"The forum urges all PDP faithful to support this gesture, which should enable the President to become the sole presidential candidate of the PDP come 2015."
Governors elected on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have said they want President Goodluck Jonathan as the sole candidate for the party's ticket.
Several governors said this after their meeting in Abuja on Wednesday night.
Present at the meeting were Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Sullivan Chime (Enugu), Jonah Jang (Plateau), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Theodore Orji (Abia), Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe), Idris Wada (Kogi), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Ramallan Yero (Kaduna), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Saidu Dakingari ( Kebbi); Ahmadu Fintiri and Umar Garba (acting governors of Adamawa and Taraba respectively); Mahmoud Gumel, Abdullahi Faskari, Mukhtar Shagari, and Damishi Luka, deputy governors of Jigawa, Katsina, Sokoto and Nasarawa states respectively.
Akpabio, who presided over the meeting, read the communique.
He said, "The Forum hereby endorses President Jonathan for a second term in office and resolved to support his bid for re-election come 2015.”