As what might appear as last minutes efforts to return back to victory on the April 11 Governorship election, President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Adamu Muazu on Thursday, met with all the gubernatorial candidates on the platform of the PDP.
According to a reliable source, the meeting which took place at the National Executive Committee, NEC hall of the PDP National Secretariat, was to encourage the governorship candidates to put behind them the event of last Saturday and focus on wining in the April 11 governorship election to enable the party retain it’s number in the states.
Soon after the meeting at the Wadata Plaza, the PDP gubernatorial candidates were conveyed in two Coaster buses to have another round of meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential villa.
Though the meeting held under closed door, it was gathered that Muazu urged the candidates to go and work harder in their various states and asked them not to be demoralised with what happened last Saturday where President Jonathan lost the election to the APC candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, retd.
Muazu was said to have also told the candidates that the presidential and National Assembly elections should afford them the opportunity to re strategise and win the election.
The PDP National Chairman was said to have told the PDP gubernatorial candidates that with what the party has done in the last sixteen years, they were sure of victory in their respective states.
“As we return to the electorate for the April 11, 2015 governorship and state assembly elections, we go recharged with faith in our heart. We assure all our candidates in the remaining elections that the party will stand with you, campaign with you and work vigourously to ensure your total victory at the polls.
“We call on our party faithful to remain steadfast in our renewed effort to deliver our flag bearers in the remaining elections,” a source said.
Those in attendance at the PDP National Headquarters are the PDP Deputy National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus; National Organising Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha; National Woman Leader, Chief Kema Chikwe, other members of the National Working Committee, NWC and State Chairmen of the party.
PDP gubernatorial candidates present at the meeting were Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Enugu State, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Adamawa; Senator Abdallah Wali, Sokoto; Gambo Lawan, Borno; Mahmud Aliyu Shinkafi, Zamfara; and Umar Mohammed Nasko, Niger.
Also present were Senator Teslim Folarin, Oyo; Udom Emmanuel, Akwa Ibom; Senator Gyang Pwajok, Plateau; Terhemba Tarzoor, Benue; Isiaka Gboyega, Ogun, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State; Senator Benedict Ayade, Cross River; Nyesom Wike, Rivers, among others.
