NGF Election: Myself, 8 Other PDP Govs Voted For Amaechi - Lamido

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  Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido has said that himself and eight other Peoples Democratic Party Governors voted for Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi in the controversial Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF).
  
  “I voted for Amaechi. Look, in the PDP, myself, the governor of Kano, the governor of Niger, the governor of Kebbi, the governor of Sokoto, the governor of Kwara, the governor of Rivers, the governor of Adamawa, nine of us PDP governors voted for him. This election was for the NGF, not a candidate for the PDP; there is nothing to it,”
  
  Governor Lamido was speaking in Washington, DC yesterday during an interview with TV2, monitored by our correspondent.
  
  Reacting to the crisis in the party he said that the party was founded by reasonable people, and stressed that,“Any reasonable politician who has foresight, knows that doing anything that will cause trouble for party members or bring confusion should be avoided.
  
  “The truth is BamangaTukur was defeated in Bauchi or was he not defeated during the zonal elections in Bauchi? I, Wamakko, the governor of Kano and others came together and said that what the North East did was wrong, so we will not agree; let us go for an election.
  
  “The North East said its consensus candidate was Babayo. Bamanga Tukur was brought to us at the convention and we elected him”
  
  He added that the top hierarchy of the PDP took the will of the Governors under its aegis for granted by attempting to ram a candidate down their throats.
  
  Lamido faults Obama over Nigeria’s exclusion from Africa visit
  
  Lamido also in the interview faulted United States President Barrack Obama for the non-inclusion of Nigeria in his visit to the African continent.
  
  The White House had recently released the travel plan of the US president to three African nations, which excludes Nigeria as against the original plan that the Department of State early this year sent to the federal government of Nigeria and argued that Obama had no rights to tell Nigeria what it should do or not do.
  
  He said, “President Obama’s trip has no meaning to me. It is a condescending visit, and in Nigeria we don’t need anyone to tell us what to do, or come to stamp his authority on us.”
  
  While declaring that Nigeria was experiencing a manifestation of System Collapse, the governor said that Boko Haram and corruption were manifestations of institutional failures, and stress that there was no longer transparency, accountability, due process and the rule of law in the country.