Factional Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has commenced moves towards wooing estranged governors aligned to his rival, Governor Chibuke Amaechi, he disclosed at the weekend.
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The move nonetheless, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, yesterday, slammed President Goodluck Jonathan for his recognition of the Jang faction of the NGF.
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The ACN described the president's recognition of the Jang faction as a slap on the principle of democracy. The CPC on its part described it as an act of perfidy saying the presidency worked fully to sabotage Amaechi's victory and followed on by turning the vote on its head.
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Jang in a session with newsmen in Lagos at the weekend flayed insinuations he lost the NGF chairmanship election saying that Amaechi rigged the polls as he challenged his rivals to show the full length of the video film of the poll which he said would debunk the claim of a free and fair poll.