Governor Amaechi ignores Tukur’s plea to returnto PDP meeting

Governor Rotimi Amaechi
Rivers State Governor, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, on
Sunday ignored the plea of the National Chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, to
return to the South- South PDP reconciliation
meeting.
The meeting was held at the Civic Centre, Moscow
Road, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
According to information made available to DailyPost,
the party Chairman had permitted Amaechi to see off
his Delta State counterpart, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan,
who had to leave the meeting to meet up with the
closure time of the Asaba International Airport at
5pm.
Uduaghan, it was learnt, had told Tukur before the
commencement of the meeting that he would have to
leave midway into the meeting.
Tukur was said to have granted the request and also
permitted Amaechi to see off his colleague to the
airport and return to the meeting.
But Gov. Amaechi never returned to the meeting even
when Tukur called him on the telephone to return to
the meeting, Amaechi did not heed the plea, it was
learnt.
The meeting was called to reconcile members of the
party in the South-South zone. The reconciliatory
meeting will also hold in other zones of the country.
Before leaving the meeting, Amaechi had appealed to
the members of the PDP in the South-South to be
united in support of the PDP-led Federal Government
and the leadership of the party.
Amaechi and the leadership of the PDP have been at
loggerheads in the last few weeks. The face-off
reached its peak when a splinter group, the PDP
Governors’ Forum, emerged to rival the Nigeria
Governors’ Forum, which Amaechi heads.
The meeting that saw to the emergence of the PDPGF
was held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, with
President Goodluck Jonathan, Tukur and other leaders
of the PDP present.
Amaechi reportedly walked out of the meeting, which
threw up the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Barrister
Godswill Akpabio, as chairman of the PDPGF.