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Governors of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) who were earlier scheduled to meet President Goodluck Jonatha today refused to honor the meeting asking for more time.

One of the governors told Saharareporters that they sent word to the President that they have important state matters to attend in their respective states for at least one week.

President Jonathan had to postpone the meeting till next Tuesday in deference to the governors.

Last Saturday several of the governor stormed out of the venue of the party's convention to declare a splinter faction. Their action reportedly troubled President Jonathan, who immediately called an emergency meeting of state governors of his party; however, some of the governors left Abuja to avoid meeting with the president. The rapid depletion of the ranks of the governors left Mr. Jonathan with only 16 governors; the absence of the key governors forced the president to postpone the meeting by two hours but several of the governors refused to commit to the meeting forcing the presidency to postpone the meeting for another week.

The chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih confirmed the postponed, in a chat with reporters Anenih said the peace talks, scheduled to continue Tuesday in Abuja, were postponed at the request of the aggrieved governors of the party who stormed out of the venue of the party’s special national convention on Saturday.

Anenih said that the peace talks with the aggrieved governors would now continue Tuesday, next week, after selected party leaders would have met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday as part of wider consultations demanded by parties to the crisis.

He disclosed that the aggrieved governors told the Presidency, and the PDP leadership that they needed more time to make larger consultations, just as he said the Presidency and the PDP leadership were not opposed to wider consultations.
He explained that the Presidency and PDP leadership was taking advantage of the postponement to also consult widely on how to amicably resolve the crisis.
According to him, “Part of the wider consultations is the meeting of selected party leaders with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday morning and thereafter; we will meet with the governors on Tuesday, next week.”
The BoT chair, who read out the resolution of the marathon meeting that held in the Presidential Villa from Sunday night till the early hours of Monday, expressed optimism that the problems would be resolved and the aggrieved governors who broke away from the convention venue to announce a faction of the party, would come back.
“I believe some of them have genuine grievances; but I have hope that, once the grievances are addressed, they will come back. I am happy that the PDP has an internal mechanism for effective conflict resolution, and at the end of the day, the problems will be addressed and the PDP will come out of the crisis stronger,” Anenih stated.
At the end of the marathon meeting, which ended about 2.05 am on Monday, Anenih had read a short resolution of the meeting to the hearing of the PDP governors, including four of the aggrieved governors, who attended the meeting to set the stage for the continuation of peace talks, which were scheduled for yesterday.
The outcome of the meeting: “The resolution of Mr. President, the leadership of the party and the PDP Governors meeting today the 1st of September, 2013, to discuss the incident that occurred during the PDP special convention of 31st August, 2013, whereby some State delegations broke out of the convention ground to announce a faction of the PDP. The meeting was encouraging and smooth, and the discussions will continue Tuesday (September 3, 2013) with all the aggrieved governors in attendance

Sincere 9gerian: My position on NL is known. I stand for the RIGHT thing. I stand for FREE and FAIR election.

Just to burst your bubble, when OBJ massively rigged elections between 1999 and 2007, what did you and your fellow noise maker do? You only made noise as usual and later sought refuge in the courts. When Yar Adua shamelessly rigged the Ekiti re-run in 2009 or so, what did you and your fellow noise makers do? Make noise as usual and sought refuge in the courts. When Lagos ACN massively rigged the 2011 Lagos local council polls, what the PDP do? Nothing besides going to court. PDP recently rigged the Kwara local council polls, what did APC do? Nothing, except noise and going to court.

That the current president chose to do the RIGHT thing is a matter of good conscience and sincerity of purpose, and not an act of cowardice

Sincere 9gerian: I didn't say GEJ will rig 2015 election. My analysis is futuristic,ie GEJ's successors

teskyg: I have never seen a fool like Cleverly walahi

atlwireles: Nigerians should learn a thing or two from this man. Don't waste your life or career for a politician.

Which Career? So police work in Nigeria has become a career to you? For your info, the ADC is currently being taken care of pending when APC take over government in 2015. Mark it , the guy is coming back as a Bayelsa State commissioner of Police, and it would be a pay back time.

TRUTHTELA: I'm kind of too tired to construct a long GRAMMAR, cos I just arrived from a long summer trip. I'll sum up some REALISTIC FACTS ( my perception though) about the present day Nigeria.

