Pres. Jonathan summons Stella Oduah for closed door meeting!

Following renewed calls for the sack of the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah over the recent bullet proof car scandal by the House of representatives, Ms. Oduah is said to have had an impromptu meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan.

The minister came under fire earlier this year when details of the car purchase, to the tune of N225 million, were revealed.

The president is said to have summoned the minister for a previously unscheduled, closed-door meeting which lasted more than 2 hours

The meeting between President Jonathan and the minister which lasted over two hours is generating tension in certain quarters over her job, as some presidency sources say it might not be unconnected with the scandal bordering on financial irregularities in the purchase of two bulletproof cars to the tune of  by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authorities (NCAA) for the minister.

According to LEADERSHIP News Papers, the minister was overheard saying she was at the president’s office to invite him for a programme being organised by the Aviation ministry.

This is the first time the minister is coming on her own to meet with the president in his office since the scandal that rocked the aviation ministry over the BMW bulletproof cars.

Besides, her visit to the president yesterday was quite unusual; this is even so as most ministers had traveled out of Abuja for the Christmas celebration after the last Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting for the year which held last week Wednesday.

Clad in a coffee kampala gown with a wine head scarf and bag to match, Oduah arrived Aso Villa at about 2.45pm in the company of one of her aides.

She walked sluggishly with her head bowed to the ground a she entered the president’s office and was there over two hours.

The Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim also came in at about the same time to see the president, but it was not clear whether he was part of the meeting.

The minister came out of the president’s office at about 5:17pm, just about 20 minutes after the SGF had left. She wore the same pensive look which characterized her movement when she came to the place earlier on.

Following the N255 million armoured cars’ scandal in the ministry, it was gathered that President Jonathan had been under intense pressure to sack the minister.

The House of Representatives had also asked the president to sack the minister for violating the constitutional provision in the acquisition of the armoured cars, a position which the minister condemned.