The Governor of Bayelsa state and chairman of the South South governors’ forum, Honorable Henry Seriake Dickson, has urged the 36 governors of the federation to adopt rotation in the election of a new leader for the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF).
Dickson, in a statement issued by his Special Adviser, media relations Fidelis Soriwei Wednesday noted that the decision on who should be the next Chairman of the forum should be guided by rotation between the North and South.
Dickson also revealed: “The Governors elected under the platform of the PDP would not contest the position in consonance with the precedence that the NGF Chairman should be a ranking Governor from the ruling political party.
He stated that the PDP governors would not make any move to endanger the time honoured principle guiding the emergence of the Chairman of the NGF.
The statement reads in part: “I am calling on the governors who would assemble today to take a decision on the Chairmanship òf the Governor’s Forum to be guided by the tested principle of rotation between the North and the South.
“Now that the Alhaji Abdulazeez Yari, Governor òf Zamfara State would be ending his tenure, we expect that the next chairman should come from the South.
“The precedence is that the ruling party produces the Chairman. The PDP Governors have no desire to be disruptive and expect that a ranking Governor from the APC, the party with the majority would be the next chairman.
He congratulated his Zamfara counterpart on the successful completion of his tenure during which he collaborated with the FG to address a myriad of issues such as the refund of the Paris club money, and other issues affecting state finances.
