By Ishaya Ibrahim
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with heads of some security agencies.
The meeting was held at the President’s office, Aso Rock, Abuja.
At the meeting were the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu; National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno; and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Rufai-Abubakar.
The meeting is coming on the heels of a notice given on Tuesday by the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja that it has fixed Wednesday, September 11, to deliver judgement on the petition seeking to nullify President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.
The Justice Mohammed Garba-led five-member tribunal had on August 21, reserved its verdict on the petition the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, lodged to challenge the outcome of the February 23 presidential election that was declared in favour of President Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The tribunal is mandated under section 134 (1) to (3) of the Electoral Act, 2010, to determine the petition that was filed on March 18, within 180 days.
There has been palpable tension since the tribunal made the announcement.
Many Nigerians are also worried that sitting at the meeting with the president are security chiefs of northern extraction, all of them Muslims.
