By Henry Umoru
ABUJA—governors elected on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have concluded that the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu and other members of its National Working Committee, NWC, should take the path of honour and resign immediately.

Mu’azu: PDP’s game changer
This was the outcome of the meeting of 19 PDP governors held Tuesday night, which extended to the early hours of yesterday at Akwa Ibom Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja.
They resolved that it had become imperative for them to go to pave way for new leadership, following the abysmal performance of the party at the March 28 and April 11 general elections.
The meeting, which was the first since PDP lost the presidency after 16 years of leadership, was a post-mortem on the election and the way forward for the party.
The party, which controlled the Presidency, House of Representatives and the Senate since 1999, did not only suffer defeat at the presidential election, but also lost in its traditional states of Plateau, Niger, Kaduna, Benue, Bauchi and Jigawa.
It became the opposition party in the Senate with 46 senators,while APC has 60.
It was gathered that at the meeting, which was held behind closed doors as journalists were not informed, had Muazu, his deputy, Prince Uche Secondus and National Legal Adviser, Victor Kwon, and all 19 governors in attendance.
A source at the meeting told Vanguard that Muazu and his team were later asked to excuse the governors.
Soon after they left the Akwa Ibom State Governor’s Lodge, the governors, the source said, agreed unanimously that the party would need fresh persons and that Muazu and his team must pave way for the new blood that would be required to run the party.
Following the decision of the governors, who want to take total control of the party, members of the NWC, yesterday, went into a marathon meeting even though they were said to be on break for two weeks.

From TAIWO AMODU, Abuja

The outgoing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors and the party’s na­tional working committee (NWC) are set for a show­down over the resolve of the former to mobilise sup­port for the removal of the National Chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu and his team.

A party source revealed that the governors were pushing for the sack of the national of­ficers of the party, whom they blamed for the poor outing of the PDP in the just concluded general elections.

The source revealed that a meeting of the PDP Gov­ernors’ Forum was held in Abuja with Adamu Mu’azu and the party’s National Le­gal Adviser, Victor Kwom, in attendance to brainstorm on why the party lost and the way forward.

Checks Daily Sun, how­ever, revealed that the plot to push out Mu’azu and his col­leagues was hatched after he left the venue of the meeting with Kwom.

It was gathered that the governors blamed the national officers for their alleged half-hearted commitment to the party presidential campaigns and the manner they handled the party primaries which they noted created a lot of disaffec­tion and distractions for Presi­dent Goodluck Jonathan.

Further checks revealed that the party’s NWC got wind of the plot by the outgoing gov­ernors and had vowed to fight back to nip the plan in the bud.

A member of the PDP NWC told Daily Sun in confi­dence on phone: “We are wait­ing for them. We know they want to push for an emergency National Executive Commit­tee (NEC) before President Jonathan’s handover date.

“Let there be a dispassion­ate post-mortem on why we lost. Enough of this buck-passing by those whose impu­nity in their respective states pushed a lot of well meaning individuals out of PDP state chapters.

“It wasn’t the NWC that canvassed automatic ticket for Dr. Jonathan. This same Governor Akpabio led his colleagues and we all know what transpired at the Board of Trustees, the NEC meetings and who said what. “

The national officer also alleged that the Akwa Ibom State governor was using the PDP Governors’ Forum to usurp the functions of the NWC, a statutory organ of the party.

Equalizer:
Very necessary cos Ma'azu betrayed GEJ... let him go..

AhmedMustapha:
Muazu is the best hand for now capable of steering the ship of the PDP

Equalizer:
Very necessary cos Ma'azu betrayed GEJ... let him go..

Islie:
The end has come to the game changer.....






His time is up
Since we all know the kind of influence the governors weight in our political institutions.....



I need to ask....
Is Mu'azu the main reasons PDP failed

Bibol:
First it was alleged that he was 'packaged' out of a meeting. Now they want him impeached. Its really not looking good for this man