PDP crisis: Presidency insists on meeting with G7 govs today •Takes on Lamido over claim on Jonathan, •Tukur Tukur not a bona fide member of PDP - New PDP
IN spite of the intention of G7 governors of the New Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to stay away from today’s meeting called by President Goodluck Jonathan to resolve the lingering crisis in the party, the presidency is going ahead with its plans, hoping that the governors will still attend.
The president, some governors of PDP, party stakeholders loyal to him and the aggrieved governors had agreed in their meeting of September 15, held at the Presidential Villa, to sheathe their swords and return to a final round of meeting today, where they hoped all outstanding disagreements would be resolved.
But the Abubakar Baraje-led splinter group, to which the rebel governors were loyal, in a media statement last week, indicated that it was seeking a postponement of the meeting, as it coincided with the time most of the seven governors would be out of the country on Muslim pigrimage.
But the Nigerian Tribune learnt on Sunday that beyond what it saw on the pages of the newspapers, the presidency had not been officially notified of their decision not to attend.
It is, therefore, going ahead with the preparations for the meeting, which was expected to take place at the First Lady wing of the Presidential Villa.
The Special Adviser to the President, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, confirmed to the Nigerian Tribune in a phone call on Sunday that President Jonathan was ready to receive the governors today or any time at all.
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