Operators of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) have been advised to allow the organisation die quietly as this remains the only option to save Nigeria from the embarrassment that has trailed its leadership tussle.
Giving this advised over the weekend, former Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pastor Power Aginighan, said the NGF seemed to have outlived its usefulness, adding that ending the organisation now would serve the Nigerian electorate better.
According to him, the ongoing leadership crisis bugging the NGF has revealed an aberration in the Nigerian democracy, where governors, who ought to be servants to their electors, had evolved into a block with excess powers over the commonwealth of their people.
Aginighan also observed that the abrogation of the NGF would not stop the governors from protecting their individual state’s stakes from the excesses of an overbearing president through the National Economic Council and National Council of States, which they are all members to.
“The confusion that has attended the recent chairmanship election for the NGF has brought to the fore some of the aberrations in the Nigerian polity. Instead of being servants of the people for whom they should have some regard, governors in Nigeria have become very powerful that they conduct themselves as feudal lords over the commonwealth of Nigerians entrusted to them in their respective states,” he said.
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