They spoke in a statement signed by the Coordinator and Secretary of OPY, Alhaji Rasheed Sanusi and Stephen Opeyemi Thomas.
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The union said this in a statement issued on Friday by its Head, Information and Public Affairs, Benson Upah.
According to the forum, the SSDA will work hand in glove with individual states’ Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agencies, the Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), and other multilateral agencies, to achieve its objectives.
Akeredolu, who is the Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum has declared that those who are agitating for the Yoruba Nation were enemies of the country.
The body made its position known in a statement on Friday, a day after Abubakar unveiled Okowa as his running mate
Its National Vice Chairman, South-East, Chief Ali Odefa, disclosed this on Sunday at the end of the zonal meeting in Enugu.
Akeredolu warned that any political party that fields presidential candidate from the North would lose the presidential election.
The Ondo State Governor maintained that the next president of the country must come from the Southern region.
Akeredolu said the forum would resist any political party that fields a northerner as presidential candidate.
Bello spoke on Friday during the first annual Governor Yahaya Bello seminar for correspondents in Abuja
The Presidency’s position was contained in a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.
He also accused those speaking against the governors’ decision of attempting to fan into flame the embers of sectionalism, and to polarize the people along ethnic lines.
The Eagle Online recalls that governors from 17 states from the South under the aegis of the Southern Governors Forum met last Tuesday in Asaba, Delta State, after which they issued a 12-point communiqué banning open grazing, calling for the restructuring of the country and demanding that President Muhammadu Buhari addresses the nation on pressing security concerns, among others
Wike stated this during a grand reception held in his honour by the Ogoni nationality in Bori, headquarters of Khana Local Government Area
The governors, during their meeting on Tuesday in Asaba, Delta State, under the aegis of the Southern Governors’ Forum, had resolved to ban open grazing of cattle in their states.