Chyna Iwuanyanwu
The
Governors’ Forum is now operating like a gang of political kidnappers
who use the stupendous wealth and power at their disposal to kidnap
their political parties, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) Chief Chyna Iwuanyanwu has said.
Iwuanyanwu, who was last year schemed
out of the race for the office of the PDP National Publicity Secretary,
told some Journalists in Abuja yesterday that the activities of the
forum are worse than those of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, adding that
the forum constitute a major threat to the Goodluck Jonathan
administration and democratic governance in the country.
Admitting that there is nothing wrong
with a platform to promote interaction and exchange of ideas amongst
governors, he noted that the Governors’ Forum has now degenerated into a
political cabal whose only agenda is to hijack government at all levels
with impunity.
“Some governors are worse than the
combined effect of Boko-Haram and kidnappers. They have kidnapped and
crippled their local governments, their state Houses of Assembly and
even their state judiciary to the extent that state legislatures are
voting against their own autonomy.
“The National Assembly has been forced
to abort the public opinion poll on the autonomy of local governments
just to please 36 extra ordinary Nigerians called governors.
“Governors have become pharaohs and
emperors running their states like demi-gods. Nigeria and the political
parties has become hostage of the governors, they determine the choice
of presidential and vice presidential candidates, they also appoint and
impose candidates for all positions in the leadership of political
parties at all levels.
“They also singlehandedly decide
candidates for State Assemblies and the National Assembly because they
are in absolute control of delegates who are selected by them”,
Iwuanyawu said.
DailyTrust
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