The National Unity Project (NUP), which is a group dedicated to the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 has made a startling revelation that the group of five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s governors of northern extraction known as G5, which has been traversing the landscape of Nigeria are not actually opposed to the Jonathan being returned as President in the nextgeneral elections but are mainly interested in replacing Namadi Sambo as the Vice President.
This was disclosed yesterday by the Convener, Mr. Igwekala Ugomaduefule, who charged journalists to expose the real motives of the five governors in the seeming opposition
to the President’s second term ambition.
Ugomaduefule said the G5 that includes Governors Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State, Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto state, SulehLamido of Jigawa State, Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and MurtalaNyako of Adamawa had two missions, which were for one of them to become Jonathan’s running mate and to mount pressure on him to make mistakes.
He however, advised the warring governors to perish that idea because according to him; “there is no vacancy for the position of the Vice President” or any chances of the Jonathan replacing Sambo as his running mate.
He noted that since the first Republic, no democratically elected Nigerian President had abandoned their Vice President as running mate during their second term bid, and that Jonathan must not be pressured to make such mistakes.
His words: “I want to say that the so called four or five governors touring the nation in the name of Northern President or whatever is a ruse. There real missions are two; one they are seeking for the office of the Vice President, which I am here to tell you that it is not vacant. It can never be vacant because it has never happened in the country.
From the time of Tafawa Abubakar Belewa as the prime minister to the present, none of them has ever abandoned their vice presidents as running mate, it has never happened.
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