NGF CRISIS: Amaechi Gives Condition For Quitting As Chairman

To douse the controversy over the chairmanship of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), Rivers State helmsman, Chibuike Amaechi, has offered to resign, but this is with a condition: ‘If the 19 governors who voted for him asked him to quit’.

This was disclosed yesterday by his Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari.


Amaechi like Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang is claiming to have won the election for the chairmanship of the NGF.

Semenitari told journalists in Port Harcourt Wednesday that Nigerians were aware of the democratic process in which Amaechi emerged as the chairman of the NGF and that the governor is someone who does not treat a democratic process with levity.


According to her, Amaechi remains the authentic chairman of the NGF, but if his colleagues, especially those who voted for him insist that he should step down in a bid to pave the way for peace in the forum, he will step down.

“If all the governors decide, especially those who voted for Governor Amaechi, that he should step down, naturally, he will concede to his colleagues,” she said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Leyii Kwanee, has urged youths to support Amaechi in what he described as a critical moment of his political career.