Sultan Of Sokoto Reveals He Might Not Vote Ahead Of Next Month's Election

Ahead of the forthcoming elections, the leader of the Muslim caliphate, Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Monday told President Goodluck Jonathan that he might not vote because he had yet to collect his Permanent Voter Card. 

President Jonathan, who was in the Sokoto State in continuation of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential campaign, visited the monarch to seek his blessing. The Sultan said;

“Let us respect people’s wishes; let’s not try to disenfranchise anybody. We have had issues of the Permanent Voter Cards and I want to tell you that even myself, I don’t have a PVC; so, it means I will not vote on February 14.

“So, we have to look for a way out. It is for your government to now look for what to do; how to ensure that all the cards get to the voters before the voting day or in the alternative, find a way out because in any problem, there is a solution.

“We believe you will find solution as regard this very serious hitch facing us because millions of Nigerians seem to be heading towards disenfranchisement and they won’t be able to vote but I have heard comments from the INEC Chairman, we are still waiting for our cards to come.”