AHEAD of next month’s general elections, Governor Ali Modu Sheriff of Borno State yesterday directed 17 commissioners and 33 special aides to move into their respective constituencies for the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) “ward to ward and house to house” electioneering campaigns, so that the opposition party, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) does not win majority votes in any of the 3,933 polling units.
Sheriff gave the directive at the Maiduguri Government House while addressing ANPP supporters, gubernatorial candidate, Kashim Shettima; and other top government officials on PDP’s threats of sweeping the polls.
He said: “We are not taking the PDP’s popularity among the electorate for granted, because ours is to embark on massive electioneering campaigns to the door steps of people living at the grassroots. The votes are there with the electorate and not in the cities like Maiduguri.”
The remaining days to elections, he said, are to be fully utilized to win votes in all the wards “before the opposition party could take us by surprise when the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announces the election results.”
To this end, he said no commissioner with the exception of the ones for Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC) and Jere councils, are to be found wanting or loitering without heeding to the directives on ANPP “ward to ward and house to house” intensive electioneering campaigns in all the 25 council areas of the state.
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Sheriff Mobilizes Commissioners, Aides For House To House Campaigns