Some Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, members have started reacting to the purported pact reached between President Goodluck Jonathan, the party leadership and the PDP senators, which is aimed at whittling down the stupendous influence of governors in the affairs of the party, particularly its primaries.
The national leadership of the PDP had earlier granted an automatic second term ticket to its first-term governors as well as automatic senatorial ticket to the outgoing second-term governors, who were also allowed the privilege to decide their successor.
This did not go down well with the senators serving on the platform of the party, particularly those nursing re-election ambitions.
They went as far as employing a work-to-rule tactics to arm-twist the party’s leadership into considering them in the 2015 general election’s equation.
This led to a meeting at the Presidential Villa on Thursday night where the President, the senators and the leadership of the party allegedly agreed to ensure a level-playing field at the primaries as a way of checking the governors.
Reacting to this in a chat with SUNDAY PUNCH yesterday, the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum and Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, asserted that the clash of interest between the governors and senators in the PDP would be resolved by the electorate.
Speaking through Israel Ebije, his Chief Press Secretary, Aliyu noted that despite the decision of the Presidency, “the most important factor is the will of the people” and called on people to understand that politics should not be played on a platter of sentiment or bargained with the value of market commodity.
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