Namadi Sambo

Supported politically and financially by former governor Ahmed Makarfi and former national Vice-President Namadi Sambo Ashiru has a good chance of unseating El Rufai...

He may also be playing games with the two governors perhaps suggesting to each of them that they could replace the lacklustre Namadi Sambo as Vice-President...

Northern politicians such as Vice-President Mohammed Namadi Sambo and the Niger State Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu as well as most northern governors from the governing People's Democratic Party want change at the top certainly before the next elections in 2015...

In late May Transport Minister Idris Umar said that the project would begin soon and Vice-President Namadi Sambo revealed that the project finance was discussed during President Goodluck Jonthan's 8-12 July trip to China...

David Mark who as Senate President is third in line for the Presidency after Vice-President Namadi Sambo...

We hear a group of Western diplomats met Vice-President Namadi Sambo shortly after the Kano attacks...

Vice-President Namadi Sambo a mild-mannered architect and the most senior northerner in government admitted limits to government power: 'There are no simple solutions to the complex problems' in the north...

Boko Haram targets northern leaders it sees as having aided Jonathan’s rise: Vice-President Namadi Sambo Governors Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and ex-Governor Ibrahim Shekarau...

They razed Vice-President Mohammed Namadi Sambo’s home in Zaria and Emirs’ properties in Katsina Kano and across the north...

Yet in Kaduna from where Vice-President Namadi Sambo hails the CPC appears to have trounced the PDP a worrying sign for Jonathan’s support-base before the presidential vote...