Former Nigerian leaders, including General Yakubu Gowon, Muhammadu Buhari, Goodluck Jonathan, and General Abdulsalami Abubakar, on Tuesday passed a vote of confidence in President Bola Tinubu’s leadership of the nation and declared their readiness to resist any attempt at an unconstitutional change of government in the country.
This was the fallout of the meeting of the National Council of State presided over by President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Specifically, the council comprises the president as chairman and the vice president as deputy chairman, all living former Heads of State and Presidents, all former Chief Justices of Nigeria, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, all state governors, and the Attorney-General of the Federation as members.
It is an organ of the federal government saddled with the responsibility of advising the executive on policy…
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