Barely two days after President Muhammadu Buhari left the country for Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi, Russia, the vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday, October 23, presided over the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council.
Osinbajo is presiding over the FEC meeting due to the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari, who is currently in Sochi, attending the Russia-Africa Economic Summit in the city.
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Meanwhile, reported that President Buhari was not presiding over the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting for the third time in a row at the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock. As it has been in the last three weeks, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is in charge and presiding over the meeting.
Upon his arrival around 11am, Osinbajo took charge at the meeting holding in the council chamber of the presidential villa in Abuja. Mohammed Bello, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), and Udoma Udoma, minister of budget and national planning, offered the Muslim and Christian prayers, respectively and thereafter, journalists were asked to leave the chambers.
There had been reports that Buhari would preside over the weekly meeting where key decisions about the country are made.