Kano State governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso yesterday alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan gave the 16 governors who voted for Plateau State governor Jonah Jang at last year’s Nigeria Governors’ Forum election N2 billion each.
According to him, while the 16 pro-Jang governors were financially gratified to do the...
presidency’s bidding, the other 19 governors who voted for Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi were left with nothing at all.
Kwankwaso stated this at a meeting between him and a team from the secretariat of the NGF on peer review mechanism led by the forum’s director-general, Mr Ashishana B. Okauru, at Government House, Kano.
The governor said, “Each of the 16 governors that voted Governor Jang has benefited from N2 billion from our own money given to them free of charge. All of us from Amaechi side were given nothing. That is not being fair, that is not even correct and it is illegal.”
Kwankwaso also accused the federal government of deliberately causing disunity among the 36 governors of the federation just to jeopardise the collective interest of Nigerians, adding that it is for this reason that the federal government is mischievously recognising Jang who scored 16 votes against Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi who polled 19 votes in last year’s election of the NGF.
Kwankwaso observed that because federal government had so much to benefit from the rancour that causes disunity among the governors, it is using hidden antics to destabilise the Governors’ Forum.
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