KnowAll: [size=18pt]if the so called Nigerian elites and leaders, the "cream-dela-cream" of our society can rig a simple election involving 36 individuals then we have some serious issues in that country , how then can we ever conduct a free and fair elections involving millions of people[/size]?

chris51: This simply shows that PDP is now in disarray. Some of their governors must have voted for Amaechi. This is a sign of surprises that will be witnessed in 2015. PDP was ready to destroy Rivers state because of petti politics. I know the insecurity in Rivers state before Rotimi got their. GEJ & his PDP should allow peace to reign in Rivers state.
As for bootlicker Akpobio, nemesis will soon catch up with him. His 2nd teure as governor will soon be over, let's see where he will go from there.
PDP gov forum & governors forum of the whole country. Which is bigger?pdp is sore loser. Pdp is just a party & not the nation.
Big lesson for so called pdp big wigs to learn. The whole intrigue is very interesting

mathskill: I just hope it stops at that and they won't go further by killing Amaechi

Okon ikott: First, it was Shema, next it was Yuguda, and at the last minute, Jonah Jang. Three names from one camp contesting an office. How did they expect to win. They simply were confused, that's why they lost. Amaechi's camp was more organised and knew what they wanted. That's why they won. If they are aggrieved, as they usually say to others, let them go to court to prove there was rigging in a 35 man election, rather than threaten to break away. Amaechi will still floor them there.

Okon ikott: First, it was Shema, next it was Yuguda, and at the last minute, Jonah Jang. Three names from one camp contesting an office. How did they expect to win. They simply were confused, that's why they lost. Amaechi's camp was more organised and knew what they wanted. That's why they won. If they are aggrieved, as they usually say to others, let them go to court to prove there was rigging in a 35 man election, rather than threaten to break away. Amaechi will still floor them there.

One of the governors disclosed that Mr. Jonathan’s camp came to today’s meeting confident that they would prevail, since the president had obtained signatures from several governors in advance. But the president’s gubernatorial opponents said they knew Mr. Jang would be vanquished as the election, which was conducted by the secretariat of the Governors’ Forum, began. The forum’s director-general, Ashishana Okauru, was the presiding officer at the election with Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State serving as the returning officer. Pro-Amaechi governors said they were certain of their candidate’s victory since the election was conducted via a secret ballot. “It was free and fair, so we knew that Chibuike [Amaechi] would win,” said one of the governors from the south-west.

After the voting, Governor Uduaghan announced the results, declaring Mr. Amaechi victorious. “All 35 governors present cast their vote and the tally was 19-16 in favor of Governor Amaechi,” one of the governors said. He dismissed Mr. Akpabio’s list of 19 governors for Mr. Jang, laughing that the Akpabio group even included the name of the Yobe governor who was not present at today’s vote.

It remained unclear whether the Presidency would succeed in pressuring Mr. Uduaghan to back away from the results he collated and announced at the governors’ parley.

One of the pro-Amaechi governors told SaharaReporters that Mr. Jang’s candidacy was “technically flawed, but we allowed him to run for the sake of peace.” According to him, observance of the forum’s constitution would mean that the picking of nomination forms ought to have ended by midnight on May 23, 2013. He claimed that Governor Jang only sent in a letter indicating his interest in the race around 3 p.m. on May 24, 2013. “It was a breach of our constitution, but Governor Amaechi and some of us decided not to push for Jang’s disqualification,” said the governor.

Okoro2015:
The two veritable takeaways for GEJ in this exercise are:

1. NGF powers and organisation has been brutally whittled.
2. GEJ now knows exactly where to apply "Loyalty medications"

Either way, its a win win. It wouldn't have mattered more if Jang won narrowly like Amaechi.

ckkris: Amechi is now the deluded POLITICAL LEADER OF HAUSA/FULANI, & THE ISLAMIC FACTION OF THE YORUBA NATIONS. Great achievement for a minority southern Nigerian. After betraying his mentor Dr Peter Odili, Amechi has now mindlessly betrayed all southern Nigerians to the Hausa/fulani that assume they are born-to-ruin Nigeria. Amechi has never been a political leader of his Ikwerre Nation, and they may not follow his alliance with unreliable IBB & co. How will the Rivers State PDP responds to all this? Atiku tried it in 2007 and Adamawa State PDP shooed him away into political oblivion via ACN. Amechi may choose to go, ALONE like Atiku, through APC. There will be no one to betray hereafter.

Pedagogue: Mimiko is fast turning to GEJ's south west puppet!!!

KnowAll: [size=18pt]if the so called Nigerian elites and leaders, the "cream-dela-cream" of our society can rig a simple election involving 36 individuals then we have some serious issues in that country , how then can we ever conduct a free and fair elections involving millions of people[/size]?

zuggy: Well, Amaechi and his co-horts shld by now understand one thing. Nobody fights govt and succeeds, even at the end tinubu will still jetision his party's canditate and secretly enter into an agreement with GEJ, events will still end up in GEJ's favor

figment232: b4 the election Amaechi supposed to have stepped down as the NGF chair and dissolve the excutive of NGF to pve the way for a genuine election but he refused cos he already had plans to rig the election.

ckkris: Amechi is now the deluded POLITICAL LEADER OF HAUSA/FULANI, & THE ISLAMIC FACTION OF THE YORUBA NATIONS. Great achievement for a minority southern Nigerian. After betraying his mentor Dr Peter Odili, Amechi has now mindlessly betrayed all southern Nigerians to the Hausa/fulani that assume they are born-to-ruin Nigeria. Amechi has never been a political leader of his Ikwerre Nation, and they may not follow his alliance with unreliable IBB & co. How will the Rivers State PDP responds to all this? Atiku tried it in 2007 and Adamawa State PDP shooed him away into political oblivion via ACN. Amechi may choose to go, ALONE like Atiku, through APC. There will be no one to betray hereafter.

Fussbot: Watin den wan gain 4rm dat post of the chairman sef?