- There are also other issues of national importance that are likely to be discussed.
- Recall that the party had called on all members and actors of the party involved in the ongoing political crisis rocking Rivers State to allow peace to reign.
Under the auspices of the Governors Forum, governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are presently locked in a closed-door meeting discussing several national concerns.
The political situation in Rivers State appears to be the main item on the agenda, based on impressions from the meeting.
Bala Mohammed, the PDPGF Chairman, called the emergency meeting. (Bauchi).
Some of the governors in attendance in the meeting holding at the Oyo State Governors Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, include: Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Godwin Obaseki (Edo), Ademola Adeleke (Osun), Dr. Dauda Lawal( Zamfara) Sheriff Oborevwori (Delta), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi) among others.
WITHIN NIGERIA reported yesterday that the PDP summoned an emergency meeting scheduled to hold in Abuja on Tuesday (today).
It was gathered in Abuja, on Monday that the main item on the agenda is the ongoing political crisis in Rivers State.
A member of the PDPGF who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press said the emergency session “is not unconnected with the crisis playing out in Rivers State, in which the State Governor, Mr. Similaye Fubara, and his predecessor, Barrister Nyeson Wike, are at loggerheads.”
Even though Wike is the current Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, serving under an All Progressives Congress (APC) government, both he and his successor as Governor of Rivers State are still members of the PDP.
According to the PDP-GF member, “This emergency meeting has become imperative because we cannot afford to close our eyes while things are going wrong.
“As a Forum (PDP-GF), we must act fast to ensure that this crisis doesn’t go out of hand, as such will not be to the benefit of anybody.”
The source further disclosed that the forthcoming off-cycle governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi States will also be discussed at the meeting.
There are also other issues of national importance that are likely to be discussed.
Other issues of national importance are also expected to be discussed during the gathering