Leaders of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) including three governors elected on the party’s platform in
the south-east geopolitical zone rose from a closed door meeting in
Enugu on Sundaywith
a resolve to fashion out a more sustainable and enduring strategy aimed
at permanently checkmating the increasing spate of invasion of
communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen in the zone.
The meeting, which was attended by the
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu as well as Governors Ifeanyi
Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state and Okezie Ikpeazu
of Abia state, also had the presence of former governors of Anambra and
Imo states, Peter Obi and Ikedi Ohakim.
However, Governor Rochas Okorocha of
Imo state and his Anambra state counterpart, Willy Obiano, were
conspicuously absent. Some former governors including Chief Martin
Elechi, (Ebonyi), Sullivan Chime (Enugu) and Senator Theodore Orji of
Abia who were said to have been invited to the meeting were also absent.
No reason was given for their inability to attend.
But, addressing newsmen at the end of
the two-hours meeting, Ekweremadu said the meeting appraised
developments in the last herdsmen attack in Enugu and resolved to find
ways of ensuring that such attack did not take place either in Enugu or
any othernplace in the south-east zone.
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