Governors take attack on pipelines, herdsmen’s menace to Buhari

                                                              

                                                            

The five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors in the South South geo-political zone yesterday resolved to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over security issues in their area.

The resurgence of attacks on pipelines in the region especially in Delta State and the menace of herdsmen, who have been attacking farmers, were condemned by the governors who said they would take the issues up with the President.

They however did not state the time the meeting will hold at a briefing with reporters in Asaba after a meeting yesterday, attended by all of them.

Host Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, who spoke to reporters, was joined by Governors Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa) and Ben Ayade (Cross Rivers).

Okowa said the meeting also discussed how the PDP would do well in the Edo State governorship election. Edo is the only state controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the zone and its governorship election is due in September.

Okowa said: “We discussed issues concerning our great party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). You will recall that our convention has been fixed to hold in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on May 21 and we are putting plans in place for that convention.

“The Chairman of the committee for the convention is Governor Wike of Rivers State and we use this medium to call on all our supporters and members of the PDP to desist from any form of crisis before, during and after the convention, we accepted as a party and the leadership of the party agreed that the national convention should hold at Port Harcourt. We stand by that resolution.

”We tried to map out strategies in order to strengthen the PDP in Edo State.”

Asked about the strategies to take the state from the APC: Okowa said: “We will not let the cat out of the bag because we are putting things in place at the moment”.