Jonathan meets with northern traditional rulers (is time to beg for support?)

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Friday, September 19th, 2014

By Ben Agande, Abuja.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday met with traditional rulers from the north led by Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar III, to discuss ways of proffering solutions to the spate of killings in the region.

The meeting which started by 10:25pm, took place at the First Lady’s Conference Room and had in attendance the Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, Minister of Information, Labaran Maku and other Presidential aides.

It would be recalled that the traditional rulers had on Wednesday met in Kaduna where they discussed the Boko Haram crises in the northeast and other parts of the region and the economic situation in the north.

The Kaduna meeting was attended by the chairmen of traditional rulers council from each of the 19 northern states while yesterday’s meeting was attended by 13 of them including the Sultan himself.

The Sultan who briefed the press after the Kaduna meeting, had pledged to take the opinion and observation of the northern traditional rulers to the President as part of ways of forging stronger alliance with government against terrorism.

The meeting was still ongoing at the time of filing this report.
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