Jonathan, Mark, Others’ Meeting Private – ADC

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said the gathering betwixt erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan and leaders of African Democratic Congress (ADC) led by the nationalist chairman, Senator David Mark, was private.

The nationalist publicity caput of ADC, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, erstwhile asked by LEADERSHIP Weekend  astir the quality of the meeting, said, “It was a backstage meeting. We were not privy to their conversation.”

However, a root astatine the gathering said the gathering was not dense connected authorities but was convivial.

“It was conscionable a visit. Not overmuch of authorities yet. But the ambiance was precise convivial,” the source, who was not authorised to speak, told LEADERSHIP Weekend.

Mark and erstwhile caput to the national government, Babachir Lawal held a closed-door gathering with Jonathan connected Thursday nighttime successful Abuja.

Besides Mark and Lawal, the ADC spokesman, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, was sighted astatine the gathering successful a video connected societal media.

The gathering came hardly a time aft the erstwhile president, during a requiem wide successful honour of the precocious erstwhile Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, declared that helium bears nary grudges against those who offended him politically.

Checks uncover that immoderate of the members successful the ADC had worked against Jonathan’s 2015 2nd word ambition.

However, the gathering with Jonathan came soon aft an earlier gathering of ADC leaders was headed by Mark. Also astatine gathering was the party’s nationalist secretary, Ogbeni Rauf; nationalist publicity caput of ADC, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi; erstwhile Vice President Atiku Abubakar; erstwhile Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai; erstwhile Rivers governor, Chibuike Amaechi.

Others are erstwhile Sokoto State governor, Senator Aminu Tambuwal; erstwhile Kwara governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed; erstwhile curate of Communication and Digital Economy, Ali Pantami; erstwhile caput to authorities of the federation, Babachir Lawal, among others.

Labour Party erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner Peter Obi was absent but sent apologises and gave his commitment.

At the gathering Presidential hopefuls successful the absorption conjugation enactment ADC agreed to backmost whoever emerges arsenic the campaigner of the enactment up of the 2027 election.

They besides foreclosed the adoption of All Democratic Alliance (ADA) by the enactment leaders and ordered each members to resign rank of different governmental parties adjacent though nary timeline was fixed to them.

So far, Atiku, Obi and Amaechi person indicated involvement to contention for the party’s statesmanlike summons up of the 2027 election.

Recall that PDP has been wooing Jonathan and Obi to instrumentality to its fold with the anticipation of flying the party’s emblem successful 2027. Interestingly, Jonathan and Obi had besides met 2 weeks ago.