NIGERIA (Kano)- Former Kano State Governor and Presidential Candidate of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party in the 2011 general election, Ibrahim Shekarau, has expressed his readiness to join the campaign team of President Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 general election.

He said this shortly after meeting with Vice President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday.

“I am prepared to campaign for the PDP. And whoever turns out to be the candidate of PDP at any level is my candidate,” he said.

Shekarau who recently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the All Progressives Congress (APC) said the ruling party at the Federal level is still a strong force of reckoning despite the defection of Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to the APC.

 “His (Kwakwanso’s) defection cannot kill PDP. Those current with situation on ground knew that the governor of Kano had long before now been out of PDP. What he is running is Kwankwasiya, a cultism kind of a group,” he said.

“PDP has always been there, so what we are doing is we are now joining PDP and his group has gone into APC. We shall see whether we are the ones on ground or the Kwankwasiya APC.

“We checked out from the APC when we discovered that some of the principal actors in the merger did not mean well,” he said.

Shekarau said he paid a familiarization visit to the Vice President so as to rub minds together on how PDP can move forward.

 “It was not a special meeting. It was a continuation of rubbing of mind. I am now part and parcel of the PDP family, I will always be meeting with one party functionary or the other to continue to rob minds on how we will move the party and the nation forward.

“I have always argued that these parties are one and the same. It is all about Nigeria and Nigerians,” he said.

”It is all about what we do to move the nation forward. Everybody is talking about serving Nigerians. We are all heading to the same destination; the only difference is that we are taking different routes.”

“As far as I am concerned, I am just continuing to make myself available to serve humanity regardless of the platform,” he said.