Seriake Dickson, governor of
Bayelsa state, has been elected chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Governors’ Forum.
Ibrahim Dankwambo, governor of
Gombe state, former chairman of the group, announced this at the end of the
forum’s meeting on Wednesday in Abuja.
Dankwambo, while reading the
meeting’s communiqué urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare state of
emergency on security matter.
“The PDP Governors Forum is very
concerned about the state of insecurity and how it affects food security as
farmers are scared to go to their farms for fear of being killed or kidnapped
and urges the President to declare a state of emergency on security matters,”
he said.
Some of the governors present at
the meeting were Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta; Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom, Samuel
Otorm of Benue; Aminu Tambwal of Sokoto; Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa; and Emeka
Ihedioha, governor-elect of Imo,
Also at the meeting were Senate
President Bukola Saraki; Yakubu Dogara,
speaker of the house of representatives; Uche Secondus, PDP national chairman;
and Peter Obi, PDP vice-presidential candidate.
The PDP governors later moved to
the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) meeting where they joined their counterpart
of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to elect a new chairman for NGF among
other agenda of the meeting.
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