Since the flagging off of the consultative visits on
the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), the group of five Northern governors
involved in the acclaimed peace moves have not
hidden their desire to reach out to all
stakeholders.
The governors: Sule Lamido of Jigawa, Rabiu
Musa Kwakwanso of Kano, Aliyu Wamakko of
Sokoto, Muazu Babangida Aliyu of Niger and
Murtala Nyako of Adamawa, who began their
supposed peace initiative by first paying a
solidarity visit to Rivers State governor, Chibuike
Rotimi Amaechi, in Port Harcourt early July, had
continued their shuttle through Abeokuta, Ogun
State, where they visited former President
Olusegun Obasanjo and Minna, Niger State,
where they visited former Military leaders,
Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdusalami
Abubakar. They also visited the Presidential
Villa, where they had a meeting with President
Goodluck Jonathan. After meeting the President,
they were also sighted in Sokoto, where they met
with former President Shehu Shagari and
returned to Abuja last weekend when they met
with Shagari’s deputy in the Second Republic
Presidency, Dr. Alex Ekwueme.
In view of their endless shuttle diplomacy, the
question would arise: what do the group of five
Northern governors want? What started as a
defiance step against the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) is fast being coloured as a
nationwide consultation aimed at resolving
disagreements within the party. The widening
coast of the subject of consultation is fast
painting the effort as a national assignment
though.
Investigations have revealed that the governors
have had to change their tactics after indications
emerged that some security networks were
reading their actions in certain ways. The
indication emerged after their visit to former
military leaders, Generals Babangida and
Abdusalami Abubakar. It was gathered that the
original idea was to rally support for Amaechi in
his perceived war against the Presidency.
According to sources, the push of the G5
governors was to ensure that Amaechi was re-
integrated into the party or they would join him
to destroy it. The governors, who have one
personal grouse or the other with the party,
believed that Amaechi was fighting their battle
when he got caught off and that they had the
responsibility to get him out of the mess. It was
learnt that the original agenda was to make the
Amaechi issue a nationwide problem deserving
of urgent national solution.
But security reports were said to have faulted the
agenda immediately it unfolded. Many
stakeholders in the PDP also faulted the attempt
to raise a state crisis to national attention
because it is happening in the President’s
backyard. Besides, other sources queried why the
Northern governors were devoting all their
attention to finding solutions to the Amaechi
problem whereas the issue of insurgency
ravaging parts of the North was being glossed
over by them. The questions being raised in the
security and political circles were said to have
informed a change in tactics and the expansion of
the focus to a peace effort, aimed at “saving
democracy.”
But then, how far can the peacemakers go?
Sources said that the true answer to this question
would lie in the sincerity of their purpose in the
first instance. Some sources have queried the
emergence of the G5 itself as a group founded on
individual instincts and ambitions. For instance,
the group comprised only the PDP governors
who goaded Amaechi to defy the party’s directive
to him not to contest re-election at the Nigerian
Governors’ Forum (NGF) election in May.
Stakeholders within the party have said that the
fact that the other Northern governors who
stuck to the agreement of the Northern States
Governors’ Forum (NSGF) and the PDP
Governors’ Forum (PDPGF) to field governor
Jonah Jang of Plataea as consensus candidate for
the NGF election are not part of the acclaimed
reconciliation effort is a big minus for their
effort. For instance, a source queried why the
effort of a minority five governors out of 19
Northern governors is being raised to national
prominence. According to the source, what
would happen if the other 14 governors decided
to follow a different path?
Investigations revealed that the major hindrance
to the peace moves by the G5 lies in their conduct
at the NGF election, which sources say left a sour
taste in the mouth. A source puts it this way: “The
NSGF met at the instance of Governor Aliyu and
agreed to field Governor Jang as consensus
candidate. We prevailed on the two other
candidates, Governor Ibrahim Shema and Isa
Yuguda to step down. The document which all
the governors signed was presented to the PDP
Governors Forum, headed by Akwa-Ibom State
governor, Obong Goodwill Akpabio. The PDP
governors adopted the choice of the NSGF but
when we got to the meeting, our leader at NSGF
refused to submit the consensus list. He teamed
up with the opposition and that led to the
division we have in the NGF today.”
The source said that what happened during the
NGF election was the height of treachery
perpetrated by governors against themselves. He
further stated that to worsen the situation, Kano
State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso, came
out in the press to describe his colleagues in the
NSGF as baby politicians who were taught a
lesson. The source quipped: “How do you expect
those who have been so deceived by your actions
to come together with you and swallow the bitter
pill?” Insiders in the party therefore declared
that rather than see the efforts of the G5 as aimed
at redeeming the PDP from its internal crises,
their efforts should be seen as attempts to worm
their ways back into reckoning within the party.
Indications also emerged last week that the G5
governors may have a long rope to pull as far as
their efforts at seeking reconciliation is
concerned. It emerged that the Presidency was
alarmed at reports in the media after their
meeting with President Jonathan. Sources said
that the media ascribed things that were not
discussed at all to the governors and that none of
them denied it. Some sources said that the
authorities were able to pinpoint those who gave
out wrong information about the meeting of the
G5 with the President. For instance, whereas the
issue of sack of ministers and some aides of the
President did not feature at the meeting of the G5
with President Jonathan, some newspapers went
about the following day to trumpet such as the
conditions laid down by the G5 for peace in the
PDP. It was however confirmed that the meeting
with the President featured the governors’
disagreement with the National Chairman of the
PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. The governors were
said to have declared that they could no longer
work with Tukur and that the President should
consider replacing him. The President was
however said to have told the governors that
since removing the National Chairman would
pass through a process, he did not want to
subvert that process.
Investigations however revealed that the G5
governors appeared to have shot themselves in
the foot with their conduct at the NGF meeting in
May. Said another source: “With their betrayal of
the common agreement on the NGF election, an
agreement that was freely entered into, they are
saying that even when they enter into agreement
with the President or anyone for that matter, the
person has to always watch his back. The
implication of the NGF election is bound to
reverberate on the credibility of these governors
for a long time to come.”
Thus, besides seeking to rehabilitate Amaechi in
the PDP and stabilising their holds of the party at
the state levels, the G5 may find it a tough nut to
crack if they intend their efforts to resolve the
lingering PDP crises at the national level. Said
another source: “When they sought audience
with the President, the nation’s number one
citizen is obliged to listen to them but when
taking decisions in the final analysis, the leader
has to look at the credibility of the message and
the messenger, going by antecedents. And that
could go a long way in hampering the results of
their consultations.”

