monkautos:
All this tinubu newspaper want to force the south east governors to work for Buhari abi? They just want to sow a seed of discord among PDP what they expected after the convention didn't happen so na to plant all these fictions stories.. I wonder why the papers won't talk about APC ag
greived governors working for PDP
Theses people keep repeating one singular narrative that atiku disrespected the south east governors. The thing no dey sell again abeg

self denial is the first stage of defeat dont worry u will move to the next stage soon

Igbos are the architect of their own failure.

Corrinthians:
Kikikiki. What I said just a couple of hours ago and some ignorant emotional Athiefwku supporter was screaming the governors don't matter and that his people are so intelligent they don't rely on the opinion of their leaders to vote for whoever.

Una go take una eyes see the back of una ears without mirror for this election honestly.

There is no guarantee of victory for Atiku even in the strongholds of PDP, take that to the bank.

Shukwuokukobambi, see what we were talking about few moments ago.

Dem never see anything. Sai baba until 2023!!!

Sai Baba continuity has been Signed, Affirmed, Validate, Endorsed, Authorized, Prove, Verified, Assured, Settled, Sanctioned, Uphold, Clinched, Checked, Strengthened, Fixed, Permitted, Mark Good, Vouched, Backup, Guaranteed, Warrant, Stamped, and approved.

kahal29:
Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, indications have emerged that some governors and chieftains of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are working for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari. The governors, it was learnt at the weekend, have been meeting secretly with key government officials and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to plot strategies on how to deliver huge votes to the president in the 2019 general elections.

A competent source, who is privy to the arrangement, said that most of the PDP governors and leaders involved are those from the Southern part of the country and a few from the North, especially North-East where the PDP presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, hails from. According to the source, who prefers anonymity, PDP governors from the South-East and South- South are particularly unhappy with the choice of Mr. Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State, as running mate to Atiku for the 2019 presidential election.

The South-East governors had earlier fiercely opposed the Atiku/Obi ticket because they claimed it was against the promise, which the former vice president made to them prior to the national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The source confirmed to our correspondents that PDP has been unable to persuade most of their aggrieved governors to accept the Atiku/Obi ticket.


“I can authoritatively confirm to you that some of PDP governors are working for President Buhari. The concerns raised earlier by the governors that the zonal leaders were not consulted before the nomination of Obi is still much there. “Some of these governors have also realised that it will be difficult to sustain the level of intervention, which the current government has made in the region, if another administration takes over power,” he said. Similarly, some governors in the South-South, especially those seeking second terms in office, were said to be hobnobbing with the ruling party for selfsurvival. New Telegraph gathered that the plot is to concede the presidential election to the ruling party in exchange for a second term mandate in their states.

The main opposition party may also be in for more shockers except it is able to rein in some of its chieftains who participated in the last presidential primary but lost the ticket. Our source said that PDP should be concerned that some of these former presidential aspirants have retired to the background and have been too cold towards the activities of PDP since the convention ended in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Another source said that with the corruption allegations hanging around the presidential candidate of PDP, it is increasingly becoming difficult to market him to the electorate in the North where President Buhari is largely perceived as a man of integrity.

The source explained that in the South-West, there is the consideration that the Yoruba will be shooting themselves in the foot if they work against President Buhari who has their son, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as vice and running mate. New Telegraph sought the confirmation of the report from a top member of APC who said that in politics, nothing is impossible.

The party chieftain, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said it was PDP governors and party chieftains that were making overtures to the ruling party. “Overtures have been made. We are not the ones making the overtures. The PDP leaders are the ones making the overtures. The truth of the matter is that PDP is a divided house and there are many people there who do not like their presidential candidate; unlike in APC where there is no single governor or party leader that does not support the candidature of President Buhari.

“They may have their local problems, local politics, but there is no single person that does not support President Buhari. There is a unity of purpose and unanimity of determination to work for the candidate of our party. “But in their own case, they have a divided house, especially from the region where their vice presidential candidate comes from. They have made it very obvious by their body language. Imagine on the eve of a major election year, you pack yourselves and go to meet the president to say ‘thank you for what you have been doing for us.’ “This is because for them, their personal survival and second term mandate is more important than their party producing the next president. They are in total disarray and it is for us to capitalise on it. “As for the president, so many factors are just conspiring to work in his favour because we don’t need to work too hard in the South-West to get them to support the president’s reelection.

