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Pundit Says Jonathan Too Busy To Be Interested In Governors’ Crisis

A Public Affairs and Management Consultant, Fabian Ihekweme has defended President Goodluck Jonathan’s confession about his non-involvement in the Nigeria Governor’s Forum election and the … Continue reading Pundit Says Jonathan Too Busy To Be Interested In Governors’ Crisis


A Public Affairs and Management Consultant, Fabian Ihekweme has defended President Goodluck Jonathan’s confession about his non-involvement in the Nigeria Governor’s Forum election and the crisis which now dominates the group.

He said he had to give the president the benefit of doubt, “I have to believe my president first,” he said.

While speaking on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, Mr Ihekweme said that the politics involved in choosing a chairman for the forum is ‘overheated because of 2015.’

He said, “If you ask me whether the President has a hand in what is playing out, I would tell you emphatic no. I don’t think the President would bother himself about who becomes the chairman about Nigeria Governors Forum, in his busy schedule would he leave his work to bother about who become the chairman of an NGO?”

Mr Ihekweme said the NGF conflict is a distraction for President Jonathan, who has two more years before his tenure ends.

“The President has just done two years out of 4 years… and two years is a lot of time to help Nigeria and Nigerians; and if these distractions continue, then I don’t know where we are heading to,” he said.

He described the crisis as a manifestation that there are no good leaders in the country. The crisis is as a result of “the caliber of people our (Nigeria’s) democracy ushered in from 1999 till date,” he said.

The analyst referred to the NGF which was established to be a productive assembly of governors which affords them the opportunity to share ideas, as a mere NGO, which “has no force of law.”

The crisis “is a manifestation that… we don’t have the best people as leaders in this country” because the governors are fighting over who becomes chairman while other serious issues, such as security, embattle the nation.

“If …36 strong men could not select one person as their chairman, you can imagine what Nigerians are going through in the hands of these people,” he said.