Chairman, Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has dismissed reports making the rounds that there was misunderstanding amongst the Governors at its last meeting over the on-going constitutional amendment.
The Rivers State Governor who spoke with journalists in Ibadan yesterday during a courtesy visit to the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi after he had visited the family of the late Justice Kayode Esho who died some days ago, said, “We agreed on all the issues we discussed. We met in the morning by 10a.m. and did not disperse until 3p.m., if we had disagreed we could have closed before 12noon and not the time we closed.
“Our interests transcend local and primordial sentiments. Some of us would be finishing our tenure in 2015 and hence would cease to be governors”.
“These things we are doing, we are doing it for the benefit of the country. We will leave by 2015, so it can’t be to protect our personal interests”, he stated.
“If that were so, we will be looking at national because most of us are eyeing the national at the end of our tenure. Instead, he noted, the forum was thinking of how to run a proper federalism.
“I don’t think the governors are doing what they are doing because they want to please or protect their own interests,” he added.
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