Sorry, but what's the point exactly? How many degrees does it take to be a US president?
We have a PhD holder and professional architect as President and VP respectively, yet ASUU strike has entered the 6th week, and from all indications this FG has NO INTENTION of honouring its past SIGNED agreements!

Please let's learn to focus on what really counts.

ochejoseph: The G 5 Northern Governors and Their Educational Qualification,

It was Wendell willkie who said'' Education is the mother of leadership '' Making barely educated men to see reasons why a House should not be set on fire could sometimes be difficult !

5.Dr Mu’azu Aliyu (Niger)
BA Education (Bayero University)

Lmao! Dat's too cheap u knw. Go and make research on who Babangida Aliyu is

OP
I think Aliyu is well read

ochejoseph: The G 5 Northern Governors and Their Educational Qualification,

It was Wendell willkie who said'' Education is the mother of leadership '' Making barely educated men to see reasons why a House should not be set on fire could sometimes be difficult !

1.Sule Lamido (Jigawa)
Course in Railway Engineering (Permanent
Way Training School, Zaria)

2.Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto)
BSc Education

3.Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano)
HND Civil Engineering (Kaduna Polytechnic),

4.Murtala Nyarko (Adamawa)
Navy Training (Britannia Royal Naval College)

5.Dr Mu’azu Aliyu (Niger)
BA Education (Bayero University)

ochejoseph: The G 5 Northern Governors and Their Educational Qualification,

It was Wendell willkie who said'' Education is the mother of leadership '' Making barely educated men to see reasons why a House should not be set on fire could sometimes be difficult !

1.Sule Lamido (Jigawa)
Course in Railway Engineering (Permanent
Way Training School, Zaria)

2.Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto)
BSc Education

3.Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano)
HND Civil Engineering (Kaduna Polytechnic),

4.Murtala Nyarko (Adamawa)
Navy Training (Britannia Royal Naval College)

5.Dr Mu’azu Aliyu (Niger)
BA Education (Bayero University)

Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu was born in Minna in Niger State on November 12, 1955. He attended the College of Arts & Arabic Studies in Sokoto, graduating in 1974. In 1977, he obtained the Nigeria Certificate in Education from the College of Education, Sokoto. After the mandatory one-year National Youth Service, in 1978 he became a teacher at Government Teachers’ College, Minna. Later he went to Bayero University, Kano where he obtained a BA in Education in 1983. He went on to the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States in 1985, gaining a PhD in Public Policy and Strategic Studies in 1989.[1]

Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State was born on 1st March 1953 in Wamakko, Sokoto State. He spent five years (1968-1972) at the Sokoto Teachers’ College. After graduation, he worked as a teacher from 1973-1977 before being admitted to the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. He graduated with a B.Sc. in August 1980. Returning to Nigeria, he taught at Sokoto Teachers College.[

Gov. Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, fnse was born in Madobi Local Government on the 21st October, 1956.
He started Islamic school at the tender age of four and later enrolled for western education in 1962. He obtained both his National Diploma and Higher National Diploma in Civil Engineering from Kaduna Polytechnic. After a stint with the Kano State Government as am artisan craftsman, he went to the United Kingdom for further education in Middlesex Polytechnic from 1982 - 1983, Loughborough University of Technology 1983 - 1985 and Nottingham University 1987 - 1991. Intermittently, he attended some certificate courses at Derby National Water Council in 1982, Derby Water Industrial Training in 1985 and London Industrial Water Training in 1985. He bags a Doctor of Science (Hons) from University of Maiduguri and awarded a Doctor of Science and International Relations (Honoris Causa) for his immense contribution to public service by the Crescent University (University of Islamic Mission for Africa) Abeokuta, Nigeria in September, 2012.

For those who went to University ,the crop of Student pushed to the Faculty of Education are mostly the least qualified to be. Admitted or NCE holders who could not gain admission am referring to their abilities as young men not as politicians and money bags can purchase degrees from any part of the world at the wave of a finger !

ochejoseph: For
those who went to University ,the crop of Student pushed to the Faculty
of Education are mostly the least qualified to be. Admitted or NCE
holders who could not gain admission am referring to their abilities as
young men not as politicians and money bags can purchase degrees from
any part of the world at the wave of a finger !

;

Only an illiterate reasons this way.

@ op.. Your attempt to discredit this men has failed woefully. You had free MB, a brain, and google at your disposal, yet you deliberately felt you should be stupid..
I blame ASUU and the fg, cos if u had work to do, you won't be typing this kind of rubbish..


PS. No offence meant.

Your President with PhD can't stand any of these people in politics.

Our president, PhD holder is a wack in terms leadership, critical thinking, problem solving, etc. He cant even match these people that you are trying soo hard to ridicule above. And please you need to research further about their educational qualitications.

Come again.