Nationwide protest: State governors meet in Abuja

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF are currently in a closed-door meeting in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

Governors from the 36 states of the federation are all present at the meeting which is reportedly holding at the NGF secretariat.

Channels TV reports that some of the governors started arriving at the venue in Abuja at about 8 pm on Wednesday, July 24 and some cabinet ministers are also on ground.

Governors Lawal Dauda of Zamfara, Bala Mohammed of Bauchi, Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau, Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta, and Alex Otti of Abia States are already on ground.

This is as the governors of Enugu, Peter Mbah and Borno States, Babagana Zulum, sent their deputies to represent them. The agenda of the meeting was not made public, however, it may not be unconnected to the planned nationwide protests scheduled for August 1 to 10.

In other news…

Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, recently denied proposing to pay a minimum wage of N80,000 to workers in the state and local government areas.

A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Nelson Chukwudi on Friday, July 19, clarified that the governor never made any such comments.

The statement read; “The attention of the Rivers State Government has been drawn to claims circulating in an online media that the Governor of Rivers State, Sir Siminalayi Fubara,, has proposed to pay a new minimum wage of N80,000 for civil servants in the state and local government areas.

“Ordinarily, we would not have responded to this fake news, but for the wrong impression it would create in the minds of the public, especially civil servants in the state.

“Therefore, it is important to state that the unverified claims being circulated by Newsweekng.com, and titled: ‘Breaking News: Governor Fubara Proposes N80,000 minimum wage’ are totally false and misleading.

“The general public, and particularly civil servants in the state, are advised to discountenance the false claims in the online media platform. The Rivers State Government will make its position on the issue known in due course.”