By ROMANUS UGWU, Abuja
■ Northern youths protest move against VP
Northern youths under the auspices of Youth Development Transformation and Sustenance Peace in Nigeria (YODETSIN), have expressed disappointment over an alleged plot to drop Mohammed Namadi Sambo as vice president in the 2015 presidential election, warning that they would do everything to resist such.
Deputy National Leader, YODETSIN, Engineer Ayuba Michael Auta, who made the disclosure in a chat with journalists in Abuja, lament
ed that followers of the vice president had noticed with dismay advertorials by some organisations celebrating only President Jonathan, excluding Sambo and fuelling the fear of a plot to drop him in 2015.
While urging politicians of northern extraction to shelve their presidential ambition, the group however, warned against dropping Sambo, stressing that such might threaten President Jonathan’s planned return in 2015.
According to the NGO: “We have seen the hostility from the northern part of the country against Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency in 2015, but we have taken it as our responsibility to educate the northern youths that such opposition is borne out of selfishness.
“However, we have also noticed in many of the advertorials campaigning for the continuation of this administration in 2015 by many NGOs, projecting only President Jonathan without including the vice president, Namadi Sambo.
“The northerners are complaining that the persistent and deliberate exclusion of Sambo may be a confirmation of the plot to drop him as vice in 2015.”
It said further: “We want to make it clear that the followers of the vice president are not happy with the way the 2015 presidential election campaign, projecting only President Jonathan is going.
“There is this feeling that Jonathan maybe hatching secret agenda to scheme out Sambo and replace him with another northerner.
“We have visited virtually every part of northern Nigeria and I can tell you that the feelings are the same. Many of them are willing and have even indicated interest to vote for Jonathan in 2015 despite the insecurity in that part of the country, but on the condition that he retains Namadi Sambo.”
