Jang, Amaechi clash again •Plateau gov invites govs to meeting today •He is an impostor –Rivers State governor •Jang faction may meet Obasanjo tomorrow

The crisis within the Nigeria Governors’ Forum appears not to be over despite recent moves by the governors to find a way out.

On Saturday, the  Chairman of the forum, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, asked his colleagues to shun a meeting called by a factional chairman of the forum, Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State. Amaechi also described Jang in unflattering terms.

Jang, in a letter sent to governors on Friday, had invited them for a meeting holding in Abuja later today.

Amaechi won the forum’s May 24, 2013 chairmanship election with 19 votes as against Jang’s 16, but the Plateau governor insisted he won the election.

The Rivers governor, in a message to one of our correspondents on Saturday, said it was wrong for Jang to continue calling for meetings when it was apparent that he did not win the forum’s chairmanship election.

He described Jang as an impostor and asked the governors not to honour his invitation.

Amaechi said,

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