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).
Many party bigwigs were seen discussing the development, especially when
some of the absentee governors were put in charge of the campaign in their
zones.
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, although someone
hinted that it was due to the bad weather that had led to the cancellation of
many flights in the past few days.
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