There was an election held on Friday May 24, 2013, at the Rivers State Government House, Abuja by the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) to elect a chairman. Against all odds, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of RiversState, who was having a running battle with the presidency, got re-elected for a second tenure as he defeated Governor Jonah Jang of PlateauState, said to be the candidate of President Goodluck Jonathan by 19 to 16 votes.

Speaking exclusively to Saturday Vanguard, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor David Jonah Jang, Mr. James Manu said that the Governor reconciles the parties in the Forum. He said: “Well, you need to appreciate it, first and foremost, from the background that he never looked for it.

It looked like a war and true, it was. With every thing in its arsenal, the Federal Government stoutly rose against the re-election of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of RiversState as the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF.

Nothing has heated the polity more in the last few days than the controversial Nigeria Governors’ Forum,NGF election.

THERE seems to be a muddle about the way we are handling this issue of Boko Haram. It is my view that we are already jumping the gun and pushing the cart before the horse.

ECONOMY over the past two years: Economic growth trend, measured by the performance of the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, has been generally positive over the last two years, averaging about 6.5 per cent. This is good compared to growth conditions in most economies around the world.

THE month of May marks the anniversary of the declaration of independence by Eastern Nigerians from Nigeria, and called their new born nation, Biafra.

ZIMBABWE’s Solomon Madzore must be cooling off in a Zimbabwean detention camp right now. His crime – he called President Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s President for life “a limping donkey who should be put out to pasture.” And even a court ruling to set him free was brushed aside by President Robert Mugabe who has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980.

Addis Ababa, about 48hours ago: At about the time Asishana Okauru, Director General, DG, of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, was announcing Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi as the elected Chairman of the body, one of the aides to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan whispered to the President that Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State had been elected as Chairman of the same body. Minutes later, Jonathan, who also held a secret meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Addis Ababa (ostensibly over the multifarious political challenges besetting the former), was made to understand that the earlier information he got was not true in every material particular.

One can only wonder what was going through the mind of President Goodluck Jonathan since about three years on the saddle as the killing mainly by Islamic insurgents went from bad to worse.