Security Challenges- Buhari To Meet Jonathan, Obasanjo, babangida Others Today
All is set for President Muhammadu Buhari to host a crucial
meeting of the Council of State today being Thursday the 22nd
February 2018 at the Presidential Villa Abuja
The Council of the State has all the living former Presidents and
Heads of Government as members of the council
Those expected at the meeting scheduled for the Council Chamber of
the Presidential Villa are former President Shehu Shagari; former President
Olusegun Obasanjo and former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Others are,
former military Heads of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.); Gen. Ibrahim
Babangida (retd.); Gen . Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.); as well as the former
Chairman of the defunct Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan.
Vice-President
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo will also attend the meeting alongside the Senate President
and the Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.
All living
former Chief Justices of Nigeria; all the 36 state governors and the Attorney
General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, are all members of the council.
The incessant killing and destruction of properties across the
country by suspected herdsmen is expected to form part of discussions at the
meeting.
The two earlier
meetings of the council presided over by Buhari were held in October 2015 and
September 2016.
The council has
the constitutional duties of advising the President in the exercise of his
powers with respect to national census, prerogative of mercy, award of national
honours, the Independent National Electoral Commission, the National Judicial
Council and the National Population Commission.
It is believed that this meeting of the Council of State summoned
by President Buhari is in connection with the security challenges rocking the
country in recent time
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