A Presidency source told Sunday Tribune in Abuja that President Jonathan, as leader of the party, took the action to find a lasting solution to the crisis so that the party would regain its leadership footings and plan ahead of the 2015 general election.
Following this development, it was gathered, the PDP governors, who had been warring among themselves, would bury the hatchets and hold a crucial meeting in Abuja tonight with a view to presenting a common agenda on the way forward to resolve the crisis.
Though the position of most of the PDP governors had always been that the party's national chairman should step aside to allow for a neutral and less controversial person to take over, with the recent formation of the PDP Governors' Forum and the crisis rocking the Nigeria Governors' Forum, which they said resulted in Alhaji Tukur winning only a few of the governors into his camp.
It was, learnt that some of the governors were also said to be of the opinion that if they fail to support the current move to remove Alhaji Tukur, they might be the next victims of the treatment meted to Governors Rotimi Amaechi and Aliyu Wammako, who until recently, were considered to be his favourites.
The source revealed that it was the same Governor Amaechi who went round, last year, to convince his governor-colleagues on the need to support the candidature of Alhaji Tukur as the national chairman of the party.
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