Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress have backed the candidacy of Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, and Leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, for the ninth National Assembly leadership.
The governors under the aegis of the Progressives Governors Forum took the decision at a closed door meeting held at the Kebbi State Governor’s Lodge on Sunday night in Abuja.
The Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, who is also the Chairman of the Forum, while briefing newsmen at the end of meeting, said the governors took the decision in compliance with the directive of the party’s national leadership.
Bagudu used the opportunity of the meeting, which was the first after the general elections, to welcome newly elected governors into the forum.
Bagudu asked all party members in the National Assembly to vote for the two leaders, saying the forum was solidly behind the decision of the party.
He added that the forum believed that the leadership of the party took the right decision when they opted to support Lawan and Gbajabiamila for the principal offices.
On other offices in the ninth National Assembly, Bagudu said they were party offices and that the party would take a decision on them.
He also said the governors were solidly behind President Muhammadu Buhari as the party’s leader, assuring that they would work with him to take the country to the next level.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that present at the meeting were the governors of Edo, Kwara, Kogi, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kano, Jigawa, Ekiti, Osun and Lagos States.
Others are the governors of Gombe and Niger States, as well as the Deputy Governors of Borno and Kaduna States.
Governors of Katsina, Ogun, Ondo and Yobe States however absent from the meeting.
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