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Saturday 31 January 2015

PDP Accused Five Governors Of Supporting Buhari

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) accused five of its governors of supporting the presidential candidate under the platform of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari, ahead of the February 14 election.
According to the top PDP official the governors were secretly mobilising support for Buhari for getting at least 25 per cent of the total votes cast in their own states to improve his chances of winning the presidential poll.


The party put such governors under watch: Mr. Sullivan Chime (Enugu), Chief Martin Elechi (Ebonyi), Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Mr. James Bala Ngilari (Adamawa) and Abubakar Danladi (Taraba).
The PDP management had doubts about the commitment of the governors, along with some other important persons of the party who nurse complaints following the party’s primaries, to ensure enthusiastically work for the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan next month.
Meanwhile it could not be autonomously proved if more states are involved in the deal to ease Buhari’s victory just as PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, debunked the supposed agreement.
It is a thing that calls for worry because we have verifiable evidence and enough facts indeed that some of the PDP governors you press call aggrieved governors are already preparing ground to allow General Buhari have a leverage that can give him the required 25 per cent of total votes cast in the February 14 presidential election,” the source said.
The irony is that we do know this fact but we do not in the same breath, want to confront them and rock the boat. The only thing we can do is to put them under serious surveillance as we approach the elections”, he continued.

Meanwhile, Metuh claimed the reports are invented by APC to create confusion in the ruling party.
He said: “This is a rumour and a lie fabricated by the opposition to create confusion in our midst. All our governors are intact and fully committed to the ideals of the PDP. They have all been working against the APC and its candidate and cannot turn around to support the opposition in any form.”
Ahead of February general polls a lot of PDP members left the ruling party to join opposition.
A pro-Jonathan support group ‘Believe Nigeria Trust Goodluck’, has dumped the ruling party a week ago for the APC candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

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