PDP RECONCILIATION MEETING MAY HAVE BEEN CANCELED

The much publicised second peace meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and PDP governors may have been called off.
Reports say some of the governors who have aligned with the party’s faction chaired by Abubakar Baraje, declined to attend unless former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar was invited, a request rebuffed by the Presidency. Sixteen governors attended the initial peace meeting called on Sunday night, after walking out of the PDP Special Convention in Abuja to form another faction of the party.

DR GOODLUCK JONATHAN

Unofficial reports said the Sunday meeting was deadlocked after the aggrieved PDP governors tabled the folowing demands to rescind their action:
•Factional National Chairman Bamanga Tukur should be sacked;
•President Jonathan should do one term only and forget re-election in 2015;
•The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and Rivers State crises should be resolved; and
• “Harassment” of governors by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) should be stopped.
Attempts were made to narrow the conditions to two but no progress was made, The Nation learnt.
The two factions only succeeded in setting agenda for resumption of talks today (Tuesday, September 3, 2013).

CHIEF TONY ANENIH

But the National Secretary of the Atiku-Governors faction of the PDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, said yesterday that despite the intervention by Jonathan, former-President Olusegun Obasanjo and other party leaders, members of the New PDP would sustain their struggle, which was taken in the interest of the nation.