April 11: Jonathan, PDP Governors Meet
April 11: Jonathan, PDP Governors Meet
Ahead of the April 11th Governorship and State House of Assembly elections, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday met with Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party to strategize. The meeting which took place at the Presidential Villa, The Union gathered is aimed at ensuring that the party have better showing ahead of the forthcoming elections.
The President has since the results of the Presidential and National Assembly elections were released embarked on confidence building aimed at restoring hope to protect the party from losing confidence since other elections are considered equally important. The Union gathered from a top PDP member that the President who had earlier met with some PDP top members is using the opportunity to restore confidence of members.
“Yes we have been meeting and reviewing events in the last few days. That we lost the Presidential election does not mean we should give up on the remaining elections. We must rebuild the confidence in our members so that they will not be disillusioned into giving up so easily.”
Our source says the party wants to put the immediate past behind and focus on its new role of providing strong opposition to ensure that the party makes it back to power in 2019. Among the Governors that made it to yesterday’s meeting at the Villa, include Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom state and Chairman, PDP Governors Forum.
The Union gathered last night that President Jonathan has charged the PDP Governors to ensure a better performance in the April 11 election if the party must continued to be relevant. The meeting was also attended by Governors Jonah Jang, Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum and Plateau state governor, Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state, Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state, Liyel Imoke of Cross Rivers state, Ramalan Yero of Kaduna state, and Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta state. Also at the meeting were Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe state, Sule Lamido of Jigawa, Babangida Aliyu of Niger state. “The fight now is how to ensure that we not only regain all the PDP states, but also add more because we do not want to lose any state to the bandwagon effect”, The Union was told.
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