Nigeria: Single Term Agreement Controversy - Kalu, Ribadu, Saraki, El-Rufai, Ajumogobia, Obanikoro, 200 Others, Float New Group

24 February 2013

At a time when the controversy sparked by last weekend's disclosure that President Goodluck Jonathan allegedly entered into an agreement with some state governors to spend just a term of four years in office is still creating ripples, over 200 political heavyweights in the country have teamed up to form a new political group. The group started out as G-37.

At the weekend, Sunday Vanguard was reliably informed in telephone conversation with one of the conveners that the group, which "seeks to set itself apart from the fray of merger and needless sundry confrontation, would fashion a new path to Nigeria's glory".

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