House Leader, Mulikat Adeola-Akande, told reporters on
Tuesday that lawmakers endorsed President Jonathan at a meeting between the
Legislators, President Jonathan and some state governors elected on the party’s
platform.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal,
was, however, absent at the meeting attended by his Deputy, Emeka Ihedioha at
the new Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The House Leader was not specific about the President’s
response to the endorsement, neither could she answer the question concerning
the Speaker’s absence from the meeting.Security issues were discussed at the meeting and the
government was commended for efforts it is making to restore peace in the
northeast.
Members of both chambers of the National Assembly had
earlier been conveyed to the venue of the meeting in Coaster buses with the
President of the Senate, David Mark, leading his colleagues to the meeting.
However, Senators left early as it became obvious that they
were invited to the meeting in error with the understanding that a date
for the President’s meeting with them would be communicated to them later.
The governors who attended the meeting included those of
Abia, Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Bayelsa, Benue, Kebbi, Bauchi, Katsina,
Gombe, Cross River and Delta.
About four deputy governors also attended the meeting.
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