Ex-Nigeria Presidents, IBB, Shagari, Jonathan, Shonekan Shun Buhari’s Council Of State Meeting

Four Nigeria’s former Head of state and Presidents, Ibrahim Badamasi Babagida, Goodluck Jonathan, Shehu Shagari and Earnest Shonekan were conspicuously absent at today’s Council of State meeting conveyed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

President Buhari who is presiding over his third meeting of the Council of State, had gone round the Council Chambers to shake hands with his visitors before the meeting started but couldn’t find the trio to exchange pleasantries with.

Although, all living past Presidents and Heads of Government are members of the Council, former President Goodluck Jonathan, former President Shehu Shagari and former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida are absent.

No reason was advance for their absence.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.) and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd.), are however attending the meeting which is the third under Buhari.

The meeting, which began at 11:05am, is also being attended by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Senate President Bukola Saraki.

Gowon and a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mohammed Uwais, said the opening prayer.

The Newsguru had earlier reported that the before the meeting started, President Buhari had gone round the Council Chambers to shake hands with his visitors.

The governors in attendance are those of Sokoto, Delta, Adamawa, Imo, Benue, Lagos, Nasarawa, Abia, Bauchi, Jigawa, Kebbi, Plateau, Kano, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Ekiti, Zamfara, Ogun, Niger and Ebonyi States.

Former Chief Justices of Nigeria, Idris Kutigi and Aloma Muktar are also in attendance.

A one-minute silence was observed in honour of the late former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Dahiru Mustapha.

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