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2015 POLLS: Nigerian President Jonathan To Decide Vice President Sambo’s Fate –PDP

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Nation­al Working Com­mittee has reacted to insinuations that Vice President, Namadi Sambo, was not covered by its proc­lamation of automatic ticket for President Goodluck Jon­athan.
At the meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee last Thursday, President Jona­than was adopted as the sole candidate for its 2015 presiden­tial ticket.

There has been disquiet in Sambo’s camp as the commu­niqué by PDP NEC adopting Jonathan as the sole candidate was silent on the vice president.

A communiqué issued by PDP Governors’ Forum last Wednesday and presented to newsmen by Akwa Ibom State Governor and the forum’s Chairman, Godswill Akpabio, read in part: “The forum hereby endorses Dr Goodluck Jona­than, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for a sec­ond term in office and resolved to support his bid for re-election in 2015.

“The forum urges all PDP faithful to support this gesture which should enable the presi­dent to become the sole presi­dential candidate of the PDP in 2015.”

Checks by Daily Sun re­vealed that Katsina State Gov­ernor, Ibrahim Shema, was be­ing touted as replacement for Sambo.

Reacting yesterday at a press briefing in Abuja, National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, admonished jour­nalists to exercise patience and wait for Jonathan’s formal dec­laration.

“I believe a lot of people are trying to insinuate. Why don’t you try and wait till the presi­dent declares? PDP has said it is a winning team and there is no reason to create disaffection.

“The vice president has shown himself to be the most loyal vice president in the his­tory of this country. It is not in doubt that he will contest with President Jonathan,” he said.

Metuh told newsmen that despite the adoption of the pres­ident as the sole candidate, the presidential convention of the party would hold as scheduled on December 6.

He, however, said no re­sponsible member of the party would seek the presidential ticket after the PDP NEC had adopted Jonathan.

“Our convention will hold. The PDP has adopted Jonathan and we believe that all respon­sible and respectable party members will comply with the decision of NEC,” he said.

The publicity scribe justified Jonathan’s sole candidacy on what he called the latter’s per­formance in office.



Source: The Nation

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