APC woos Amaechi, Lamido, Wamakko, others

Lai Mohammed, Interim National Publicity Secretary, APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it is readiness to accommodate the seven ‘rebel’ Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors.

The governors are Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Aliyu Babangida (Niger) and Sule Lamido (Jigawa).

APC National Publicity Secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed, while speaking in Abuja today after a  meeting of the party’s National Working Committee, disclosed that APC governors had been assigned to woo their aggrieved PDP counterparts since all of them are in a faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF).

According to him, “It is not a matter you discuss at executive meeting, but I know that what the party resolved is that since our governors are also members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, and they also meet regularly with these other governors we have left that assignment in the hands of our governors– that if and when the aggrieved governors of the PDP, when they are desirous of making contact with the party they should do so through our governors.”

On the recent sack of nine ministers by President Goodluck Jonathan. Mohammed asked: “Is it by simple coincidence that most of those who were relieved of their positions were those seemed to be perceived opponents of Mr. President, or who have close contact with the the new PDP, or is the game about 2015? But I don’t think Nigerians are really worried or impressed about whether ministers have been sacked or not. What I think bothers Nigerians today is the lack of vision, or lack of capacity of this government.

“You see, there are three things you must always ask about any government. What has happened to poverty under that government? What has happened to unemployment under that government? What has happened to socio-economic inequality? Once the answers to those three questions are zero– in other words, you still have poverty around, you still have unemployment around, you still have socio-economic inequality around then that government hasn’t performed. So, what

Nigerians are interested in is a government that will put food on their table, find jobs for their children and secure their lives from robbers.”