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Receives recording of secret meeting
The lingering
face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and governors of the
People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a fresh twist as the President may
have received a tape recording detailing a plot by the governors to render the
President virtually irrelevant in major party matters.
Competent PDP
sources close to the governors hinted yesterday that one of the governors from
the north-central zone discreetly recorded proceedings of a recent meeting of
the governors and made the tape available to the party’s National Chairman,
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who relayed the content of same to an embattled
President.
The power show
between the governors and Jonathan came to the fore recently with the
leadership tussle in the Adamawa state PDP as the governors overturned the
decision of the National Working Committee (NWC) and ordered the restoration of
the Ninjiyiwa Kugama-led executive committee in that state.
Our sources said
that the governors were enrage
d at what would have amounted to humiliation of
one of them in the person of Governor Murtala Nyako and decided to rally around
him, a development which led to their calling the bluff of the NWC.
One of the sources
noted that part of the content of the tape may not be unconnected with certain
steps which the governors intend to take in order to reduce alleged Jonathan’s
excesses in the party especially in his equally alleged move to undermine the
power of the governors.
According to the
source, the issue of who becomes President in 2015 is at the centre of the
entire drama and, “the governors want to prove to the President that he cannot
really go far without them.”
Developments in
recent years have actually tended to prove that the governors constitute a
force to reckon with in the emergence of the President and the Vice President.
Former President
Olusegun Obasanjo’s successor, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was
picked from the governor’s forum and so was Jonathan himself who had started as
Vice President, also from his earlier position of governor.
The latest in what
has perhaps turned out to be the rule being the emergence of Vice President
Mohammed Namadi Sambo from his earlier position as Governor of Kaduna state.
According to the
source, “Jonathan wants to jettison the pattern and it is not likely to work
having been a beneficiary of the process.”
Source: Peoples Day
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