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Obasanjo Absent As Buhari, APC Governors In Aso Rock for Council of State meeting

By Mohammed Useni

The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Mohammadu Buhari on Thursday led APC governors to the National Council of State meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja

Other living former Presidents and Heads of State also attended the meeting except former President Olusegun Obasanjo who was not present at the beginning of the meeting. It is alleged that the meeting will push for the postponement of February 14 2014 election, a move the opposition party, APC, is kicking against.

The former leaders at the meeting included Shehu Shagari, Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalam Abubakar and Ernest Shonekan.

Also cited at the Presidential Villa during the meeting are the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Attahiru Jega, Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh and other security chiefs.

The APC governors who attended the meeting are Rauf Aregbesola (Osun), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), ) Adams Oshiomhole (Edo), Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Tanko Almakura (Nassarawa) Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Aliyu Wammako (Sokoto).

Others include Bala Ngilari (Adamawa), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Idris Wada (Kogi), Ibrahim Shema (Katsina), Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta), Olusegun Mimiko (Ondo), Jonah Jang (Plateau), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Ayo Fayose (Ekiti), Mukhtar Yero (Kaduna), Willy Obiano (Anambra), Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe), Isa Yuguda ( Bauchi) Sullivan Chime (Enugu) and Acting Governor of Taraba State.
Yobe, Abia, Borno and Oyo states were represented by their deputy governors.

Senate President, Senator David Mark; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal; National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki, Attorney General of the Federation, Mohammed Adoke, former Chief Justices Alfa Belgore and Dahiru Musdapher, and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim also attended the meeting.

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