As Nigerian Governors Forum prepares to hold its election next month to elect its chairman, President Goodluck Jonathan has pleaded with 15 governors across the parties to support the governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shema as replacement for the incumbent, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.
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The governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will meet tomorrow to among others get a consensus candidate for the Chairmanship of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF President Jonathan as gathered was said to have asked the governors to go for a consensus candidate when Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State said at the meeting that the North may not accept Shema as NGF Chairman.
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It was also gathered that the governors had asked the President to support the body with fund to enable it run effectively, even as governors Ramallan Yero of Kaduna,; Peter Obi of Anambra; Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and Ibrahim Dankwabo of Gombe were among the 15 governors who attended the Sunday meeting with the President.
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Tomorrow's meeting of the PDP governors which will hold in the afternoon will come up before that of the NGF that will take place at 8pm same day at the Rivers State governor's Lodge.
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The PDP governors, Vanguard gathered will also deliberate on the letter the National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur was said to have written to the Sokoto State governor, Aliyu where he was said to have queried the governor over his utterances that Godswill Akpabio was not recognised as Chairman of PDP Governors' forum.