VP Sambo urges peaceful 2015 polls conduct

Kaduna (Office of the Vice President Report) – Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has on Saturday November1, 2014 at his PDP Kabala Ward 05, Ward Congress which held at the Kabala Primary School in Kaduna North Local Government Area of Kaduna State appealed to politicians and electorates to exercise peaceful conduct of the 2015 general elections. 

Namadi Sambo commended stakeholders for the peaceful conduct of the congress as well as congratulated the three elected delegates from the ward; saying based on the PDP Constitution their entrustment was automatic. He mentioned that while the party was holding its ward congresses all over the country on that day, he was optimistic that the PDP would be victorious across the country in the 2015 general elections. According to him, this is the beginning of the journey to the selection of 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 also seize the opportunity to call on all, both PDP and other parties to have a peaceful and successful elections and Insha – Allah PDP will emerge victorious,” he said.   

The Vice President reaffirmed his commitment to the development of the ward, the Kaduna North LGA, Kaduna State and the entire country. Preceding the talk was the welcoming of an opposition stalwart and 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, Shehu Ahmed Giant lauded the numerous empowerment and development programmes of the Vice President in the ward. He also pledged 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 positions in government, among who are his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Umar Sani; his Senior Aide on Information Technology, Baba (Dr) and the Director of Operations at the National Hajj Commission, Abdullahi Mukhtar. 

Shehu Ahmed Giant noted that the PDP Kabala Ward 05 delegates, who were chosen based on the Party’s rules that one must be a female comprised: Husaini Baba, Ahmad Umar Jigo as well as Karimatu Isang. 

The event was witnessed by observers from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The Vice President, Namadi Sambo was accompanied to the event by the Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Nuhu Audu Bajoja. Also present at the event were Husaini Jalo (Alhaji) and Musa Bello (Senator) including the ward party Chairman, Samaila Mai Raleigh (Alhaji) among other party stalwarts.