Popularly acclaimed winner of the recently held election of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi has invited all governors in the country to the inaugural meeting of the forum since the election.
Signed by Chidinma Onyenalim, an aide to Governor Amaechi, the invitation states that the meeting will hold on Wednesday by 8:00 p.m. at the Rivers Governors Lodge, Abuja.
“There will be a meeting of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Wednesday 26th June, 2013,” the meeting notice read. “Time: 8.00pm prompt. Venue: Rivers State Governor’s Lodge, No. 5 Justice Mohammed Bello Street, Asokoro, Abuja.”
The governor had disclosed days ago that the authentic forum would call for a meeting soon, just as Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang and defeated candidate in the election continued to parade himself as the authentic chairman.
Jang had lost the election after polling 16 votes against Amaechi’s 19 votes but has continued to reject the result of the election. Despite Amaechi winning the election last month, Jang has gone ahead to lead a faction of NGF as he claimed that he was the consensus candidate of 19 governors prior to the election.
While the Amaechi group was yet to call a meeting, the Jang faction called a meeting of NGF last week, Monday 17th June, 2013, which was only attended by 16 governors.
