Some former governors are
mounting pressure on their former colleague, Senator Danjuma Goje, to accept
President Muhammadu Buhari’s choice of Ahmad Lawan for Senate president.
The President is believed to have
met Goje on the matter.
Lawan, who is the Senate Leader,
is forging ahead. He met yesterday with some senators-elect and pleaded with
them to give him a chance, The Nation learnt.
The All Progressives Congress
(APC) former governors, including some of them who are senators, have opted to back Buhari’s decision on
Lawan.
Some of the former governors
include Ahmed Sani Yerima, Adamu Aliero, Abdullahi Adamu, Aliyu Wammako, George Akume, Bukar
Abba Ibrahim, Kabiru Gaya and Godswill
Akpabio.
It was gathered that the
ex-governors appreciated the “cautious approach adopted by Goje to his
aspiration without ruffling feathers but they felt he should defer to the
President”.
The ex-governors have sent a
delegation to Goje to reconsider his
position.
Although two of them were with
Goje on Saturday for what was termed “ a social gathering”, it was unclear
whether they were the ones who spoke on
behalf of their colleagues.
A former governor, who pleaded
not to be named, said: “It is true we are trying to avoid cracks in APC over the
Ninth Senate President and some of us have met on the President’s choice and
how to prevail on Goje to sacrifice his aspiration.
“I can tell you that some of us
have opened talks with him. We are
talking to him; we are mounting pressure. We also decided to send a delegation
to him.
“As a matter of right, Goje is
qualified to lead the Senate but we do not really want him to disagree with the
President. And he is not a leader who believes in confrontation.”
Responding to a question, the
source added: “Our intervention is just a follow-up to the audience between the
President and Goje.”
“The former governor of
Gombe State is yet to make any
categorical statement on his ambition.”
Goje, it was learnt, told Buhari,
who persuaded him to support Lawan, that he would “get back to him”.
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