They know that if they miss the opportunity of supporting him and getting the Presidency in 2023, it will take them another 24 years before it comes to them again,” he said. However, National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan, has described the insinuations by APC that some opposition governors were working for Buhari as an exercise in self-delusion. “APC and President Buhari are in self-delusion. Even all Nigerians are sick and tired of President Buhari and APC. Not a single PDP governor is campaigning for Buhari. It is just a rumour and it will remain as that,” Ologbondiyan told New Telegraph. Meanwhile, the two major political parties, APC and PDP, have identified the Middle Belt as a possible decider for the presidential election and have launched clandestine moves to capture the votes of the region. As part of the broad strategies to swing the votes in their favour, both parties are said to have invested in many smaller political parties right at the point of the registration of these parties to ensure that they exercised control over them.

The major political parties also worked hard in pulling the right strings that produced their favoured candidates in these other parties. Although the forthcoming presidential contest is presumed a two-horse race and a straight fight between President Buhari and Atiku, there are at least 78 other presidential candidates flying the flags of other political parties. An insider in one of the political parties who has been following the developments confided in New Telegraph that a good number of the presidential candidates across the fringe parties were moles of either PDP or APC, planted to play the spoiler game.

“Why do you think there are so many political parties and many presidential candidates? It is not for nothing; many of them are moles of the two dominant parties. They are in the race not just because of the plural nature of our politics, but hold ground and lock down some votes for their sponsors.

“Many of them you find in the Middle Belt are strategically positioned to galvanise local sentiments that could whittle down the influence of the major political parties,” he said. Ahead of the crucial elections, general permutation has been that Buhari and Atiku would mobilise massive votes from the North-West and North- East respectively, but would need to fight over the North- Central, which has always been a fallow ground for politicians of northern extraction. New Telegraph gathered that with the rather poor handling of the herdsmen/ farmers clashes by the Federal Government, the APC had been apprehensive that the electorate in the Middle Belt region which extends beyond the North Central geo-political zone and consists of minority ethnic nationalities across the North had been sufficiently provoked to cast protest votes against the ruling party.

“They know that with what happened in Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa and Kaduna states, the APC was losing ground to the advantage of its main rival, the PDP, hence, using smaller political parties with local figures as candidates could effectively divide the available and prevent the main opposition party from sweeping the polls in the Middle Belt,” the source said.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2018/11/new-telegraph-exclusive-pdp-govs-leaders-work-for-buharis-re-election/

This article is a shame to journalism. This same nonsense New Telegraph that gave Ganduje an award despite the bribery video?? You wrote an article and you can't mention a single name. Everything is source, source. How can PDP Governors going for second term work for Buhari.. How?? Are they contesting under APC?? How will they leave their election and campaign for Buhari... Empty Article

This is no longer a news item except for the politically naive ones.The body language of most of the pdp governors actually tells the story,I don't need to start mentioning names.

ORIENTATION101:
self denial is the first stage of defeat .dont worry u will move to the next stage

Suit yourself. I don't drag in the mud

Authoreety:
Atikulate o

Water don carry the atikulators go oooo. >:

dontee2015:



This article is a shame to journalism. This same nonsense New Telegraph that gave Ganduje an award despite the bribery video?? You wrote an article and you can't mention a single name. Everything is source, source. How can PDP Governors going for second term work for Buhari.. How?? Are they contesting under APC?? How will they leave their election and campaign for Buhari... Empty Article

If they are seeking reelection, they need federal might one way or the other. Politicians care about themselves first before masses if not,they wouldn't be jumping from one party to another

