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Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday shunned a meeting called by President Goodluck Jonathan to address the security challenges facing the country.

As at the time the meeting started at the First Ladys Conference Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, at about 2pm, 15 Peoples Democratic Party governors, one All Progressives Grand Alliance governor, one Labour Party governor, two PDP deputy governors and an acting governor were in attendance.

The meeting presided over by the President also had Vice President Namadi Sambo; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Pius Anyim; and the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) in attendance.

Governors in attendance include: Gabriel Suswan (Benue), Martin Elechi (Ebonyi) Ramalan Yero (Kaduna), Isa Yuguda(Bauchi), Theodore Orji (Abia), Ibrahim Dankwanbo (Gombe), Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Willie Obiano (Anambra) and Idris Wada (Kogi).

Others are Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), Jonah Jang (Plateau), Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Sullivan Chime (Enugu), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Garba Umar (Acting governor, Taraba), John Jonah (Deputy Governor, Bayelsa) and Kebbi State Rear Deputy Governor,

The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Defence, Brig.-Gen. Aliyu Gusau (retd.), Minister of Interior, Abba Moro; Minister of Police Affairs, Alhaji Abduljelili Adesiyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, Director-General of State Security Service, Ita Ekpeyong; Chief of Defence Staff and Service Chiefs; as well as Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar.

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The All Progressives Congress has applied to be join as a co-defendant in two pending suits in which the Peoples Democratic Party asked an Abuja Federal High Court to order the Senate President, David Mark, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, to declare vacant the seats of 12 Senators and 42 members of the House of Representatives who defected to the party.

The PDP also asked the court to order the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately organise and conduct elections to fill the seats of the defected lawmakers.

The defected lawmakers have opposed the suits, asking the court to dismiss the applications filed by the PDP.

At the continuation of hearing on Thursday, the APC informed the court of its wish to be joined as a defendant alongside its new members in the National Assembly.

APCs request to be joined in the suits was contained in motions filed by its counsel, James Ocholi, SAN, which asked the court for an order granting leave to the All Progressive Congress to be joined as a co-defendant.

The party in the same vein asked the court to order the PDP to serve it with the originating processes in the two suits within 48 hours after being joined as a co-defendant.

Stating the grounds upon which it was asking the court to join it in the suit, the APC stressed that the defected lawmakers, who the PDP wants to sack from the National Assembly, are its members.

The defendants are members of the All Progressives Congress, the party the plaintiff alleges they have defected to, the party said.

The APC argued that justice demands that the party be joined as a party in the suits since the lawmakers are registered members of the party.

Also, in an affidavit in support of the motion, the APC insisted that the PDPs bid to sack the lawmakers would affect it because the seats currently occupied by the legislators in the National Assembly belonged to it.

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National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Mr. Maxi Okwu, has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission, asking it to afford it all necessary facilities to participate in the forthcoming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states.

In a letter dated April 14, 2014, signed by Okwu and Sagir Maidoya, Chairman and Secretary respectively, APGA urged INEC to respect the decisions of the courts, which ruled that the National Working Committee of the party, elected at the April 8, 2013 national convention of the party, was the authentic leadership of APGA.

The PUNCH got details of the letter on Tuesday.

It was entitled Demand for the formal recognition of the All Progressives Grand Alliance National Executive elected on 8th April 2013 at Womens Development Centre, Awka, Anambra State.

The letter further indicated that the striking out of the first application by the judgment debtors for stay of execution of the judgment of January 15, 2014 ends an important stage of this litigation.

It stated that when juxtaposed with the proceedings on April 8, 2014, at the Court of Appeal, we submit that we are now fully entitled to enjoy the fruits of our judgment.

It also stated that though the case was on appeal to the Court of Appeal, the law is settled that the decision of the court remains valid and must be complied with until it is set aside.

The APGA executive consequently informed INEC that we therefore with the greatest respect urge you as a law abiding organisation to immediately abide with the decision of the courts of the land.

It added that the urgency of this matter is heightened by the pendency of gubernatorial by-elections in Ekiti and Osun states and we would not want our party to suffer any legal disabilities in its nominations.

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