Factional chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau state has said members of his faction would not be attending Amaechi-led NGF retreat.
The Amaechi-led NGF is planning to hold a retreat in Lagos on March 13 and 14 where issues like corruption, agriculture, education, security and others are to be discussed by eminent Nigerians and scholars and they had sent an invitation to the Jang faction.
The Jang-faction in a statement released yesterday in Abuja, signed by the media officer, Kassim Yakubu declined the invitation saying the retreat has since become a means for bashing the federal government.
They described the invitation as a cunning attempt to give credibility to their retreat following the dismal showing of the first one held in Sokoto last year.
The statement reads in part:
"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."
Predicting the outcome of the retreat, Jang's faction said it would be another federal government bashing get-together where the opposition script will be carried out.
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