UNVEILED!!!:Jonathan And His Rebelling Governors Cut A Deal.

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Article from Punch News Paper...

More facts have emerged on the Sunday
night meeting between President Goodluck
Jonathan and aggrieved governors in the
New Peoples Democratic Party.
Presidency sources made this known just as
Jonathan met behind closed doors with
some PDP governors loyal to the Bamanga
Tukur-led National Working Committee of
the party.
One of the sources at the Sunday meeting,
said that the President and the other
attendees discussed and agreed on five
contentious issues: Amaechi’s suspension
by the Tukur-led NWC; control of the PDP
structure at the state level; Jonathan’s
alleged 2015 ambition; Tukur’s fate and
court cases.

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On Amaechi, the parties agreed that he
should be recalled and that a committee be
constituted to visit Port Harcourt and
reconcile all aggrieved members of the PDP
in the state.
The governor was suspended on June 21
for his alleged refusal to “obey the lawful
directive of the Rivers State Executive
Committee to rescind his decision
dissolving the elected Executive Council of
Obiokpor Local Government Area of the
state.”
The meeting also accepted that all the
governors of the party, including the
aggrieved ones, should be in charge of the
State Working Committees of the party in
their respective states.
It was further learnt that since the
governors were to be in charge of the party
structures in their states, President
Jonathan should determine the fate of
Tukur, who all the aggrieved governors
want removed.

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Our source said that “the President argued
that since it had been accepted that he
should not interfere in the running of the
party at the state level, he should be
allowed to determine what would happen
to its national chairman (Tukur).”
He added that the meeting, which was also
attended by three pro-Tukur governors –
Godswill Akpabio(Akwa Ibom), Idris Wada
(Kogi) and Liyel Imoke (Cross River State) -
agreed that all pending court cases
concerning the party must be withdrawn
immediately.
Amaechi is therefore expected to withdraw
a case in which he is challenging his
suspension. Also, numerous cases filed by
members of the New PDP and the Tukur-
led PDP will also be discontinued.
It was gathered that Jonathan’s 2015
ambition,generated heated arguments as
the aggrieved governors insisted that he
had told them that he would not run for a
second term.

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According to our source, the President
argued that there was no time he told
anyone that he would not contest for
second term.
The PUNCH gathered that Jonathan
specifically accused one of the aggrived
governors, Babangida Aliyu of Niger State,
of misleading Nigerians on the 2015 debate.
Aliyu was said to have told the President he
had said at different fora that he was not
going to seek re-election.
“The governor listed Ethiopia, United States
and different caucus meetings of the party
where the President made the statements,”
our source added.
When argument on the issue raged,the
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
PDP , Chief Tony Anenih, who was also
present at the meeting,which was held at
the Presidential Villa in Abuja, interjected
and advised that it should be suspended
for a latter date.

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The source said, “It was a give and take
meeting, but at the end of the day, we
agreed that the issue of 2015 should be
revisited and resolved amicably.
“I can tell you that the meeting was very
frank . We all spoke our minds, including
the President and his deputy (Namadi
Sambo). So, we wait to see the
implementation of the resolutions
reached.”
The other aggrieved governors, who were
also pillars of the New PDP at the meeting
were Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwanso
(Kano), Murtala Nyaho (Adamawa), Sule
Lamido (Jigawa), and Abdulfatah Ahmed
(Kwara).
A statement read by Aliyu at the end of the
talks stated that the parties agreed to avoid
inflammatory remarks, pending the final
resolution of the crisis.
The statement added that further talks
would continue on October 7.
On Monday Jonathan held secret talks with
Wada, Benue State Governor Gabriel
Suswam and other PDP governors loyal to
Tukur at the Presidential Villa.

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The identitities of the other governors were
not known as they arrived in the Villa in
vehicles with security number plates.
A source in the Villa described the meeting
as “consultative.”
Earlier on Monday, Akpabio and Anenih
were also sighted in the Villa. Commenting
on the outcome of the meeting, the
National Publicity Secretary of the party,
Chief Olisa Metuh, said the leadership of
the PDP was happy that the problems
bedevilling the party were being resolved.
Metuh said, “We are very happy and
grateful to the President, former President
Olusegun Obasanjo, the chairman of BoT
and other elders of the party.
“We are also happy with our governors. We
are happy that the party has shown that it
is capable of resolving its crises.”
In spite of the ‘no inflammatory comment
order’, the Special Adviser to the President
on Political Affairs, Mr. Ahmed Gulak,
boasted on Monday that nobody could
intimidate the President into not contesting
in 2015.

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“The 1999 Constitution gives Mr. President
the right to offer himself for second term if
he so chooses and no individual or group
can abridge his constitutional right. If he
decides not to contest, let it be on his own
volition not because he is intimidated or
cajoled into doing that, ” he told State
House correspondents in Abuja.
Gulak, who added that peace was gradually
returning to the party, said that Tukur
would survive the crises.
He said, “The national chairman has no
problem. He was elected and I always say
that as there are processes for election,
there are processes for removal or
resignation. So nobody can cajole anybody
to say the national chairman will not
survive. Nobody is against the national
chairman.”

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The Presidential aide dismissed claims that
the crisis would mark the end of the ruling
party, saying it (PDP) has internal
mechanism for resolving its problems
“We have entered into dialogue. Peace is
gradually returning to the PDP in
accordance with the constitution of the
party and in accordance with the
constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria. These two documents are our
guides. We abide by them and we dialogue
in accordance with the provision of the
constitution,” he said.
Gulak explained that the President would
consider the demands of the aggrieved
governors based on the constitution
He also said that the President would never
ask the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission not to perform its duties.

Source: punchonline.com 

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