GOVERNORS elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will today meet in Abuja, the nation's capital city, with the lingering political quagmire in the party as well as planned removal of its national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur topping the agenda.
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It was gathered that the PDP governors meeting which will be a follow up to the one held penultimat Sunday, will also discuss the defection of five of its governors who operated under the aegis of G 7 into the All Progressives Congress, APC as top on the agenda.
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The meeting which will take place at the Akwa Ibom State Governor's Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, will be attended by the 18 governors of the PDP, just as it will be presided over by Akwa-Ibom state governor and Chairman, PDP Governors Forum, (PDPGF), Godswill Akpabio.
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It will be recalled that the governors at the end of their meeting penultimate Sunday had resolved that Bamanga Tukur must go if there must be peace in the party, even as the Governors at the end of the meeting vowed that it will be the only solution to the political logjam in the PDP against the backdrop that since he became chairman of the party in 2012, the party has not seen peace because of what it termed, his Administrative style which does not go in tandem with members of PDP.
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Meanwhile, as the governors meet today, the PDP national Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has pleaded with all the aggrieved governors , members of the National Assembly and other stakeholders and members to learn to forgive him and one another irrespective of the gravity of the offence or provocation. Tukur who begged the PDP governors that he has extended the hand of fellowship to them said,
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" To our Governors of PDP extraction, I extend my right hand of fellowship, cooperation, peace and love to you all in the interest of our great Party. I further entreat Nigerians to eschew bitterness, rancor and acrimony in their social, political and economic dealing with fellow Nigerians.
The old man doesn't want to leave his current post that is just the case. It's very rare to see this people like this beg for forgiveness.
Begging for forgiveness is not something politicians in Nigeria do on a daily basis. Almost Everyone is Proud!
The whole party is just crumbling and that is not a good sign at all. That is why people are just quitting anyhow.