Theo Orji |
Murtala Nyako |
There was drama Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, venue of the Council of State meeting as Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako warned his Abia counterpart, Governor Theodore Orji not to poison him.
Nyako 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.
Orji to Nyako: For how many years have we been sitting together? Is it this zero hour that I would poison you?
Nyako: Who knows?
Nyako to Martins Elechi: I am just warning him not to poison me. Is there any law that says we should sit down together?
Meanwhile, former President Olusegun Obasanjo and former Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari were absent at Tuesday’s meeting which was convened by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The meeting which held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, commenced at 10.45am.
Governors who were absent were Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Adams Oshiomole (Edo), Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano) and Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi (Oyo)
Those that attended the meeting included former Head of States Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Abdulsalam Abubakar and former Head of the National Interim Government Earnest Shonekan,
Senate President David Mark, House of Representatives Speaker Aminu Tambuwal.
Governors present at the meeting were those of Osun, and Kaduna, Lagos Ebonyi, Enugu, Cross River, Imo, Sokoto, Gombe, Cross River, Niger, Jigawa, Ekiti, Kaduna, Taraba, Jigawa, Ogun, Niger, Akwa Ibom, Ondo, Nasarawa, Kano deputy governor, among others.
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