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Nothing new. This happens all the time. They'll be back.

The Southern Governors Forum had problems because of the 2007 elections and they stopped meeting, but they began meeting again when they needed to. They will meet again when the need arises.

naptu2:
The first meeting of the southern governors in the 4th Republic was held in Lagos in October 2000. The Southern Governors Summit was used to coordinate the fight for resource control and more importantly, the fight against the onshore/offshore dichotomy. It was also used to demand for devolution of powers (state police, etc.).

Offshore/Onshore Dichotomy.

The 1999 constitution stated that a percentage of mineral revenue that was derived from a state should be given to that state. It also stated that the National Assembly should meet to determine what the percentage would be, but it must not be less than 13%.

The Federal Government led by President Olusegun Obasanjo paid the states 13% of the revenue derived from minerals in their states. This was because the National Assembly did not set any percentage, so the Federal Government simply used the percentage that was mentioned in the constitution.

However, there was a problem.

The Federal Government stated that any mineral (that is, crude oil) that was found in the ocean, off the continental shelf of a state, belonged to the Federal Government and it would not pay any derivation funds to any state for it.

The states argued that they must have a share of the revenue from such minerals, regardless of the fact that they are in the ocean.

The battle was waged in the National Assembly and in the courts. State governments sued the Federal Government. The state governors were meeting to coordinate their strategy, but then there was a division. A few northern state governments took the side of the Federal Government and so the Southern governors then decided to coordinate their strategy through the Southern Governors Forum.

Politics crept in ahead of the 2007 elections and the Southern Governors Forum did not meet between 2005 and 2017. Their wives continued to hold meetings, but the Southern Governors Forum did not meet.

Until recently, the host governor usually acted as chairman and spokesman of the forum.


List of Southern Governors Forum meetings

Southern Governors Forum meeting, Lagos, October 2000.
https://allafrica.com/stories/200010100252.html


Southern Governors Forum meeting, Enugu, January 2001.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200101150174.html

Conclave of Governors (report of the Southern Governors Summit in Enugu)
https://allafrica.com/stories/200101150096.html

Southern Governors Forum meeting, Benin, March 2001.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200103190380.html

Southern Governors Forum meeting, Ibadan, September 2001.
https://allafrica.com/stories/200109110026.html

Southern Governors Forum meeting, Owerri, November 2001.
https://allafrica.com/stories/200111140102.html

Southern Governors Forum meeting, Port Harcourt, March 2002
https://allafrica.com/stories/200203110194.html

7th Southern Governors Forum meeting, Akure, July 2002.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200207120292.html

Southern Governors Forum meeting, February 2004
http://allafrica.com/stories/200402060556.html

Southern Governors Forum meeting, Benin, December 2004
https://allafrica.com/stories/200412060193.html

Nigeria: Southern Govs. Summit: Igbinedion Carpets FG Over Anambra Crisis
https://allafrica.com/stories/200412060258.html

Nigeria: Deductions: Southern Govs Lash FG
https://allafrica.com/stories/200412060349.html

Southern Governors Forum meeting, Lagos, February 2005
https://allafrica.com/stories/200503010200.html

Udenwa makes case for southern governors forum. March 2005.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200503020368.html


Southern Governors Forum To Meet In Lagos 12 Years After Last Meeting (Lagos, 2017)
https://www.nairaland.com/4130625/southern-governors-forum-meet-lagos


Southern Governors Forum meeting, Asaba, May 2021
https://www.nairaland.com/6548268/insecurity-southern-governors-meet-asaba

Southern Governors Forum meeting, Lagos, July 2021
https://www.nairaland.com/6634966/southern-governors-meet-lagos-today

Hashim Ibrahim-Bolaji @donimam4all

You people don't have monopoly of violence sha. The fact that the people you are even messing with are vastly experienced in this should scare you.

Beating up people for supporting a different candidate is not the flex you think it is.

It is a freaking democracy.

https://twitter.com/donimam4all/status/1561240003388313602


Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs

Don’t worry yourself ….. When Campaign proper starts, Everybody will rest

https://twitter.com/Mr_JAGs/status/1561240318225383426

Pastor Emi L'okan @StFreakingKezy

Attention @NigeriapolicePR

At about 2 pm, Pastor Ugochukwu whom I have known before this political saga started called me that one of the pastors that grace Tinubu political occasion was about to be molested in the Dei Dei market!

But before today's incident, Pastor Ugochukwu had called me to narrate how he has been receiving all kinds of threat messages including how they would locate him anywhere he is and keel him!

The chairman of the market where he use to go and trade warned him never to ever come to the market again!

He became afraid to the point of not sleeping in his house again!
He took refuge in one of the mosques, name withheld!
The man that accommodated him spoke with me equally!
So, the event of today was what they had been planning on them!
They are measures I have asked him

to take and we take rye matter to where it must get the needed attention!
Every one of them who is part of this threat over their choice of association granted by our Constitution must be made a scapegoat!

Enough of this madness on Obi Ip! ob supporters masquerading as political urchins!
Attach are some of my conversations with him he left on WhatsApp!

https://twitter.com/StFreakingKezy/status/1561029334890123264

Omoyele Sowore @YeleSowore

Yesterday, I saw a number of pictures of a man referred to as a “Fake Bishop”who is also a plumber “apprehended” presumably by supporters of Presidential Candidate of the @NgLabour Party candidate, @PeterObi in a market in Dei Dei neighbourhood of Abuja. His offence? He was accused of appearing as a “fake bishop” at the unveiling event of @officialABAT VP, Alhaji Shettima also in Abuja weeks ago.

I was particularly shocked that some highly respected persons on Facebook/WhatsApp @Twitter & elsewhere celebrated this mob action against this particular Nigerian. Since the advent of this election cycle we’ve seen and observed a heightened level of harassment of citizens via death threats, arson threats, verbal and now physical abuse against those who happen not to support @PeterObi’s candidacy.

A Catholic Church pastored by Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka known as Adoration Ministry was a victim of this mob action, Femi Kuti’s African Shrine in Lagos was at the receiving end of arsonists over his refusal to support Mr. Obi for President.

We’ve seen supporters brandishing guns and threatening people who might not support Obi’s candidacy. A former media assistant to former President Goodluck Jonathan, @RenoOmokri complained consistently that the life of his one year old daughter was repeatedly threatened.

Obi’s supporters are not alone in this unconscionable act, a disabled Obi supporter was reportedly beaten for displaying his paraphernalia. However, Obi’s campaigners have demonstrated the most amount of intolerance and harassment of his opponents.

The latest mobbing of the Bishop/plumber is barbaric, unacceptable and criminal. I condemn these conducts and urge Nigerians to stand by their rights to choose their leaders without pandering to fear, harassment and threats by anyone.

No set of persons or groups should be allowed to ride roughshod on anyone simply because they refuse to follow their preferred candidate(s). It is DEMOCRACY, founded and built fundamentally on the freedom to choose.
#WeCantContinueLikeThis

https://twitter.com/YeleSowore/status/1561390111782207490

See previous thread here: Tinubu-Shettima Bishop Almost Lynched At Dei Dei Market Abuja (Photos)