Ex-Nigerian Leaders Babangida And Abdusalami Meet Northern Governors In Minna
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The raging crisis in Rivers State; Nigeria will be top on the agenda of a meeting being held in Minna, the Niger State capital Monday at the behest of two former military Heads of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.
The two former leaders will be joined at the meeting with five governors from the northern part of the country and is expected to deliberate on the state of the nation.
Daily Times sources hinted Sunday that other issues the meeting would discuss include the turbulence in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the factionalisation of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and jockeying for the 2015 general election, especially as it concerns the clamour for power shift to the north.
The five governors expected at the meeting are: Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Alhaji Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko (Sokoto) and the host governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, who incidentally is also the Chairman of the Northern Governors Form (NGF).
The man in the eye of the storm, Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, who was initially billed to attend the meeting, will, however, no longer be physically present in Minna after leaving Sunday for Britain.
The Minna meeting, it was learnt, was in furtherance of efforts by the governors, four of whom were in Abeokuta on Saturday to confer with with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on how to resolve the crisis in Rivers State and the PDP.
Kwankwaso, Lamido, Nyako and Wamakko had held consultations with Obasanjo at his Hilltop home during which they discussed the state of the nation with the former president, who is the immediate past chairman, PDP Board of Trustees (BoT).
Incidentally, their meeting with Obasanjo took place only a few days after Kwankwaso, Lamido, Nyako and Aliyu visited Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to assess the situation in the state that has being caught in a spiralling circle of violence, which had led to clashes between pro and anti-Amaechi lawmakers in the state House of Assembly on one hand and between supporters of the two factions of the lawmakers on the other hand.
Abdulsalami, who had kick started the latest democratic process after handing over power to civilians in 1999, had last week warned against the deteriorating crisis in Rivers State, noting that it could truncate the nation’s adolescent democracy.
It is believed that meeting, which is being hosted by the Niger State governor, is scheduled to start at about noon at the Presidential Lodge, Minna.
Daily Times sources hinted Sunday that other issues the meeting would discuss include the turbulence in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the factionalisation of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and jockeying for the 2015 general election, especially as it concerns the clamour for power shift to the north.
The five governors expected at the meeting are: Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Alhaji Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko (Sokoto) and the host governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, who incidentally is also the Chairman of the Northern Governors Form (NGF).
The man in the eye of the storm, Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, who was initially billed to attend the meeting, will, however, no longer be physically present in Minna after leaving Sunday for Britain.
The Minna meeting, it was learnt, was in furtherance of efforts by the governors, four of whom were in Abeokuta on Saturday to confer with with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on how to resolve the crisis in Rivers State and the PDP.
Kwankwaso, Lamido, Nyako and Wamakko had held consultations with Obasanjo at his Hilltop home during which they discussed the state of the nation with the former president, who is the immediate past chairman, PDP Board of Trustees (BoT).
Incidentally, their meeting with Obasanjo took place only a few days after Kwankwaso, Lamido, Nyako and Aliyu visited Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, to assess the situation in the state that has being caught in a spiralling circle of violence, which had led to clashes between pro and anti-Amaechi lawmakers in the state House of Assembly on one hand and between supporters of the two factions of the lawmakers on the other hand.
Abdulsalami, who had kick started the latest democratic process after handing over power to civilians in 1999, had last week warned against the deteriorating crisis in Rivers State, noting that it could truncate the nation’s adolescent democracy.
It is believed that meeting, which is being hosted by the Niger State governor, is scheduled to start at about noon at the Presidential Lodge, Minna.
