2015: SAMBO LAUNCHES COMEBACK BID

Open Campaign Office in Kaduna

There is now some glimmer of hope for Vice- President Namadi Sambo that he would be picked as running mate to President Goodluck Jonathan if the President chooses to run in 2015.

Before now, there was a rumour that the V-P could be dropped for not delivering his constituencies in the 2011 presidential elections.

Over the weekend in Kaduna, however, the state governor, Alhaji Murktar Yero and Vice President Namadi Sambo jointly launched a new secretariat for the Goodluck/Sambo Presidential campaigns, thus reinforcing belief that Sambo would run again with Jonathan. The office is located near NEPA Roundabout in Kaduna city.

The newly renovated campaign office was formerly the late Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa’s 2011 gubernatorial campaign office. But recently, after Yakowa’s death, the state government re-opened the office for the Jonathan/ Sambo campaigns.

Sunday Mirror gathered that the campaign office, apart from being used for series of political meetings has also been witnessing an influx of northern interest groups on daily basis.

The meetings, it was learnt, were intended for grassroots mobilisations. While the Jonathan/ Sambo office buzzes with activities however, the office of the state’s chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, located behind Nigeria Defence Academy, NDA, old Campus Junction, Unguwan Sarki, remain usually deserted as only occasional meeting by the party officials are held there.

Vice President Sambo who is battling to retain his position in 2015 is working hard against the backdrop of a rumour that he could be dropped as the President’s running mate.

The joint campaign office is seen as a morale booster for Sambo having lost his polling unit, ward, senatorial zone and state presidential polls to Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in the 2011 polls.

This was also lent credence during Kaduna State University maiden convocation held yesterday when the campaign office picked up full political activities with the influx of thousands of politicians trooping in to pay solidarity to Vice-President Sambo who attended the event in Kaduna.

Source: National Mirror