Firstly, folks have to remember that NIgeria is a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, meaning FREE & FAIR ELECTION in a presidential election will continue to be a mirage.

A NIgeria president is too POWERFUL,meaning U might call Jonathan a fool,but remember there are hundreds of SAN's, Anenih's, thugs, Dangote's,Adenuga's, SSS, POLICE, MILITARY etc, LOYAL to the PRESIDENT, not Jonathan, and who is the incumbent president of NIgeria?

Yes, you'll not vote for JOnathan, here is a FACT, on Election Day, Jonathan's foot soldiers will convert your one vote to 300,000 votes, how they do it? As OBJ, how he did it for himself and YAr'adua. In addition, STATISTICIANS are already working out how SMALL PERCENTAGE of votes from the " NEW PDP& apc states" will be added to the HUGE percentage that will come from JOnathan's stronghold states, and what will be the result? SECOND TERM for Jonathan.

In addition, six governors and some other OBJ loyalist are fighting Jonathan, the FACT is this, from Obj;s ogun state, to Kano, Jigawa,Rivers,Adamawa,Sokoto,and Kwara, states, Jonathan, is at war with these political WARLORDS, but HUNDREDS of other POLITICAL HEAVYWEIGHTS from these states are loyal to Jonathan and Jonathan, will use TAX PAYERS ( OIL MONEY,cos naija people dnt pay taxes) to fund his own loyalist and the outcome will be known to all.

I'm sure millions of nigerians are not happy with Gej and some other millions are so HAPPY with him, its all based on TRIBE, PERCEPTION, RELIGION, &SENTIMENT's. And the best way to ascertain the TRUTH is through the ballot boxes, but some people think they are more of a "PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL" more than Gej and his wife, or it's their "TURN" to rule Nigeria, or they should always DETERMINE who rules Nigeria at every election period, hence they have to SCARE Gej, out of the presidential race.

The political fight between Gej and his fellow ROGUES will get messier, before 2015, but Gej, will not back out of the race. The worse will be him losing the presidential election, but, will he lose anything? NO! The greatest LOSER will continue to be the DOCILE and GULLIBLE Nigerian Youths, cos, No APC, PDM, NEW AND OLD PDP can fix that country, only a REVOLUTION would, cos EVIL &IMPUNITY have eaten so DEEP in the culture.

If you have the political foresight, you can see that all these guys are nothing but ROGUES that wants political power just to enrich their kits and kin and impoverish the ordinary Nigerian as they are used to doing? AMONG ALL THE ROUGES (Atiku&co) FIGHTING Gej ( another ROGUE) IS THEIR ANYONE OF THEM FIGHTING FOR THE INTEREST OF THE COMMON MAN ON THE STREET? I mean an average Niigerian doesn't even trust any of them. Check this out;

Atiku: Obj, destroyed him political, a common man on the street doesn't even want to hear Atiku, so on what records is he going to RUN or fight a sitting Nigeria president? is it his PTDF records? By the time Gej, foot soldiers takes the fight to the doorstep of his oil&gas and shipping businesses, he'll greedily sing a different tune.

The six Gov's have their MATCHES in their various states, from ASSASSINS, to THUGS, & of course, their Director's off SSS & Commissioners of police are loyal to Abuja and the president of Nigeria. Besides their dirty past, do you know why I call them SELFISH ROGUES? Because they don't want to join APC, from PDP, they want to have a platform that will make them bargain for VP, PETROLEUM or Finance minister before they merge PDM, with APC. Or if they join the opposition this early, Gej's foot soldiers will bring their stolen wealth and business interest to a HALT ( Obj, did it to Adenuga, Atiku, Orji Kalu,etc) hence, the " NEW PDP" and if the heat gets too much they'll make peace with Gej, and you'll hear the PDP's euphemism for flogging deviants into line " FAMILY AFFAIR" and their GREED for PRIMITIVE ACQUISITION OF WEALTH will bring them back together at the EXPENSE of the common man.

Lastly, if you think cos PDP ROGUES are having crisis and birth of APC, is enough to make an INCUMBENT Nigeria's president (I'm not talking Gej), to lose election and will now handover to the opposition , you were either born in the 90's or politically naive about the dynamics of Nigeria's political history. FYI, Obj, will NEVER want to work with Tinubu politically. Atiku, was in the same party with Tinubu, I doubt if he'll be so KEEN to do that again, meaning, ALL THESE ROUGES WILL NEVER SUPPORT THE FAILURE OF A PDP's president. The devil they know...someone should help me finish it.

