Nine governors of the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party on Tuesday shunned the inauguration of the Presidential
Campaign Organisation of the party in Abuja.
The organisation, headed by a former
National Chairman of the party, Senator Amadu Ali, is saddled with the
responsibility of selling the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan
and his deputy, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, to Nigerians for the February 14
presidential election.
But only a handful of the governors were in attendance.
Among the governors at the event were
Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi),
James Ngilari (Adamawa), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Ibrahim Dankwambo
(Gombe State).
However, governors Theodore Orji (Abia),
Dr. Olusegun Mimiko(Ondo), Sullivan Chime (Enugu), Seriake Dickson
(Bayelsa), Martin Elechi (Enugu) were absent from the inauguration.
Also absent at the inauguration were
governors Idris Wada (Kogi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), Sule Lamido
(Jigawa) and Jonah Jang (Plateau).
Some of
the absentee governors were put in charge of the campaign in their
zones. ...Punch
Lamido is saddled with the
responsibility of coordinating the presidential campaign in the
North-West, Mimiko is in charge of the South-West while Orji is to head
the South-East zone.
No reason was given for the absence of the governors.
However, the President later met behind closed doors with the PDP governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
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