Two ex- governors from the U.S. and other facilitators are to lecture newly elected governors in Nigeria at an induction course before their inauguration on May 29.
Mr Asishana Okauru, Director-General of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), disclosed the plan in Abuja on Monday.
He said the three-day induction course, which would commence on May 18, would attract local and foreign facilitators.
He said the NGF secretariat had the full cooperation of all stakeholders, adding that facilitators for the induction had started arriving in the country.
“Mr Bill Richardson, former Governor of New Mexico, and Mr Douglas Wilder, former Governor of Virginia, under the Democratic Party, would serve as facilitators at the induction,’’ Okauru said.
He said Wilder was expected to arrive in Nigeria on Monday, while other facilitators were Mr Howard Jeter, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, and three former Chiefs of Staff in the U.S government.
He said the former governors, Alhaji Bola Tinubu of Lagos State, Mr Donald Duke of Cross Rivers and Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi of Kaduna State had also been contacted to act as facilitators at the induction.
Okauru added that the governors of Rivers, Delta, Jigawa, Sokoto and Lagos State would come in as participants and facilitators at the induction.
He said the American Governors Association (AGA), which the NGF was modelled after, had provided it with materials and human resources to facilitate the induction.
“If you look at what they have done in putting the materials and personnel together, you will realise that they have done a lot.
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