Goodluck Jonathan Is Sole Presidential Candidate, Nigeria's Ruling Party insists
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday, returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his expression of interest and nomination forms to c...
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President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday, returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his expression of interest and nomination forms to contest next year’s presidential election.
It came on a day the Chairman of the party, Muazu, insisted that Jonathan is the sole candidate of the PDP in the 2015 presidential election.
This is in spite of expression of interest and nomination forms being purchased by two other aspirants.
Jonathan’s forms were submitted on his behalfat the national secretariat of the party in Abuja by Vice President Namadi Sambo to Muazu.
This indicates that contrary to opinions in some quarters, Jonathan may yet run with Sambo as his running mate.
The president had come under pressure to dump Sambo in favour of other politicians from the North-West, who they argue have more electoral value in the region than the vice president.
During his formal declaration on Tuesday, the president was silent on the fate of Sambo as his running mate as he laid out his achievements in the last three and a half years and where he hopes to take the country to when re-elected.
But some party members were positive on Friday that sending the vice president to submit the forms on his behalf has put paid to speculations over Sambo’s fate on the PDP presidential ticket.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
It came on a day the Chairman of the party, Muazu, insisted that Jonathan is the sole candidate of the PDP in the 2015 presidential election.
This is in spite of expression of interest and nomination forms being purchased by two other aspirants.
Jonathan’s forms were submitted on his behalfat the national secretariat of the party in Abuja by Vice President Namadi Sambo to Muazu.
This indicates that contrary to opinions in some quarters, Jonathan may yet run with Sambo as his running mate.
The president had come under pressure to dump Sambo in favour of other politicians from the North-West, who they argue have more electoral value in the region than the vice president.
During his formal declaration on Tuesday, the president was silent on the fate of Sambo as his running mate as he laid out his achievements in the last three and a half years and where he hopes to take the country to when re-elected.
But some party members were positive on Friday that sending the vice president to submit the forms on his behalf has put paid to speculations over Sambo’s fate on the PDP presidential ticket.
Source: Nigerian Tribune
