President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday night met behind closed doors with governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Details of discussions at the meeting, which ended in the early hours of Monday, were not made public.
However, some governors said the discussions centred on the forthcoming party primary elections and repositioning of the party.
Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State said that the meeting evaluated strategies for a successful conduct of the primary elections.
The Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Yomi Awoniyi, described the meeting as cordial and fruitful.
Awoniyi said: “Mr. President called the PDP governors and we all had a very good meeting, which was all about repositioning the party to serve the citizens very well.
“It was a very cordial meeting and the resolutions reached would be made public by the appropriate quarters.”
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State said: “We discussed our party and the primaries that will soon come.
“We looked at how to fortify our party to avoid rancour or infighting to enable us do very well both in the primaries and general elections in 2015.”
Orji said the disagreement between the governors and the party’s national leadership over the endorsement of candidates at the state level did not come up for discussion.
He said that the party’s governorship candidates would emerge through free and transparent primaries contrary to reports of endorsements in the media.
Among the governors at the meeting were Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo State), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi State), Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe State) and Martin Elechi (Ebonyi).
Others were Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Saidu Dakingari (Kebbi), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Umar Garba (Acting Governor of Taraba) as well as the deputy governors of Sokoto and Nasarawa states.