GEJ host massive PDP rally in sokoto for Atitu

- Other dignitaries at the event are former deputy governor of Sokoto state, Alhaji Muntari Shagari, chairmen of PDP in the seven states in the zone as well as members of state Houses of Assembly elected on the platform of the PDP and all leaders of the party in the zone

Former president, Goodluck Jonathan and other top members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), joined thousands of supporters on Monday, December 3, in Sokoto for the launch of the northwest zonal campaign of the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar. 

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abubakar was earlier scheduled to arrive Sokoto for the rally at noon, but arrived the city at 2pm and proceeded to the Kangiwa square along with other stalwarts of the party.

Those who came in company of the candidate are officials of the party from the seven states in the northwest comprising Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Jigawa, Katsina, Kano and Kaduna. 

Among the dignitaries present are: former deputy governor of Sokoto state, Alhaji Muntari Shagari, chairmen of PDP in the seven states in the zone as well as members of State Houses of Assembly elected on the platform of the PDP and all leaders of the party in the zone.

Meanwhile, the Buhari Support Organizations (BSO) has boasted that President Muhammadu Buhari would get over 50% of votes cast in the Delta state in the 2019 general elections. 

The Delta state chapter of BSO made the prediction during a meeting of state, local government and ward executives of the group in Asaba. Lauretta Onochie, the special adviser to the president on social media, said the All Progressives Congress (APC) was determined to capture Delta state for the president in 2019.