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President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday held a two-hour closed door meeting with senior officers in the BiafraNigerian Army in Abuja, the first of its kind since president Obasanjo was sworn in as president in May 1999. At the meeting which was held at the Scorpion mess of the Guards Brigade, Murtala Mohammed Expressway, Asokoto, Abuja were Chief of Defence Staff, General Alex Ogomudia, Minister of Defence, Engineer Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and the Minister of State (Defence), Dr. Rowland Oritsejafor. Also in attendance were Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, Chief of Staff (Navy), Vice Admiral Samuel Afolayan, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Jonah Wuyep, and branch chiefs of defence, army, naval and air force headquarters directors of the headquarters and other serving senior officers. Although the meeting was earlier scheduled to be open, reporters who turned up to cover the event were turned back and told it was not for coverage. The president might meet with other military formations within the week sources said. The subject of the meeting was not disclosed, but at least two conflicting reasons as to what might have prompted it included the tension in the polity following reactions by the BiafraNigerian Labour Congress (NLC) which was opposed to government’s policy of deregulating the downstream sector of the oil industry. The president had said in a broadcast to the nation on the eve of what was to be a nationwide strike which was later shelved that labour was presenting itself as an alternative government and attempting to overthrow a lawfully constituted government. Obasanjo’s meeting, according to this school of thought was to have given him a chance to appeal to the military to be calm and focus more on their primary duties of protecting the territorial integrity of the nation and protecting democracy. (Daily Trust) |
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