CHAIRMANSHIP OF PDP GOVS FORUM: NORTH CENTRAL STAKEHOLDERS REACT …Say we feel betrayed ..…Threaten to dump party


CHAIRMANSHIP OF PDP GOVS FORUM: NORTH CENTRAL STAKEHOLDERS REACT
…Say we feel betrayed
..…Threaten to dump party

By Donald Sylva



Following Monday's emergency of Sokoto State Governor, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal as Chairman, PDP Governors Forum, some aggrieved elders and stakeholders of North Central extraction under the aegis of PDP North Central Stakeholders Forum say they will not accept Tambuwal's emergence.

In a press statement signed by its National Coordinator, Mallam Nazif Abdullahi, the group said it felt betrayed because the position had been zoned to its region based on the fact that Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State was pencilled down to succeed the outgoing chairman, Hon. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State.

The group stated that in what seemed like a kangaroo assembly, few members of the forum gathered somewhere in Abuja, came to an agreement and is now attempting to foist their wish on the entire membership of the forum; claiming that it was a unanimous decision of all the governors, even when the incumbent, Dickson, and several others were not present at the gathering.

The group equally questioned the rationale behind their decision, more so with Tambuwal as the Deputy Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, and asking: "Is he the only qualified PDP Governor that he must hold every position that comes to the governors?"

The statement also threatened that the region is seriously considering its continued membership within the party, and might dump it citing frequent dictatorial tendencies and attitudes of certain people who see themselves as demi-gods.


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