Vice
President Namadi Sambo has assured President Goodluck Jonathan that he
would deliver over two million votes to him in Kaduna, his home state,
in the 2015 presidential election. This was contained in a statement by
the VP’s media aide, Umar Sani, on Monday.
According to the
statement, Sambo gave the assurance while speaking during a meeting of
the Kaduna chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, held at the
General Hassan Usman Katsina
House, Kawo, Kaduna. The statement quoted
the vice president as saying that he would deliver the votes due to the
“overwhelming support the PDP enjoys in the state”. Sambo also boasted that all PDP candidates contesting for various positions in the state would emerge victorious come 2015.
“Kaduna
State PDP is the same and one strong family, and I am happy for the
promise they have kept and for the promise they have made to us, that
Insha Allah, PDP is Kaduna State and Kaduna State is PDP, and PDP will
win the elections come 2015.
“It is only PDP today in Nigeria that
has its presence in the state, local government, ward and polling unit
level. This representation is full and strong all over the federation”, the statement quoted the Vice President.
Sambo added:
“We
believe that there are no losers, no winners and no vanquished and
everybody will be carried along. Everyone of our party member that
participated in our primary agrees that it is only one person that can
be a winner and they have agreed to cooperate and work together”.Meanwhile,
Sambo on Monday collected his Permanent Voter Card with a call to
Nigerians to conduct themselves peacefully during and after the 2015
elections.
He collected his PVC at the INEC Distribution Centre
located at the Kaduna North Local Government Secretariat, Magajin Gari,
Kaduna.
The vice president was accompanied to the INEC office by the
Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Ramalan Yero, and they were received by
the State INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Haliru Aliyu
Tambuwal.
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