PDP Crisis: 5 New Governors Joins Breakaway Faction

The breakaway faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday claimed that its membership has swelled with the decamping of five more governors of the ruling party to the group.
Although the splinter PDP did not name the five governors that had joined it, if the claim is correct, it would bring the number of governors in its fold to 12.
The New PDP said the new governors

would join them at their meeting on the next adjourned date slated to hold after the Eid- el-Kabir holiday.
Last night, THISDAY was privy to the names of the five governors, but would publish their names when they actually attend the meeting.
Currently, the New PDP boasts seven governors. They are Governors Rabiu Musa Kwanakwanso (Kano), Ahmed Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) and Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers)
The seven governors and former Vice- President Atiku Abubakar, alongside some party stalwarts, had on August 31 stormed out of the special national convention of the PDP in Abuja to form the New PDP.
Also, the faction confirmed that the Monday, October 7 meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and the seven aggrieved governors would not hold. This is as a result of the Salah holiday, which comes up next week.
The president and the governors, had at their last meeting on September 15, agreed to adjourn the next peace meeting to October 7.
But the seven governors are said to be seeking an adjournment on the grounds that some of them will be travelling to Saudi Arabia to observe the Muslim pilgrimage.

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