Rebel PDP governors, others meet today to perfect defection plan
Busolami Idowu
The Seven aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party will meet in Abuja on Sunday night (today) to strategise on how 
to face the challenges before them.
The meeting, schedule to hold at the Sokoto State Governor’s Lodge, is expected to be attended by all the aggrieved seven governors.
very reliable source in the faction said senators, stakeholders, some members of the National Working Committee of the faction were also expected at the Sunday meeting.
NigerianEcho discovered that the meeting, which the venue may change for security reason is slated for 8pm, with the aim of discussing the Defection Plan and Startegy, the INEC refusal to recognise the Baraje-led splinter group and also the effect of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, which declined the request of the faction for recognition
The PDP governors expected at the meeting are Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Aliyu Babangida (Niger), Abdulfatai Ahmed (Kwara) Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano).
Others that may attend includes; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and some former governors like Bukola Saraki (Kwara), Shaba Lagiagi (Kwara) and Abdulahi Adamu (Nasarawa). The splinter Group Chairman, Alhaji. Kawu Baraje and National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, are also expected to attend the meeting.
It was also learnt that at today’s meeting, the faction would marshal its points on issues to be tabled before President Goodluck Jonathan and other leaders of the party.
A peace meeting with the President, which was postponed due to the just concluded Hajj, was aimed at resolving the differences between the governors and the leadership of the party.
Before the postponement of the meeting, President Jonathan, his deputy, Namadi Sambo and the Chairman of the Board of a Trustees of the party, Chief Tony Anenih, and few governors from the ruling party, had met with the aggrieved governors on how to smoothen the relationship between the aggrieved governors and the party.
“It is a strategic meeting aimed at redefining the struggle and see whether to sustain it or not. The meeting will also see if there are possibilities for us moving to another party if all peace moves fail.”
The spokesperson for the New PDP, Chukwuemeka Eze neither confirmed nor denied the meeting. He merely said, “Just wait and see.”
It was gathered that majority of the aggrieved governors were pushing for their defection to the All Progressives Congress, while few of them favoured the formation of new political party.