Wamakko,Kwankwanso Joins Other PDP Governors In Meeting Goodluck

 

Two  Peoples Democratic Party governors who  had defected  to  the All Progressives Congress made a surprise appearance at a peace meeting  called by President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday.

The two governors are   Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State and  Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State.

Kwankwaso and Wamakko were driven into the premises of the First Lady Conference Hall, Presidential Villa venue of the meeting in the same car at about 9pm.

They arrived about an hour after one of the aggrieved PDP  governors, Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, arrived the venue.

Aliyu, and the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), were already seated at the venue when Kwankwaso and  Wamakko arrived.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, who also arrived before them went to confer with the President inside his residence before joining them at the venue.

Jonathan and Vice -President Namadi Sambo arrived the venue at about 9.50pm.

At 10pm, other  PDP governors who had earlier met at  the Akwa Ibom State Governors Lodge   in  Asokoro arrived the venue of the meeting.

Those who arrived alongside the PDP Governors’ Forum Chairman, Godswill Akpabio,  were the governors of Abia, Kebbi, Kogi, Katsina, Bauchi, Plateau, Enugu, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Ebonyi, Kaduna and Taraba States.

Another aggrieved governor , Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, who   has not    declared for the APC, did not attend the meeting.