Tension As Governor Amechi Of Rivers State Invites Nigeria Governors Forum Meeting

 

The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, who is also the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has summoned the meeting of the forum.
The notice of the meeting, which holds in Abuja on Wednesday, was also sent to the factional Chairman of the NGF, who is also the Governor of Plateau State, Mr. Jonah Jang.


The agenda of the meeting shows that Amaechi will brief his colleagues on the letter by the governors to President Goodluck Jonathan on the sharing of revenue accruing to the states from the Federation Account.
At their last meeting, which was held in Abuja on December 12, 2013, the governors said they were going to confront Jonathan on the alleged refusal of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to remit $49.8bn to the Federation Account.
The governors based their decision on the revelation  made by the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria,  Mallam  Lamido Sanusi, in his letter that the NNPC had failed to remit the money, which was said to be the proceeds from crude sales between from January 2012 to July 2013.
The said amount was said to have represented 76 per cent of the value of crude oil lifting during the period, in which the NNPC was said to have remitted  $15.5bn, representing a paltry 24 per cent of the total value of $65.3bn.
Wednesday meeting will also deliberate on funding challenges at the state level, how to move  the NGF forward, adoption  of the NGF Strategic Plan and Action Plans for 2014