Convention: Lamido threatens legal action over chairmanship nomination form 

From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja

Former Jigawa State governor, Sule Lamido, has threatened to take a legal action against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) if the party fails to sell nomination form for the national chairmanship position to him.

Lamido, while addressing journalists,  at the Wadata Plaza, on Monday, said he was at party secretariat to obtain nomination form for opposition party’s National Convention scheduled for November 15 and 16, but was told the form was not available at the secretariat.

The Jigawa governor explained that on arrival at the PDP secretariat, he proceeded to the office of National Organizing Secretary, Umar Bature, but it was locked. Lamido that when he eventually saw Bature at the office of the National Secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, both of them said they had no idea  where the form is sold.

According to him, “I went to the office of the National Organizing Secretary, which is normally the office where the forms are sold, and the office was locked. I think it was officially locked, you know, because of his own position. So, I met him with the Secretary of the Party, Senator Samuel Anyanwu. I said, ‘look, I am here to buy the form.’

“Both of them said they had no idea where the forms are, not even how they were printed or the kind of forms they are. They had no idea where they were being sold.

They said, ‘look, we have no idea what is happening about the party nomination, sales of the form, or even how they are printed, or the kind of forms.’ So, I am now stranded.

“So, I found it a little bit weird that the custodian of the system, who is the National Organising Secretary, is also being locked out because I am coming in. So, they may not be able to go into the office.”

Lamido, who added that he was told that the chairman of the National Convention Organizing Committee ( NCOC), Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, was in custody of the nomination forms, queried if he should to Adamawa to obtain the form.

The former governor, while responding to his likely next line of action, in the event that he does not get the nomination form, said ” if  I don’t get the form, I will go to court. Simple.”