19 Governors Rebuff Goodluck's Meeting Invitation To Aso Rock

A crisis meeting called last night by President Goodluck Jonathan over the stalling of last month’s revenue allocation was shunned by 19 governors.

The meeting at House 7, State House, Abuja got underway at about 10pm, following the arrival of the President.

Governors in the Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang’s faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), who had earlier met, were at the Villa meeting.

All the 19 pro- Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi were not at the meeting.

It was gathered that all the governors were in Abuja for the meeting and indeed wanted to attend until they reviewed their participation following some developments.

Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati said last night that at the end of the one-hour meeting, a committee of four governors was set up by the President to meet this morning with the Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Members of the committee are: Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta) and Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe).

Jonathan, Abati said, felt there was no need to quarell because the money belongs to all.