Amaechi’s NGF an extension of APC -Jang

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

Amaechi had defeated Jang during the election into the office of the chairman of the NGF, but with some of the governors who opposed the Rivers State Governor, formed a parallel Forum.

With his supporters, Jang also opened a new NGF secretariat in Abuja.

Amaechi had met with members 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 released in Abuja by the Media Office of his faction and signed by Mr. Kassim Yakubu on Wednesday, berated the NGF under the leadership of Amaechi.

He said the Forum was playing politics with the suspension of the CBN governor by President Jonathan noting that “Nigerians have grown weary of Governor Amaechi turning every issue even beyond his purview into a political opportunity.”

He reiterated that Amaechi was not speaking on behalf of the governors in the country as according to him, 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.

“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 Nigerians and history will decide if President Jonathan has performed as President. This lowly behaviour will not win them an election.”

Jang also expressed his sympathies to the parents of the school children killed by the Boko Haram extremists in Yobe State and called on the security forces not to relent in their effort to fish out the evil perpetrators of the heinous act.

He also sent condolences to Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state and the people of the state over the death of the speaker of the House of Assembly, Mr. Sam Adesina, who passed away in a Lagos hospital on Monday.