As
controversy, uncertainty and dissension cuts a path through the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a majority of the 19 Northern Governors
today shunned the Northern States Governors’s Forum in Kaduna.
According
to a source at the meeting, only the governors of Kaduna, Jigawa,
Nasarawa, Niger and Gombe were present. A few others sent their
deputies.
Isa
Yuguda of Bauchi State has last week announced his decision to stop
attending the meeting over what he characterized as the betrayal by his
colleagues of the effort of Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau to defeat
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State for the leadership of the
Nigeria Governors Forum.
At
today’s event, our source said the governors only made public some
decisions taken on certain companies collectively owned by the 19
Northern States, including the New Nigeria Development Company, New
Nigerian Newspapers Company, and Kaduna Textiles Limited.
They also tacked such issues as the insecurity in Nasarawa State, and the Petroleum Industry Bill.
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