doors are open to the seven aggrieved PDP governors

…Nigerians not bothered about cabinet reshuffle but performance – Mohammed
FROM TAIWO AMODU, ABUJA
As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisis festers, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared that its  doors are open to the seven aggrieved PDP governors.
There had been reports that some of the ‘rebel’ governors and certain stalwarts of the party who stormed out of the venue of the party national convention in Abuja, in  protest and formed a parallel National Working Committee (NWC) August 31, have been discussing with the APC.
The governors are Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Dr Aliyu Wamakko, Murtala Nyako, Abdulfata Ahmed, Babangida Mu’azu Aliyu and Sule Lamido, of Rivers, Kano, Sokoto, Adamawa, Kwara,  Niger and Jigawa states, respectively.
Speaking with newsmen yesterday  at the end of the meetingof the APC’s NWC, the party’s spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed that any of the aggrieved governors willing to dump the ruling party was welcomed.
“It isn’t a matter you discuss at executive meeting, but I know that what the party  resolved is that  since our governors are also members of the Nigeria Governors Forum, and they also meet regularly with these other governorms we have left that assignment in the hands of our governors– that if and when the aggrieved governors of the PDP, when they are desirous of making contactd with the party, they should do so through our governors,” Mohammed said.
Last Wednesday’s cabinet reshuffle by President Goodluck Jonathan and the insinuation that ministers from the states of the aggrieved governors were the target, Alhaji Mohammed did not dismiss the claim, but said that Nigerians were bothered about the lack of capacity of the Federal Government to address their needs.
“Is it by simple coincidence that most of those who were relieved of their positions were those seemed to be perceived opponents of Mr. President, or who have close contact with the the new PDP, or is the game about 2015?
But I don’t  think Nigerians are really worried or impressed about whether ministers have been sacked or not. What I think bothers Nigerians today is the lack of vision, or lack of capacity of this government.
You see, there are three things you must always ask about any government. What has happened to poverty under that government? What has happened to unemployment under that government? What has happened to socio-economic inequality?
Once the answer to those three questions is zero– in other words, you still have poverty around, you still have unemployment around, you still have socio-economic inequality around, then that government hasn’t performed.
So, what Nigerians are interested in is a government that will put food on their table, find jobs for their children and secure their lives from robbers,” the APC National Publicity Secretary said.