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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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