Rivers State governor and Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum, (NGF),
Chubuike Rotimi Amaechi has called for a meeting of the forum.
A statement by the NGF’s Director-General, Asishana Okauru, said the meeting which is the 7th NGF meeting,
will hold on Wednesday at the Rivers State Governors Lodge by 8pm.
The statement also confirmed that governors Jonah Jang of Plateau State; Godswill Akpabio of AkwaIbom; Gabriel Suswam of Benue; Henry Seriake Dickson and other thirty-one State governors have been invited for the meeting.
Despite Amaechi winning the election last month by beating Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang by 19 votes to 16 votes, Jang had gone ahead to lead a faction of NGF as he claimed that he was the consensus candidate of 19 governors prior to the election.
While the Amaechi group was yet to call a meeting, the Jang faction called a meeting of NGF last week, Monday 17th June, 2013, which was only attended by 16 governors.
But the Amaechi’s invitation for tomorrow’s meeting issued by a Press Officer of the NGF Secretariat, Chidimma Onyenalim reads: “There will be a meeting of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Wednesday 26th June, 2013. Time: 8.00pm prompt. Venue: Rivers State Governor’s Lodge, No. 5 Justice Mohammed Bello Street, Asokoro, Abuja.”
The statement also confirmed that governors Jonah Jang of Plateau State; Godswill Akpabio of AkwaIbom; Gabriel Suswam of Benue; Henry Seriake Dickson and other thirty-one State governors have been invited for the meeting.
Despite Amaechi winning the election last month by beating Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang by 19 votes to 16 votes, Jang had gone ahead to lead a faction of NGF as he claimed that he was the consensus candidate of 19 governors prior to the election.
While the Amaechi group was yet to call a meeting, the Jang faction called a meeting of NGF last week, Monday 17th June, 2013, which was only attended by 16 governors.
But the Amaechi’s invitation for tomorrow’s meeting issued by a Press Officer of the NGF Secretariat, Chidimma Onyenalim reads: “There will be a meeting of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Wednesday 26th June, 2013. Time: 8.00pm prompt. Venue: Rivers State Governor’s Lodge, No. 5 Justice Mohammed Bello Street, Asokoro, Abuja.”
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