Judases in PDP: Governors move to tame Akpabio over comments
AKPABIO, AMAECH AND TUKUR
Vanguard gathered yesterday that some of the governors will meet in Abuja on Wednesday at a neutral place primarily to fashion out how to respond to the new chairman of PDP governors forum especially with regard to his utterances.
According to the source, the governors are of the opinion that Akpabio was just one of the governors, and that even if the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF and governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi was removed as chairman in May, the forum will be more united than ever as there was no division among them.
Meanwhile, Vanguard also gathered yesterday that Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State Ad-hoc Committee on Adamawa crises has so far received a dozen memoranda, while members of the Committee were presently studying them with a view to submit to President Goodluck Jonathan.
On the meeting against Akpabio, the source noted that nobody can divide the governors and that no amount of money can split them, adding that Akpabio must be checked to avoid making further comments that will polarize the governors having described some of the governors as Judases.
The source told Vanguard yesterday that it was on this basis that the governors who are not comfortable with Akpabio’s utterances considered to be insultive will meet and come up with suggestions on how to check him.
It will be recalled that governor Akpabio during his visit to the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur last week Tuesday soon after he became the first Chairman of the new association, had said that if the PDP can put its house in order, it will be better for Nigeria as a country. He also boasted that there were many Judases in the party than the Disciples and his mission was to flush out those he described as Judases, adding that the Party at the moment was facing some challenges and this must end.
Akpabio who was in company of his Bayelsa State Counterpart, Henry Seriake Dickson noted that the problem with PDP has to do with a scenario where the party was engaged in a war with itself, just as he said that PDP was not in a hurry to leave government as it was prepared to win all elections against the backdrop that the PDP belongs to Nigerians and not controlled and owned by an individual.
Akpabio had said, ‘’You know we are having challenges, but the challenges for me with what we have started now have always been a function of PDP, what you saw was an explosion.
‘’PDP is the truly the only national party in Nigeria. PDP cannot lose election because Nigerians have come together to form PDP. PDP belongs to Nigeria and Nigeria belongs to PDP.
‘What has happened to PDP is self explosion and when there is an explosion, there is treachery, and there are more judases than you have disciples. We therefore want to have good disciples. We know that even in Christiandom when Jesus Christ had 12 disciples there was one Judas, but if the Judas were up to nine, then Jesus could have been in trouble, the gospel would have been in trouble today.
‘’What the PDP is trying to do now is to cleanse its house, to try to identify the ones they called Judas and whisper it to them and say go out, the train is moving and you cannot stand otherwise we will crush you.’’
Culled from Vanguard
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