It is the absolute right of all elected public officials to exhaust their terms of office except if on personal consideration they decide not to. The Govs and interested parties harassing the President on a single term are all selfish. It is either they have their eyes on Aso rock or they have a vested interest in Abuja or they have exhausted their own terms of office and looking to create chaos. The President must learn from IBB and OBJ and wield the big stick where necessary. Life is all about self preservation.
President makes concessions to end PDP crises
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi is to be recalled from suspension, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) source told The Nation yesterday.
This is one of the four concessions made by President Goodluck Jonathan to the Group of Seven governors (G7) at a meeting on Sunday.
But the President was said to have been adamant on 2015, insisting that he never said he would not seek re-election.
He claimed that what he said in Ethiopia was that he would not be a party to tenure elongation.
Despite the concessions, the G-7 governors and the Kawu Baraje-led New PDP are taking their case to the House of Representatives.
They want to brief the leadership of the House on what led to the party’s factionalisation.
According to sources, who spoke on the peace talks at the Presidential Villa, the meeting was “conciliatory”.
One of the sources said: “For the first time, the meeting was conciliatory; there was no tension on all issues, unlike the case at the previous sessions.”
The President came to the meeting with Vice-President Namadi Sambo; the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Obong Godswill Akpabio; the governors of Kogi and Cross River states, Capt Idris Wada and Liyel Imoke.
On the side of the G-7 were the governors of Adamawa, Niger, Rivers, Kwara, Sokoto, Jigawa and Kano
“There were preliminary talks on why it is important to keep the party united. The President said his disposition was that ‘whatever is going on is a family fight which could be amicably resolved’. He spoke as a leader with national interest above all other considerations.
“Everyone also spoke on the fact that the issues at stake could be well-managed,” the source said.
All issues were reportedly treated one after the other. The President and his team made the following concessions:
•immediate lifting of the suspension of Governor Rotimi Amaechi by the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP;
•return of party structures to all the governors, including those of Rivers and Adamawa states;
•raising a committee to visit Rivers State, like it was the case with Adamawa State, to build consensus and restore party structure to the governor; and the
•the governors and party leaders should leave Jonathan to decide Tukur’s fate. One of the aggrived governors’ conditions for peace is Tukur’s removal
On the 2015 poll, another source quoted the President as saying: ‘I did not give anybody any commitment that I won’t seek re-election.”
The source said: “Jonathan clarified that what he said in Ethiopia was that as a democratic leader, he would not elongate his tenure under any guise. He said since the crisis in the party was basically on 2015, it is a matter that can be addressed later.
“His body language suggested that he won’t compromise his ambition to contest in 2015. But it was not a major issue yet at the peace talks.”
In a proper environment, all political office holders in Nigeria deserves to be sacked for none performance except for a few like BRF, though the development is at a price of eternal debt to unborn generations of Lagosians. Lagos appears to be the most indebted state in Africa although there is evidence of development on ground.
Just like the swift resoloution of the PDP crisis, the government is urged to accord the same attention to the ASUU strike as well!
The Abuja parody is detailed below:
President makes concessions to end PDP crises
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi is to be recalled from suspension, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) source told The Nation yesterday.
This is one of the four concessions made by President Goodluck Jonathan to the Group of Seven governors (G7) at a meeting on Sunday.
But the President was said to have been adamant on 2015, insisting that he never said he would not seek re-election.
He claimed that what he said in Ethiopia was that he would not be a party to tenure elongation.
Despite the concessions, the G-7 governors and the Kawu Baraje-led New PDP are taking their case to the House of Representatives.
They want to brief the leadership of the House on what led to the party’s factionalisation.
According to sources, who spoke on the peace talks at the Presidential Villa, the meeting was “conciliatory”.
One of the sources said: “For the first time, the meeting was conciliatory; there was no tension on all issues, unlike the case at the previous sessions.”
The President came to the meeting with Vice-President Namadi Sambo; the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the PDP, Chief Tony Anenih, the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Obong Godswill Akpabio; the governors of Kogi and Cross River states, Capt Idris Wada and Liyel Imoke.
On the side of the G-7 were the governors of Adamawa, Niger, Rivers, Kwara, Sokoto, Jigawa and Kano
“There were preliminary talks on why it is important to keep the party united. The President said his disposition was that ‘whatever is going on is a family fight which could be amicably resolved’. He spoke as a leader with national interest above all other considerations.
“Everyone also spoke on the fact that the issues at stake could be well-managed,” the source said.
All issues were reportedly treated one after the other. The President and his team made the following concessions:
•immediate lifting of the suspension of Governor Rotimi Amaechi by the Bamanga Tukur-led PDP;
•return of party structures to all the governors, including those of Rivers and Adamawa states;
•raising a committee to visit Rivers State, like it was the case with Adamawa State, to build consensus and restore party structure to the governor; and the
•the governors and party leaders should leave Jonathan to decide Tukur’s fate. One of the aggrived governors’ conditions for peace is Tukur’s removal
On the 2015 poll, another source quoted the President as saying: ‘I did not give anybody any commitment that I won’t seek re-election.”
The source said: “Jonathan clarified that what he said in Ethiopia was that as a democratic leader, he would not elongate his tenure under any guise. He said since the crisis in the party was basically on 2015, it is a matter that can be addressed later.
“His body language suggested that he won’t compromise his ambition to contest in 2015. But it was not a major issue yet at the peace talks.”
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