Hear what Prof. Tam David West had to say about Gen. Buhari!
¤ Buhari is one of the cleanest men I have ever met in my life. If anybody wants me to dislike Buhari, such person should give me an example of his corruption. I will run away from him totally. But right now, there is no evidence. On the contrary, the more they attack him on this issue of corruption, the more they are making him Gold bier.
¤ I will give two examples.
¤ One, Babangida thought Buhari was making a lot of money on counter trading, so he set up two independent bodies to investigate counter trading.
¤ One of the bodies was headed by J.K. Randle, while the second was headed by Prof. Aboyade of blessed memory. None of them found anything against Buhari. None. I attested before the two bodies.
¤ Great Aboyade commission was digging into Buhari’s counter trading, J.K. Randle, who’s still alive, did the same thing.
¤ But both of them produced reports that showed that counter trading was so clean and was making so much money for Nigeria.
¤ Then two, soon after Obasanjo was sworn in, there was a social function for him in Lagos or so, then surprisingly, some people tried to praise Buhari, Obasanjo said: ‘don’t praise him, I have not probed him.’ It was after that incident that Obasanjo set up Dr. Haroun’s probe panel of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF).
¤ Haroun probed PTF inside out. Buhari was discovered to be as clean as snow.
¤ You know, why he agreed to be the head of PTF was not to condone what Abacha was doing then, but he saw it as a way of serving the country and he did well. I have the record.
¤ Haroun came out and said PTF account was audited every year while Federal Government account was not audited in 36 years.
¤ You know Babangida detained Buhari for 40 months after he overthrew him.
¤ Buhari’s mother died while he was in detention and as a Muslim, I expected Babangida to rise above politics and allow Buhari to go bury his mother. If he was released, I am sure he wouldn’t have run away.
¤ Buhari was not allowed to go bury his mother. But in the night after the woman was buried, Babangida released Buhari.
¤ His son died, the same thing happened.
¤ Anyway, after Buhari came out of detention, he told Babangida to tell the world about his corruption. The records are there.
¤ The same thing happened with the PTF. He told Obasanjo to publish the report of the panel, but Obasanjo could not publish it because it was a certificate of honour for Buhari. If that Haroun’s report had any page in it that indicted Buhari, Obasanjo would have used that to disqualify Buhari from contesting against him.
¤ Buhari is clean. He is not corrupt.
¤ To show how Buhari loves Nigeria, he doesn’t like spending Nigerian money frivolously. When he overthrew Shehu Shagari, Buhari never changed any chair or curtain in Dodan Barracks. Buhari used what Shagari was using until he left.
¤ As minister, our total pocket money under Buhari was N200 per month. You could spend less than N200 without accounting for it, but anything above N200, you must account for it.
¤ When he increased the money to N250, we clapped for him at the executive council.
¤ Now, as a former governor of the defunct north-eastern state, former minister of petroleum, former head of state, former executive chairman of PTF, Buhari has no house in Abuja.
¤ If he goes to Abuja, he stays in a private hotel. He has no house either uphill or downhill, apart from his house in Kaduna......... .....
Nigerians We Need BUHARI by 2019.
--PROFESSOR TAM DAVID WEST, Former Nigeria's Petroleum Minister.

selectedhero:
When I see a thread, this is why I do.
1. Check the poster and his antecedents.
2. Check the congregants.
3. Check the source.
4. Decide aforehand whether I might be reading a biased write-up or not.

This thread smells of them all

All these means you're not honest with yourself.

Governors Supporting Buhari:
South East:
Sure:
Gov. Obiano of Anambra
Gov Umahi of Ebonyi
Gov. Okorocha of Imo
On the Fence:
Gov. Uguanwyi of Enugu
Gov. Ikpeazu of Abia

South South:
Sure:
Gov. Obasaki of Edo
Gov. Ayade of Cross Rivers
Gov Wike of Rivers

Son on the Fence because of Akpabio:
Emmanuel of Akwa ibom

dontee2015:



This article is a shame to journalism. This same nonsense New Telegraph that gave Ganduje an award despite the bribery video?? You wrote an article and you can't mention a single name. Everything is source, source. How can PDP Governors going for second term work for Buhari.. How?? Are they contesting under APC?? How will they leave their election and campaign for Buhari... Empty Article

You are sounding pained

All I know is Atiku shot himself in the leg the day he chose Peter Obi as his vp. He would have fared better with a Yoruba man.

