Nigerian Governors’ Forum
The valedictory meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, comprising 36 state governors of the federation, will hold on Wednesday, April 26, in Abuja.
This is according to an invitation sent to all the 36 governors, issued by the Director General of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr Asishana Okauru.
According to the letter, the valedictory meeting will be physical unlike the four previous sessions, which were virtual.
The letter further stated that all the governors would have the opportunity to give their valedictory remarks after the chairman’s opening speech
Seventeen governors are leaving the forum, having completed their terms of office, while newly elected ones would be inducted between May 14 and 17.
The meeting will bring to an end the chairmanship of Aminu Tambuwal, the Sokoto State Governor, who assumed leadership of the forum following the expiration of the tenure of former chairman and ex-Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi.
First-time governors are ineligible to contest for the chairmanship of the forum.
Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
