Imo State governor Hope Uzodimma, has emerged the new chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), an umbrella body of governors elected on the platform of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).

This was confirmed by Yobe state Governor, Mai Mala Buni, during the meeting with the APC National Working Committee (NWC) in Abuja. Addressing the party’s leadership during the meeting, Uzodinma said: “Under my watch, we will be very close to the party. “The purpose of the forum is to add impetus to the activities of the party and the government. We are only going to act as salesmen that will market the policies and programmes of the government.”

The Imo governor further noted that; “arising from the manifesto promised to the people before the election, I can assure you that you have a team and working together with the kind of men I have seen as Progressives Governors members, I think we have gotten all it would take to ensure that policies of our government were fully market.

Ada Peter