The
Council of State meeting at the Presidential Villa yesterday witnessed
some drama as the Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako warned Abia State
Governor Theodore Orji not to poison him.
Reports
indicate that Nyako said to Orji: “I am telling you, don't poison me
here. I am not comfortable with you here. If anything happens to me
here, walahi, my people will take you to court. Is there any law that
says we should sit down together?”
To which Orji replied: “For how many years have we been sitting together? Is it this zero hour that I would poison you?”
Meanwhile, Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi was absent from the meeting, which began on Tuesday morning at 10:45am.
But
his Chief Press Secretary Mr. David Iyofor, explained that Amaechi did
not avoid the attending but had not received notice of the meeting
before he travelled abroad on Friday for a pre-scheduled appointment.
All
the other State governors were in attendance except Edo State governor
Adams Oshiomole, Oyo’s Isiaka Ajimobi and Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa
Kwankwaso
Former
Heads of State Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Yakubu Gowon and Abdulsalam
Abubakar were also in attendance, but former President Olusegun Obasanjo
and former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari were absent.
President
Goodluck Jonathan had convened the meeting in the council chambers to
discuss Nigeria’s centenary celebrations amongst other issues, and the
meeting was reportedly scheduled to coincide with the decoration of the
service chiefs appointed last month.
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