Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State, has called for adherence to the principle of rotation between the North and the South in the election of Chairman for the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF.
He said that the next Chairman of the NGF should come from the South with the end of the tenure of Governor Abdulazeez Yari of Zamfara.
Dickson made the call in a statement issued by his Special Adviser, Media Relations, Mr. Fidelis Soriwei, on Wednesday.
He said that the decision on who should be the next Chairman of the forum should be guided by the time tested principle of rotation between the North and South.
He said that the governors-elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would not contest the position in consonance with the precedence that the NGF Chairman should be a ranking Governor from the ruling political party.
The governor, who is the Chairman of the South-South Governors Forum, said that the PDP governors would not make any move that can threaten the principle guiding the emergence of the NGF Chairman.
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He, however, said that the next NGF Chairman should emerge preferably through consensus among the members of the NGF.
He said, “I am calling on the governors who would assemble on Wednesday to take a decision on the Chairmanship of the Governors’ Forum to be guided by the time tested principle of rotation between the North and the South.
“Now that Yari, Governor of Zamfara, would be ending his tenure, we expect that the next Chairman should come from the South. The precedence is that the ruling party produces the Chairman.
“The PDP Governors have no desire to be disruptive and expect that a ranking Governor from the APC, the party with the majority would be the next Chairman.”
Dickson commended Governor Yari for working in partnership with the Federal Government in addressing some of the challenges facing the country and wished him a successful tenure in the National Assembly where he has won a Senatorial seat.
