‘No vacancy in Aso Rock'

Former chairman of the board of trustees of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Tony Anenih, on Monday, advised all presidential aspirants to forget such ambition, saying that there is no vacancy in the presidency, even as preparations for the presidential primaries of the party gathers momentum.

Mr. Anenih, who spoke in Benin at the opening of the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation in Benin City, insisted that President Goodluck Jonathan remains Nigeria's consensus candidate for the election.

"We know that there is the Adamu Ciroma consensus candidate. We also know that there is a Nigerian consensus candidate and for that reason, there is no vacancy in Aso Rock. I don't waste my words, but we should prepare not only for the primaries, but for the general election to elect Goodluck Jonathan as president and Namadi Sambo as vice president," Mr. Anenih stated.

Speaking in the same vein, the director general of Jonathan/Sambo campaign organisation, Dahlatu Tafida, corroborated Mr. Anenih's comments, saying, "it is evident that there is no vacancy in every state we have visited. This is because we trying to sell a national product (Jonathan) and not a local product."

Mr. Tafida told the mammoth crowd at the ceremony that Edo State was the 27th state his organisation has so far visited, just as he called on warring PDP members of the state to close ranks and forge a common front to dislodge their opponent from the Edo State Government House.

Edo State coordinator of the campaign organisation and former deputy governor of the state, Lucky Imasuen, said the support for Jonathan was as a result of his ability to deliver democracy dividends to the people.

The event was witnessed by the deputy governor of Cross River State; a representative of the acting governor of Delta State; PDP senators, House of Representatives members, and PDP chairman in the state, Dan Orbih, amongst others.