President Goodluck Jonathan
Following the volte face made by the seven renegade governors of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the splinter faction of the party which they founded have withdrawn their demand for President Goodluck Jonathan to rescind his ambition to run for a second term in the 2015 presidential election.
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor’s Forum, Godswill Akpabio made the revelation on Monday.
The seven governors — Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Abdulafatah Ahmed (Kwara), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) — broke away from the main party at the party’s mini convention on 31st August to form the “new PDP” chaired by Alhaji Abubakar Baraje.
The estranged faction had demanded that the President Jonathan renounce his undeclared ambition to contest the 2015 presidential election.
But speaking with State House correspondents about the Sunday night meeting between President Jonathan and the aggrieved governors, Akpabio revealed that the matter has been settled.
“That is why I said that the processes are on and of course on the issue of 2015, both sides agreed that it wasn’t an issue for discussion because every single person has a right to have ambition,” he said.
“Some of the governors may have ambition like I have ambition to go to Senate and you can’t discuss anything about another person’s ambition. You are the only person that can discuss your own ambition. Ambition is personal. So both parties agreed to that
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