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Thursday, October 7th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page Northern governors, speakers insist on power shift By Sukuji Bakoji, Bureau Chief, Kaduna   Governors and speakers of Houses of Assembly in the North have vowed to resist attempts to scuttle power shift to the region in 2007 - and have raised the stakes by advocating that rotational Presidency between the North and South be enshrined in the Constitution. The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) and the Northern Speakers Forum (NSF) rose from an emergency meeting in Kaduna on Wednesday with an advice that those from other parts of the country who are warming up for the 2007 Presidential race should forget it, since it will strictly be the turn of the North. The governors resolved to convene a Northern Unity Conference on December 1 and 2, 2004 to “sensitise, conscientise and mobilise Northerners for the actualisation of the power shift” to the region in three years’ time. A communiqué read at the end of the parley by NGF Chairman who is also  Jigawa State Governor, Saminu Turaki, said the joint consultative meeting enabled the participants to devise a “formidable front” on the objective for 2007. Part of the communiqué read: “At this meeting, a number of critical issues were given attention; the chairman of the Northern Speakers Forum has already made a statement on issues of broad national and regional importance. “They include next year’s census, Presidency in 2007, incorporation of rotational Presidency in the Constitution, the relationship between Northern governors and members of National Assembly of Northern origin, condition of the federal projects like Ajaokuta Steel, Bakolori Dam and the need to complete the Mambilla Plateau power project, - which are bigger than any in the country, bigger than even the Supreme Court case on onshore/offshore oil dichotomy”. The participants agreed to recapitalise the ailing Bank of the North to meet the new capital base directed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, stressing: “Towards that, a committee has been set up comprising professionals, sound bankers to study and provide credible options for the forum”.   Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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