Attempts to clip Govs’ Forum’s wings will fail – Aliyu
NIGER State governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is not a union, but an association duly registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), adding that anybody who thinks he can clip the wings of any governor in the country is wasting his time.
He stated this on Monday, while playing host to the state secretaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the northern states, who paid him a visit at the Government House, Minna.
“People should stop wasting their time in trying to clip the wings of the governors, because we know what happened during our party’s congress and all we had to do was to produce the leadership of the party at the national level,” he said.
Aliyu, who is also the chairman, Northern States Governors Forum, blamed t he crisis ongoing in the PDP on the desire to clip the wings of the state governors, stressing that nobody could do that.
He said as the 2015 general election is around the corner, “anyone trying to clip the wings of any governor may end up clipping his own wings.”
He said at the forum, “we do not discuss politics or who becomes what like the president or the vice president or what have you. Whatever anybody becomes is the work of God, people use some of those
statements to cause problems.”liyu said instead of working for the destruction of the forum, Nigerians should support it to put it in position of serving the people better.
In the same vein, the Delta State governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said governors congregating under the aegis of the NGF engaged in more other activities beneficial to the people than politics.
Speaking against the backdrop of public criticisms that governors used the NGF platform to play politics, he said the NGF was quietly fashioning out socio-economic policies and programme that was impacting positively on the states and the people.
Uduaghan, who stated this at the inaugural meeting of the State Peer Review Mechanism (SPRM) of the NGF in Asaba, on Monday, stressed that the public tended to see only the political side of the NGF.
“The Nigeria Governors’ Forum is more than just politics. It may be constituted by political individuals but the duties being executed goes beyond political matters, as the forum carries out other activities beyond politics like this SPRM issue,” he said.
Culled from Tribune
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