TWO major groups that have been at loggerheads over whether President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible to contest next year’s presidential elections or whether the presidency should remain in the North yesterday (Thursday) night began meeting in Abuja to find a common ground.
The agenda between the G15 of General Ibrahim Babangida/Atiku Abubakar/Adamu Ciroma coalition and the Professor Jerry Gana G20 Group was not known last night, but it is generally believed that both groups want to determine how the North should go on the issue of the Jonathan ambition.
The Guardian had reported last Monday that indications that opposing northern groups would meet over President Goodluck Jonathan ambitions for 2011 looked more feasible in Abuja.
The Babangida/Atiku group has been opposed to Jonathan taking a shot at the presidency, but another northern group G20 led by Professor Jerry Gana and two National Vice Chairmen of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) believe the President should contest the office because he had a joint ticket with late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and divine providence had opened the way for the country to have a President from the Niger Delta.
Sources had confirmed comments made by Gana last week that there had been an exchange of letters between him and Malam Adamu Ciroma. “Malam Ciroma wrote and I replied in a nice decent way. We shall come to a mutual agreement in the best interst of Nigeria,” Gana said last week Thursday at a press conference.
Another source said he was sure both groups will not agree on the issue of whether Jonathan should contest or not. “It is a waste of time, there are too many big egos involved,” the source said.
The meeting is coming even as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has slated next week as the date he will formally declare his bid to contest the 2011 presidential elections on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He sent the invitation for the declaration yesterday and it is to be held in the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.
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