National chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, and governors, elected on the platform of the party, held a closed door meeting with the PDP senators at the official residence of Senate President David Mark on Wednesday.
The agenda of the meeting was not known but it may also not be unconnected with the alleged defection of some aggrieved members of the party in the Senate.
However, none of the 11 aggrieved senators, who had indicated their intention to defect to the All Progressives Congress, were sighted at the meeting, which was well attended by the PDP members in the upper chamber.
The meeting, it was further learnt, was at the instance of the new chairman and was a consultative meeting aimed at finding common grounds to resolve issues that affect the party.
The state governors in attendance at the meeting were Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa, Babangida Aliyu of Niger, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Ibrahim Shema of Katsina, Liyel Imoke of Cross Rivers, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta, Idris Wada of Kogi and Ramalam Yero of Kaduna.
The Deputy Governors of Jigawa, Sokoto and Taraba also represented their bosses at the meeting.
Members of the National Working Committee of PDP, who accompanied Mu’azu to the meeting were the spokesman for the party, Olisah Metuh; Uche Secondus, Oladipo Wale, women leader, Mrs. Kema Chikwe amongst others.
Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, who spoke on behalf of the senators, pledged the loyalty of the lawmakers to the new leadership of the party.
He said, “I pledge that in us, the PDP senate caucus, you will find very loyal party men and women. We will work with you, we will stay by you, we will partner with you to reinvent PDP.”
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