19 Feb 2011
After months of verbal assaults, President Goodluck Jonathan is set to meet with Mallam Adamu Ciroma, Chairman of the th e Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF), and other members of the forum, in what appears a move to pacify the North.
The meeting may also be part of steps by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to woo ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar.
Also on the card of the personalities to be pacify by the party ahead of the April polls are former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Gen. Mohammed Aliyu Gusau and other northern leaders who are aggrieved about the emergence of President Jonathan as the party’s presidential candidate.
Both Babangida and Gusau contested for the party’s presidential primaries along side with Atiku, but the former vice president emerged the NPLF’s candidate.
Although the two sides kept the reconciliatory meeting under wraps last night, a top source, who was part of the arrangement for the session, said: "The President and the NPLF leaders have agreed to meet. They want to sheathe their swords for dialogue.
"Do not forget that they are all members of the PDP. They only had disagreement over the zoning policy and why the presidency should remain in the North."
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