{"id":21499,"date":"2020-06-16T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21499"},"modified":"2020-06-16T14:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:48:41","slug":"your-party-pdp-under-jonathan-killed-governors-forum-apc-replies-wike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=21499","title":{"rendered":"Your party PDP under Jonathan killed Governors\u2019 Forum, APC replies Wike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Nyesom-Ezenwo-Wike-CON.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/tag\/APC\">All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday reacted to an allegation by Governor Nyesom Wike that the ruling party has reduced the Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum (NGF) to a toothless bulldog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The party, through its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, also asked the Rivers State Governor not to rewrite history by trying to ignore the roles played by his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in killing the NGF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The APC deputy spokesman also insisted that the NGF was killed when the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan introduced the \u201c16 is greater than 19\u201d political formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nabena, who spoke to reporters in an interview in Abuja, was reacting to allegations by Wike that the APC-led Federal Government destroyed the NGF, and that the forum lost its strength immediately the ruling party took power in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nabena, further said that Governor Wike \u201cis still living in the past when impunity was the order of the day\u201d, adding that the governor needed to wake up to \u201cthe reality of a new APC era where justice, fairness, and true democracy is a new reality\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nabena added: \u201cDoes Governor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/nyesom-wike-our-governor-has-gone-mad-again\/\">Nyesom Wike<\/a>&nbsp;think Nigerians can forget in a hurry the major role he, as a PDP minister, played when the then Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, scored 19 votes, but former Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang who scored 16 votes was recognised as Chairman of the Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWike also needs to reminded on the major role he played the role of a foot soldier who engineered the banning of the then Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva, from participating in the PDP governorship primary election scheduled in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf the Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum has been \u201ckilled\u201d as Wike states, it is clear who the killer and grave digger is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;All Progressives Congress (APC)&nbsp;on Tuesday reacted to an allegation by Governor Nyesom Wike that the ruling party has reduced the Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum (NGF) to a toothless bulldog. 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