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President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday adjourned an enlarged meeting with state governors on security challenges facing the country till Wednesday.

The adjournment was necessitated by the absence of the All Progressives Congress governors.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State told State House correspondents that the meeting was adjourned till 4pm on Wednesday to give room for the All Progressives Congress governors to attend.

All the APC governors did not honour the Presidents invitation to the meeting which was scheduled to commence at 1pm at the First Ladys Conference Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Only 15 Peoples Democratic Party governors, one All Progressives Grand Alliance governor, one Labour Party governor, two PDP deputy governors and an acting governor arrived at the venue as of 2pm on Thursday.

But Akpabio claimed that only the PDP governors were invited to the Thursday meeting to interface with the President and his security chiefs because of the challenges being faced in some parts of the country.

He said, This is a fallout of our meeting which we held with the PDP governors and we felt that there was a need for us to also meet with security chiefs.

Mr. President has listened to us and even said that since it is a problem that involves all the states of the federation, it is better for all the state governors to be in attendance. Because of that, he has graciously agreed to meet with all the governors of the 36 states of the federation on Wednesday by 4pm.

Of course, you know we are very much concerned first as the PDP governors and the centre belongs to the PDP and so we felt that we should see our President, and if need be, with some of the security chiefs.

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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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