Jonathan, PDP leaders, senators meet

In what appears to be a fence mending move, President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday met with different leadership strata of the Peoples Democratic Party ostensibly to wade off growing discontent over the recently concluded ward congresses of the party.
Apart from meeting with PDP senators, the president also met with the party leaders from Enugu state where the Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu and the governor, Sullivan Chime are locked in a power tussle. The former President of the Senate, Ken Nnamani was also in attendance at the meeting.
In what many believe the meetings were meant to calm frayed nerves the the national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu later joined the president in one of the meetings which lasted for more than thirty minutes.
The PDP senators were driven into the Presidential Villa, Abuja in a Toyota Coaster bus and were carefully kept away from prying eyes as their identities could not be verified from behind the tinted glasses of their vehicle.
But after meeting with president Jonathan,the Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, said his meeting with the president was a private one.
There has been some disquiet in Benue state chapter of the PDP following the conduct of last weekend’s ward congresses of the party.
Governor Suswam is set to battle the incumbent occupant of the Benue North Senatorial District, Senator Barnabas Gemade for the Ticket of the party, a decision that has caused serious strain in the party in the zone.

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