Igbo Leaders of Thought moves to reconcile S-East govs

South-east pressure group, Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, has waded into the crisis rocking the South-East Governors’ Forum, SEGF, in a bid to ensure peace in the organisation.

The state chief executives have not met to articulate policies or programmes that would benefit the people as a geopolitical zone for over 18 months now.

This was made known by the Secretary-General of the ILT, Professor Elochukwu Amucheazi, while speaking in an interview with Vanguard, Sunday night.

Amucheazi said members of the ILT had visited three out of the five governors in a bid to resolve the matter, adding that they were waiting for reply to the letters written to the remaining two for meetings with them.
Sources told Vanguard in Enugu that the major cause of the crisis in the SEGF was the issue of who becomes the chairman of the group.

The SEGF  met regularly when former governors Peter Obi of Anambra, Theodore Orji, Abia; Sullivan Chime, Enugu; Chief Martin Elechi, Ebonyi and Governor Rochas Okorocha, Imo were in the saddle.

Vanguard, January 31, 2017

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