One governor, one vote.

They are all scamming Bubu

I am not a member of PDP but from Atiku's body language, if he wins , he will retire a whole number of politicians and build a new crop of members loyal to ATIKU.

Secondus will be first to go, then Wike and using Seriake Dickson and co, he will set up a new Atiku loyal order in South South.

Then he will use Peter Obi to retire Ekweremadu and co in the East to set up a new order.

He will then dislodge Obasanjo and make his letter-writing and self-assigned King-making status irrelevant.

He will disgrace Saraki by working to deny him Senate presidency while installing a stooge for total control of parliament.

Atiku is a deft amd ruthless politician who assumes total control and does like sharing the stage. No half measures. As a VP, he did it under Obasanjo's nose and nearly "overthrew" him until he knelt down and begged.

BOTTOMLINE: Most PDP Governors and heavyweights are studying the situation seriously.

Seen

Rilwayne001:


All these means you're not honest with yourself.

It means I know there are those who are not honest with themselves. I shouldn't be their dumping ground

FarahAideed:
I have no doubt that that senile ingrate called Obiano will do all in his might to make sure Peter Obi never smells Aso rock but God pass mere men

Shut your dirty mouth. When Peter Obi swore he will stop Obianos re-election with his last blood what did you say? It’s simply pay back time

Someone will be shouting get your PVC... For an election that has been rigged at least 3 months beforehand. I believe PDP is well aware of the damning odds stacked against them due to their warped antecedents, with Atiku as flagbearer being the final nail to the coffin!
There are only 2 sole options for a better and truly progressive Naija:

1. The North and South must unite, and speak with one voice regarding who must head the Aso Rock office.
2. A brutal, yet honest and patriotic military take-over with a good dictator like Ghaddafi to cleanse this wretched entity called Nigeria.

Where the above options are not feasible, then complete division. We can't keep trying to move forward in one region, while a bigger majority from another decadent region keeps pulling us back to the stone age.

Racoon:
The Arewa youth once issued an "ejection notice" to SE residents in the up north to leave the region yet neither the state governors or FG see to it that they were truly arrested or punished.

However,the SE governors quickly came in total condemnation & betrayed of NK during the seperatist struggle but it became too late when they realized their foolishness & wants to correct their stupidity.

While they have no control over our people and that is why there is no "baba soope" territorial leader therein.Ask Rochas if in doubt.You fuckup we tidy your it for you.

Abacha was endorsed by all and sundry but karma took it course.So they can even endorse or campaign for the terrorists & tormentors of the region but they will forever regret it.Ndi ara.

no mind dem bro.

kahal29:
Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, indications have emerged that some governors and chieftains of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are working for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari. The governors, it was learnt at the weekend, have been meeting secretly with key government officials and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to plot strategies on how to deliver huge votes to the president in the 2019 general elections.

A competent source, who is privy to the arrangement, said that most of the PDP governors and leaders involved are those from the Southern part of the country and a few from the North, especially North-East where the PDP presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, hails from. According to the source, who prefers anonymity, PDP governors from the South-East and South- South are particularly unhappy with the choice of Mr. Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State, as running mate to Atiku for the 2019 presidential election.

The South-East governors had earlier fiercely opposed the Atiku/Obi ticket because they claimed it was against the promise, which the former vice president made to them prior to the national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The source confirmed to our correspondents that PDP has been unable to persuade most of their aggrieved governors to accept the Atiku/Obi ticket.


“I can authoritatively confirm to you that some of PDP governors are working for President Buhari. The concerns raised earlier by the governors that the zonal leaders were not consulted before the nomination of Obi is still much there. “Some of these governors have also realised that it will be difficult to sustain the level of intervention, which the current government has made in the region, if another administration takes over power,” he said. Similarly, some governors in the South-South, especially those seeking second terms in office, were said to be hobnobbing with the ruling party for selfsurvival. New Telegraph gathered that the plot is to concede the presidential election to the ruling party in exchange for a second term mandate in their states.

