Some Peoples Democratic Party governors are angry with the national chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu and Senate President David Mark over the collapse of the deal President Goodluck Jonathan had with them before he was adopted as the sole presidential candidate of the party.
The governors are angry that the President fell to the blackmail of senators who threatened to impeach him and therefore agreed with them (senators) that some of them be given automatic tickets.
The angry governors are meeting with President Jonathan on Tuesday night, to register their displeasure on the matter.
The Tuesday meeting, it was gathered, would be meant to extract “some commitment from him” before his ratification during the December 10 national convention of the PDP.
The commitment, it was learnt, would mean that the President would support their governorship candidates.
Besides, it was also meant to make sure that the President if he wins in 2015, will not haunt them with anti-corruption agencies after leaving office in 2015.
It would be recalled that as part of the deal between the governors and President Jonathan, the governors were to present their preferred candidates as successors just as those with senatorial ambitions were to be allowed to aspire.
Based on this, not less than eight of the PDP governors serving their final terms had signified their intention to run for the senate.
It was gathered that some sitting senators had approached the Senate President, David Mark to help them prevail on both the President and PDP chairman not to agree with the governors.
It was learnt that part of the plot aimed at frustrating the deal the President had with the governors was for the Senators to support the opposition for the impeachment of Jonathan.
This, it was gathered, was aimed at putting pressure on the President and the President to support the return of majority of the PDP senators.
In order to achieve their aim, Mark and the Senate Leader, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba met with Mua’zu in Abuja on Thursday.
The meeting, it was gathered, was aimed at asking the PDP chairman to intervene on behalf of the President by supporting the return of some of the senators.
The outcome of the meeting was said to have been the unceremonial withdrawal from the senatorial race of Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan and Sullivan Chime of Delta and Enugu respectively.
A governor from one the northern states confided in a team of journalists in Abuja on Saturday, that, “The PDP we used to know is not the one we are seeing now, the party is rotten and this is very shameful and unfortunate; some of us feel like crying for the party we once cherised as the biggest party in Africa.
“It is most ridiculous for the President to reach an agreement with us and renege.
“But I can assure you that we have decided to unravel the issue because we suspect foul play in all that is going on within the party; imagine forcing sitting governors to withdraw from the race simply because someone somewhere is threatened by the presence of former governors who are desirous of being senators.
“Right now, one of us, a South-East governor is already on his way to the opposition party.
“This is the height of unseriousness on the part of any political party that intends to win next year; this matter has to be tabled may be on Tuesday before the President.” Punch
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