PDP GOVERNORS WANTED TO CRIPPLE THEIR STATES FINANCIALLY

 At the peace meeting called by President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday night. there are sharp division  ensued among governors at the meeting, following the declaration by the Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwakwanso, who spoke on behalf of the’’ G7 governors that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had become a thorn in the flesh of state governors, calling on the president to order the commission to stop probing of governors.’’

He said as PDP governors, they should be protected from EFCC harassment, adding that members of the ruling party should not be so exposed to EFCC probe.

Kwara State governor also told the meeting that he had been facing EFCC probe since he served in the cabinet of Senator Bukola Saraki, adding that there was an atmosphere of fear in the state over activities of the anti-graft agency.

He said as a PDP governor, the government should not only protect him, but also protect his predecessor, who was being investigated by the EFCC.

The claims by the two governors, however, elicited reactions from Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom and Gabriel Suswam of Benue.

The trio opposed the request that President Jonathan should put a stop to EFCC activities.

Jang was said to have insisted that EFCC should continue with its job, adding that he was also a victim of the probe by the commission for the first three years of his first term.

He said the fact that the commission was a federal agency did not mean the president should take control of its activities.

Suswam also told the meeting that his government had been severally investigated and that he never attributed the situation to the president.

Akpabio, according to a source, said that the governors should strive to keep clean books, since nobody would be in office for life.