Governors of All Progressives
Congress, APC yesterday said that there were ready for the forth-coming
governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States.
Rising from a meeting that ended
around 12 mid night at the Imo State Governor’s lodge in Abuja on Thursday, the
Governors said that their party was now more straightened for the polls.
Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas
Okorocha who briefed Journalists at the end of the meeting on behalf of the
Progressives Governors Forum, PGF, stated that the governors were equally happy
that peace had eventually returned to the House of Representatives, also hoping
that it will be extended to the Senate soon.
“We are also very happy about the
development in the National Assembly as peace is gradually returning to the
national assembly. We are very happy that what has taken place in the federal
house will soon take place in the senate and we resolved to make our party
bigger and bigger than what it is now. So, we welcome interested parties to
join us in building the Nigeria of our dream.”
Asked if the process would affect
the Deputy Senate president, Senator Ike Ekwerenmadu of the opposition Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Okorocha said that “In the process of this process,
things will take its natural cause.”
He also said that south east which
feels marginalised in the Reps offices will be taken care of.
“The issue of the south east,
everything will be resolved in the course of the peace process”, he said.
Meanwhile, the meeting attracted the
presence of National Chairman of APC, Chief John Oyegun.
Governors who were present at the
meeting included Adams Oshiomole (Edo), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Rauf
Arebegsola (Osun) and Kashim Shettima (Borno).
Others are: Samuel Ortom (Benue),
Umar Ganduje (Kano), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Simon Lalong (Plateau), Aminu
Tambuwal (Sokoto), Senator Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Tanko Al-Makura (Nassarawa),
Sani Bello (Niger),the deputy governors of Lagos and Oyo States represented
their governors.
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