The Director-General of the President Muhammadu Campaign Organization, Rotimi Amaechi, on Wednesday met with governors of the All Progressive Congress (APC).
The meeting took place at the National Secretariat of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) in Abuja where members were expected to deliberate on the new National Minimum Wage before Thursday’s meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC).
The Minister of Transportation came into the venue of the meeting just as the governors elected under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were taking their leave.
The NGF was unable to meet for lack of quorum.
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Out of the 36 states of the federation, only Zamfara, Jigawa, Niger, Adamawa, Bauchi Kaduna, Enugu, Katsina, Nasarawa states were represented.
The agenda of Amaechi’s meeting with governors was not known but it may not be unconnected with the ongoing campaign of the ruling party.
A TRIAL BALLOON TO LARGE: A trial balloon is an action or piece(s) of information carried or sent out as a harbinger of a larger futuristic action(s), done to estimate the reactions and follow-up actions of the intended receptor; made with intentions to achieve or decline a goal or goals. (PFI). In our minds the recent action, that was the arraignment of the Chief Judge of a country as huge as Nigeria was a large trial balloon, meant to test the reactions of Nigerians for other objectives which may be harsher than the balloon itself. But in the circumstance Nigerians, from all works of life, showed that Nigerians can no longer be sleeping dogs that can be let to lie, irrespective of the docility perceived of them. But a fundamental mistake was made by the initiators of this very large trial balloon – that is the seeming very honest explanation of the President that he did not know of the filling the balloon, let alone directing it. He said that he only met the balloon at the blasting stage like every other Nigerian, and never knew it meant the arraignment, in a shameful manner, of the Chief Judge of Nigeria, which he – the President – positioned; described by many legal luminaries as “dead on arrival”. By an interpretation of the actions of these balloonists, an implication can surface that there can be people behind the President who believe that they have more powers than the President; or that the President is, let alone, incompetent (very wrong perceptively), as they can do and undo in the President’s reign, considering this fiendish action, (one that can tear the country into pieces), without the consent of the President. They also believe that they could do this with impunity and disregard to the process and procedures of law. It is worth more than the while to advise these persons that Nigerians have so far had to much in their hands – the militants, the herdsmen, the kidnappers, the secessionists, the armed robbers, the insurgents, the economic recession, the unprecedented blood letting and the excruciating poverty trend – all in one reign; are too many for the common Nigerian. Please introduce no more, for we are famished. That trial balloon is too large and necessitates that we try an alternative in Atiku/Obi. God bless Nigeria.