There are strong indications that the presidency may have begun another round of secret peace talks with seven state governors who have been protesting against the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. They include the governors of Kano, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso; Sokoto, Aliyu Wammako; Jigawa, Sule Lamido; Adamawa, Murtala Nyako; Niger, Babangida Aliyu; Kwara, Abdulfatah Ahmed and Rivers, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi.
President Goodluck Jonathan had begun the peace move with series of meetings with the G7 governors in Abuja. The meeting could however not continue since October following deeper cracks in the ruling PDP.
Saturday Sun gathered that the latest peace move is however being spearheaded by the National Security Adviser, Mr. Sambo Dasuki, who is said to be more worried about the security implications of the feud between the president and the governors.
Already, the NSA was said to have met separately with Governors Aliyu, Wammako, Amaechi, and Lamido in his bid to avert “the threat of a serious security breach in some of the states especially with an election year approaching.”
He was said to have expressed concerns over the security implication of the continued face-off between the president and the governors and sought that the stalled peace talks resume in the larger interest of the nation.
Just Thursday, the Kano state governor, Kwankwaso had spoken publicly along the same line, reinforcing the same fears earlier expressed by the security chief.
Kwankwaso expressed fear that if the current political trend continues in the ruling PDP, only God Knows what will happen in 2015.
He identified lack of listening ears and the existence of other undemocratic activities by the party’s leadership as some of the major problems bedeviling the party.
Receiving the Chairman, Senate Committee on MDGs and Leader of the Joint Committee of the National Assembly on MDGs, Senator Ali Muhammad Ndume, at the Government House in Kano, Kwankwaso said what happened last week, when the police asked five out of the G7 Governors to disperse from a meeting in Abuja was unconstitutional.
Though no presidency official was willing to talk on the latest intervention from the NSA because “it is strictly a security matter”, an associate of one of the governors said to have been involved in the peace move gave conditions on which such effort can yield the desired result.
Chief Emenazu Jackson, the Acting National Chairman of African Renaissance Party, said his expectation from such a meeting with the NSA, is that the Rivers State Commissioner of Police Mbu Joseph Mbu, should be redeployed with immediate effect.
According to him, “Mbu is a threat to democracy and the security of the state.” He said Mbu had exhibited the highest level of disrespect to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Source: Sun
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