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Onshore/Offshore suit: Northern govs meet Senators, Reps By Hammeed M. Bello Governors of the northern states were yesterday at the National Assembly, Abuja, to press home their demands on common political and economic issues including the onshore/offshore dichotomy abrogation Act which they have challenged in court. Present at the meeting were governors of Kaduna State, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, that of Nasar-awa, Abdullahi Adamu and that of Gombe, Alhaji Danjuma Goje. Present also were the deputy governors of Jigawa, Niger, Kwara, Kano, Kogi and Benue states while the delegation held closed door meeting with the leadership of the House of Representatives after holding an earlier meeting with some principal officers of the Senate. The Speaker, Aminu Bello Masari, led principal officers from the northern part of the country to the meeting, including the Chief Whip, Hon Abubakar Bawa Bwari, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), leader and whip, Hon Ahmed Salik and Usman Balkore, among others. Rising from the closed door meeting, they refused to respond to questions but the Daily Trust reliably gathered that the governors were on a mission to make their position known on some socio-political and economic issues springing up in the wake of the strategisation ahead of 2007. The 19 northern governors had gone to court along with three others from the south western part of the country to contest the money which they have been losing to the oil producing states owing to the 13 percent derivation fund resulting from the abrogation of the onshore-offshore oil dichotomy abrogation Act. The governors might have met with the National Assembly to insist on the reversal of the onshore/offshore abrogation Act which they earlier said has starved them of funds for accelerated development. Part of the agenda of the meeting, our checks show, was that the governors insi-sted on the rotation of power to the north in 2007 in line with an earlier agreement. They maintained that there was no going back on the agreement. General issues of unity and overall development of the North also featured prominently at the meeting. TO NEXT NEWS PAGE...

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