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A storm is gathering in the Peoples Democratic Party as some governors elected on the platform of the party are poised to rally against a plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to run for an alleged second term in 2015.
Just last week, the former President of the Ijaw Youth Council, and Leader of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, said Jonathan would occupy Aso Rock for eight years as president.
However, a governor, who spoke to our correspondent on the condition of anonymity on Friday, said a second term for the president would negate an agreement that the President reached with the governors before they agreed to support his transition from acting President to President.
During the tension-filled period that followed the hospitalisation of Jonathan's predecessor, Musa Yar'Adua, in Saudi Arabia, there were speculations the President had promised the governors that he would only serve a term.
The hint about the governors' opposition to Jonathan's alleged second-term plan is coming less than two weeks after the governors had threatened to leave the party following a recommendation that the membership of the party's National Executive Council should be increased.
The NEC, which is the party's most powerful organ, is dominated by the governors, who by sheer number and the number of appointees they have in the council, call the shots.
Our correspondent reports that the governors said the plan to increase the council's membership was an attempt to whittle their powers.
At the 59th National Executive Committee of the party, some stalwarts had moved for the approval of the recommendation by the Constitution Review Committee of the party led by the National Legal Adviser, Chief Olusola Oke, to enlarge the NEC by bringing 72 more lawmakers from the National Assembly.
SUNDAY PUNCH authoritatively gathered last week that the real reasons some of the governors opposed the amendment was because they felt that the amendment was a ploy to bring in the president's loyalists preparatory to his suspected 2015 ambition.
The governor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he and his colleagues did not trust President Jonathan.
The Punch