Crisis Hits Fake Governor's Forum: Jang's Group Fight DGs

Crisis is currently rocking the Governor Jonah Jang faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. Investigations showed that some governors in the faction are grumbling over happenings in the forum.

A governor, who belongs to this fake Governor's Forum faction, said that some of them are not happy with what he called the “over-bearing influence of one of us.”

The governor told Punch that with what is happening, it might be difficult for the forum to meet its target. He said, “As I speak, the strategic committee, which we named ‘Think Thank Committee,’ has not been able to meet. Members of the committee, headed by the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, have not met even once.

“Apart from Akwa Ibom, other states in the committee are Delta, Katsina, Abia and Bauchi.”

Besides, the governors were said to have been divided over several letters written to different embassies by its Sole Administrator, Mr. Osaro Onaiwu, informing them about the “change in the NGF leadership.”

In the letters, Onaiwu informed the embassies not to attend to letters written by Bayo Okauru, the Director General of Gov Rotimi Amaechi's authentic faction.

But at a hurriedly called meeting of the forum, which was held at the Benue Governor’s Lodge in Abuja last week, majority of the governors were said to have frowned at the attempt to make their disagreement with Governor Amaechi, who actually defeated Governor Jang, an international issue.

The aggrieved governors are of the opinion that the international community can never accept 16 as winner over 19. Thus, majority of the governors are said to be against the action of their DG, Osaro Onaiwu. 

At a point, one of the governors was said to have asked who employed Onaiwu since he had not been given any employment letter.

A governor at the event said, “We resolved that it was wrong for him to have done all those things without our consent and moreover, we have not employed him as our DG.

“We know that we are making moves to resolve this matter and at the end of the day, we would all come together under one umbrella. That is why we scolded him.”

It was also gathered that President Goodluck Jonathan was under an intense pressure to recognise Governor Rotimi Amaechi as the chairman of the NGF. Jonathan is seriously considering the options.