The Governor Jonah Jang-led faction of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) appears undeterred by the legal moves against it as it has scheduled a meeting for tomorrow in Abuja.
The meeting will discuss issues surrounding the Federation Account and Excess Crude Account, according to a letter of invitation by Jang, the governor of Plateau State.
The Governors Forum had broken into two factions one led by Jang and the other by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State – after a controversial election which saw Amaechi emerging winner by 19-16 votes.
The meeting, described as emergency, it was learnt, would enable the governors loyal to Jang strategize and come up with a position that will be presented to the Committee headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim.
Anyim’s Committee was set up by President Goodluck Jonathan to, among other things, suggest how to stem the crises rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which culminated in the suspension of Amaechi and his Sokoto State counterpart, Aliyu, from the party.
Meanwhile, a member of the NGF and governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, had dragged Jang to court to compel him from parading himself as the NGF Chairman.
Fashola, who filed his suit at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, in his capacity as a member of the NGF, asked the court to declare that Jang was not competent to be called the elected chairman of the Forum.
In the writ of summons filed by a former Lagos Attorney General, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), and former President, West African Bar Association, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), Fashola maintained that 35 governors participated in the election that returned Amaechi as the NGF chairman.
Attendance at tomorrow’s meeting, according to analysts, last night, will signpost how well the reconciliatory moves which Jang told journalists on Friday he had initiated have gone.
The Plateau governor, at a session with journalists, said he was doing everything to bring every governor to his side.