Goodluck creates a Counter- G-7 Govs Team in a reconciliation agenda

Under pressure from his loyalists to make his position on the 2015 race known on time, President Goodluck Jonathan has enlisted certain prominent individuals to checkmate the G-7 governors who have been up in arms against him.

In the latest move, former speaker of the House of Representatives Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’abba and a few former governors are to be empowered by the presidency to mobilise support for Jonathan ahead of the crucial election year.

LEADERSHIP further gathered that the former governors enlisted for the new task are Boni Haruna (Adamawa) and Peter Odili (Rivers).

It was also gathered that a meeting of some former governors was held in the Asokoro District of Abuja in the early hours of yesterday to firm up their strategies in the support for Jonathan.

 According to a presidency source, Jonathan is not contemplating an immediate cabinet reorganisation.

 LEADERSHIP also learnt that the president has equally instructed the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to put in place measures that would bring back all leaders of the party who were either complacent before now or might have been shoved aside by internal politics in some states.

The source disclosed further that the latest move by President Jonathan was coming on the heels of an interim report of one of the three special committees. 

The source said: “The issues are becoming more and more complex as if we will not see their end. For now, the president is open to reconciliation but he will not rely on any assurance from any of the so-called aggrieved governors because, severally, there have been settlements but they do the opposite of what was firmed up with them
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