The meeting President Goodluck
Jonathan had with Peoples Democratic Party governors on Sunday which was aimed
at resolving the crisis in the ruling party ended again in a deadlock in
the early hours of Monday.
Contrary to expectation,
Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State and his Sokoto State
counterpart, Aliyu Wamakko, who had earlier announced their defection to the
All Progressives Congress, stuck to their guns at the end of the meeting.
Wamakko told State House
correspondents at about 2.15 am on Monday that he used the opportunity of the
meeting to formally inform the President of the defection of five PDP
governors, including himself, to the APC.
He explained
that Kwankwaso and himself only attended the
meeting out of respect for the President, who invited them.
Wamakko said, “The
meeting went on very well because some of us came here as governors. In the PDP
matter, our position has been known.
“On behalf of the five of us, I
have already briefed Mr. President of our position as G-5, that we are no
longer in the PDP mainstream and that we are already in another party.
“But as a President of this
country, if he calls us, we will come and listen to him and respect him as a
leader of our country, otherwise what we had there was mostly a PDP affair.”
When asked why he sat through the
meeting which started around 10pm on Sunday and ended in the early hours of
Monday when he knew he was no longer a PDP member, the governor replied, “We
had to tell the President and the Chairman of the PDP BOT (Chief
Tony Anenih) our position. We can’t just be going about talking; we had to come
and tell them the truth where the truth must be told and that is why we came
here.”
Jonathan had on Saturday in France
boasted that three of the ex-PDP governors were still “sitting on the fence.”
Apart from Wamakko and Kwankwaso, the
other governors, who left the PDP for the APC are Rotimi Amaechi(Rivers),
Abdulfatah Ahmed(Kwara) and Murtala Nyako(Adamawa).
The Chairman of the PDP
Governors Forum, Godswill Akpabio, however claimed that the
defection of the governors was not discussed during the
meeting with Jonathan.
Akpabio also said if Wamakko
insisted on leaving the party, he was only one out of the
thousands of PDP members in Sokoto State.
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