BY SONI DANIEL & LUKA BINNIYAT

KADUNA—AGENTS of top politicians, who are uncomfortable with Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s leadership of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, are behind the campaign posters purportedly announcing the presidential ambition of Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State and his Rivers State counterpart, Amaechi, it emerged yesterday.

The posters, which were planted in strategic locations in Kaduna State, carried the faces of the two governors as presidential and vice presidential aspirants ahead of the 2015 election.

Although residents of the city paid little or no attention to the materials, some persons believed to be security agents who were in vehicles with tinted windshield, were sighted near the posters, apparently protecting them from being tampered with.

A source, who is familiar with the posters, said they were planted by agents of top politicians who are opposed to Amaechi’s continued leadership of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, with a view to poisoning the minds of other governors from the North, who are also nursing presidential ambition.

According to sources, the plan by the promoters of the posters, which Lamido and Amaechi, have since disowned, is to pitch the two governors against the rest of the northern governors and cause a division among them ahead of the Governors Forum election coming up in May.

A top politician and member of the Northern Elders Forum confirmed yesterday that there had been pressure on some of the governors to move against Amaechi because of his perceived face-off with the Presidency.

“But let me tell you that the northern governors are not fools and they know that Amaechi has been working hard for the overall well-being of the Nigerian people through the NGF, which he has been leading in the past two years or so”.

“Now, tell me, which of the northern governors will move against Amaechi, when they have seen what he has done to improve the lots of their people”.