Why Jang can’t lead NGF –Nyako. Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako yesterday gave the reason why his group believes the Governor of Plateau State, Jonah Jang should not lead the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF. Governor Nyako said Jang was President Goodluck Jonathan’s yes man and would not represent the interest of the governors and the nation, if allowed to head the Forum. Nyako told State House Correspondent in Abuja after a closed door meeting with the President. The Governor however refused to give the details of the meeting. According to him, there are laid down procedures for whoever would lead the Forum. The criteria, he said include “someone who can be trusted by all, one who will not aggravate issues in the eyes of the President, someone who has some degree of chemistry with the President that the President will be comfortable with and one who is not a yes man to the President.” He also spoke on the meeting which began on Monday to resolve the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP He said: “In a democracy, when you have an issue you discuss. The election in the Governors Forum has become an issue. It shouldn’t be an issue. When you say 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 even someone who is in elementary school knows which is higher. “If one group got 19 votes the one got 16, in democracy even in the eyes of the people in elementary school they know that 19 is higher than 16. It should not be turn into controversy. What could be related to that is that it could not be the figure. We could all agree that whoever got the highest figure won the election. “We have already in the governors forum, established certain criteria for leadership within us. He must be somebody we trust. I would like to have a leader of the forum who when he is with the president in the small room talking about Adamawa State can put in a word for Adamawa State. It should not be someone who will aggravate issues in the eyes of Mr President. That element of trust must be there. If I vote for somebody it must be somebody I could trust. “We also said it should be somebody who has some degree of chemistry with the president that the president will be comfortable with. Now if we find that the president is not comfortable with him, can we do a little bit of psychological work to get the two of them to have the same chemistry?” “The other one we feel is that he should add some value to Mr. President. If you have a forum leader who is seen to be part of the president that has become a yes man of Mr. President then the governors will say he is not representing our interests. nationalmirroronline.net/new/why-jang-cant-lead-ngf-nyako/
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:08:14 +0000
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