By Aliyu Dangida
Plans are on the pipelines, as reconcilation process has gone far to restore the relationship between the former Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido and his erstwhile influential Chief of staff, Alhaji Aminu Ibrahim Ringim.
Hotpen authoritatively gathered that ahead of the 2023 gubernatorial election, and to pave way for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to reclaim power, the former vice president and presidential candidate of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is working round the clock with various stakeholders to impressed on feuding leaders to sheath their swords in the interest of the party.
It was further learnt that, series of meeting was held between representatives of Alhaji Sule Lamido and Alhaji Aminu Ringim aimed at bringing to an end the misunderstanding and join forces to defeat the ruling party APC in the fourth coming gubernatorial election.
Though, the feuding political associates
pretended all is well with their relationship, but it remain an open secret the two share same political ideology centred on emancipation of the downtrodden.
Aminu Ringim, the gubernatorial candidate of NNPP in Jigawa state, hold the record of the longest serving Chief of Staff, an influential power broker who contested the gubernatorial elections twice but lost to the incumbent governor, Muhammad Badaru Abubakar in 2015, and 219 General elections.
Ringim, a grassroot politician believed to be ahead of its peers has in the previous past aided electoral success of several candidates in the state, but remained on record that he has never won election in his Marawa polling unit.
It was among these reasons, the Jigawa PDP and other stakeholders deemed it necessary to bring Ringim back to PDP as the only way for the party to reclaim power, many chieftains were said to have visited Ringim seeking for his support to come.back home but to no avail.
It was in this regards, the party seeks for the former VP Atiku Abubakar’s intervention to persuade Ringim to sheath his sword to come back home and join forces inorder to give APC surprise in the 2023 Jigawa gubernatorial election.
People have sets their eyes to see if the ongoing reconcilation will yield positive impact, then the ruling APC in Jigawa state will have to redoubled it’s efforts and adopt other strategies to battle the PDP in the fourth coming general elections.