President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, met for several hours behind closed doors with Service chiefs at the Presidential Villa.
The security meeting is coming barely four days to the supplementary election scheduled for some states with inconclusive gubernatorial polls.
The meeting always review security situation in the country, after which some far reaching decisions are arrived at.
Although non-of the Service Chiefs agreed to speak with State House Correspondents after the meeting, Businessday gathered that the meeting also reviewed the current security situation with much of the time dedicated to the situation in Kaduna State.
Despite persistent efforts to extract some information after the meeting, the Service Chiefs kept security strategies to tackle the Kaduna crises away from Journalists
BusinessDay sources said the meeting was also used to review the role all the security agencies played during the last gubernatorial and State Assembly elections.
The meeting which was attended by Defence Minister Mansur Dan-Ali, minister of defence, and Babagana Monguno, national security adviser, also had the Chief of Defence Staff, Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of Army staff, Tukur Buratai, chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, chief of Naval Staff, Ibok-Ete Ekwe Iba
The meeting came against the backdrop of various accusations leveled against the Nigerian Army by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which accused the Army of meddlesomeness in Rivers State elections.
Emerging from the meeting which took place inside the President’s office in the presidential villa, Abuja, Butatai, asked by reporters to react to the allegation, declined but pushed the responsibility to answer questions to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu.
He simply stated that “The IG will speak.”
However, when the IGP was approached, he too declined to speak saying that “there would be no briefing officially”
Recall that INEC had condemned what it described as the role played by some soldiers and armed gangs in Rivers State which it said led to the disruption of the electoral process.
The National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said the action which took place during the March 19 election was an attempt to subvert the will of the people.
The commission based its allegation on part of the submissions made by its fact-finding committee which assessed the situation in Rivers State.
