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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by Nobody: 1:44pm On Apr 19, 2015
once he jonathan leaves office, his political career and relevance becomes dead.

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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by OrlandoOwoh(m): 1:48pm On Apr 19, 2015
I don't need to be told, Jonathan won't be able to lead the PDP even in Bayelsa State.

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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by Nobody: 1:50pm On Apr 19, 2015
saintneo:


The last statement really cracks me up. It sounds like a dying dinosaur.

the last statement gave the writer up..when I saw it I thought either osun defender or the nation...

the writer couldn't resist the pun..
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by Phinagold(f): 2:09pm On Apr 19, 2015
Biggty:
Oga jona, see where your clulessness has gotten you to. So after may 29th, pdp party structure will be taken from johnathan.

Ameachi must be laughing hard right now
jonathan should b d one laughing at amaechi
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by olaniyanc: 2:15pm On Apr 19, 2015
Acekidc4:
Ok Na

PDP is obliterated and gone for ever. An evil organisation can only be compared to Hitler's Evil Party, in old Germany.
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by IbokUtoroh(m): 2:18pm On Apr 19, 2015
dodoniyi:
•Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom, may now finance party

Fresh woes may be on the way for President Goodluck Jonathan following his ill fated re-election bid.

Most of the governors elected on the platform of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are understood to be plotting to sideline him in their plan to rebuild the party.



The governors, outgoing and surviving, want to chart a new course for the party with them in the driving seat.

But they are also disposed to bringing in as many of those frustrated out by President Jonathan as possible, sources familiar with the development told The Nation in Abuja yesterday.

Barring any alteration of their plan, the governors are expected to go full blast from May 29, hijacking the party’s affairs from President Jonathan whose tenure terminates on that day.

One of those the governors have listed to bring back to the party under the reformation plan is former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who shredded his PDP membership card in the run up to the just concluded presidential election, and publicly campaigned against the President’s return to office for what he termed below par performance.

Also likely to be brought in is the Second Republic Vice President Alex Ekwueme, who engineered the founding of the PDP during the late Gen Sani Abacha regime.

Sources said yesterday that Friday’s public castigation of President Jonathan by Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State for causing the fall of the PDP from power in the elections, was not a co-incidence.

Aliyu who doubles as Chairman, Northern Governors Forum said in Minna that President Jonathan and PDP’s defeat in the elections was caused largely by his failure to keep to the alleged single term agreement he reached with the North on assumption of office.

Besides, the reformation plan is believed to have informed a recent meeting in Dutse, Jigawa State attended by Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa, ex-Governor Orji Uzor Kalu and others.

“Some PDP governors, ex-governors and party leaders have started talking on how to revive the party and restore its glory as a democratic party,” said one source.

“It might involve doing away with the present crop of leaders in the party to restore the PDP to its pre-1999 era. Some of the present leaders of the party have been rated as ‘mere usurpers’ because they have destroyed it.

“One of the issues on the card is how to snatch the party from the grip of President Jonathan who brought in the present National Working Committee (NWC) which failed to sustain the party’s winning streak.



“We will not allow any individual to own the party anymore. Even if you are a former president, you have equal right as any member of the party. This is what has made the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa to survive over the years, including the apartheid period.”

Another source said: “The reformation of PDP might be pioneered by some of the founding fathers of the party like Chief Ekwueme and other members of the Board of Trustees of the party.

“It might involve bringing in on board former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former national chairmen of the party, ex-governors, past elected leaders and others who can help to revitalise the party.

“It is going to be a total overhaul of the party from the grassroots because we realised that we have really lost our goodwill and focus as a national party.”

Alhaji Atiku has repeatedly said he has no intention whatsoever to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the PDP.

He has turned down several overtures from the leadership of the PDP to jump ship including a recent personal visit to his Abuja residence by President Jonathan.

The Nation also gathered that pro-Jonathan forces in the PDP are not prepared to give up.

They are said to have drawn up a revival plan of their own with President Jonathan as the rallying point.

They are looking up to the incoming governors of Akwa Ibom, Delta, Rivers states to bankroll the PDP revival project.

Lagos State was in the original plan but that is no longer possible with the loss of the party’s governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje to the APC candidate, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode .

“Unless these rich states intervene in financing our party, we may not be able to fully recover,” a member of the NWC said.

He added: “You know we have never been in opposition, it will be difficult to survive.”



http://thenationonlineng.net/new/governors-move-to-hijack-pdp-from-jonathan/







chai, the nation!
una can lie o, what shall it profit a media outlet if it LIE to the public n loses its fortune to the dogs?
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by Nobody: 2:21pm On Apr 19, 2015
Pdp is gone with the wind no amount of resorcetation will bring them back.We done with them for now,for at least the next 16 years...
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by mechanics(m): 2:27pm On Apr 19, 2015
Division in their party, so all dis while, dey ave bin using our resources to fund their party, God dey, their days ar numbered.
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by IYANGBALI: 2:36pm On Apr 19, 2015
Baba peace is finished politically but not ogogororically

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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by enkay0525: 2:51pm On Apr 19, 2015
Ibori is heading this plot. If ibori is not on DAT list,it can't work. Nigerians,watch out.

