President Bola Tinubu on Monday held a high-level closed-door meeting with Nigeria’s top security chiefs and principal officers of the National Assembly at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The emergency meeting was convened in response to the deepening political crisis in Rivers State and a recent pipeline explosion in the region, both of which have raised serious national security concerns.
In attendance were National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu; Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Christopher Musa; Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Olufemi Oluyede; Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Emmanuel Ogalla; Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Hassan Abubakar; Inspector-General of Police Kayode Egbetokun; Director-General of the Department of State Services, Adeola Ajayi; and Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Mohammed Mohammed.
Also present were Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, and Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu.
Though the agenda was not officially disclosed, sources say discussions centered on the escalating political tensions between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike’s loyalists in Rivers State, as well as the explosion on the Trans Niger Pipeline in Bodo, Gokana Local Government Area.
The meeting highlights the administration’s urgency in dealing with threats to national stability and economic infrastructure.
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