2015: Jonathan, PDP governors in secret talks

President Goodluck Jonathan late Monday night held a closed door meeting with governors of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The meeting, which began at 9.35pm, was convened to map out strategies for positioning the PDP for the 2015 general elections, sources said.

Also, President Jonathan wanted to seek the governors’ views on how best to woo their colleagues who had defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as how to forestall further defections of federal legislators from their respective states.

Another source told our correspondent that the president would, at the meeting, acquaint the governors with the outcome of his recent meetings with some traditional rulers in the country.

Governors who attended the meeting were Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Jonah Jang (Plateau), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), Mukhtar Yero (Kaduna), Saidu Dakingari (Kebbi), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Martins Elechi (Ebonyi), Theodore Orji (Abia), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta) and Taraba Acting Governor Garba Umar.

The deputy governors of Bayelsa and Adamawa, John Jonah and Bala Ngilari, also attended.

Others were PDP National Chairman Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu and his deputy, Uche Secondus, Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.