•Shekarau dumps PDP

Posted By: Yusuf Alli


Desperate for a second term, five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors are seeking a secret pact with President Muhammadu Buhari on the 2019 general elections.

Specifically, the deal is for the governors to support Buhari’s re-election in return for the Presidency’s backing in their bid to retain their seats.

The governors, who could not be named for “strategic” reasons, have sent emissaries, including two All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, to the President on their proposal.

One of the governors sent a message to the President in China through an APC governor, The Nation learnt yesterday.

Also yesterday, former Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau dumped the PDP.

He is due to announce his defection to the APC after consultation with his supporters.

Although one of the five PDP governors initiated the “deal”, the positive signals from the mediating APC governors and some top officials of the Presidency motivated four others to join.

The “bleak prospect” of not being re-elected may have accounted for the desperation of the governors, according to sources in the Presidency.

The five PDP governors are from the Southsouth and the Southeast. Two are from the Southsouth and three from the Southeast

One of the sources said: “The five governors are lobbying APC leaders to help cut a deal with President Buhari by which the President will allow them to be re-elected in return for their support for Buhari to win the presidential election in those PDP states.

“The arrowhead of the group (from the Southsouth) has been talking to two APC governors. He is pleading with the governors to present the request of the five PDP governors to the President ahead of a likely face-to-face meeting.”

The arrowhead of the pact is said to have started mounting pressure on the two APC governors in Nigeria and has continued with the pressure during the ongoing visit of the President to China.

The affected Southsouth governor had earlier failed in his attempt to defect to the APC in the face of total rejection of his move by APC leaders at the national level and at the state chapter, it was learnt.

“The idea of lobbying for some horse trading with President Buhari was first brought up by the arrowhead, who broached it with senior officials of the Presidency last year when his relationship with PDP leaders and members in his state, including his godfather, became frosty,” a source said, pleading not to be named “so as not to jeopardise the negotiations”.

Another source spoke of how Senator Godswill Akpabio’s defection and the inroad being made by the APC into the Southsouth has caused a political upset in the geopolitical zone.

“With the defection of Senator Akpabio on August 8 to the APC and the obvious rise in the electoral fortunes of the party in the zone, the arrowhead was mandated by the group to secure an audience with President Buhari for them to present their plan.

Said the source: “Should the meeting hold, the governors would be dangling before the Presidency the prospect of a win for President Buhari in the Southsouth and Southeast zones, the two regions that have been the strongholds of the PDP.”

http://thenationonlineng.net/2019-five-pdp-governors-seeking-deal-with-buhari/

In life we learn.

This write up should be a humbling experience to those fighting the Presidency,Buhari as the President and the APC as a political party.

It is okay to have political ideological differences,which is an healthy thing for any Democratic process to function. But, I have always wondered why the hate against Buhari?especially from those from a particular part of the country in the East.

One simple reason. He is a Muslim,and therefore not good for them. It does not even matter that he inherited a dead economy from Goodluck Jonathan,and a corrupt polity that stinks to the high heavens and has turned a lot of things around for the country. But it is operation get Buhari down.

And now their leaders( Governors) in the South East,and the South South are holding their Caps on their hands, and their tails in between their legs like some hungry alley cats,begging the same Buhari, not only to save their political careers, but begging to join the APC party.

What a shame.

They are even promising to "DASH" President Buhari their States and the electorates, just to sweeten the deal.

Okowa,Ayade,Umahi,ikpeazu the observers are observing.

Is this from the same source that said Shekarau would defect to APC?


If so dead on arrival like that story

Should the meeting hold, the governors would be dangling before the Presidency the prospect of a win for President Buhari in the Southsouth and Southeast zones,

Ayade... Everyone is aware he is Buhari's person & with the kind of appointments Cross Riverians got in this govt, it's a no brainer.

Okowa... His political fathers have all but jumped ship, he isn't really Wike's beloved, it's a no brainer.

Obiano... Peter Obi ambition? ... No need to say more.

Umahi.. Open Secret.... Buhari pally.

Ikpeazu..25% is sure ...

