Govs dump Yar’Adua
From JACOB EDI, Abuja
Friday, February 5, 2010



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The Governors Forum in their meeting last night, among other major decisions, demanded for the inauguration of Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as the Acting President with immediate effect.
The governors who sat for about seven hours at the Kwara State Lodge in Abuja also demanded that the procedure for appointing Vice President Jonathan as Acting President could either be verbal or written.

While appreciating the position of the 1999 Constitution in relation to the office of the President and that of his deputy, the Forum urged Nigerians to give Acting President Jonathan all the support he needs to succeed until President Yar’Adua returns in good health.

The governors also said that they would convene a meeting with the leadership of the National Assembly to pass a resolution empowering Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President.
On the Jos crisis, the governors resolved to send relief materials to the victims of the last mayhem in the Plateau State capital, insisting that that the Jos problem is a political problem, not religious.
The Forum also urged all state governors to put in place a machinery to enforce rule of law, so as to avoid a repeat of the Jos crisis in their home states.

It will be recalled that the decision of last night’s meeting in Abuja was a follow up to the position of the Northern governors meeting in Kaduna yesterday.
Some of the states that were either represented by the governor or the deputy at the meeting are: Kwara, Kebi, Benue, Adamawa, Rivers, Ebonyi, Delta, Ekiti, Nasarawa, Cross River, Sokoto, Abia, Katsina, Niger, Borno, Edo, Kaduna, Bauchi, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Gombe, Oyo, Jigawa, Kogi, Kano, Lagos, Taraba, Osun and Ondo.