PDP Appeals To Jonathan To Wade In As G-5 Govs Abandon Atiku

With no end in sight to the crisis rocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party’s leadership has concluded arrangements to meet former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan within the week. The planned meeting is aimed at finding a lasting solution to the crisis that has involved the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and what is now referred toastheG-5Governorsgroup within the party.The G-5 governors include Nyesom Wike of Rivers state, Seyi Makinde of Oyo state, Samuel Ortom of Benue State, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State. According to a former member of the National Working Committee of the PDP and now a prominent figure in the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Council, the party was equipped with a credible intelligence that the five governors were sympathetic to the former president.

He said the initial plan was to sustain some alternative plots around the G-5 governors until the Bauchi governor came up with his demand for apology from Atiku. “We have ample intelligence that these recalcitrant governors are inspired by Jonathan; and this is quite unfortunate.

He benefitted from this party and it is bad that he is encouraging Governors Nyesom Wike, Makinde, Ikpeazu, Ugwuanyi and Ortom to behave the way they are doing. He knows these five governors are fighting his cause.

“We got so convinced about this when the Bauchi Governor, Bala Mohammed, brought in his own angle to it.

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