Just In: The Meeting Of The Council Of State Is Ongoing Inside Presidential Villa, Abuja

The meeting of the Council of State scheduled to hold today, 5th of February, 2015, is ongoing inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The agenda of the meeting, which started at about 11:30 am, is to brainstorm on the readiness of INEC to conduct this month's general elections, with a possibility of shifting the pools by six-weeks should they be found unprepared to conduct the elections.

Former Presidents and Head of States in attendance are Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), Shehu Shagari, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.), Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (retd.), Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar and Chief Ernest Shonekan.

Punchng.com reports that former President of the Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, is the only living Nigerian leader absent at the meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and all service chiefs are waiting to brief the meeting.

Also in attendance are 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.

Governors in attendance include Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Aliyu Wamako (Sokoto), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Tanko Almakura (Nasarawa), Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara) and the deputy governors of Borno and Yobe States.

People's Democratic Party 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.

Details of the outcome of the meeting will be made known to the press the moment the meeting is concluded.

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