{"id":30456,"date":"2013-02-21T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T09:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/governors-forum-plot-to-remove-amaechi-as-chairman-fails\/"},"modified":"2013-02-21T09:45:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T09:45:35","slug":"governors-forum-plot-to-remove-amaechi-as-chairman-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/21\/governors-forum-plot-to-remove-amaechi-as-chairman-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors Forum: Plot to remove Amaechi as chairman fails"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Henry Umoru<\/p>\n

ABUJA- PRIOR to Wednesday\u2019s meeting of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, strong indications emerged that there were alleged plans by the Presidency to remove the Chairman of the forum and governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi.<\/p>\n

But at yesterday\u2019s meeting which took place at the Rivers State Governor\u2019s Lodge, Asokoro with thirty three governors in attendance, the state executives rather than address a replacement for the NGF\u2019s chairman as expected from some quarters, x-rayed the administration of the forum and the issue of polio in some states of the federation.\"Amaechi-Orubebe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Amaechi who took over from the Kwara State governor and now Senator representing Kwara Central, Senator Bukola Saraki is expected to round off by June this year.<\/p>\n

At the meeting which entered into the early hours of Thursday, a new person ought to have signified his interest in the chairmanship position, but surprisingly, no one did.<\/p>\n

It will be recalled that at the first meeting of the forum\u00a0this year, a vote of confidence was passed on governor Amaechi, just as political events in the last few weeks have pitched the Rivers governor with the Presidency with the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe as the arrow head.<\/p>\n

There are also insinuations that ahead of 2015 Presidential election, governor Amaechi who would be rounding off his eight year term as governor may be working to clinch as a running mate to a presidential candidate from the north. This, it was gathered, may not go well with the Presidency and President Goodluck Jonathan who it is believed may still run as president of the country.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, The governors at Wednesday\u2019s meeting\u00a0 appealed for solidarity among themselves to finally eradicate polio in Nigeria. The governors also agreed to make functional some of its organs for effective administration of the forum\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 governors\u00a0 in a communiqu\u00e9 said \u201cmembers\u00a0 exhaustively discussed the administration of the forum and resolved that all organs of the forum be made functional at the next meeting,\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

According to the forum\u2019s Chairman, Chibuike Amaechii, the governors commended the governors for their resolve to continue with their polio eradication programme in the face of many challenges and re-affirmed the forum`s solidarity with the affected states<\/p>\n

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State who spoke to journalists\u00a0 at the end of the meeting, stressed\u00a0 that the issue of polio was becoming embarrassing to the nation. This he said, was so because Nigerians who travelled to Saudi Arabia particularly, were\u00a0 now \u201c being subjected to some kind of disinfectants\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By Henry Umoru ABUJA- PRIOR to Wednesday\u2019s meeting of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, strong indications emerged that there were alleged plans by the Presidency to remove the Chairman of the forum and governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}