The main opposition party may also be in for more shockers except it is able to rein in some of its chieftains who participated in the last presidential primary but lost the ticket. Our source said that PDP should be concerned that some of these former presidential aspirants have retired to the background and have been too cold towards the activities of PDP since the convention ended in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Another source said that with the corruption allegations hanging around the presidential candidate of PDP, it is increasingly becoming difficult to market him to the electorate in the North where President Buhari is largely perceived as a man of integrity.

The source explained that in the South-West, there is the consideration that the Yoruba will be shooting themselves in the foot if they work against President Buhari who has their son, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as vice and running mate. New Telegraph sought the confirmation of the report from a top member of APC who said that in politics, nothing is impossible.

The party chieftain, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said it was PDP governors and party chieftains that were making overtures to the ruling party. “Overtures have been made. We are not the ones making the overtures. The PDP leaders are the ones making the overtures. The truth of the matter is that PDP is a divided house and there are many people there who do not like their presidential candidate; unlike in APC where there is no single governor or party leader that does not support the candidature of President Buhari.

“They may have their local problems, local politics, but there is no single person that does not support President Buhari. There is a unity of purpose and unanimity of determination to work for the candidate of our party. “But in their own case, they have a divided house, especially from the region where their vice presidential candidate comes from. They have made it very obvious by their body language. Imagine on the eve of a major election year, you pack yourselves and go to meet the president to say ‘thank you for what you have been doing for us.’ “This is because for them, their personal survival and second term mandate is more important than their party producing the next president. They are in total disarray and it is for us to capitalise on it. “As for the president, so many factors are just conspiring to work in his favour because we don’t need to work too hard in the South-West to get them to support the president’s reelection.

They know that if they miss the opportunity of supporting him and getting the Presidency in 2023, it will take them another 24 years before it comes to them again,” he said. However, National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan, has described the insinuations by APC that some opposition governors were working for Buhari as an exercise in self-delusion. “APC and President Buhari are in self-delusion. Even all Nigerians are sick and tired of President Buhari and APC. Not a single PDP governor is campaigning for Buhari. It is just a rumour and it will remain as that,” Ologbondiyan told New Telegraph. Meanwhile, the two major political parties, APC and PDP, have identified the Middle Belt as a possible decider for the presidential election and have launched clandestine moves to capture the votes of the region. As part of the broad strategies to swing the votes in their favour, both parties are said to have invested in many smaller political parties right at the point of the registration of these parties to ensure that they exercised control over them.

The major political parties also worked hard in pulling the right strings that produced their favoured candidates in these other parties. Although the forthcoming presidential contest is presumed a two-horse race and a straight fight between President Buhari and Atiku, there are at least 78 other presidential candidates flying the flags of other political parties. An insider in one of the political parties who has been following the developments confided in New Telegraph that a good number of the presidential candidates across the fringe parties were moles of either PDP or APC, planted to play the spoiler game.

“Why do you think there are so many political parties and many presidential candidates? It is not for nothing; many of them are moles of the two dominant parties. They are in the race not just because of the plural nature of our politics, but hold ground and lock down some votes for their sponsors.

“Many of them you find in the Middle Belt are strategically positioned to galvanise local sentiments that could whittle down the influence of the major political parties,” he said. Ahead of the crucial elections, general permutation has been that Buhari and Atiku would mobilise massive votes from the North-West and North- East respectively, but would need to fight over the North- Central, which has always been a fallow ground for politicians of northern extraction. New Telegraph gathered that with the rather poor handling of the herdsmen/ farmers clashes by the Federal Government, the APC had been apprehensive that the electorate in the Middle Belt region which extends beyond the North Central geo-political zone and consists of minority ethnic nationalities across the North had been sufficiently provoked to cast protest votes against the ruling party.

“They know that with what happened in Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa and Kaduna states, the APC was losing ground to the advantage of its main rival, the PDP, hence, using smaller political parties with local figures as candidates could effectively divide the available and prevent the main opposition party from sweeping the polls in the Middle Belt,” the source said.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2018/11/new-telegraph-exclusive-pdp-govs-leaders-work-for-buharis-re-election/

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buhariguy:
We are all aware, the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Bia-fra terrorist thinks otherwise

the south east is not like South west. You will be in for a rude shock come February 2019. We don't have a single head that says a word and everyone follows, especially when it involves working for a man who killed our people.