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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by nairaman66(m): 3:06pm On Apr 19, 2015
Abomination of desolation is the motto of the PDP now..
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by Phinagold(f): 4:08pm On Apr 19, 2015
alberto2k:

no worry. . . Jona will rule again in 4040 grin
u dey crase o.....lol
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by betov: 4:32pm On Apr 19, 2015
iykebesbt1:
whatever they want to do, let them do it.. I don't give a bleep.. Thought they said they will rule for 60yrs,oh! They never saw APC coming..

How sweet it will be to see David Mark and Ike Ekweremadu as floor members..Chai.. Politics I ruv u! Now Mark will ve to raise his hand before his voice will be heard in Abuja.. Papa I want to change my course to politics Engineering
like seriously
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by winnieG1(m): 4:47pm On Apr 19, 2015
PDP is dead, the name PDP is a bad brand from the North to the South (even in the South East -I know you may not believe that but it is the reality).the only way to have a tough opposition or wrestle power from APC is for the governors of the remaining PDP States to agree together and jump ship one after the other to another party like Labour Party and then try to merge with other sectional Parties like APGA to create a good will for the newly formed party. I bet you that some of the governors from the Northern States will jump ship from APC when the APC leadership becomes tough on them.

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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by ogene007: 4:54pm On Apr 19, 2015
The nation and punch newspapers have established themselves as masters of gossip journalism, peddling lies, half-truths and propaganda to no avail. They really should be ashamed of themselves.

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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by anwo247: 5:17pm On Apr 19, 2015
There must be something called Anger in APC, that "A" shd represent anger or angry or something like that... I have never seen any person or group of persons that are angry in defeat and victory. ..

what is it that APC want again? You told lies to Nigerians and voted with underage kids and won yet your anger is all over the places.

The day the opposition dies, democracy dies.

Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by free2ryhme: 5:50pm On Apr 19, 2015
dodoniyi:
•Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom, may now finance party

Fresh woes may be on the way for President Goodluck Jonathan following his ill fated re-election bid.

Most of the governors elected on the platform of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are understood to be plotting to sideline him in their plan to rebuild the party.



The governors, outgoing and surviving, want to chart a new course for the party with them in the driving seat.

But they are also disposed to bringing in as many of those frustrated out by President Jonathan as possible, sources familiar with the development told The Nation in Abuja yesterday.

Barring any alteration of their plan, the governors are expected to go full blast from May 29, hijacking the party’s affairs from President Jonathan whose tenure terminates on that day.

One of those the governors have listed to bring back to the party under the reformation plan is former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who shredded his PDP membership card in the run up to the just concluded presidential election, and publicly campaigned against the President’s return to office for what he termed below par performance.

Also likely to be brought in is the Second Republic Vice President Alex Ekwueme, who engineered the founding of the PDP during the late Gen Sani Abacha regime.

Sources said yesterday that Friday’s public castigation of President Jonathan by Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State for causing the fall of the PDP from power in the elections, was not a co-incidence.

Aliyu who doubles as Chairman, Northern Governors Forum said in Minna that President Jonathan and PDP’s defeat in the elections was caused largely by his failure to keep to the alleged single term agreement he reached with the North on assumption of office.

Besides, the reformation plan is believed to have informed a recent meeting in Dutse, Jigawa State attended by Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa, ex-Governor Orji Uzor Kalu and others.

“Some PDP governors, ex-governors and party leaders have started talking on how to revive the party and restore its glory as a democratic party,” said one source.

“It might involve doing away with the present crop of leaders in the party to restore the PDP to its pre-1999 era. Some of the present leaders of the party have been rated as ‘mere usurpers’ because they have destroyed it.

“One of the issues on the card is how to snatch the party from the grip of President Jonathan who brought in the present National Working Committee (NWC) which failed to sustain the party’s winning streak.



“We will not allow any individual to own the party anymore. Even if you are a former president, you have equal right as any member of the party. This is what has made the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa to survive over the years, including the apartheid period.”

Another source said: “The reformation of PDP might be pioneered by some of the founding fathers of the party like Chief Ekwueme and other members of the Board of Trustees of the party.

“It might involve bringing in on board former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former national chairmen of the party, ex-governors, past elected leaders and others who can help to revitalise the party.

“It is going to be a total overhaul of the party from the grassroots because we realised that we have really lost our goodwill and focus as a national party.”

Alhaji Atiku has repeatedly said he has no intention whatsoever to dump the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the PDP.

He has turned down several overtures from the leadership of the PDP to jump ship including a recent personal visit to his Abuja residence by President Jonathan.

The Nation also gathered that pro-Jonathan forces in the PDP are not prepared to give up.

They are said to have drawn up a revival plan of their own with President Jonathan as the rallying point.

