There appears to be a crack within the ranks of the aggrieved governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as some of the governors’ individual ambitions to run for various elective positions in 2015 have threatened the collective struggle they embarked upon two months ago.
Besides, the governors are yet to find a common ground on the political platform to join: a majority of them are said to have made up their minds to dump the PDP, LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered.
The G-7 governors are: Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano), Abdulfattah Ahmed (Kwara) and Muazu Babangida Aliyu (Niger).
LEADERSHIP Sunday learnt that the reason the aggrieved governors have been unable to make a collective move to either join the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) is because of their conflicting ambitions.
Also, according to a source, while four of the G-7 governors are disposed to joining the APC, three are indifferent to the move spearheaded by Adamawa State governor Nyako. “What we can see in the whole struggle is that although the governors appeared to have a common enemy to fight initially, the biggest enemy is within them, because the unity is fast waning as a result of what each of them wants in 2015,” he said.
“You should know that they are politicians who would not want to remain floating at the end of their tenure; remember that almost all of them are doing their last lap as governors, so they want to cling to something at the end. But the means of how to achieve these individual objectives has broken their unity.
“For some time now, if you observe, two of the governors have been silent and indifferent to the affairs of the group, not because they have joined the Tukur faction but because, most often, the issues that come up for discussion have always been about personal interests.
“If you do your homework well, you will observe that in all their demands, particularly those of them from the north, there is no room for improved funding of agriculture which is the region’s mainstay; they are not talking about curbing desertification, nor are they even talking about how to fund HYPADEC; all their focus is on political self-survival.”
LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that, apart from the individual ambitions, the governors are sharply divided over the political platform to move into.
Besides, the governors are yet to find a common ground on the political platform to join: a majority of them are said to have made up their minds to dump the PDP, LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered.
The G-7 governors are: Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano), Abdulfattah Ahmed (Kwara) and Muazu Babangida Aliyu (Niger).
LEADERSHIP Sunday learnt that the reason the aggrieved governors have been unable to make a collective move to either join the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) is because of their conflicting ambitions.
Also, according to a source, while four of the G-7 governors are disposed to joining the APC, three are indifferent to the move spearheaded by Adamawa State governor Nyako. “What we can see in the whole struggle is that although the governors appeared to have a common enemy to fight initially, the biggest enemy is within them, because the unity is fast waning as a result of what each of them wants in 2015,” he said.
“You should know that they are politicians who would not want to remain floating at the end of their tenure; remember that almost all of them are doing their last lap as governors, so they want to cling to something at the end. But the means of how to achieve these individual objectives has broken their unity.
“For some time now, if you observe, two of the governors have been silent and indifferent to the affairs of the group, not because they have joined the Tukur faction but because, most often, the issues that come up for discussion have always been about personal interests.
“If you do your homework well, you will observe that in all their demands, particularly those of them from the north, there is no room for improved funding of agriculture which is the region’s mainstay; they are not talking about curbing desertification, nor are they even talking about how to fund HYPADEC; all their focus is on political self-survival.”
LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that, apart from the individual ambitions, the governors are sharply divided over the political platform to move into.
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