Strong indications have emerged that governors elected on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) are poised for a showdown with the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu and Senate President David Mark over the collapse of the deal President Goodluck Jonathan had sealed with them a month ago.

To express their grievances, the governors are expected to meet with President Jonathan on Tuesday night ostensibly to extract “some commitment from him” before his ratification during the December 10 national convention of the party.

As this emerged, LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that a frustrated governor in one of the South East states has concluded plans to defect to the opposition All Progressives Party(APC).

The governor’s grouse is that he has been stopped from presenting his preferred anointed successor for next year’s governorship election in the state. His albatross are a former governor of the state and a high-ranking member of the Federal Executive Council (FEC).

As part of the deal between the governors and President Jonathan, they (governors) were to present their preferred candidates as successors, just as those with senatorial ambitions were to be allowed to aspire. About eight PDP governors serving their final terms are reportedly eyeing the senate.

But since the deal was struck a month ago, there have been several dissenting voices, even as incumbent senators have drawn the battle line with their governors.

The highpoint of the high-wire political intrigues was Friday’s curious withdrawal from the senatorial race of Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan and Sullivan Chime of Delta and Enugu states respectively.

A governor from one of the northern states confided in a team of newsmen that his southeast colleague “is already on his way to the opposition” as a result of the shabby treatment meted to the governors.

The governor said: “The PDP we used to know is not the one we are seeing now. The party is rotten, and this is very shameful and unfortunate. Some of us feel like crying for the party we once cherished as the biggest party in Africa.

“It is most ridiculous for the President to reach an agreement with us and renege or rather not to know what is happening, when governors are being pushed here and there by forces who are merely interested in their personal benefits.

“But I can assure you that we have decided to unravel what is really the issue, because we suspect foul play in all that is going on within the party. Imagine forcing sitting governors to withdraw from the race simply because someone somewhere is threatened by the presence of former governors who are desirous of being senators.

“Right now, one of us, a southeast governor, is already on his way to the opposition party. How are we sure even those who will not leave will not work from within to undermine the party.

“This is the height of unseriousness on the part of any political party that intends to win next year. This matter has to be tabled, maybe on Tuesday, before the President, because there are reports we need to confirm that this whole thing is being oiled by the senate president and the national chairman,” he alleged.

The governor further alleged that, in particular, the senate president has put up an attitude which seemed to depict that he was uncomfortable with the presence of the cleavage of former governors at the senate.

“We know what the senate president is doing underground. It is to stop as many governors as possible from going to the senate, because he sees them as being too powerful to subject to his control,” he alleged.

http://leadership.ng/news/393431/crashed-2015-senatorial-deal-pdp-govs-angry-jonathan-muazu-mark

Seems everyone can go die, be cheated, has no importance etc........ all that matters is him winning 2015 whether the party, the country or even heaven scatters.

Way its going, reality will soon dawn on all PDP stake-holders and many will work against him as vengeance

Jonathan in action

that is the problem with PDP

why will the govs decide who succeeds them?

in a democracy, everyone should be given opportunity to contest in a free and fair

any PDP gov that defects to another party is just after his own selfish interest

and deserves to be condemned.

Mad elderly men! Who is that SE governor? APC shine ya eyes for we don't want snitches in the game. Dem wan turn Nigeria to their papa family business make the poor masses dey suffer dey go. Oh, I miss Fela! Naija woulda been better by now.

Afta ruling for 8years as a Governor yu also wnt to go bak and contest as a senator, my dear yu re heartless and wicked. I believe in d transparency of Gej. If them like make them defect or deplict.






















In as much as am nt interested abt politics. I think GEJ deserves a second chance

GOODLUCK doesn't even mean what it portrayed.
Anyway apc till pastor adeboye get tattoo on all his body

Ngeneukwenu u scared of pdp that you always search a news to criticize them chill sip cold drink after 2014 u Myt kill ur self after the result is announced

lol .....jonathan is just a push and follow president ....push him he will go another push him he will also go
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.smh cant wait for feb14 to send him back to uniport

mrvitalis:
lol .....jonathan is just a push and follow president ....push him he will go another push him he will also go
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.smh cant wait for feb14 to send him back to uniport

You are just right! The man is indeed a coward!

I don't like many of the president's activities, bt one thing no one can take away from him, in my view, is d increase in better election process.

For Fvckk's sake, why should a governor be allowed to "anoint" a successor?? R we running a kingdom here?? Let dem switch alleigance, if they like. Fvcktards........

Jonathan has never kept any promise before. Why should he keep this one?

Caseless:
Jonathan has never kept any promise before. Why should he keep this one?

Do not mind those governors, toothless sheep dogs.

The southeast governor is TA Ochendo Orji who has secured his senatorial seat and want to install one frog - like Ikpeazu as his successor, OUK and Emeka wogu together with all elites in abia opposed him and the PDP said no that Ochendo should allow people vote their leader. Simple

he made pdp give him automatic ticket not thinking the gov would ask him the same, and serving senators too. Now he's making enemies they don't call him #clueless for no reason