President
Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday held two separate meetings with
former President Olusegun Obasanjo and 16 Peoples Democratic Party in
what is believed to be his bid to resolve the crisis that led
to the emergence of a splinter group in the party.
He
first met behind closed doors with Obasanjo for about two hours
inside his official residence in the Presidential Villa, Abuja and
then the governors, including four of the seven that are the arrowheads of the
splinter group known as the new PDP.
The
four are Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Muritala Nyako
(Adamawa) and Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara).The other governors in the Group
of Seven are Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Rotimi Amaechi
(Rivers).
The
G-7 and a founding member, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, had walked out of
the PDP special convention in Abuja on Saturday and
consequently, announced the formation of the new PDP.
Also
in the faction are a former Acting National Chairman of the
PDP, Kawu Baraje; a suspended National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye
Oyinlola; and a former National Deputy National Chairman, Dr. Sam Jaja.
They
were said to have been miffed by the way Dr. Bamanga Tukur and the Presidency
had been running the party to the exclusion of other critical
stakeholders.
Culled from The Punch
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