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Babanginda Aliyu, governor of Niger state and chairman of northern governors forum, has debunked the report that seven governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are working for Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the forthcoming election.

During the campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos on Monday, Rochas Okorocha, governor of Imo state, had said seven PDP governors in support of Muhammadu Buhari had been holding secret meetings with APC .

“Buhari’s victory has been sealed and delivered and today, about seven governors who are not in APC are coming to hold meeting with us privately,” he said.

“There is fear in the country and the fear is that they know that Buhari is a good man and he will win.”

But speaking on Tuesday during the PDP governors forum in Lagos, Aliyu faulted Okorocha’s claim.

“A south-eastern governor said yesterday that some governors are working for Buhari,” he said.

“Many of you here know the history of G7 governors. We were fighting for injustice but those who had their personal ambition left but those of us who were genuinely interested for the correction of those anomalies stayed in PDP.”

Aliyu accused the opposition party of corruption, saying the process that produced Buhari was unjust.

“I was speaking to one of the presidential candidates and he told me that the bullion vans came that night to distribute money to produce Buhari because he promised them that he was going to do one term,” he said.

“The party or people who adopted Buhari on that their primary day did that to extend their looting, stealing of public property into the nation.

“They have done it in a state and they want to transfer it to the whole country. When they went for that primary, the candidate they had in mind was different from what transpired that day.

“That’s the anomaly that has taken over Nigeria and that is why we were very happy that these elections were shifted because the elections were held on February 14, believe me, the tension then, whoever was announced or whichever party was announced, would have a lot of problems.”