Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State has accused his Kano State counterpart, Rabiu Kwankwaso as being responsible for the division in the Nigerian Governor’s Forum.
Jang in response to allegations from Kwankwaso that governor’s belonging to the Jang faction received N2 billion each from the President, said categorically that it was a lie.
Furthermore shedding light on the issue on how the voting put Governor Rotimi Amaechi ontop according to the voting conducted at the NGF election, Jang accused Kwankwaso of deceit. He said Kwankwaso nominated him at the Northern Governor’s Forum meeting to be the consensus candidate to run against Amaechi as leader of the Forum.
Jang said, The opposition governors’ forum is getting desperate as they see their numbers dropping daily and think they can deceive Nigerians with baseless allegations.
“Governor Kwakwanso should tell Nigerians if I gave him money to nominate me. That grand deceit of nominating me and doing something else is the foundation of the division. He should tell Nigerians how and when the N2bn was paid.
“When he proudly made it public that he was being smart by nominating me and leading others to vote against me, what was he expecting?
“That deceit and dishonesty was the beginning of playing politics with the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and now he is not happy with what he created. He can always come back to the forum of the chairman he nominated.”