Sources, however, stated that a leg of the meeting was used to discuss the Rivers State crisis and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in line with the previous meetings of the five PDP governors with former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and former heads of state, Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar.
Sources at the meeting between President Jonathan and Governors Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Ibrahim Geidam (Yobe) and Kashim Shettima (Borno) involved a leg devoted to national security issues and the second involving strictly PDP matters and the Rivers crisis.
Sources confirmed that the meeting with the president was aimed at intimating the governors of a security dimension being read in some quarters to some of the recent meetings held between them and some former leaders.
A source said diverse interpretations were being ascribed to the meetings between the governors and Obasanjo, Abdusalami and that the governors decided to clear the air on their motives.
The governors were also said to have told the president that their efforts were aimed at resolving the perceived logjam in the polity and that their findings were originally meant to be presented to him.
Sources said the meeting aimed at resolving the Rivers crisis was just at the preliminary stages and that stakeholders were calling a comprehensive meeting in a short while.
It was also gathered that the meeting reviewed the security situation in the three emergency states, whereby the president was able to let the governors into some details of security operations.
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