Vice President Yemi Osinbajo presided over an emergency Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting which held at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa on Friday.

The meeting started at 11am and no official reason was given as to why the President was not at the meeting when state house correspondents filed out of the Council Chambers for the closed door session.

At the end of the meeting, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, said that the emergency Federal Executive Council meeting was predominantly to avail the ministers the opportunity to study the details of the budget as it concerns their various ministries before the assent of the President.

He said that the budget was still work in progress.

The absence of the President seemed a surprise to the members of the FEC made up of the 36 ministers, the Vice President, and the Secretary to the State Government (SGF).

The SGF, Mr David Babachir verbally called the meeting to order while Vice President Osinabjo called for opening prayers.

bigtt76:
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modath:



No matter how much ill will you harbour for Bubu, try sometimes dey suppress the urge to yarn opata!

bigtt76:
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kokoA:
Osibanjo has worked in less than a year what Sambo didn't have the opportunity to work in 6 yrs.

cyberguy72:
Zombie and what was d result?

vedaxcool:
The fools chanting mere commissioner should gnash their teeth in shame.

kokoA:
Osibanjo has worked in less than a year what Sambo didn't have the opportunity to work in 6 yrs.

zik4ever:
Meanwhile, in Kaduna, marketers have taken advantage of the acute shortage to increase fuel price to N500 a litre as against the government regulated price of N86.50.

Our correspondent reported that only a handful of filling stations were seen dispensing the product at exorbitant rates with long queues of motorists desperate to purchase at any price.

Some filling station who were seen selling above the government regulated price along Kaduna-Abuja, Kaduna-Kachia and Kaduna-Zaria roads, suddenly stop dispensation of the product for fear of clampdown by the Department and Petroleum Resources (DPR), LEADERSHIP observed.

A motorist at one of filling stations along Nnamdi Azikiwe road, Nuhu Audi, who lamented the situation, said, “We are calling on government to ensure availability of the fuel in order to discourage such illegal sale of the product.”

Another motorists, Usman Mohammed, said: “How can a litre of fuel sell for between N400 and N500, even black marketers do not display their jerry cans anymore. No filling station is selling in the areas I passed through. This has never happened before in the history of this country,” he lamented.
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