Getting interesting

That’s the way to roll

Only online pdp miscreants feel otherwise

E no pass Ayade and Okowa from SS

Nation&lies. GMB isnt a factor in southen electns. d dynamics are different.even d security cant stop a peoples candidat

3 from the Southeastern are Enugu, Ebonyi and Abia

2 from South-South or Niger Delta are Delta and Cross-River

slivertongue:
Nation&lies. GMB isnt a factor in southen electns. d dynamics are different.even d security cant stop a peoples candidat

You can only talk about your eastern enclave, stop speaking for the south south , they've moved on & looking forward to bigger & better things!!! Jeez!!

slivertongue:
Nation&lies. GMB isnt a factor in southen electns. d dynamics are different.even d security cant stop a peoples candidat

By now,you should have known that anything is possible in nigerian politics.this same deal is not new.mimiko and oshiomhole had it with gej in 2011,even peter obi and obiano did it.tinubu was also rumoured to have traded the west in 2011.even without any news media reporting it,you know that many pdp governors are favourably disposed to buhari.
Some governors like okowa,ayade,udom,ikpeazu etc may make such trade offs since there facing stiff oppositions to their re-elections and may need federal might to see them through.i know you hate buhari but try and be logical or reasonable at times.hes likely going to win

HungerBAD:
In life we learn.

This write up should be a humbling experience to those fighting the Presidency,Buhari as the President and the APC as a political party.

It is okay to have political ideological differences,which is an healthy thing for any Democratic process to function. But, I have always wondered why the hate against Buhari?especially from those from a particular part of the country in the East.

One simple reason. He is a Muslim,and therefore not good for them. It does not even matter that he inherited a dead economy from Goodluck Jonathan,and a corrupt polity that stinks to the high heavens and has turned a lot of things around for the country. But it is operation get Buhari down.

And now their leaders( Governors) in the South East,and the South South are holding their Caps on their hands, and their tails in between their legs like some hungry alley cats,begging the same Buhari, not only to save their political careers, but begging to join the APC party.

What a shame.

They are even promising to "DASH" President Buhari their States and the electorates, just to sweeten the deal.

is there any such thing like 'party ideology' when it involves nigeria political parties.

inheriting a dead economy and a corrupt polity was why we voted Buhari in the first place, making excuses for him is now stale like the stories from tales by moonlight. i'm curious to ask you what exactly has he (PMB) turn around?

you should know hypocrisy and sycophancy are now a behavioural trait found in many nigeria politician who don't mind to give the devil a blowjob_ as long as the get re-elected.

the shame here is to every politician in nigeria. but seeing that they don't even possess an ounce of it, it's more of a pity to every nigerian for allowing these bastards to govern us.

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SalomonKane:
is there any such thing like 'party ideology' when it involves nigeria political parties.

inheriting a dead economy and a corrupt polity was why we voted Buhari in the first place, making excuses for him is now stale like the stories from tales by moonlight. i'm curious to ask you what exactly has he (PMB) turn around?

you should know hypocrisy and sycophancy are now a behavioural trait found in many nigeria politician who don't mind to give the[/s] devil a blowjob_ [s]as long as the get re-elected.

the shame here is to every politician in nigeria. but seeing that they don't even possess an ounce of it, it's more of a pity to every nigerian for allowing these bastards to govern us.

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Weeee u keeeep Kwayet....

The only thing u know is BJ, F**k, see all the threads u are active in, from romance section, to ashawo thread to other worthless thread. You con come here dey talk politics.
My friend go back your ashawo joints thread. Nonsense!

I always read stories from the Nation Tinubu Online from bottom to top, right to left, like Arabic language.
As it stands, Lagos is the only economic viable state among the numerous states controlled by the APC. The rest are chiefly vast parched parasitic lands whose governments depend almost hundred percent on the revenue from those states currently controlled by the opposition PDP in the south south and south east.
FACT: The south-south doesn't need Buhari and his APC. But they (Buhari and his Apc) clearly need the region under their selfish control. It is obvious they are the ones striking the deals to win support for their party in the region. And they will surely do whatever it takes to hijack the region from the opposition. Even if it means begging ex-convicts and their boys to work for the party. It doesn't matter whether the persons involved are the people they claimed "milked the country dry in the last 16 years". It is all sheer hypocrisy And because politicians are desperate, and because they are fully aware that this APC-led government will NEVER conduct a free and fair election, they may strike this deal to perpetuate themselves (not their parties) in government. But that would be their major undoing. Accepting this deal will be likened to a goat accepting a marriage offer from a lion. They will lose all... Buhari that we have seen so far has not even honoured the agreement he made to the Nigerian people almost 4 years ago. Why then would anyone expect him to honour agreement made with gullible individuals?

