A leadership crisis has deepened within the Progressive
Governors’ Forum (PGF) following the emergence of rival camps within the body
of governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Hope Uzodimma, governor of Imo state and chairman of the
forum, has insisted that he remains in charge of the PGF, alongside Uba Sani,
governor of Kaduna state, who serves as deputy chairman.
However, another bloc within the forum is said to be aligned
behind Dapo Abiodun, governor of Ogun state, and AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq,
governor of Kwara state.
Governors in Abiodun’s camp are from Adamawa, Zamfara,
Delta, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Rivers, Bayelsa, Niger, Kwara, Plateau, Enugu,
and Katsina states.
Those backing Uzodimma are the governors of Kano, Taraba,
Kebbi, Yobe, Lagos, Gombe, Kogi, Edo, Ekiti, Ondo, Sokoto, Jigawa, Ebonyi,
Nasarawa and Kaduna states.
Meanwhile, the governors backing Uzodimma on Friday passed a
vote of confidence in him.
The governors arrived at the Imo State Lodge in Abuja for
what was described as an emergency meeting.
The meeting took place hours after the PGF denied reports
claiming Uzodimma had been removed as chairman of the forum.
Governors present at the meeting included Umar Namadi of
Jigawa, Hyacinth Alia of Benue, Nasir Idris of Kebbi, Mai Mala Buni of Yobe,
Abba Yusuf of Kano and Ahmed Ododo of Kogi.
Others at the meeting were Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi,
Babagana Zulum of Borno, Ahmad Aliyu of Sokoto, Agbu Kefas of Taraba, Uba Sani
of Kaduna and Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo.
Emmanuel Akabe, deputy governor of Nasarawa state, also
attended the meeting on behalf of his principal.
Details surrounding the disagreement were still unclear at
the time of filing this report.
Neither faction had officially issued a detailed statement
explaining the cause of the division.
Earlier, there were reports that Peter Mbah, governor of
Enugu state, has emerged as the new chairman of the body.
The reports claimed Mbah succeeded Uzodimma after an
extraordinary meeting of APC governors held in Abuja on Thursday night.
Multiple sources said about 20 governors attended the
closed-door meeting, including those from Ogun, Bayelsa, and Enugu states
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