The Presidency, yesterday, raised the alarm that five northern governors, who are currently moving round the country holding consultations with political stakeholders in Nigeria, have a hidden agenda to ease President Goodluck Jonathan out of the 2015 election “in order to enhance their selfish political interest”.
According to the Presidency, the so-called consultations by the governors, which had not been authorised by any organ of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, or the Presidency, was a selfish political move aimed solely at distracting President Jonathan from his people-oriented programmes and heat up the polity, so as to give the erroneous impression that the country was on fire.
The accusation by the Presidency notwithstanding, the governors, yesterday took their grievances against President Jonathan and the Tukur-led PDP, to former Vice President and founding member of the party, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, in Abuja.
Sunday Vanguard gathered that four out of the five governors – Sule Lamido, Murtala Nyako, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Aliyu Wamakko, met behind closed doors for several hours on Saturday with the former Vice President on what a source close to the governors described as a ‘further consultation’ with the founding fathers of the PDP.
“We met with the former VP and explained our grievances to him as a member of the G-34, which founded the PDP,” one of the governors said, without disclosing the details of their discussion.
The meeting with Ekwueme brought to five the number of top profile Nigerian leaders that the aggrieved governors had so far visited and explained their grievances to.
The Presidency, which initially spat fire over the action of the governors for their audacity to confront the President on issues relating to the PDP and the 2015 election, has however soft-pedaled and begged them to give peace a chance.
The Presidency which, though accused the five governors of having a hidden agenda against President Jonathan, also admonished them to desist from such antics in the interest of the nation.
The Political Adviser also pleaded with the quintuplet to sheathe their sword and allow peace to reign in the land.
Gulak said, “I want to plead with the four or five governors from the north, who are trying to precipitate crisis to give peace a chance and spare the country avoidable trouble.
“They should realise that without peace none of them would be governors. They should subsume their interest. That is my plea to them”.
Reflecting on the current crisis in the ruling party culminating in predictions about Nigeria’s disintegration in 2015, Gulak stated that the nation would wax stronger rather than break up.
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So you guys now remember Alex Ekueme as the founding father PDP, and the man is benefiting nothing from what he worked for.
ReplyDeleteThey threatened to remove Amechi from PDP. How many of them have the idea of how PDP was formed?
Nonsense and shellfish leaders.
GEJ should accept responsibility of rivers crises and apologise to amechi , rivers people and Nigerians if he want peace, no one is too big to say sorry. reasons how can u say 16 is greater than 19. secondly under his watch 5 members tried to impeach speaker that has 27 members on his side, just to pave way 4 d impeachment of Amechi by force. He needs to apologise. be guided
ReplyDeleteU ar talkin brat. NGF is a mere association of Gvs who wish to com together nd influence d polity. Any gvnor can choose nt to b memmber bcs it is nt backd by our constitution. NGF shld be of no concern for GEJ except again for sm political reasons. So dnt presido into NGF election. If amaechi hs respect for d president, we wl talk dis today.amaechi cannt win any electn under straight politiks. He is hot-tempered, disrespectful nd an ingrate.
DeletePDP(People Destroy People) is self-destruct within the shortest time. Make we sit down dey look.
ReplyDeletePOLITICIANS U guys are the SAME
ReplyDeleteHahahaha...political semantics...nija youth mak una galant wela jaree..
ReplyDeleteThis governors has noting to offer men,,
ReplyDeleteThey can not do noting to stop the sitting president not go for 2015,, impossible,, if not all man to his shell,,
And it will be favorable