Frustrated ex-PDP governors lament being ‘forgotten’

Former governors and deputy governors of the Peoples Democratic Party turned to cry-babies on Wednesday, as they lamented being abandoned by their successors.

The former governors, who didn’t exactly include their predecessors in their respective administrations, have now complained of being relegated to the background of the party in their various states.

They expressed their intention to constitute a forum of former governors and former deputy governors to fight their cause.

The former governors and deputy governors poured out their pain on Wednesday, in Abuja, while meeting with the party’s National Chairman, Senator Modu Sheriff

Some of those present are; Babangida Mu’azu (Niger), Ramalan Yero (Kebbi), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Ikedi Ohakim (Imo), Sam Egwu (Ebonyi), Abdulkadir Kure (Niger), Idris Wada (Kogi), Achike Udenwa (Imo), Ibrahim Shekarau (Kano), Gbenga Daniel (Ogun), Theodore Orji (Abia), and Sule Lamido (Jigawa).

The former deputy governors present include Iyiola Omisore (Osun) and Etuk Effiong (Akwa Ibom).

Egwu, speaking on behalf of former South-East governors and deputies, said: “This meeting has shown that the party has not forgotten those that started the party. Most of us were in the meeting that marked the beginning of the PDP.”

“But the convention in Nigeria is that the moment you are out of office, you are forgotten. Former governors that we helped put in office forgot us. It was like frustration for most of us. But because we believed in the party, we stayed back.”

Speaking for the South-West, a former governor of Ogun State, Gbenga Daniel, said the party lost in the last election because what ‘we thought were greatest assets were perceived to be the liability’.

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