As tempers calm, there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel in the crisis currently ravaging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as seven of the governors who formed the splinter faction of the party have withdrawn their demand for President Goodluck Jonathan to rescind his 2015 presidential ambition.
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor’s Forum, Godswill Akpabio made the revelation on Monday.
The seven governors — Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Abdulafatah Ahmed (Kwara), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) — broke away from the main party at the party’s mini convention on 31st August to form the “new PDP” chaired by Alhaji Abubakar Baraje.
The aggrieved group had demanded that the president should jettison his ambition to contest the 2015 presidential election.
But speaking with State House correspondents about the Sunday night meeting between President Jonathan and the aggrieved governors, Akpabio revealed that the matter has been settled.
“That is why I said that the processes are on and of course on the issue of 2015, both sides agreed that it wasn’t an issue for discussion because every single person has a right to have ambition,” he said.
“Some of the governors may have ambition like I have ambition to go to Senate and you can’t discuss anything about another person’s ambition. You are the only person that can discuss your own ambition. Ambition is personal. So both parties agreed to that.”