Look beyond GEJ, and your low view about him, you'll objectively see that an INCUMBENT Nigerian president is a MONSTER, even Gej's enemies are trading with CAUTION and that monster they make of any president needs to be DEMYSTIFIED by the populace just like the Egyptians did.

berem: Why did they come in the first place if they know they were gonna walk out later? It made them seem like losers. They would have shunned the convention totally than coming and leaving. It doesn't make sense!!

This is why i like Aminu Tambuwal. his absence in any event hosted by his party PDP stirs controversy and panic . Even Sincere 9gerian becomes restless. That's how things should be.

The National Census Tribunal, sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital has ordered fresh census in 14 Local Government Areas in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria.

This followed the nullification of the figures released by the National Population Commission, NPC, after the 2006 national census.

Also, the Lagos State Government has called on the National Population Commission, NPC, to urgently order recount in the affected councils.

The National Census Tribunal nullified the census figures released by the NPC in 14 LGs in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, saying that the counting was illegal and did not give the accurate census figures of the state.

At a news conference today at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa in Ikeja, Lagos, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Ade Ipaye, said since the tribunal had ordered NPC to recount the population in the 14 councils, the commission should immediately put machinery in motion to do the recount.

“In the final analysis, the official national census results for 14 old Local Government Councils (now 40 LGAs and LCDAs) in Lagos State have been nullified. This vindicates the resolve of the State Government to base its physical and economic plans on a projected population of 17,553,924 in 2006 and over 21,000,000 currently.

“We now expect that the National Population Commission will urgently announce plans for a recount as ordered by the Tribunal,” he said.

Ipaye stated that following the census exercise conducted by the NPC nationwide from March 21 to 27, 2006, and particularly in the various local government areas in Lagos State, which gave Lagos a census figure of 9,113,605, many informed commentators within and outside the state had considered this figure to be far too low.

“Most importantly, a shadow survey carried out by state officials during the exercise showed that Lagos State should have had a population of at least 17,553,924. A good number of residents from various communities within the state protested and, eventually, had petitions filed on their behalf when the Census Tribunal was established,” he stated.

He added that the 2006 census was conducted on the basis of twenty Local Government Areas as listed in the 1999 Constitution, saying out of these, massive complaints came out of 19 Local Government Areas, such as Agege, Alimosho, Amuwo-Odofin, Apapa, Bagadry, Epe, Eti-Osa, Ifelodun, Ifako-Ijaiye, Ikeja, Ikorodu, Kosofe, Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland, Mushin, Ojo, Oshodi/Isolo, Shomolu and Surulere.

“Nineteen separate petitions were therefore filed on behalf of aggrieved residents of these councils at the Census Tribunal. The Tribunal sat for about 18 months and finally passed judgments in all 19 cases between 19 and 20 June, 2013. In 14 of these cases, which cover at least 40 of the new Local Government Councils and Local Council Development Areas, the census results were closely considered and declared null and void,” he disclosed.

Ipaye said that the Tribunal, however, dismissed petitions filed on behalf of residents in five Local Government Councils, such as Shomolu, Ikorodu, Kosofe, Mushin and Oshodi-Isolo on the ground that sufficient proof was not presented by the petitioners.

The Attorney General said government might decide to appeal the upholding of the census figures in the five local governments after thoroughly studying the judgment of the Tribunal.

In the judgment of the tribunal, recount was ordered in the following areas in Amuwo-Odofin, such as Festac Town, Agustin Ajagun Street, Amuwo-Odofin GRA, Jakande Estate, Aguda, Raji Estate and Rasak Street; Eti-Osa-Ribadu Road by Prison barracks, Residents of Obalende, residents of all houses in Idunmojokun Street, Ajeniya Street, Jakande Estate, Olaiya Street, Odo Street, all residents in office depot Majek First Gate Ajah, Badore, Ajah, Alagaso road, Awoyaya and areas in Alimosho such as Ayobo, Egan, Baruwa, Ikotun-Egbe, Idimu, Iyana-Ipaja, Akinugun Bus Stop and Omotosho Areas.

