Council of State Decides When GMB Will Receive Handover Notes

The Council of state today, May 12, has ruled the date when the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari will receive handover notes from the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. Babangida Aliyu, the governor of Niger state, said the council decided that the president-elect and the vice president-elect, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo, would tour the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, on May 28 to get handover notes same day.‎ Gabriel Suswam, Benue state governor, while speaking with the State House reporters at the end of the meeting also confirmed this information. The inauguration of the new administration, Suswam said, takes place on May 29. The governor also stated that several leaders within and outside the content will attend the swearing-in ceremony as invitation cards and all preparations have been made for that occasion. Advertisement Muhammadu Buhari was in attendance at the National Council of State meeting alongside with Shehu Shagari, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalam Abubakar and Ernest Shonekan. The transition committee of incoming and outgoing administrations has recently denied having any quarrel, despite the fact that the All Progressives Congress has blamed the acting government for refusing to cooperate with their party.