- A very crucial meeting has held
between three former leaders of Nigeria in Minna.
-The meeting which held in secret,
was between Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) and General
Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) .
-There are speculations that the
meeting was held to discuss issues not unconnected to President Muhammadu
Buhari's health Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) and General
Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), have met behind closed doors in Minna, the capital
of Niger state. The meeting took place on Monday, April 1. According to
Leadership, the meeting which lasted for over two hours was held at the hilltop
home of former military president, IBB. It was learnt that visitors who usually
besiege Babangida’s house were streamlined, with some of them stopped from
entering the house ahead of the arrival of former President Obasanjo at about
3:00pm yesterday. Before the arrival of Obasanjo, former head of state, General
Abubakar was already in IBB’s house waiting. On arrival, Niger state governor,
Abubakar Sani Bello, received Obasanjo at Minna airport and took him to IBB
home at hill top without official retinue.it was gathered that the governor led
Obasanjo to the inner chamber where the duo of IBB and Abubakar were waiting.
It was learnt that after the usual pleasantries,
even the closest domestic and security staff in the house were excused from the
inner chamber at the time the meeting went into closed door. It was also
gathered that the Niger State governor who initially received Obasanjo later
left the three elder statesmen. The former leaders met for over two hours
before Obasanjo left the state at about 6:00pm. Details of the meeting were
still not known at the time of writing this report, but a source close to one
of the former leaders told our correspondent that the former leaders may have
discussed some crucial national issues. Meanwhile, the founding national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has
observed that some persons with political interests within the corridor of
power were harping on President Muhammadu Buhari’s health to cause confusion in
the country. He, however, urged Nigerians to pray fervently for the president’s
health, saying the health of the leader is intertwined with the health of the
nation. Akande pointed out that there are two challenges facing the country at
the moment, the first and most critical being the health of the president,
which he described as an unfortunate development that is beyond Buhari’s
control. He said the second challenge was “the disorder and lack of cohesion
between the National Assembly and the Presidency”. In statement he issued
yesterday, Akande said: “These are two great red flag dangers that have the
potential of plunging the country into unprecedented chaos and of destabilising
the gains of democracy since 1999. “The greatest danger however is for
political interests at the corridor of power attempting to feast on the health
of Mr President in a dangerous manner that may aggravate the problems between
the Executive and the National Assembly without realizing if, in the end, it
could drag the entire country into avoidable doom. “As delicately fragile the
Union of nations making up Nigeria, so delicately fragile the democracy and the
rule of laws governing the polity of the Union called Nigerian Federation.
Certain Nigerian leaders, having been blindfolded by corruption, assume the
possibility of using money in manipulating the national security agencies to
intimidate, suppress and hold down certain ethnic nationalities or playing one
ethnic nationality against the other with a view to undermining the
constitution and perversely upturning the rule of law. “To avoid the ugly
consequences of letting President Buhari’s ailments throw Nigeria into
confusion, I am urging all Nigerians to begin to pray for his divine healing
and perfect recovery”. Akande
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