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Four of the seven aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party governors on Tuesday met with President Goodluck Jonathan, in Abuja to protest ‘the belligerence’ of the party’s National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur.
According to PUNCH, before the meeting, Jonathan had held two separate closed doors meetings with two elders of the PDP and three governors sympathetic to the Tukur-led faction over the crisis rocking the party.
The elders were Dr. Ahmadu Ali, a former chairman of the PDP; and Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, an ex-military President.
The three governors that met with him earlier on Tuesday were Godswill Akpabio(Akwa Ibom), Gabriel Suswan (Benue); and Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta).
The four New PDP Governors, Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) – reiterated their demand for the recognition of their Rivers State counterpart, Rotimi Amaechi, as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum.
A source privy to the meeting said, “The aggrieved governors are ready for peace; that is why they attended the meeting in the first place. However, it is doubtful if any progress can be made if unconstitutional actions taken by the Tukur-led National Working Committee of the party are not reversed”.
A-yet-to-be verified information claimed that the governors equally asked the President to replace Vice-President Namadi Sambo with one of them as a pre-condition for their support should he decide to seek a second term in 2015.