Aggrieved PDP senators shun meeting with Mu’azu, govs
All Peoples' Congress (APC), Legislature, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Senate Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
National chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, and governors elected on the platform of the party held a closed door meeting with the PDP senators at the official residence of Senate President David Mark, on Wednesday.
The agenda of the meeting was not known but sources said it might not be unconnected with the alleged defection plan of some aggrieved members of the party in the Senate.
However, none of the aggrieved senators were sighted at the meeting which was well attended by the PDP members in the upper chamber.
The meeting, it was further learnt, was at the instance of Mu’azu and was aimed at finding common grounds to resolve issues affecting the party.

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The state governors in attendance at the meeting were Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa; Babangida Aliyu of Niger; Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom; Theodore Orji of Abia; Ibrahim Shema of Katsina; Liyel Imoke of Cross River; Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta; Idris Wada of Kogi; and Ramalam Yaro of Kaduna.
The deputy governors of Jigawa, Sokoto and Taraba, also represented their bosses at the meeting.
Members of the National Working Committee of PDP who accompanied Mu’azu to the meeting included the spokesman of the party, Olisah Metuh, Uche Secondus, Oladipo Wale, and Mrs. Kema Chikwe.
Senate leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, who spoke on behalf of the senators, pledged the loyalty of the lawmakers to the new leadership of the party.
He said, “I pledge that in us, the PDP Senate caucus, you will find very loyal party men and women. We will work with you, we will stay by you, we will partner with you to reinvent the PDP.”
Ndoma-Egba noted that PDP as a party was passing through challenging times but assured that, “the good news is that the challenges are about to end while those of the other parties are about to begin.”
He said meetings of such nature were necessary so that the members would be able to share notes and nip problems in the bud before such problems became public knowledge.
He said, “PDP is as strong as it has always been and will be stronger.”
Akpabio, who responded on behalf of the governors, described the meeting as a special one for the governors.
He said, “It is an uncommon gathering in an uncommon period in the history of this uncommon party, which is facing uncommon challenges and seeking uncommon solutions”
He assured the new chairman that the governors would stand by him and pledged their readiness to do everything legally possible to reposition the party for victory in the 2015 elections.
Meanwhile, Akpabio, and the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma – Egba, briefed journalists after the closed-door meeting at about 9pm.
Akpabio explained that the absence of some senators had nothing to do with the alleged defection of some of the party members in the red chamber.
He said, “Since the notice was very short, there is no way you can expect 100 percent attendance in this type of a meeting because most of them have various oversight functions to attend to.”
Ndoma – Egba also added that none of the senators in the upper chamber had defected because no one had taken steps expected of a defector.
He said, “There are procedures for defection in the Senate and as I am speaking with you, nobody had done that.”
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