Ameachi convenes Gov. Forum meeting invites Jang, others
By Busolami Idowu
The embattled Chairman Nigeria’s Governor’s forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has invited the Governor Jonah Jang faction to the meeting of the forum.
The meeting will be the second since the forum split into two following disagreement over the May 24, 2013 election during which Amaechi was re-elected chairman after he beating his Plateau State counterpart, Jonah Jang, by 19 votes to 16.
A reliable disclosed that invitation letters and text messages have been sent to all the 36 state governors urging them to attend.
NigerianEcho gathered that the invitation to next week’s meeting which will hold at the Rivers State Governors Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja, will discuss among other things unfortunate disagreement that trailed its May 24 NGF election, oil theft in the country, polio eradication initiative, update on Federation Account Allocation committee, FAAC, Excess Crude Account, ECA, and Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF, update on State Peer Review Mechanism, SPRIM, investment conferences in the US and Russia and other issues.
The governors in Those in the Amaechi faction are Musa Kwamkwaso (Kano), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Shettima Mustapha (Borno), Ibrahim Gaidam (Yobe), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), and Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), who is the chairman of the faction.
Others are Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) and Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa).
Those in the Jang faction are Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Idris Wada (kogi) Theodore Orji (Abia), Sullivan Chime (Enugu), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Godswill Akapbio (Akwa Ibom), Martin Elechi (Ebonyi), Peter Obi (Anambra), Gabriel Suswam (Benue), Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe), Garba Umar (Taraba), Saidu Dakingari (Kebbi), Ramalan Yero (Kaduna), and Olusegun Mimiko, who is the deputy chairman of the faction.
Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed was attending the Jang faction meetings. The recent development however indicates he may have joined Ameachi’s mainstream NGF .
