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Buhari to get handover note, tour of Villa May 28
The Council of State on Tuesday endorsed the programme of both transition committees of the outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan government and that of the incoming administration of President-elect Muhammadu Buhari for the handover ceremony billed for May 29.
To this end, Buhari, will get his handover notes from President Jonathan on May 28, 2015, and will be conducted round the Presidential Villa, Abuja, alongside the Vice President-elect, Yemi Osibajo, by the outgoing President on the same day.
Governors Babangida Aliyu of Niger State and Gabriel Suswam of Benue State briefed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting.
Aliyu said the Council approved a template that will henceforth be used during subsequent transition programmes in the country.
He said the process leading to the takeover of government by Buhari would commence with a Jumat service that would be held on Friday, May 22, adding that a church service would be held on Sunday, May 24.
The governor said a Presidential dinner would be held on May 28, during which the handover notes prepared by Ministries, Departments and Agencies would be presented to Buhari.
For the inauguration, Aliyu said leaders of all African countries, as well as Presidents and Prime Ministers of G8, had been invited for the inauguration.
He said invitations had also been extended to heads of international organisations, like the United Nations, Commonwealth, ECOWAS and African Union.
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