2015 GATHERS MOMENTUM ACROSS THE LAND! 2015 ELECTION : STATE GOVERNOR AND SENATOR IN BATTLE ROYALE. A battle of political supremacy rages between the two prominent sons of the Eastern Senatorial District of Niger State. Babangida Aliyu, the state governor, who will complete his constitutionally approved second-term in office, and Dahiru Kuta, the senator representing the district in the Senate, are battling each other over who would occupy the seat in the upper legislative chamber from May 2015. Although Governor Aliyu, who is Chairman of the Northern State Governors Forum, NSGF, has not publicly proclaimed his desire to occupy the seat, it is believed he will spend his immediate political future in the upper house. The governor’s intention to contest the senatorial election is allegedly because his presidential ambition is clashing with that of President Goodluck Jonathan, who is also yet to formally announce his plan to re-contest. The apparent realisation by Governor Aliyu that it would be almost impossible to secure the PDP presidential ticket has reportedly led him to eye the senatorial seat of the district. Senator Kuta, who is spending his sixth year in the Senate, has cried out over the governor’s alleged intimidation and vowed never to yield the seat to Mr. Aliyu, who also belongs to the PDP as him. In a fit of anger, the senator told journalists recently that no political machinations by Governor Aliyu would frustrate him from seeking the mandate of his people to return to the upper house for the third time come 2015. “In spite of the political machinations to stop me, nothing will deter me from contesting for re-election in 2015,” he vowed. “I cannot be intimidated by anybody after being in politics for 32 years. There is nothing that I have not seen. I have been in politics for long and for that, I cannot be intimidated by anybody not only in Niger but in this country.” Dis na Naija, dis na NaijaPings, dis na we own. Gbam! NaijaPings.
Posted on: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:19:11 +0000
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