PDP Governors Gang-up Against President Jonathan
The new gang-up by Peoples Democratic Party governors against President
Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition is believed to be unsettling
the President.
Both of them were with the former President for about one and half hours before they left. It was after then that Akpabio, who also chairs the PDP Governors’ Forum, came and also had a discussion with Obasanjo.
Jonathan, it was gathered, was worried about the openness with which the PDP governors talked about 2015 and referred to him as unelectable.
You may wish to know that at least three PDP governors have openly declared that the President must honour his one-term agreement with them.
Apart from this, they also said that winning the primary of the PDP would not be a guarantee that Jonathan would win the presidential election.
Presidential sources said on Sunday that Jonathan was also worried about lack of communication between him and Obasanjo, a development considered as being dangerous to his 2015 ambition.
Besides, the President is believed to have considered as very serious, the warning by a former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, that politicians should not allow the crisis in Rivers State to "derail democracy" in Nigeria.
“Do you think the recent trial and conviction of the boy [Governor Sule Lamido's son] was an accident? Many people [in the Presidency] are not comfortable with the good things Obasanjo said about Gov Lamido on May 29.”The Punch gathered on Sunday that the reality that he might not win the PDP ticket for the 2015 poll made him to raise a team of three governors to meet with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abuja on Thursday. The governors, who met with Obasanjo, are Governor Godwill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom Sate; Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta State) and Liyel Imoke (Cross River State).The meeting, which was held at the Hilton Hotel, first had the duo of Uduaghan and Imoke in attendance.
Both of them were with the former President for about one and half hours before they left. It was after then that Akpabio, who also chairs the PDP Governors’ Forum, came and also had a discussion with Obasanjo.
Jonathan, it was gathered, was worried about the openness with which the PDP governors talked about 2015 and referred to him as unelectable.
You may wish to know that at least three PDP governors have openly declared that the President must honour his one-term agreement with them.
Apart from this, they also said that winning the primary of the PDP would not be a guarantee that Jonathan would win the presidential election.
Presidential sources said on Sunday that Jonathan was also worried about lack of communication between him and Obasanjo, a development considered as being dangerous to his 2015 ambition.
Besides, the President is believed to have considered as very serious, the warning by a former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, that politicians should not allow the crisis in Rivers State to "derail democracy" in Nigeria.
