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Governors Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) will today meet with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to seek the postponement of their peace meeting.
The peace meeting was originally scheduled for today but the New Peoples Democratic Party, through its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, announced in a statement last week, that it had been cancelled because most of the seven aggrieved governors were billed for the 2013 Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
According to PUNCH, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, Eze said the chairman of the New PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, gave the directive that Amaechi, Aliyu and Kwankwaso should officially notify the President of the need to shift the meeting to a later date.
“Alhaji Baraje, the national chairman of the New PDP just called from Saudi Arabia around 9pm on October 6, 2013 to direct that the governors and stakeholders of the (New) PDP that include Rotimi Amaechi, Babangida Aliyu, Rabiu Kwankwaso, who have yet to travel to Mecca should meet with the National Leader of our party and President, Dr. Jonathan by 9am on October 7, 2013 to formally obtain permission from Mr. president to shift the meeting date to a more convenient date when all our leaders may have come back from Hajj.
“Shifting the meeting to morning period is to allow the mentioned governors apart from Amaechi to travel to Mecca later in the day (October 7) for the Haji operation.”
The statement explained that "this step is born out of the plea by President Jonathan and respect we have for his office".
