All Progressives Congress (APC) governors endorsed Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila for Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Rising from their inaugural meeting in Abuja last night, the governors asked all party members to vote for the two leaders, saying they were solidly behind the decision of the party.
Chairman of the forum and Kebbi State Governor Atiku Bagudu told reporters after the meeting that they believed that the party’s leadership took the right decision when it opted to support Lawan and Gbajabiamila for the principal offices.
On other offices, he said they were party offices and that the party will decide on them.
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On the crisis in the party, Bagudu said members made comments, but he was silent on the position of the governors.
He said the governors were solidly behind the President as the leader of the party and were prepared to work with him to take the nation to the “next level”.
At the meeting, which took place at the Kebbi Governors Lodge in Asokoro, were governors of Kebbi, Edo, Kwara, Kogi, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kano, Jigawa, Ekiti, Osun, Lagos, Gombe, Niger and the Deputy Governors of Borno and Kaduna states.
Governors of Katsina, Ogun, Ondo and Yobe states were absent and did not send representatives.
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