By Abdoulaye Kay
After a long meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday night, the G-5 out of the original G-7 Governors have finally announced to the Presidency that they had defected to the All Progressive Congress (APC).
A strong source very close to the meeting exclusively told Newsdiaryonline that the G-7 governors’ with Jonathan was held at the same time the PDP governors were holding theirs.
Newsdiaryonline gathered that the PDP governors later joined the G-7 governors meeting with Jonathan.
At Jonathan’s meeting with the G-7 which included Kwankwaso,Wamakko and , at the Presidential Villa, which started on Sunday night and ended in the early hours of today.
“Governors Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano had, on
behalf of the Governors of Rivers, Kwara and Adamawa States, formally told President Goodluck Jonathan and Chairman of PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih that they have left PDP for APC; they shall henceforth be referred to as APC Governors; that they will continue to meet with Mr. President like other opposition Governors not from the PDP and must be treated with dignity,” the source further told Newsdiaryonline.
“Governor Kwankwaso, earlier in the meeting, gave a lengthy account of all that happened in the PDP before taking decision to move to APC,” he continued.
However, Mr. President, Anenih and the other PDP Governors at the meeting, pleaded with the G-5 Governors not to leave the party, promising that their grievances would be looked into.
According to the source, the G-5 governors see their colleague’s call for them not to defect as hypocritical. This in view of the fact that the matter had been dragging on for quite some time and they had done rather nothing to save the situation.
“If the meeting was meant to be exclusively between Mr. President and the G-5, why were the PDP governors invited into the meeting? It was certainly intended to intimidate the G-5 governors as has always been,” he further told Newsdiaryonline.
Observing that the call by the PDP governors was not welcome, he added that as it were, the PDP at the national level has no valid executive and no structures at the states levels.
