Thursday, February 05, 2015

OBASANJO MISSING AS BUHARI, BABANGIDA, GOWON, SHONEKAN A AND OTHERS TURN UP FOR COUNCIL OF STATE MEETING IN ABUJA. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is the only living Nigerian leader absent at the ongoing Council of state meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja. Present at the meeting are Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), former President Shehu Shagari, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.), Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar and Chief Ernest Shonekan. Others at the meeting include Vice President Namadi Sambo; President of the Senate, David Mark; Speaker, House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal; Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN); Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyin Pius Anyim; National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki. Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP governors at the meeting include those of Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi, Kaduna, Cross River, Niger, Kogi, Bayelsa, Adamawa, Ondo, Taraba, Delta, Enugu, Ekiti, Plateau, Jigawa, Katsina, Gombe and Bauchi States as well as the Minister of the FCT, Bala Mohammed. Opposition Governors in attendance include Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Aliyu Wamako (Sokoto), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abdulfatahi Ahmed (Kwara), Tanko Almakura (Nasarawa), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara) and the deputy governors of Borno and Yobe States.

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