Pictures from the Council of State meeting today

Ex-Nigerian leaders including president-elect Gen. Buhari, Gen Ibrahim Babangida, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and Chief Ernest Shonekan were present at today's Council of State meeting which is President Jonathan's last as a president.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo who is also present at the meeting came 40 minutes late. He got their 12.10pm when the meeting started 11.30.

State Governors of Sokoto, Ogun, Plateau, Ondo,  Rivers, Kaduna, Bayelsa, Adamawa, Nasarawa, Benue, Ebonyi, Akwa Ibom, Zamfara, Niger, Cross River and Taraba State are also present at the meeting while Deputy governors of Kano, Kogi, Oyo and Yobe States represented their state governors.

Senate President David Mark, Speaker of the House of Representatives Aminu Tambuwal and former Chief Justices of Nigeria including Muhammadu Uwais, Alfa Belgore and Idris Kutigi are also present at the meeting.