Nine governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday January 6, ignored the inauguration of the Presidential Campaign Organization of the party in Abuja Punch reports.

The organization, headed by Senator Amadu Ali, the former National Chairman of the party, is saddled with the responsibility of selling the candidature of President Goodluck Jonathan and his deputy, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, to Nigerians for the February 14 presidential election.
But only a few of the governors were in attendance.

Among the governors at the event were Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), James Ngilari (Adamawa), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe State).

However, governors Theodore Orji (Abia), Dr. Olusegun Mimiko(Ondo), Sullivan Chime (Enugu), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Martin Elechi (Enugu) were absent from the inauguration.
Also absent at the inauguration were governors Idris Wada (Kogi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Jonah Jang (Plateau).

Many of the party bigwigs were discussing the development, especially when some of the absentee governors were put in charge of the campaign in their zones.

Lamido is saddled with the responsibility of coordinating the presidential campaign in the North-West, Mimiko is in charge of the South-West while Orji is to head the South-East zone.
There was no reason was given for the absence of the governors.

The President later met behind closed doors with the PDP governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting, which was also attended by Ministers from states where the PDP was not in charge also attended the meeting to strategise ahead of the presidential campaign.

The meeting was held immediately the President and the governors returned from the Legacy House, Abuja where his campaign organization was inaugurated.
Some governors such as Sullivan Chime (Enugu), and Martin Elechi (Enugu) who were not at the inauguration, also attended the meeting.
The Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, told State House correspondents that the President had made the governors the coordinators of his campaign in their respective states.

Akpabio boasted that despite the noise from other parties, the PDP would win at all levels.
“There cannot be failure. The PDP will surely win this election at all levels. PDP does not rig. We can only be afraid that the APC, the way they are going, will be the ones that will attempt to rig us out,” he said.