{"id":4651,"date":"2013-06-03T02:27:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T02:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/plot-to-deregister-amaechis-governors-forum-uncovered\/"},"modified":"2013-06-03T02:27:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T02:27:34","slug":"plot-to-deregister-amaechis-governors-forum-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/plot-to-deregister-amaechis-governors-forum-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Plot to deregister Amaechi\u2019s Governors\u2019 Forum uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A plot to kill the Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum (NGF) led by Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi has been uncovered.<\/p>\n

If it succeeds, the action will pave the way for the recognition of Governor Jonah Jang as chairman.<\/p>\n

It was gathered that some forces in the Presidency, in connivance with some governors, are trying to prevail on the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to de-register the NGF.<\/p>\n

The plan is to, after the de-registration, declare the NGF being led by Amaechi as illegal.<\/p>\n

The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) on March 2, 2009 registered the NGF with a 12-man group of trustees, including Vice-President Namadi Sambo, then Kaduna State governor.<\/p>\n

Investigation by our correspondent revealed that some forces in the Presidency had been disturbed following the failure of the Jang faction to secure the backing of the majority of the NGF members last Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Jang faction had only 16 of the 36 governors behind it at the inauguration of its secretariat last Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The \u201cshocking development\u201d made anti-Amaechi forces in the Presidency to go back to the drawing board on how to force most of the governors to abandon Amaechi.<\/p>\n

One of the options being weighed is to deregister the NGF being led by Amaechi.<\/p>\n

To set the ground for the de-registration, one of the aggrieved governors had on Saturday claimed that the NGF Constitution with which the Forum was registered with the CAC was unknown to members.<\/p>\n

A source said: \u201cThe anti-Amaechi forces in the presidency have decided to make the NGF battle a do-or-die affair. They believe it is humiliating for 16 out of 36 governors to be following Jang about after the NGF poll.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have just concluded a plot to deregister the authentic NGF being led by Amaechi in CAC. Their permutation is that once it is an illegal body, the governors will be forced to associate with Jang\u2019s faction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the reasons which the anti-Amaechi camp will give for the de-listing include alleged use of forged constitution to register the Forum and non-filing of appropriate annual reports to the CAC on the activities of the Forum – in line with Article 19(1) of the Forum\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cArticle 19(1) says: \u201cThe income and property of NGF whosoever derived shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of organisation as set forth in this Rules and Regulations\/ Constitution and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly, by way of dividend, bonus, or otherwise howsoever by way of profit, to the members of the organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the North, a plot to remove the Governor of Niger State, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, as the chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum is said to have been hatched. The forum\u2019s meeting is billed for Thursday in Kaduna.<\/p>\n

The anti-Amaechi forces are pushing for Aliyu\u2019s removal by latching on the fact that he had completed his two terms in office as the chairman of the Forum since 2009.<\/p>\n

Besides, a former minister is said to have been recruited into a plot to hijack the party machinery from the governor and impeach him.<\/p>\n

It was learnt that the governor ran into trouble for not only backing Amaechi but for disclosing that President Goodluck Jonathan entered into a one-term pact with PDP governors in 2011 before he got the party\u2019s mandate.<\/p>\n

Aliyu has consistently maintained that it is the turn of the North to produce the president in 2015.<\/p>\n

The source said: \u201cThey want to force Babangida Aliyu to step down as the chairman of the NSGF. They have just realised that he has overstayed in office.<\/p>\n

\u201cActually, Babangida was elected as the chairman of NSGF in 2007 and asked to stay in office again in 2009. By the time a fresh election ought to hold, the politics of the illness of the late President Umaru Yar\u2019Adua had set in. Northern governors unanimously mandated Aliyu to continue to hold the forte because of the political tension in the country occasioned by Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s illness.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow the forces in the Presidency, in connivance with three governors and a former minister, are plotting against the governor. Although Babangida Aliyu tried to make up with President Goodluck Jonathan during the flag-off of Zungeru Hydro-power project last week, the forces are not ready to forgive him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presidency has said President Goodluck Jonathan has no hand in the NGF crisis.<\/p>\n

There is intense lobbying of members of the Niger State House of Assembly to impeach Aliyu, a source said.<\/p>\n

Members are being promised money to join the plot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is also a plan to precipitate a crisis of epic proportions, with the aim of destabilising the state and seizing control of the party structure from Aliyu.<\/p>\n

The ex-minister is alleged to be working in collusion with top politicians from Zone A, consisting of the Nupe, who are in the majority. The promise of governorship returning to the zone is the carrot that the former minister is dangling before politicians in the zone.<\/p>\n

The source said: \u201cNiger State has a zoning arrangement which takes the Governorship slot to Zone C (Kontagora zone) after Zone B (Minna Zone), where Governor Babangida Aliyu hails from, would have served out his two terms in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ex-Minister met with key stakeholders from Zone A in Bida on Saturday 11th May, 2013 after he attended the reception organised in honour of the Secretary to the Government of Niger State, Hon Saidu Ndako Idris Kpaki in Kpaki Village.<\/p>\n

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