2019: Five PDP Governors seeking Appointment with Buhari

2019: Five PDP Governors seeking Appointment with Buhari

Edgy for a second term, five People groups Vote based Gathering (PDP) governors are looking for a mystery settlement with President Muhammadu Buhari on the 2019 general races.

In particular, the arrangement is for the governors to help Buhari's re-race as a byproduct of the Administration's support in their offer to hold their seats.

The governors, who couldn't be named for "key" reasons, have sent emissaries, including two All Progressives Congress (APC) governors, to the President on their proposition.

One of the governors made an impression on the President in China through an APC senator, The Country learnt yesterday.

Additionally yesterday, previous Kano State Representative Ibrahim Shekarau dumped the PDP.

He is expected to report his surrender to the APC after interview with his supporters.

Albeit one of the five PDP governors started the "arrangement", the positive signs from the intervening APC governors and some best authorities of the Administration spurred four others to join.

The "dreary prospect" of not being re-chosen may have represented the distress of the governors, as indicated by sources in the Administration.

The five PDP governors are from the Southsouth and the Southeast. Two are from the Southsouth and three from the Southeast

One of the sources stated: “The five governors are lobbying APC leaders to help cut a deal with President Buhari by which the President will allow them to be re-elected in return for their support for Buhari to win the presidential election in those PDP states.

“The arrowhead of the group (from the Southsouth) has been talking to two APC governors. He is pleading with the governors to present the request of the five PDP governors to the President ahead of a likely face-to-face meeting.”

The sharpened stone of the settlement is said to have begun mounting weight on the two APC governors in Nigeria and has proceeded with the weight amid the progressing visit of the President to China.

The influenced Southsouth senator had before bombed in his endeavor to desert to the APC even with add up to dismissal of his turn by APC pioneers at the national level and at the state section, it was learnt.

“The idea of lobbying for some horse trading with President Buhari was first brought up by the arrowhead, who broached it with senior officials of the Presidency last year when his relationship with PDP leaders and members in his state, including his godfather, became frosty,” a source said, pleading not to be named “so as not to jeopardise the negotiations”.


Another source talked about how Congress person Godswill Akpabio's abandonment and the advance being made by the APC into the Southsouth has caused a political disturbed in the geopolitical zone.

“With the defection of Senator Akpabio on August 8 to the APC and the obvious rise in the electoral fortunes of the party in the zone, the arrowhead was mandated by the group to secure an audience with President Buhari for them to present their plan.

Said the source: “Should the meeting hold, the governors would be dangling before the Presidency the prospect of a win for President Buhari in the Southsouth and Southeast zones, the two regions that have been the strongholds of the PDP.”