Indications have emerged
that Vice President, Namadi Sambo is currently having sleepless nights over
reported pressures on President Goodluck Jonathan to dump him as running mate
in the 2015 presidential election.
Local media reported on
Sunday that President Jonathan’s strategists have suggested that the Vice
President be dropped for one of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP governors in
the North-West , as a strategy of wining the heart of the three Northern
regions.
The report had it that
Jonathan’s analysts submitted a comprehensive assessment of Sambo, in which he
is assumed to be “politically light, with no electoral value or strong base”,
that can possibly boost Jonathan’s 2015 Project.
According to a reliable
source in the Presidency, Jonathan may pick any of the capable PDP governors as
his running mate, except the new Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero.
The source disclosed that
Jonathan’s main headache about Sambo is his failure to organize a strong
political base in his home state of Kaduna and the North, given his serial
electoral fall out in previous elections.
It was gathered that
Sambo has been pleading with prominent politicians such as President Olusegun
Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida and other notable northerners to come to
his aid.
His spokesman and
political adviser, Umar Sani and Abba Dabo, are said to be in big fear over the
seriuos challenge confronting their boss.
The source added that
others, such as Senator Isaiah Balat, have lost out in the volatile politics of
Southern Kaduna where there is a serious feud between the youth and the elite.
As Jonathan’s strategists
have affirmed in their match-plan, the Minister of Environment, Hajiya Hadiza
Mailafiya, also lacks strong base in Kaduna state.
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