NGF crisis: Lagos ACN condemns Presidency, PDP

LAGOS — Lagos State Chap-ter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has berated the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for allegedly sowing and sustaining crisis in the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF.
In a statement, it said PDP and the Presidency by their actions were creating doubts on the minds of Nigerians on their faith in democracy, which they had leveraged to gain undue advantage over all Nigerians since 1999.
The statement by its Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, said by the way the PDP and the Presidency had allegedly gone to “create crisis in a body that unites Nigerian governors and the audacious manner they are sustaining this crisis, are enough to warn Nigerians that those that benefitted greatly from our fight against military rule are not ready to depart from the path of unconstitutionality.
It advised Nigerians to brace up for further struggles if they are not to continue witnessing the deliberate distortion of democracy to benefit a small cabal that neither believes in democracy nor are desirous of its growth.
“By now, Nigerians are all aware of the undue interest shown by the PDP and the Presidency to annex the NGF for their self serving purposes before the NGF election.
“Such desperation found meaning in the orchestrated campaign of calumny the Presidency and the PDP launched against the Chairman of NGF, Governor Chibuike Amaechi over the unfounded speculation that he was eyeing the vice presidency.”
The party said that show of this inordinate desire to conquer and annex the NGF were the hasty formation of a PDP Governors’ Forum, threats against governors, among others.
suspected not to harbour positive interest of PDP and the Presidency’s agenda, deployment of carrot to woo governors to support the take-over of the NGF among other means.
“Nigerians are aware that after all these heightened moves and heated campaigns to capture the NGF, the body held its election where 35 of the nation’s 36 governors freely participated in an election between Amaechi and the presidency’s candidate, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State.
Nigerians are aware that Governor Amaechi beat Jang by 19 votes to 36. We are equally aware that since the election held, the presidencies with its governor-lackeys have been in a very desperate mission to forge a phantom NGF with the defeated Jang as the Chairman.
We are aware that these forces have been at their wit’s end, deploying very childish, sterile and laughable reasons to explain why they are attempting to abort a fully born baby. We are aware that even with the pedestrian reasons they have been manufacturing to ensure the balkanization of the NGF, they have failed woefully in explaining to Nigerians why they feel they must indulge in a deliberate show of illegality to prosecute whatever narrow political interests it wants to sell.