As the meeting between President
Goodluck Jonathan and the
aggrieved G-7 governors and other
leaders of the Abubakar Kawu
Baraje faction of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, got
underway last night to resolve the
crisis in the party, there were
indications that the nPDP may have
adjusted its earlier demand that
President Goodluck Jonathan should
not seek a second term in office. This
came as the National Chairman of
the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has
appealed to leaders of the new PDP
to embrace dialogue saying the
problem can be resolved in a family
way.
The governors who were present at
the meeting with President Jonathan
which began at about 3.30 pm at the
first Lady’s conference room,
yesterday, were Rotimi Amaechi
(Rivers), Babangida Aliyu (Niger),
Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Abdulfattah
Ahmed (Kwara) Murtala Nyako
(Adamawa), Ibrahim Shema
(Katsina), Ibrahim Dankwambo
(Gombe), Liyel Imoke (Cross River)
and Idris Wada (Kogi). As usual, the
meeting which was earlier
scheduled for the presidential villa
at 9.00pm Sunday was closed to
journalists.
Sources among the governors at the
meeting disclosed at the weekend
that in the place of the earlier
demand that President Jonathan
should not seek re-election, the
nPDP was last night set to demand
that he gives practical and
irrevocable evidence of allowing due
process in the nomination process
for the party’s 2015 presidential
candidate. Top of the evidence, it
was learnt, is the sack of Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur as national
chairman and restoration of party
executives in Adamawa and Rivers
states.
Ahead of the crucial meeting with
the president, the G7 governors
aligned to the nPDP met at the
Samora Machel, Asokoro, Abuja
residence of the factional chairman
of the party, Alhaji Kawu Baraje.
The G7 governors and their
associates in the preparatory
meeting at Baraje’s house rehearsed
strategies on how to approach the
meeting with the president and the
faction led by Tukur especially on
the crucial demand that the
president reveal whether he would
run or not in the 2015 contest.
The decision to readjust the strategy,
it was learnt, may not be
unconnected to the campaign by
presidential aides that the governors
were asking the president to commit
himself to an unconstitutional
demand by ruling himself out of the
2015 contest.
“This is not about 2015, but we want
the president to provide clear
guarantees that due process would be
allowed to prevail in the party in all
matters relating to the party and also
the presidential contest,” one of the
governors in the forefront of the
nPDP told our correspondent.
Another source close to one of the
nPDP governors disclosed that the
governors were to be informed by
the president whether or not he
would contest in 2015.
At the last peace meeting last
Tuesday, Governor Babangida Aliyu
of Niger State had reportedly
demanded that Dr. Jonathan reveal
to the nation whether or not he
would seek the 2015 presidential
ticket of the PDP, but he was
rebuked by Governors Idris Wada of
Kogi and Liyel Imoke of Cross River
State who argued that the demand
was uncalled for.
Appealing to the leaders of the new
PDP, in a statement signed,
yesterday, by the PDP National
Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa
Metuh, the National Chairman,
urged the seven aggrieved governors
and other members of the nPDP not
to play into the hands of those who
hate Nigeria and the nation’s
democracy.
According to the statement, the
ongoing political quagmire was
designed to portray President
Goodluck Jonathan in bad light,
adding that no problem in the PDP
family was insurmountable.
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let wait and see

They wouldn't have any option than to drop it, once SS / SE ( eastern region) mentions SNC with break up on the table.




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I think the rebel governors are coming back to their senses. We all knew their initial fiasco was born out of greed and self will.