Nigeria, Aug. 6 -- Former Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido has said he remains in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but is willing to throw his weight behind any arrangement to remove the All Progressives Congress (APC), which he likened to cancer, from power in 2027.

"We must remove this cancer called APC, which we can call malaria, cancer level 4. APC is our problem. We must remove that corruption, which has become a cancer in Nigeria. And it has to be excised out," Mr Lamido said during an interview on Arise News Television's Prime Time programme on Tuesday.

Although he expressed reservations about the African Democratic Congress (ADC)-led coalition as currently constituted, he said, "I'm not inside, but then, I'm willing to suppor...