Governors Forum, NSGF have concluded arrangements to sue President
Goodluck Jonathan over the failure of the Federal Government to
allocate funds with which to address the security challenge in the
north.
Rising from a meeting in Abuja, the governors according to a source
have also agreed to settle for compromise with their colleagues from
the south on the issue of On/off shore crisis
A source at the meeting told Vanguard that the northern governors
chose the option of dragging the federal government to court because
they are not happy that rather than manage the security challenge in
the entire northern zone, the federal government was only
concentrating on the nation's capital city, Abuja.
The governors complained that they have been spending their extra
budgetary allocation to address the problem of insecurity which was
really affecting governance as they were unable to deliver dividends
of democracy to their people.
The governors, the source said, argued that the extra budgetary wass
spent to manage the police through the purchase of vehicles, police
equipment and anti_bomb facilities.
According to the source, the governors from the north have also chosen
the compromise position on onshore /offshore because they were
entertaining fears that the southern governors would not support them
following the stand of the northern governors on state police where
they backed out after the thirty-six state governors under the aegis,
Nigeria governors Forum, NGF had agreed have state Police.
The northern governors, it will be recalled had called for a revisit
of the on-shore and offshore dichotomy, just as they had constituted a
technical committee to study the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB
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