They are looking up to the incoming governors of Akwa Ibom, Delta, Rivers states to bankroll the PDP revival project.

Lagos State was in the original plan but that is no longer possible with the loss of the party’s governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje to the APC candidate, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode .

“Unless these rich states intervene in financing our party, we may not be able to fully recover,” a member of the NWC said.

He added: “You know we have never been in opposition, it will be difficult to survive.”



http://thenationonlineng.net/new/governors-move-to-hijack-pdp-from-jonathan/




It is not surprising that people are plotting to hijack the party from Jonathan because even a child born yesterday knows that Ebele does not possess any leadership acumen to tinker even a Town Union talkless a whole country. That was why it was very glaring how quickly his famed Goodluck was easily exposed as nothing but a convolution of leadership failures

All these folks going up and down trying to revive or resuscitate PDP are just deceiving themselves as none of them possess the pedigree and personal integrity needed to galvanise Nigerians

Ekwueme i believe should be tired now and would not want to be disturbed due to old age.....Obasanjo too would not want to cross path with Buhari if he does not want to be probed hence would be content with playing his stateman's role....The rest like Akpabio,Babangida Aliyu,Sule Lamido who has an EFCC case around his and son's neck or even Atiku have all lost whatever remains of their political clout to whip up any propaganda against Buhari at this moment because no one would listen to them

KOWA has a better chance at playing opposition than any resurgent PDP as i do not know of any single individual in PDP who can do what Asiwaju Tinubu did for several years by deploying Men and resources to build an opposition platform which won the hearts of men all over the country and Gen Buhari who is the single most popular Nigerian alive despite not being a Billionaire that can garner votes without distributing any stomach infrastructure

Who is that man in PDP that will rise from his part of the country and people would believe in

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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by alberto2k(m): 5:52pm On Apr 19, 2015
Phinagold:
u dey crase o.....lol
Pheena is that u? shocked
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by eliwa47(m): 6:09pm On Apr 19, 2015
he who laugh last............, eni awi fun, oba je ogbo!, to me pdp has already been hijack, wounded, killed and ready to be buried.
Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by Gbawe: 6:17pm On Apr 19, 2015
Junk report. GEJ himself will not even be interested in remaining active in the PDP beyond May 29th so these lazy journalists should stop using his name to make it sound as if the PDP is not a Party in a terminal coma that may never be resuscitated. GEJ is looking forward to going home, spending his loot and being hailed a hero in his Village square because GEJ is a very simple man who does not like anything challenging. Community leader is GEJ's level and those who wrote this story delude themselves because the PDP reality beyond May 29th will not involve Jonathan.

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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by Gbawe: 6:23pm On Apr 19, 2015
free2ryhme:





It is not surprising that people are plotting to hijack the party from Jonathan because even a child born yesterday knows that Ebele does not possess any leadership acumen to tinker even a Town Union talkless a whole country. That was why it was very glaring how quickly his famed Goodluck was easily exposed as nothing but a convolution of leadership failures

All these folks going up and down trying to revive or resuscitate PDP are just deceiving themselves as none of them possess the pedigree and personal integrity needed to galvanise Nigerians

Ekwueme i believe should be tired now and would not want to be disturbed due to old age.....Obasanjo too would not want to cross path with Buhari if he does not want to be probed hence would be content with playing his stateman's role....The rest like Akpabio,Babangida Aliyu,Sule Lamido who has an EFCC case around his and son's neck or even Atiku have all lost whatever remains of their political clout to whip up any propaganda against Buhari at this moment because no one would listen to them

KOWA has a better chance at playing opposition than any resurgent PDP as i do not know of any single individual in PDP who can do what Asiwaju Tinubu did for several years by deploying Men and resources to build an opposition platform which won the hearts of men all over the country and Gen Buhari who is the single most popular Nigerian alive despite not being a Billionaire that can garner votes without distributing any stomach infrastructure

Who is that man in PDP that will rise from his part of the country and people would believe in

Exactly what I said above. I pity these desperados trying to speak as if the PDP is anything but a brain dead entity on life support. They are talking of Obasanjo and Ekwueme. How on earth will those two, in their old age, destroy the reputation they may leave this world with by joining the futile misadventure the despised PDP is about to go on? Let them continue deceiving themselves. As you correctly concluded, the PDP does not have a single political leader as Iconic, as politically sagacious , as popular and as feverishly followed as Buhari and Tinubu. 'Goodluck' to the PDP. Perhaps Allison-Madueke, Akpabio, Peter Obi, Lamido and Aliyu will lead the 'revival'. We dey laff.

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Re: Governors Move To Hijack PDP From Jonathan by Nobody: 10:56pm On Apr 19, 2015
dodoniyi:
•Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom, may now finance party

One of those the governors have listed to bring back to the party under the reformation plan is former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who shredded his PDP membership card in the run up to the just concluded presidential election, and publicly campaigned against the President’s return to office for what he termed below par performance.

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