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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Friday,July 16, 2004. ‘No division in South East Governors’ Forum’ By chukwudi achife, bureau chief Enugu                                                   The Enugu State Government has declared that the Conference of South East Governors is not factionalised or disintegrated as is being insinuated in some quarters. The Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Chief Ayogu Eze, told journalists in Enugu on Thursday that the meeting of the conference of governors held recently was not boycotted by three governors as was reported by the media. He explained that two governors, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani (Enugu) Chief Achike Udenwa (Imo) were present while Dr. Sam Egwu (Ebonyi) who was indisposed sent the Secretary to the Government, Professor Ozo Nweke Ozo, since the deputy governor was on vacation. He added that Anambra State governor, Dr. Chris Ngige, was represented by his deputy, while Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, was away on vacation. Eze said the governors’ forum is intact and advised journalists to always check their facts before going to press, adding that the decision to move the meetings round the states was informed by a desire by the governors to exchange visits with one another. “Enugu is the capital of not just the South-East but the entire Eastern Nigeria. All the governors have a place or two where they can stay in Enugu. Apart from this, they have brothers and sisters here. We are completely interwoven. The idea of sense of belonging does not arise at all,” the commissioner said. He explained that the absence of the governors at the last meeting was a mere coincidence, describing as ridiculous the insinuation that their absence had something to do with the vice presidential ambition of some of the governors. “The governors set the agenda for this clamour for a president of Igbo extraction? I do not think any of the governors wants to be a vice president. I am not even sure if any of them wants to be president. But I know that they are strongly behind the push for Igbo presidency. I do not even think they have personal ambitions at that level. That speculation is wide off the mark,” Eze noted. He said the South East is ready to work together for the benefit of the people of the zone, adding that “never before had the South East been so closely knit and united behind a project as they are today.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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