These governors are on their own.

We sit and wait on how they intend to do that, if they will not be voted out too. When Buhari wins the Presidency, he would the use Federal might against the Governors, we are watching to see how the Governors would tell their followers to vote for Buhari

I always surprised that some people can/ are still supporting a man that is clueless,poor in admistration, lifeless and surrounding himself with kinsmen looting Nigerian' treasury. Most especially his supporters from southern part of the nation. Anyway it's only 2 types of people that are still supporting lifeless man,
1 .The Satanists
2. The Ignorants.

Corrinthians:
Kikikiki. What I said just a couple of hours ago and some ignorant emotional Athiefwku supporter was screaming the governors don't matter and that his people are so intelligent they don't rely on the opinion of their leaders to vote for whoever.

Una go take una eyes see the back of una ears without mirror for this election honestly.

There is no guarantee of victory for Atiku even in the strongholds of PDP, take that to the bank.

Shukwuokukobambi, see what we were talking about few moments ago.

no mind them, someone like obiano who is even apga and has no serious issues with buhari would work against obi definitely.

Last last while the eastern governors can't tell their people who to vote for, their complacency with security provision and other logistics would give apc a field day to dilute the usual block vote which the chief head of a state helps with (this is outside the votes ipob will kill with no referendum no election).


In south south wike already has a cosmetic relationship with atiku and won't commit money for him.

Ben ayade isn't even much into pdp, udom will be fighting for Fg concessions

If you watch the body language of that thug called Wike, you will know he is the leader of the south south caucaus of PDP governors who are secretly negotiating with APC. Amaechi is squeezing very hard and Wike knows the only way he is coming back is if he cuts a deal with APC behind Amaechi, though Amaechi will not want to coperate if he finds out.

kahal29:
Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, indications have emerged that some governors and chieftains of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are working for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari. The governors, it was learnt at the weekend, have been meeting secretly with key government officials and the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to plot strategies on how to deliver huge votes to the president in the 2019 general elections.

A competent source, who is privy to the arrangement, said that most of the PDP governors and leaders involved are those from the Southern part of the country and a few from the North, especially North-East where the PDP presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, hails from. According to the source, who prefers anonymity, PDP governors from the South-East and South- South are particularly unhappy with the choice of Mr. Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State, as running mate to Atiku for the 2019 presidential election.

The South-East governors had earlier fiercely opposed the Atiku/Obi ticket because they claimed it was against the promise, which the former vice president made to them prior to the national convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The source confirmed to our correspondents that PDP has been unable to persuade most of their aggrieved governors to accept the Atiku/Obi ticket.


“I can authoritatively confirm to you that some of PDP governors are working for President Buhari. The concerns raised earlier by the governors that the zonal leaders were not consulted before the nomination of Obi is still much there. “Some of these governors have also realised that it will be difficult to sustain the level of intervention, which the current government has made in the region, if another administration takes over power,” he said. Similarly, some governors in the South-South, especially those seeking second terms in office, were said to be hobnobbing with the ruling party for selfsurvival. New Telegraph gathered that the plot is to concede the presidential election to the ruling party in exchange for a second term mandate in their states.

The main opposition party may also be in for more shockers except it is able to rein in some of its chieftains who participated in the last presidential primary but lost the ticket. Our source said that PDP should be concerned that some of these former presidential aspirants have retired to the background and have been too cold towards the activities of PDP since the convention ended in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Another source said that with the corruption allegations hanging around the presidential candidate of PDP, it is increasingly becoming difficult to market him to the electorate in the North where President Buhari is largely perceived as a man of integrity.

The source explained that in the South-West, there is the consideration that the Yoruba will be shooting themselves in the foot if they work against President Buhari who has their son, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo as vice and running mate. New Telegraph sought the confirmation of the report from a top member of APC who said that in politics, nothing is impossible.

