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• Receives recording of secret meeting
The lingering face-off between President Goodluck Jonathan and governors of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has taken a fresh twist as the President may have received a tape recording detailing a plot by the governors to render the President virtually irrelevant in major party matters.
Competent PDP sources close to the governors hinted yesterday that one of the governors from the north-central zone discreetly recorded proceedings of a recent meeting of the governors and made the tape available to the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who relayed the content of same to an embattled President.
The power show between the governors and Jonathan came to the fore recently with the leadership tussle in the Adamawa state PDP as the governors overturned the decision of the National Working Committee (NWC) and ordered the restoration of the Ninjiyiwa Kugama-led executive committee in that state.
Our sources said that the governors were enraged at what would have amounted to humiliation of one of them in the person of Governor Murtala Nyako and decided to rally around him, a development which led to their calling the bluff of the NWC.
One of the sources noted that part of the content of the tape may not be unconnected with certain steps which the governors intend to take in order to reduce alleged Jonathan’s excesses in the party especially in his equally alleged move to undermine the power of the governors.
According to the source, the issue of who becomes President in 2015 is at the centre of the entire drama and, “the governors want to prove to the President that he cannot really go far without them.”
Developments in recent years have actually tended to prove that the governors constitute a force to reckon with in the emergence of the President and the Vice President.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s successor, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was picked from the governor’s forum and so was Jonathan himself who had started as Vice President, also from his earlier position of governor.
The latest in what has perhaps turned out to be the rule being the emergence of Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo from his earlier position as Governor of Kaduna state.
According to the source, “Jonathan wants to jettison the pattern and it is not likely to work having been a beneficiary of the process.”
Source: Peoples Day