Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has denied that governors of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) were ganging up against President Goodluck Jonathan on the issue of the selection of the party's chairman.
Akpabio, speaking to journalists on Monday at the State House, Abuja, said all the governors were judiciously following their “leader” and cannot gang up against him as reported in the media.
Sections of the media had reported last week that governors elected on the platform of the PDP had begun making moves to stop candidates considered loyal to the president jostling for party offices in the upcoming national convention of the party.
The governors were allegedly upset with the president and members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) for denying their former colleague and former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, a ticket to seek re-election on the party's platform.
The governors were reported to have told serving members of the party’s NWC from their home states aspiring for offices at the party’s national convention to drop their plans, as they had no moral basis to seek re-election having worked against Sylva’s re-election.
“No, I don’t believe that; those are speculations,” said Akpabio. “I don’t believe that any governor would do that; to gang up against the president. PDP is a democratic party, and as far as I am concerned, the president is the leader of the party, so there is no way we the follower can gang up against our leader. The president is our leader and we go with our leader. And as far as I am concerned there is no issue because the president will like to see a democratic process emerge.”
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