Former Presidents Muhammadu Buhari and Goodluck Jonathan, who attended the Council of State meeting physically, and all other former presidents who attended virtually on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, passed a vote of confidence in President Bola Tinubu.

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Council of State meeting in Abuja.

Alake said: “A lot of issues were exhaustively discussed at the meeting, and the governors were all in attendance as well as some ministers who were invited to make presentations.

“We made presentations on our road map, on what we’ve been able to achieve, the prospects and the challenges in our various ministries. At the end, we all passed a vote of confidence in President Tinubu.”

He said the ministers of Solid Minerals, Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Trade and Investment, Budget and National Budget, Agriculture, Works, and Attorney General were invited to make presentations to the council.

The minister stated that the individual presentations by the ministers were well received based on the feedback received.

Alake said the council also discussed the recent nationwide protest, which he said was an attempt to effect a change of regime by force.

Buhari, Jonathan in Aso Rock for Council of State meeting

“And so the council thanked Nigerians at large for resisting an unconstitutional move to change the government. If anybody is not satisfied with any government, there’s an election coming. So, wait for the election,” Alake added.

The minister revealed that the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, also briefed the council on the security situation in the country.

He said: “We were assured that nobody will be allowed to truncate our hard-earned democracy.

“Any change of government has to be through the ballot and not through the barrel of the gun, or through insurrection, or through any other unconstitutional means.

“We were reassured of the readiness of all security agencies in the country to secure our territorial integrity and to protect Nigeria’s democracy.”

Also speaking, the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, said one of the outcomes of the Council of State meeting was the unanimous passage of a vote of confidence in President Tinubu.

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