In Lagos Island, recount was ordered in Okesuna Street, Lagos Island, Ita Akanni Sreet, Idumagbo Adenike Street Lagos Island, Obadina Street, Bamgbose, Lewis Street, Bamgbose, Campbell Street while in Lagos Mainland, recount was ordered in Abule Ijesha, Adekunle, Akoka, Alagomeji, Ebute-Metta, Iwaya, Oko Oba, Otto and Yaba.

Surulere, recount was ordered by the Tribunal in Ibidun Street, all Residents of Surulere area, Tejuosho, Lawanson, Ikate and Ijesha Orile area, while in Epe the tribunal ordered recount in Oniyanrin village, Offirun village, Orepele village, Ilape, OyetomiOluwakemi village.

In Ifako-Ijaiye, recount will be done in Abule Egba, Alagbado, IjuIfako, IjuIshaga, Iju Station, Oke Koto, OkoObaa, the houses in Osola Street, Balogun Bus Stop, Lamina Street, Alakuko.

In Badagry, recount was ordered in Atanda Street, Tozukame Street, Sowja, Okoroafor and Tako Streets in Badagry Siagbon Compound Badagry, Ajaoba Street and in Apapa, areas to be recounted are Itugbon Community opposite Liverpool, Oyedeji Street, Apapa Wharf, Lisabi Street, Kareen Street, riverine areas, Esugbayi Street, Marine Beach, Lawani Close off Qaskiya, Ijora Badia, Okoya Street, Agbabe Street and Marine Beach Apapa.

In Agege, recount was ordered in Agege Coker Village, Dopemu, Iju, Ishaga, Mangoro, Ogba, Oke Koto, OkeObaa, Orile, Agege, Papa Ashafa, and Oguntade Street Oba. In Ojo, the tribunal ordered recount in Ijusu Street, Mavbokoro Street, Maibun Street, Agboroko Street and Isahu Street.

In Ajeromi-Ifelodun, recount will be done in Ajegunle, Amukoko, Kirikiri, Olodi – Apapa, Tolu, Ijora areas while in Ikeja, recount will be held in Agindinbi, Airport Area, Alausa, Anifowose, Ikeja G.R.A., Ojodu, Oke-Ira, Omole, Onilekere, Onipetesi, Opebi, Agbede, Oloti Agbakoba Street and Airforce Base.

FreeGlobe: As if lies could save you. You have been the only one jumping from thread to thread shouting APGA. I can't blame you, your gig is up.

alexchiny: My brother, it is obvious you know nothing about Anambra people, my people.We are very sentimental when it comes to our brotherhood. Side an outsider against us and you are doomed forever and that is the case with Ngige. Are you also aware that Ralph Uwazurike is behind APGA full time? Hope you know how powerful he is when it comes to grassroots mobilization?. Most kids just come here to spew thrash out of sentiments controlled by their emotions. I really wait to have a good laugh come November.

DerideGull: Americans say give me dignity or death. What is the essence of being a builder of idiotic roads built of asphalt and structures built of cement and corrugated iron sheets without being a defender of human right? Ngige reminds me of saboteurs during Nigeria/Biafra civil war. The dude is another Ukpabi Asika.

alexchiny: Hahahahahahaha. Keep your emotions in check my guy! You are obviously not from Anambra and not in anambra if you think APC can win APGA in a governorship election! That is wishful thinking my dear! APGA is too strong to lose this election!

Sincere 9gerian: On the very FIRST thread created on this forum on the controversial deportation, I declared war on Fashola. I did that because I was so pained by the development. I did that even before the deportation went viral and before people like Peter Obi, Fani Kayode,etc spoke officially about the incident. While waging the war on Fashola, I got unjustly banned twice within a space of one month, for the first time since joining the forum.

Anyone that supports the evil deportation will AUTOMATICALLY come under firing line. All I and many others angry with the deportation policy, had asked for was an APOLOGY. Since Fashola, Ngige and others who supported that action are too arrogant to offer an apology, the people who feel injured by that action too will not sheath their sword. The sword is long drawn on both sides.

Call it sentiments or whatever you like, the fact is Ngige's gubernatorial ambition is DEAD ON ARRIVAL. Both within and without NL, I'll do my little bit to make sure Ngige's ambition remains COMATOSE