A competent source at the ongoing meeting of the 19 Northern Governors Forum has just told SaharaReporters that the actual agenda of the governors is power shift to the North in 2015, but this is being down played in view of the other imminent challenges the region is facing.
A competent source at the ongoing meeting of the 19 Northern Governors Forum has just told SaharaReporters that the actual agenda of the governors is power shift to the North in 2015, but this is being down played in view of the other imminent challenges the region is facing.
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The 2015 ambition, says the source on ground at the meeting, was discussed by many of the governors well before they converged for the official opening of the meeting in Kaduna yesterday.
One of the governors told our source that Northern Governors were rankled by the recent revelation by ex-Niger Delta militant Asari Dokubo that President Jonathan Goodluck was planning to stay in office for additional 4 years after completing his initial four year tenure in 2015.
But nobody is to expect the issue to be reflected in the communiqué of the meeting, as the Governors’ strategy of trying to avoid heating up the country’s polity less than one year after the last election over which region will produce the presidency in 2015. The governors, at the time of this report, are still in their closed-door meeting.
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