Vice presidential candidate can’t speak English

The vice-presidential candidate of the United National Party Development, Alhaji Galadima Samari, stunned those present at the debate organised by the Nigeria Election Debate Group for vice presidential candidates of some political parties, in Abuja on Monday as he used an interpreter to convey his message. Samari was among those slated to speak at the first batch of the debate organised for the vice presidential candidates of four political parties. Others are the vice presidential candidate of the Mega Progressive Peoples Party, Alhaji Rasheed Shitta-Bey; Alhaji Lawal Kasimu Funtua(Social Democratic Mega Party) and Mr. Gabriel Ogbonna of the National Transformation Party. When he arrived, Samari had told the organisers of the event that he would need an interpreter, which they (the organisers) had considered a joke. But when it was time to go on stage, Samari, who spoke only in Hausa language, insisted that he would not go on the stage unless his request was granted. It was at this stage that the organisers knew that the vice-presidential candidate meant business. Before granting him his request, the organisers had to arrange for where the interpreter would sit so as not to affect the sitting arrangement already put in place. By Olusola Fabiyi and Olamileka Lartey, Abuja Courtesy Of: Punch