The party chieftain, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said it was PDP governors and party chieftains that were making overtures to the ruling party. “Overtures have been made. We are not the ones making the overtures. The PDP leaders are the ones making the overtures. The truth of the matter is that PDP is a divided house and there are many people there who do not like their presidential candidate; unlike in APC where there is no single governor or party leader that does not support the candidature of President Buhari.

“They may have their local problems, local politics, but there is no single person that does not support President Buhari. There is a unity of purpose and unanimity of determination to work for the candidate of our party. “But in their own case, they have a divided house, especially from the region where their vice presidential candidate comes from. They have made it very obvious by their body language. Imagine on the eve of a major election year, you pack yourselves and go to meet the president to say ‘thank you for what you have been doing for us.’ “This is because for them, their personal survival and second term mandate is more important than their party producing the next president. They are in total disarray and it is for us to capitalise on it. “As for the president, so many factors are just conspiring to work in his favour because we don’t need to work too hard in the South-West to get them to support the president’s reelection.

They know that if they miss the opportunity of supporting him and getting the Presidency in 2023, it will take them another 24 years before it comes to them again,” he said. However, National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbodiyan, has described the insinuations by APC that some opposition governors were working for Buhari as an exercise in self-delusion. “APC and President Buhari are in self-delusion. Even all Nigerians are sick and tired of President Buhari and APC. Not a single PDP governor is campaigning for Buhari. It is just a rumour and it will remain as that,” Ologbondiyan told New Telegraph. Meanwhile, the two major political parties, APC and PDP, have identified the Middle Belt as a possible decider for the presidential election and have launched clandestine moves to capture the votes of the region. As part of the broad strategies to swing the votes in their favour, both parties are said to have invested in many smaller political parties right at the point of the registration of these parties to ensure that they exercised control over them.

The major political parties also worked hard in pulling the right strings that produced their favoured candidates in these other parties. Although the forthcoming presidential contest is presumed a two-horse race and a straight fight between President Buhari and Atiku, there are at least 78 other presidential candidates flying the flags of other political parties. An insider in one of the political parties who has been following the developments confided in New Telegraph that a good number of the presidential candidates across the fringe parties were moles of either PDP or APC, planted to play the spoiler game.

“Why do you think there are so many political parties and many presidential candidates? It is not for nothing; many of them are moles of the two dominant parties. They are in the race not just because of the plural nature of our politics, but hold ground and lock down some votes for their sponsors.

“Many of them you find in the Middle Belt are strategically positioned to galvanise local sentiments that could whittle down the influence of the major political parties,” he said. Ahead of the crucial elections, general permutation has been that Buhari and Atiku would mobilise massive votes from the North-West and North- East respectively, but would need to fight over the North- Central, which has always been a fallow ground for politicians of northern extraction. New Telegraph gathered that with the rather poor handling of the herdsmen/ farmers clashes by the Federal Government, the APC had been apprehensive that the electorate in the Middle Belt region which extends beyond the North Central geo-political zone and consists of minority ethnic nationalities across the North had been sufficiently provoked to cast protest votes against the ruling party.

“They know that with what happened in Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa and Kaduna states, the APC was losing ground to the advantage of its main rival, the PDP, hence, using smaller political parties with local figures as candidates could effectively divide the available and prevent the main opposition party from sweeping the polls in the Middle Belt,” the source said.

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2018/11/new-telegraph-exclusive-pdp-govs-leaders-work-for-buharis-re-election/

Speculative as usual.

Isn't this the sàm newspaper that aware Gan-Dollar award just last month

Nonsense as usual

Authoritative, but anonymous.
The mind games have begun.

abc115:

Governors Supporting Buhari:
South East:
Sure:
Gov. Obiano of Anambra
Gov Umahi of Ebonyi
Gov. Okorocha of Imo
On the Fence:
Gov. Uguanwyi of Enugu
Gov. Ikpeazu of Abia

South South:
Sure:
Gov. Obasaki of Edo
Gov. Ayade of Cross Rivers
Gov Wike of Rivers

Son on the Fence because of Akpabio:
Emmanuel of Akwa ibom

Ugwuanyi is not on the fence. Jim Nwobodo is the APC laiason that he is working with to give APC substantial votes in enugu state in exchange for him to return without stress.