Facts about what went down at the meeting between the President and
the 7 aggrieved governors of the new Peoples Democratic Party have
emerged. In their report, Punch details the facts of the meeting.
Read below:
One of the sources at the Sunday meeting, said that the President and
the other attendees discussed and agreed on five contentious issues:
Amaechi’s suspension by the Tukur-led NWC; control of the PDP structure
at the state level; Jonathan’s alleged 2015 ambition; Tukur’s fate and
court cases.
On Amaechi, the parties agreed that he should be recalled and that a
committee be constituted to visit Port Harcourt and reconcile all
aggrieved members of the PDP in the state.
The governor was suspended on June 21 for his alleged refusal to
“obey the lawful directive of the Rivers State Executive Committee to
rescind his decision dissolving the elected Executive Council of
Obiokpor Local Government Area of the state.”
The meeting also accepted that all the governors of the party,
including the aggrieved ones, should be in charge of the State Working
Committees of the party in their respective states.
It was further learnt that since the governors were to be in
charge of the party structures in their states, President Jonathan
should determine the fate of Tukur, who all the aggrieved governors
want removed.
Our source said that “the President argued that since it had been
accepted that he should not interfere in the running of the party at
the state level, he should be allowed to determine what would happen to
its national chairman (Tukur).”
He added that the meeting, which was also attended by three pro-Tukur
governors – Godswill Akpabio(Akwa Ibom), Idris Wada(Kogi) and Liyel
Imoke (Cross River State) - agreed that all pending court cases
concerning the party must be withdrawn immediately.
Amaechi is therefore expected to withdraw a case in which he is
challenging his suspension. Also, numerous cases filed by members of
the New PDP and the Tukur-led PDP will also be discontinued.
It was gathered that Jonathan’s 2015 ambition,generated heated
arguments as the aggrieved governors insisted that he had told them
that he would not run for a second term.
According to our source, the President argued that there was no time he told anyone that he would not contest for second term.
The PUNCH gathered that Jonathan specifically accused one of
the aggrived governors, Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, of misleading
Nigerians on the 2015 debate.
Aliyu was said to have told the President he had said at different fora that he was not going to seek re-election.
“The governor listed Ethiopia, United States and different caucus
meetings of the party where the President made the statements,” our
source added.
When argument on the issue raged,the Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the PDP , Chief Tony Anenih, who was also present at the
meeting,which was held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, interjected
and advised that it should be suspended for a latter date.
The source said, “It was a give and take meeting, but at the end of
the day, we agreed that the issue of 2015 should be revisited and
resolved amicably.
“I can tell you that the meeting was very frank . We all spoke our
minds, including the President and his deputy (Namadi Sambo). So, we
wait to see the implementation of the resolutions reached.”
The other aggrieved governors, who were also pillars of the New PDP at
the meeting were Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano), Murtala
Nyaho (Adamawa), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), and Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara).
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