Dislike pls nt hate.
ur on point on deals bt Yaradua& GEJ aided d opposition as gentlemen bt GMB doesnt keep 2deals

Hmmm

SAK woks only in d north
in Akwa Ibom its Ibibios Vs odas
in Rivers its Upland Vs Lowland
in Abia its Ukwa-Ngwa vs Bende

If you think Buhari will be courted in 2019 by those names of "Governors" up there you are liable to be shocked beyond words. Buhari will exit in 2019 this I am too sure of.

Lol...this bare-faced lie was personally written by Tinubu and edited by lie muhhammadu

modath:


You can only talk about your eastern enclave, stop speaking for the south south , they've moved on & looking forward to bigger & better things!!! Jeez!!

lol...they are even more pdp than the south east...we only have 3 pdp states in se and 5 in ss. Are u sure u dey well?
Pdp chairman is from ss. Have u ever heard any se pdp governor insult apc or critisize bubu??

Igbos no get una time abeg...just wait for 2019...we will vote the best candidate

Bede2u:
lol...they are even more pdp than the south east...we only have 3 pdp states in se and 5 in ss. Are u sure u dey well?
Pdp chairman is from ss. Have u ever heard any se pdp governor insult apc or critisize bubu??

Igbos no get una time abeg...just wait for 2019...we will vote the best candidate

Buhari right?

40kobo77:


Buhari right?

buhari is a war criminal, coupist and illiterate. Do u think he is the best candidate?

Tinubu and his lies.
Fake news.

HungerBAD:
In life we learn.

This write up should be a humbling experience to those fighting the Presidency,Buhari as the President and the APC as a political party.

It is okay to have political ideological differences,which is an healthy thing for any Democratic process to function. But, I have always wondered why the hate against Buhari?especially from those from a particular part of the country in the East.

One simple reason. He is a Muslim,and therefore not good for them. It does not even matter that he inherited a dead economy from Goodluck Jonathan,and a corrupt polity that stinks to the high heavens and has turned a lot of things around for the country. But it is operation get Buhari down.

And now their leaders( Governors) in the South East,and the South South are holding their Caps on their hands, and their tails in between their legs like some hungry alley cats,begging the same Buhari, not only to save their political careers, but begging to join the APC party.

What a shame.

They are even promising to "DASH" President Buhari their States and the electorates, just to sweeten the deal.

Okowa,Ayade,Umahi,ikpeazu the observers are observing.

well said.

modath:



Ayade... Everyone is aware he is Buhari's person & with the kind of appointments Cross Riverians got in this govt, it's a no brainer.

Okowa... His political fathers have all but jumped ship, he isn't really Wike's beloved, it's a no brainer.

Obiano... Peter Obi ambition? ... No need to say more.

Umahi.. Open Secret.... Buhari pally.

Ikpeazu..25% is sure ...

You know just because a governor refuses to abuse a president doesn't mean the governor is sympathetic to the president. Politics isn't always about bitterness.
Many APC governors were also friendly with GEJ till election time
Besides why would Okowa leave PDP when he has James Ibori's full backing?
You do realize he wasn't Uduaghan's choice for god Vermont right?

Hahahahaha, who no know go know.
IPOB's you see your lives.

MrPolitics:


You know just because a governor refuses to abuse a president doesn't mean the governor is sympathetic to the president. Politics isn't always about bitterness.
Many APC governors were also friendly with GEJ till election time
Besides why would Okowa leave PDP when he has James Ibori's full backing?
You do realize he wasn't Uduaghan's choice for god Vermont right?

How are we sure James Ibori is not defecting to APC in a few days.
Akpabio's defection started as a rumour too.



Daily post etc have carried stories about rumours of Ibori's defection including Urhobo ethnic tabloid...


http://urhobotoday.com/?p=31081

the nationnews

always speculating and the usual anonymous source.. Tinubu's diaries

Believe this news by Tinubu's newspaper at your own peril.

We've been hearing about this fake defection since last year.

Somehow only the nation carries this sort of news

All for the sake of their pockets.

I read some stuffs in d papers these days that i just immediately wish i could unread... It's so sickening.