President Muhammad Buhari has called off today’s Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, which normally starts around 10am every Wednesday.
The reason according to his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina is to allow the Investigative Committee headed by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal to present its report to President Buhari.
The Investigative Committee will also present its report on the money recovered in a private building in Ikoyi, Lagos State which also involved the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke.
The SGF was investigated for alleged abuse of funds belonging to the Presidential Initiative on North East (PINE) while the DG NIA ran into troubled water over the huge sums of money discovered at flat on Osborne Road, Ikoyi Lagos.
Buhari was scheduled to receive the report on May 7 but that was the day he left the country for London on medical vacation.
Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, confirmed the story in a statement issued on Wednesday morning in Abuja, saying: “The meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will not hold today.
“President Muhammadu Buhari, will however, receive the Report of the investigation committee into the allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayo Oke, headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, at 12 noon, in his office.”