Jang/Amaechi Factions Of NGF Disagree On Sanusi's Suspension

The factional Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, who is also the Governor of Plateau State, Mr. Jonah Jang, has described the faction of the NGF being led by the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, as an extension of the All Progressives Congress.

The governors’ forum had split into two since last June after its controversial election with both Jang and Amaechi leading parallel factions.

Amaechi had met with members of his own faction of the NGF in Abuja on Monday night to deliberate on the suspension of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido.

The Forum condemned the suspension, which it described as a violation of the Constitution and the laws that established the CBN.

However, Jang in a statement by the Media Office of his faction, on Wednesday, berated the NGF under the leadership of Amaechi.

The statement was signed by Mr. Kassim Yakubu.

The Plateau governor said the Amaechi’s NGF was playing politics with the suspension of the CBN governor by President Goodluck Jonathan, noting that “Nigerians have grown weary of Governor Amaechi turning every issue even beyond his purview into a political opportunity.”

He said that Amaechi was not speaking on behalf of the governors in the country, stressing that a vast majority of governors “do not share in the anti-Federal Government zeal that the Rivers State governor champions as evident in the ever-reducing number of governors he parades.”

He added, “Nigerians want governors to perform their primary functions of running their states and not this obsession with President Jonathan by governor Amaechi and his cohorts.

“My advice to them is that Nigerians and history will decide if President Jonathan has performed as President. This lowly behaviour will not win them any election.”