Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are holding a meeting with leaders of the party at the Bauchi governor’s lodge in Abuja.
The meeting, which was convened by the Chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, also has the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, in attendance.
Some of the governors currently present for the meeting include Ademola Adeleke (Osun), Caleb Mutfwang (Plateau), Ahmadu Fintiri (Adamawa), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), and Peter Mbah (Enugu).
Others who are in attendance include former governors of Cross River, Liyel Imoke, Achike Udenwa of Imo, Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun, Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa.
A former governor of Akwa Ibom, Udom Emmanuel, and Samuel Otom of Benue also attended the meeting.
The PDP Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagun, a former Caretaker Committee Chairman, Ahmed Markafi, and some other members of the party’s National Working Committee are attending the meeting.
Although the agenda was not made known to journalists, this is the second public meeting of the forum since the beginning of the year, and the first since Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, and his cabinet defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The opposition party has been battling internal crises since the 2023 general elections.
The situation worsened with the conflict between Governor Sim Fubara and Nyesom Wike in Rivers State.
Several attempts by the party’s leadership bodies, the National Working Committee, Board of Trustees, National Executive Committee, and the PDP Governors’ Forum, to mediate have not resolved the crisis.
On April 23, Oborevwori, a former governor of Delta, Ifeanyi Okowa, and other officials from the state joined the APC.
National Assembly members have also been leaving the PDP.
Three Kebbi lawmakers, Senators Adamu Aliero (Kebbi Central), Yahaya Abdullahi (Kebbi North), and Garba Maidoki (Kebbi South), joined the ruling party after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu, who had been accused by the opposition of plotting to turn the country into a one-party state.
