Despite the fact that the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal could still overturn his electoral victory declared by the Independent national Electoral Commission (INEC), President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the Constitution of the 2019 Presidential Inauguration Committee. The Permanent Secretary, General Services in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Olusegun Adekunle, disclosed this in statement yesterday in Abuja.
Adekunle said that the SGF would serve as the chairman while the Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs in the office of the SGF would serve as the secretary of the committee. He said members of the committee include: the Ministers of Information and Culture, Interior, Foreign Affairs and FCT. Others are Ministers of Defence, Health, Education, and Minister of State for Aviation; the APC National Chairman and the Inspector General of Police.
Adekunle said the Director General, Department State Service, the Commander, Brigade of Guards, the Permanent Secretary, State House and the Permanent Secretary, General Services Office are also members of the committee.
He said that the committee’s terms of reference would be to plan, organize and execute all approved activities for the 2019 Presidential Inauguration. The permanent secretary said that the committee would co-opt organizations or persons relevant to the successful execution of the program.
The committee, he said, will document for posterity, all planned activities for the Inauguration and carry out any other assignment as may be required towards the successful implementation of the program. He said the committee would be inaugurated today, Thursday March 14, 2019 at the Office of the SGF.
