Jonathan Suspends FEC Meeting Over Vice President’s Brother’s Death

As President Goodluck Jonathan suspended the weekly Federal Executive Council over the death of his vice president’s younger brother, other related issues, and circumstances, are now unfolding in a fashion that may not be favorable to his office. Captain Sabo Sambo died in a still unexplained automobile accident recently. The FEC meetings, which were called off, was highly condemned by the president’s critics as against Federal Government’s normal practices, and, they said, shows a lack of consideration of the abducted 230 girls in Borno state by Boko Haram sect, as well. SaharaReporters has learned that the Kaduna state governor, and godson of Vice President Namadi, Mukhtar Yero, had been relocated to Abuja. Core the functions of the governor in his state have been on held-off, pending his return. When he returns remains a question for many residents of that state. Yero has been featured, conspicuously, say observers, in receiving guests stopping in to Abuja, the nation’s capital, to have an audience with his godfather since Sunday. It is a situation, and arrangement, many critics have condemned in the social media circles, as bad timing. That bad timing comes with focus remaining keen in the killings that have occurred in his state, which his critics have said, the governor has also not visited the area where over 100 people were killed. Also, with his absence, it sends a message that he has not shown concern, or even interest, in recent events there. Another source in Aso Rock told SaharaReporters that the governor is likely to return to Kaduna on Wednesday evening, or early Thursday, having left the state on Sunday. His whereabouts, or whether he is in transit, is unclear. A few minutes before the publication of this story, SaharaReporters received a statement from the organization known by the acronym KASMO. Moh’d Musa Soba, who chairs the Kaduna Salvation Movement, or KASMO, condemned both the Federal and Kaduna state governments over these recent developments involving the governor. Below is the statement: The Kaduna Salvation Movement (KASMO) views the disgraceful and despicable double standard of our political leaders both in the discharge of their constitutional responsibilities and moral obligations placed on us by our different cultures and respected religions. It is ironic that while the entire country is being traumatized by the abduction of over 240 innocent schoolgirls, and the continuous killing of innocent souls across the country, not even a condolence visit was paid to the families of the bereaved and the distressed. But when the brother of Vice President Namadi Sambo, Captain Sabo Sambo died in a motor accident few days ago, the business of government was abruptly brought to an end with the postponement of even the weekly federal executive council meeting. Almost all the states were shut down to commiserate with Sambo particularly Kaduna state where the governor relocated to Abuja for condolences. While we sympathies with Sambo over his brother's demise, we condemn the attitude of turning personal issues into state matters while the real issues that border on the security of lives and property of ordinary Nigerians are treated with levity and criminal contempt. It is a shame that Nigerian political leaders only feel the pains when a tragedy struck their immediate families. At press time, it is unclear if governor Mukhtar Yero is aware of the storm of controversy surrounding his visit to Abuja. It is not known if he has seen the KASMO statement of recent events concerning him, or if he plans to issue his own rebuttal.