Sule Lamido was born on (30 August 1948) served as Foreign Affairs Minister of

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from 1999 to 2003. He was elected governor of

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in April 2007. He is a member of the former ruling

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(PDP). He ran successfully for reelection on 26 April 2011. In 2015 he and his sons were put on trial for embezzling state fund by the EFCC.

Early career

Lamido was born on 30 August 1948 in Bamaina,

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Local Government Area of

. Lamido entered politics as a member of the left-of-center

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(PRP) in the

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. He became National Secretary of the

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during the

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, where he received criticism for his handling of the June 12, 1993 presidential elections won by

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, who was prevented from taking office. When the military ruler General

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announced his plan to return to democracy, Lamido was a founding member of the Social Progressive Party, and was National Secretary of the new party. He was imprisoned in 1998 by Abacha for criticising Abacha’s plan to perpetuate himself in office. After Abacha's unexpected death in June 1998, General

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announced a revised transition strategy and new parties were formed to contest the 1999 elections. Lamido became a member of the PDP. He ran for Governor of Jigawa State in the 1999 elections at the start of the

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, but was defeated by the All People's Party (APP) candidate

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Foreign minister

President

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appointed Lamido Foreign Minister in June 1999, causing friction with Lamido's patron Abubakar Rimi who had been turned down as Obasanjo's Vice-Presidential partner and was lobbying for the Foreign Minister job. Tensions between Lamido and Rimi lingered on. In December 2003 the two disagreed over the choice of chairman of a committee to investigate the zonal chairman of the party, with the argument degenerating into what one delegate described as "unseeming behavior". In October 2006, Lamido described Rimi as "a contradiction of his political past". However, during a courtesy visit to Rimi in December 2007 Lamido described him as a major factor that cannot be ignored in Nigerian politics. In January 2001, Nigeria turned over the Chairmanship of

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. Speaking at the hand-over ceremony, Lamido gave an enthusiastic account of G77 progress under Nigeria's leadership. Delegates from other countries agreed that much had been achieved. After a September 2001 meeting with British Prime Minister

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in London, Lamido told the

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...

Later career

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Saminu Turaki

After the election, his predecessor Saminu Turaki was arraigned for alleged financial mismanagement and initially found it hard to get sureties required to secure his bail. He accused Lamido of intimidating Jigawa leaders not to stand as sureties. Lamido denied the allegations. In June 2007, Lamido accused new generation banks of helping state governors to loot their treasuries, and called for tighter regulations. In July 2007, Lamido announced plans to spend N2 billion in the next six months on education, using the money to rebuild schools and provide basic teaching materials. The state also invested N450 million naira for training teachers teaching core courses in junior secondary schools. He initiated major construction programs, led by the Dutse Capital Development Authority and the Jigawa State Housing Authority. In September 2009, Lamido offered to provide free plots of land and basic infrastructure to investors in the tourism and hospitality business in Jigawa State. In December 2009, Lamido announced a plan by which beggars would be given a basic monthly payment to stay off the streets. In December 2009, it was reported that Olusegun Obasanjo had started to lobby for Lamido to be the PDP's vice presidential candidate in the 2011 elections. Lamido ran successfully for reelection on 26 April 2011. He polled 676,307 votes, with runner-up Badaru Abubakar of the

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(ACN) scoring 343,177 votes. In 2015 Lamido and his two sons were briefly jailed after being arrested and tried for allegedly arranging for contracts to be placed by companies that they controlled. Lamido blamed this on his enemies.My prison experience
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for the success of his presidential campaign but was foiled by the police citing security reasons. The prayer was organised by Jigawa State students on foreign scholarships awarded by Lamido when he was governor of the state. Lamido was one of the 12 candidates that ran for the PDP presidential nomination in November 2018. Other contenders were former Vice President,

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(Adamawa State), Ibrahim Dankwabo (Yobe State) same north eastern province as Lamido. This was a major challenge for Lamido because delegate votes from the region would be split among the candidates from here. Ahead of the party's primary, Atiku Abubakar asked Lamido to withdraw from the race and support him but Lamido refused saying he is a senior to Atiku. Others were

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, Dati Baba-Ahmed,

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and Ahmed Makarfi. In the PDP presidential primary conducted 6 October 2018, Lamido scored 96 votes placing distant 6th behind Atiku Abubakar who scored 1,532 thus winning the party's nomination.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamido, Sule 1948 births Living people Nigerian Muslims People from Jigawa State Governors of Jigawa State Foreign ministers of Nigeria Peoples Democratic Party state governors of Nigeria

Early career

Foreign minister

Later career

See also

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