AUTOMATIC TICKETS: JONATHAN, PDP GOVS IN LATE NIGHT MEETING IN ASO ROCK

President Goodluck Jonathan last night entered into a closed door meeting with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors at the presidential villa, Abuja.
Details of the meeting which commenced at about 9:40pm at the First Lady’s conference room was still unknown at press time.
But LEADERSHIP gathered that the meeting may not be unconnected with the seeming row between the governors and the party leadership over the directive that there should be no automatic ticket for governorship aspirants after the party had unanimously endorsed and adopted Jonathan as its sole candidate for the 2015 presidential election.
The governors were said to have been angry over the party’s decision not to accord them the opportunity of getting automatic ticket for those seeking second term or for those wishing to give same to their anointed candidates in their various states.
The meeting was ongoing at the time filing this report.
The state governors present the meeting were those of Kebbi, Kaduna, Gombe, Adamawa, Bauchi, Ondo, Ebonyi, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Cross River, Katsina, Abia, Niger and Taraba.
The governors of Kogi and Nasarawa were represented by their deputies respectively.
Source: Leadership