Already, the move is causing ripples within some caucuses of the party.
It was gathered that some PDP governors, who were arm-twisted into falling for the sole candidature arrangement were already lamenting over the danger posed by party’s action to their political future.
Their headache, according to Daily Sun checks, was that the development had stripped the governors of the power to influence state delegates, whose votes could have been used to negotiate for relevance in the coming dispensation.
A chieftain of the party from one of the South-East states, who craved anonymity, told Daily Sun on Monday that, “our governor’s ambition to go to the Senate next year is now hanging in the balance,” adding, “with the situation of things now, he has to be prayerful while waiting on President Jonathan to decide who goes where in 2015.”
When reminded that a deal was struck with the president consenting to the governors’ political ambitions in 2015, the source said: “PDP is not known to be a party that fulfils promises or stands by its words as bonds,” citing as example, President Jonathan’s failure to keep to an alleged promise to spend only one term in office after completion of his late boss’ term.
The source queried: “If Jonathan can renege on the alleged gentleman’s agreement, what gives you the assurance that he will keep the recent one; more so, when it was not committed to black and white?”
Another source of worry for PDP members, who ‘blindly’ supported Jonathan’s sole candidature deal, is its implication on the political ambitions of some members of the National Assembly, if the promise to grant the governors their wishes for 2015 is fulfilled to the letter.
A sitting senator from the North-Central, whose governor is aspiring to be in the National Assembly after his constitutionally allowed two terms in office, was confused over what would be his fate in the sealed deal with the president.
A member of the National Executive Committee (NEC), who did not want his name in print, revealed to Daily Sun in Abuja that, “the federal legislator is complaining to whoever cares to listen that if his governor decides to move to the National Assembly next year, it is his seat that will be sacrificed in the name of fulfilling the promise made to the governors.”
Besides the governors and the sitting legislators, the development, according to Daily Sun investigation, was already causing ripples between the governors and some party chieftains in their respective states, who were also nursing ambition to be in the National Assembly in 2015.
A case at hand is the clash of ambitions of Governor Gabriel Suswan and the former national chairman of the party, Chief Gemade. Both are from Benue North Senatorial District.
Other examples are Governor Matins Elechi and Chris Nwankwo for Ebonyi Central, Governor Theodore Orji and Senator Nkechi Nwaogu for Abia Central and Governor Sullivan Chime and Senator Ekweremadu for Enugu West Senatorial District.
Although Governors Danbaba Suntai, Sule Lamido and Lyel Imoke of Taraba, Jigawa and Cross River states respectively, have not indicated their interest in any political office, Daily Sun can report that they have their respective anointed candidates in their states for all the available offices, a situation that can cause personality clashes with other interest groups
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