President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday
met behind closed-doors with a factional chairman of the Nigerian
Governors’ Forum, Mr. Jonah Jang; Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party’s Governors Forum, Godswill Akpabio; and Governor Gabriel Suswam
of Benue State.
Although the agenda of the meeting was
not made public, a source said the crises in the PDP and the NGF must
have partly informed the meeting.
The three governors arrived at the
Presidential Villa, Abuja separately and left separately. It was not
clear whether the President met with the governors separately or
collectively.
They had arrived while Jonathan was
presiding over an emergency meeting of the Federal Executive Council
inside the Council Chambers.
The governors waited patiently inside the President’s office for the meeting to end before they met with him.
Akpabio refused to speak with journalists at the end of the meeting as he claimed that the meeting was not official.
Suswam, who spoke with journalists, did not disclose the purpose of the meeting.
When asked to react to a media report
that 10 PDP governors were set to dump the ruling party, he said it was
within such governors’ constitutional right to do so.
He, however, said he was not one of the governors as he was totally committed to the ruling party.
“If that is the case, I am not one of
those governors. So, I can’t comment on their behalf. Political party or
politics is something that is very free and if people decide to change
political parties, it is their prerogative to so do.
“As far as I am concerned, I am hundred
per cent PDP. I will stay within the party and continue to work for it
to achieve success,” he said.
On the meetings some northern governors
held with the President and some former heads of state, Suswam said they
were free to consult.
He said, “They (the northern governors)
are free as leaders in their own right to consult. I am not part of why
they are consulting or what they are consulting for, but they are going
round. I also read in the newspapers and saw them in the pages of
newspapers. They have the right to consult.”
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