APC governors meet in Lagos

State governors in the All Progressives
Congress (APC) on Thursday night in Lagos urged
the National Assembly to see the ongoing
realignment going on there as normal.
Reading the commuique after holding a meeting,
Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo, said the governors
wanted the two houses in the assembly to protect
the rights and privileges of members to choose
parties of their choice.
Okorocha, who is the Chairman, APC Governors
Forum, said the forum also wanted the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) to make
adequate preparations for the forthcoming polls in
Ekiti and Osun.
According to Okorocha, the governors want INEC to
ensure that the elections are free and fair.
He said that the forum was also concerned about
recent developments in Rivers in relation to the
reported cases of police brutality.
Okorocha said that the forum was unhappy with the
conduct of the police in the state.
The governor, in his own comments on the
resignation of the national chairman of the Peoples’
Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, told
journalists that it would not affect the gains of the
APC.
He said that none of those who defected to the APC
would go back to the PDP, even with Tukur’s exit.
“The reason why they left was not because of
Tukur, they left because PDP has not fulfilled the
aspirations of the people, ” he said
NAN reports that Govs. Babatunde Fashola of
Lagos, Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti),Rauf Aregbesola
(Osun), Tanko Al Makura (Nasarawa) and Ibikunle
Amosun (Ogun) were among those at the meeting.
Gov. Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) and Gov. Abiola
Ajimobi (Oyo ) were also present.(NAN)