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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