Crisis hits APC govs forum as 18 rejects Uzodinma’s removal

A superior situation is presently brewing successful the Progressive Governors’ Forum pursuing the abrupt removal of the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, arsenic its chairman.

DAILY POST had reported that a cross-section of All Progressives Congress, APC, governors removed Uzodinma and installed the Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, arsenic its chairman.

Although the Director-General of the forum, Folorunso Aluko, successful a connection connected Friday, said the reports of Uzodinma’s removal were fake and misleading, sources privy to the substance confirmed to DAILY POST that immoderate governors met connected Thursday nighttime and removed Uzodinma.

The meeting, according to reports, was led by the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, and was held astatine the Ogun Government Lodge.

However, successful a swift determination to antagonistic the determination of the Abiodun-led group, 18 different governors met down closed doors astatine the Imo Lodge connected Friday and passed a ballot of assurance successful Uzodinma.

Some of those contiguous astatine the gathering included the governors of Ondo, Kaduna, Taraba, Sokoto, Ebonyi, Borno, Lagos, Kogi, Kano, Yobe, Kebbi, Benue and Jigawa states, portion Nasarawa State was represented...