The recently contested Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) election can be said to have featured unsportsmanlike conduct according to reports from Premium Times.
According to the publication, the election proceedings were covertly recorded by one of the governors’ in order to forestall a chaotic situation.
It reports, “The footage, seen by a PREMIUM TIMES source, documents how the 35 governors, who participated, were transparently accredited, assigned ballot papers, before they took turns to slot them in a transparent ballot box hired from the Independent National Electoral Commission.
“At a point during the election, a source said, the arrowhead of the opposition against Mr. Amaechi, Governor Godswill Akpabio, realized the election was being taped and he charged angrily at the governor doing the recording. But once Mr. Akpabio turned away, the governor simply resumed his secret recording.”
According to sources, Governor Akpabio was miffed that several PDP governors violated a pre-election agreement that would have handed control of the NGF over to forces loyal to President Jonathan.
In a veiled reference to Akpabio, one of the opposition governors is quoted to have said, “Let them keep dancing around, we will release the video of the election at the appropriate time. We have hard core evidence that these clowns (governors) voted without any complaint during the election. We are ashamed to have these shady characters as colleagues.”