The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) under the leadership of Plateau state governor, Jonah Jang, has dissociated itself from the planned retreat being organised by the Governor Rotimi Amaechi-led group.
Jang’s NGF, in a statement by his Media Officer, Kassim Yakubu, said there was a programme in circulation naming its members as participants in the said retreat.
The Forum’s chairman added that it was a cunning attempt to give the retreat credibility following the dismal showing of the first one held in Sokoto, last year.
The statement said: “They have realised that Nigerians now know that they are an opposition governors forum and the only way to get credibility now is to invoke the names of governors who clearly do not belong to their group nor share in their vision of turning the Governors Forum into an anti federal government body.
“The first retreat turned out to be an anti federal government venting exercise and did not gain any traction with the general public who want the governors to stick with their primary functions of running their states and the objectives of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum which is to work in cohesion with all other tiers of government to deliver needed development to the Nigerian people.”
The Forum predicted that the planned retreat would turn out to be another federal government bashing get-together where the opposition script would be acted out.