PDP governors plan to bring back Amaechi and others

Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party met in Katsina, Katsina State on Friday and agreed to set up a committee that would bring back five governors who have left the ruling party for the All Progressive Congress.

The Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, who is also the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio,who disclosed this after the meeting of the governors, added that the committee would also get across to other aggrieved members of the party as well.

Akpabio, however, did not mention the names of the members of the committee, but added that the committee would be known as reconciliation committee.

Flanked by other governors during the press briefing after the Forum’s retreat which was held at the Katsina state capital Akpabio said, “The forum has set up a reconciliation committee to ensure total recognition of all its members including our governors who have defected to other party.”

Governors who have left the party in anger are Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Rotimi Amaechi  (Rivers), Abdulfatai Ahmed (Kwara) Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano)

Apart from them, 37 members of the House of Representatives also left the party for the APC while some members of the state houses of assembly across the country have also ditched the party.

Irrespective of the pleas by the leadership of the party that they should return to the ruling party, the defected governors and the lawmakers have maintained that they would remain in their new party.

Akpabio also criticised the APC for directing its members in the National Assembly not to work for the passage of the 2014 budget and also block the screwing of ministerial nominees and the service chiefs.

He said the call was uncalled for and described it as unfortunate.

While hailing the decision of the former National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for resigning his position, he also pledged the loyalty of the governors for the new national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.

He said, “Forum congratulates President Goodluck Jonathan on the peaceful transition of authority from Tukur to Mu’azu  as the chairman of the PDP

“We express our confidence in his ability to unite the party and lead the party to victory in 2015.”

Source: Punch