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  • Emergency FEC meeting today

    Emergency FEC meeting today

    PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday called for an emergency meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at the Presidential Villa today.

    FEC sits every Wednesday and it held a meeting last Wednesday.

    A source at the Presidency said he does not know the agenda of the emergency meeting.

    But the meeting is believed to be causing fears among the ministers, who are afraid of an imminent cabinet reshuffle.

    Another source dismissed such fears, saying there was nothing unusual for the President to call for an emergency FEC meeting.

    “There is no need for the ministers to be jittery or the meeting to be hyped as it is not unusual for the President or any organisation to hold emergency meetings to iron out issues”, he stated

    President Jonathan had declared in the past that his decision to reshuffle his cabinet would not be publicised and hyped.

    According to him, it will be done when and if the need arises.

  • Jonathan, Alison-Madueke at FEC meeting

    President Goodluck Jonathan and Minister of Petroleum Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, attended yesterday’s Federal Executive Council meeting.

    The President returned to Abuja on Tuesday night 24 hours before his expected departure from Gaborone, the Botswana capital.

    The President moved to Botswana from Malawi. The President’s departure from Botswana, raised speculations that it may have been caused by concerns over the health condition of his wife, Patience, who is hospitalised in Wiesbaden, Germany with an undisclosed ailment.

    The President arrived in the Council Chamber for the weekly FEC meeting at 10a.m to the surprise of members.

    The petroleum minister who was reportedly hospitalised in a London hospital, was also there.

    Many of her colleagues milled around her before the commencement of the meeting.