PDP Governors Snub Meeting With President Jonathan

Governors of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) who were earlier scheduled to meet President Goodluck Jonatha today refused to honor the meeting asking for more time. One of the governors told Saharareporters that they sent word to the President that they have important state matters to attend in their respective states for at least one week. President Jonathan had to postpone the meeting till next Tuesday in deference to the governors. The chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih confirmed the postponed, in a chat with reporters Anenih said the peace talks, scheduled to continue Tuesday in Abuja, were postponed at the request of the aggrieved governors of the party who stormed out of the venue of the party's special national convention on Saturday. Anenih said that the peace talks with the aggrieved governors would now continue Tuesday, next week, after selected party leaders would have met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday as part of wider consultations demanded by parties to the crisis. He disclosed that the aggrieved governors told the Presidency, and the PDP leadership that they needed more time to make larger consultations, just as he said the Presidency and the PDP leadership were not opposed to wider consultations. He explained that the Presidency and PDP leadership was taking advantage of the postponement to also consult widely on how to amicably resolve the crisis.