2015: Sambo sues for peace among politicians, electorate

By Lawrence Olaoye

The Vice President, Arc Mohammed Namadi Sambo, has called on both politicians and the electorates to conduct themselves peacefully at the oncoming 2015 general elections.

According to a statement signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Umar Sanni, the Vice President made this appeal on Saturday in Kaduna at his PDP Kabala Ward 05, Ward Congress, which held at Kabala Primary School in Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

Sambo, who commended stakeholders for the peaceful conduct of the congress, congratulated the three elected delegates from the ward. Vice President Sambo based on the PDP constitution is an automatic delegate.

Expressing optimism that the PDP would be victorious across the country in the 2015 general elections, he said “this is the beginning of our journey to be able to select our candidates for the forthcoming 2015 general elections. I want to seize this opportunity to thank all members of the PDP in my Ward, and indeed Kaduna North Local Government and the State in general.

I will also seize the opportunity to again call on all of us both PDP and other parties to have a peaceful and successful elections and Insha Allah PDP will emerge victorious,” he added.

The Vice President reaffirmed his commitment to the development of the ward, the Kaduna North LGA, Kaduna State and indeed the country in general.

Earlier the Vice President received an opposition stalwart and a renowned farmer in the ward, Alhaji Amadi, who decamped to the PDP with over 500 members.

Speaking earlier a strong member of the party in the ward and also the Kaduna State Commissioner for Local Government, Alhaji Shehu Ahmed Giant, lauded the numerous empowerment and developmental programmes of the Vice President in the ward, while also pledging the unalloyed support of the members of the party in the ward to the President and the Vice President.

He thanked the Vice President for appointing sons of the Kaduna North Local Government into top position in government, among who are Mallam Umar Sani, his senior special assistant on media and publicity, Dr. Baba as his senior aide on information technology and also Alhaji Abdullahi Mukhtar, Director Operations at the National Hajj Commission, etc.