A political source in Abuja says that Vice President Namadi Sambo has personally kick-started the 2015 election campaign for governor of Kaduna State on behalf of his political god-son, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero.
A political source in Abuja says that Vice President Namadi Sambo has personally kick-started the 2015 election campaign for governor of Kaduna State on behalf of his political god-son, Mukhtar Ramalan Yero.
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The source told SaharaReporters that Sambo has set up a team which has already commenced consultations and strategizing with the objective of ensuring that all opposition is neutralized for the election of Yero in 2015. The new governor took over when the substantive governor, Patrick Yakowa, died in a helicopter crash towards the end of 2012.
The Vice President and his team are said to have identified Southern Kaduna as their main political problem and are in consultation on overcoming, the opposition coming out of the troubled area, where late Yakowa hailed from, and they have been holding series of meetings and consultations with youth leaders, elite, religious and traditional leaders on the need to support his god-son governor.
Yero succeed late Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, on 16th December 2012, who perished in a plane crash with former National Security Adviser, General Andrew Azazi and four others.
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Sambo, it was further gathered has instructed that a campaign office, used in Kaduna State for Jonathan-Sambo elections in 2011 be re-open to serve as a visible link for Yero’s election purposes and as well other political interest of his in the state.
The source further said that the re-opened office in Kaduna town has been a rallying point of all Sambo’s remaining pundits in the state, where they have been holding series of meetings and expanding their network.
Another credible source in the Presidency in Abuja confirmed that Sambo has practically been running Kaduna, through Yero, because of his immense influence over the governor. Yero previously worked for Sambo as an accountant for about 10 years in his private construction company.
"Sambo has been guiding him (Yero) on how to play safe and get it right ahead of 2015, you will agree that Yero is doing well and has been active without delaying serious execution [of projects] that were delayed by the former governor. He just commissioned vehicles for security outfit "Operation Yaki" and many other projects, all these strides are getting him endeared in the hearts of the people. And all from Sambo", he said.
A SaharaReporters team that passed through Kaduna town from Birnin Gwari, on their way back to Abuja on Monday morning confirmed that it saw an office adorned with two big bill board photographs of President Goodluck Jonathan, Vice President Namadi Sambo and Yero. It is supposedly a campaign office, and there were signs of political activity going on in the place.
When our team approached the gate, a security operative refused them entry on realizing they are investigative journalists, leaving them only with the photographs they took outside the offices.
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