{"id":1120,"date":"2014-09-01T06:25:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T06:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2014-09-01T06:25:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T06:25:41","slug":"tambuwal-lamido-absent-as-nwest-pdp-endorses-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Tambuwal, Lamido absent as N\u2019West PDP endorses Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Peoples Democratic Party in the North-West\u00a0\u00a0 has endorsed President Gooduck Jonathan\u00a0\u00a0 for the 2015 Presidency.<\/p>\n

At an expanded\u00a0\u00a0 stakeholders\u2019 meeting at the late Gen. Hassan Katsina Hall, Kawo in Kaduna, the leadership and members of the party in the zone said\u00a0\u00a0 Jonathan should\u00a0\u00a0 \u201csurrender himself for the continued service to the nation\u201d in 2015.<\/p>\n

But some key\u00a0\u00a0 members of the PDP from the zone \u2013 the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal;\u00a0\u00a0 Governor Sule Lamido (Jigawa); his Katsina counterpart, Shehu Shema; and the Minister of Education , Ibrahim Shekarau were absent from the meeting.<\/p>\n

No reason was given for their action. A source\u00a0\u00a0 said the absence of\u00a0\u00a0 Lamido\u00a0\u00a0 might not be unconnected with his rumoured presidential ambition.<\/p>\n

Shema is believed to be interested in\u00a0\u00a0 unseating Vice President Namadi Sambo.<\/p>\n

At the meeting\u00a0\u00a0 however were the National Chairman of the PDP, Adamu Mu\u2019azu; the National Oganising Secretary,\u00a0\u00a0 Abubabkar Mustapha; the zonal Chairman, Amb. Adamu Kazaure; the Deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Mukhtar Shagari; and Maj-Gen. Mohammed Magaro (retd); among others.<\/p>\n

Mu\u2019azu, in his address, said\u00a0\u00a0 the PDP which is as \u201cconstant as the northern star,\u201d remained a party to beat and urged members\u00a0\u00a0 to be united so as to deliver the zone in 2015.<\/p>\n

Kebbi State Governor Usman Dankingari also\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 said his colleagues would ensure that\u00a0\u00a0 the zone\u00a0\u00a0 was delivered to the PDP in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe zone which is the most sophisticated and populous and other parts of the North will be delivered to the party in 2015,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, who read a communique issued at the end of the meeting, said Jonathan had done a lot to deserve a second term from the people of the zone.<\/p>\n

Wali,who said\u00a0\u00a0 the PDP remained a party to beat under Jonathan, noted\u00a0\u00a0 that Nigeria had recorded landmark achievements in all sectors\u00a0\u00a0 under the Jonathan administration.<\/p>\n

He said the zone would remain grateful to the President, especially in terms of infrastructural development,\u00a0\u00a0 good governance and promotion of democracy in the country.<\/p>\n

The communiqu\u00e9 read in part, \u201c Having carefully considered the steady and stable progress of our nation under the able leadership of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, the stakeholders of the PDP in the North-West, having in mind the monumental strides attained by this administration, have resolved to ask Dr.\u00a0\u00a0 Jonathan to declare for the Presidency in the forthcoming 2015 elections so as to continue the good works he started. We ask for nothing less.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, we respectfully call on the national chairman of our party to convey this resolution and unanimous declaration of the entire leadership and membership of the PDP in the North-West to His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, to surrender himself for the continued service to the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Peoples Democratic Party in the North-West\u00a0\u00a0 has endorsed President Gooduck Jonathan\u00a0\u00a0 for the 2015 Presidency. At an expanded\u00a0\u00a0 stakeholders\u2019 meeting at the late Gen. Hassan Katsina Hall, Kawo in Kaduna, the leadership and members of the party in the zone said\u00a0\u00a0 Jonathan should\u00a0\u00a0 \u201csurrender himself for the continued service to the nation\u201d in 2015. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Tambuwal-and-Jonathan-360x225.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-i4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}