Buhari Absent, As Obasanjo Pleads For Nyako At Council of State Meeting

Former Military dictator, General Mohammadu Buhari stayed away from todays

Council of State Meeting as former President Olusegun Obasanjo made a

surprise appearance apparently to make case for embattled Governor Murtala

Nyako of Adamawa State.
The meeting was presided over by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at the

Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Former President Obasanjo has not been at several Council of State

meetings due to the frosty relationship with President Jonathan. This will

be Obasanjo's first meeting after writing his acerbic open letter to the

President.
Pointblanknews.com gathered that the appearance of former President

Obasanjo and Governor Nyako at the meeting is merely political. Nyako at

the meeting looked unruffled as he reached out to members of the meeting,

sharing jokes and shaking hands.
Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the former President and the

embattled Governor at the council of meeting is not unconnected with the

plot by the Adamawa House of Assembly to impeach Governor Nyako.

Nyako is currently under probe and facing impeachment by the Peoples

Democratic Party, PDP, led House of Assembly.
The source said Obasanjo is using the council of state meeting to reach

out to President Jonathan to persuade the Adamawa Assembly to rescind it

decision to impeach Governor Nyako.
Obasanjo was heavily instrumental to Nyako's emergence as Governor of

Adamawa State. He considers the embattled Governor as a political son just

like Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State.
Vice President Namadi Sambo; President of the Senate, David Mark; Speaker

of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal; former President

Obasanjo, former President Shehu Shagari and former Head of the Interim

National Government, Ernest Shonekan were at the meeting.

Others are former military Heads of State, Yakubu Gowon; Abdusalam

Abubakar and Ibrahim Babangida as well as some former Chief Justices of

Nigeria and state governors.
Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar and Service Chiefs are

also at the meeting.
Buhari is the only surviving former head of State who stayed away from the

meeting aimed at looking at the security situation in the country. No

official reason explained his absence as at the time of filling this

report.