No fewer than 10 of the 13 governors elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) have arrived in Enugu for a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, July 17.
The governors are Agbu Kefas (Taraba), Dauda Lawal (Zamfara), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Umo Eno (Akwa-Ibom), Sheriff Oborevwori (Delta), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Godwin Obaseki (Edo), and Caleb Mutfwang (Plateau).
Others include Ahmed Fintiri (Adamawa), Siminalayi Fubara (Rivers), and the host governor, Peter Mbah.
The agenda of the meeting, which will be preceded by a gala and cultural night, remains unclear.
However, close sources disclosed that the Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Umar Damagum, and other key party leaders were expected to join the governors in the Enugu parley.
The sources said that governors would most likely deliberate on how to organise successful state congresses nationwide on July 27, preparations for the forthcoming Edo and Ondo States off-season governorship elections.
They are also expected to review the implications of the recent Supreme Court judgment granting financial autonomy to local governments as well as the issue of mass defections of top party members in Imo and Abia states.
Persecondnews recalls the recent defection of Sen. Pius Anyim, a former Senate President, and others to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
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