The five aggrieved governors, who recently defected from the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC, have declared to President Goodluck Jonathan that they have no intention of returning to the PDP.

The position of the governors was made known by the Governor of Sokoto state, Aliyu Wamakko, early on Monday morning, after meeting President Jonathan, alongside Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State.

The meeting between two of the decampee governors and Mr. Jonathan lasted almost five hours.

A visibly enraged Mr. Wamakko told journalists after the meeting, which ended at about 3:00 a.m., that they had come to tell the President where they stand.

“Well the meeting went on very well because some of us came here as governors. On PDP matter and our position has been known.

“On behalf of the five of us, I have already briefed Mr. President our position as G-5 that we are no longer in the PDP mainstream and that we are already in another party. But as a President of this country, if he calls us, we will come and listen to him and respect him as a leader of our country, otherwise what we had there was mostly a PDP affair,” he said.

The G-5 governors who joined the APC are Messrs Wamakko and Kwankwaso, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers, Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, and Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara.

Messrs Kwankwaso and Wamakko arrived the first Lady’s residence, venue of the meeting, about an hour after Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State.