THE Council of State comprising former Presidents and Heads of State, the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, serving and retired Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, as well as State governors on Tuesday passed a vote of confidence on President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

This is as the Council of State has described the recent hunger and bad governance protest as an insurrection and a movement aimed at regime change

The former leaders that passed confidence vote on President Tinubu included Generals Yakubu Gowon, Muhammadu Buhari and Abdulsalami Abubakar, as well as former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The confidence vote was passed during the National Council of State meeting, presided over by President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Both former presidents Buhari and Jonathan attended the meeting physically while Generals Gowon and Abubakar joined virtually.

However, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, were absent and there was no reason given for their absence.

Briefing State House correspondents after the meeting, the Governor of Kwara State and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq said the council unanimously passed a vote of confidence on Tinubu for the way he has governed the country.

He said the council was satisfied with the presentations made by ministers on the progress of the economy.

Also speaking, the Minister of Solid Mineral Development, Dr. Dele Alake, said the council also praised Tinubu for resisting a forceful takeover of government.

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Alake said that the National Security Adviser, NSA Mallam Nuhu Ribadu briefed the Council of State on the security situation in the country especially on issues before, during and after the nationwide protests.

The Minister said that the #EndBadGovernance was not a protest but movement and that the Council of State was of the opinion that nobody should be allowed to truncate the hard earned democracy and that any change will be through the ballot box and not by insurrection.

He revealed that seven ministers made presentations to the council on the progress being made on economic diversification and economy.

On his part, minster of finance, Wale Edun, said he had the opportunity to present to the Council of State to update them on the economy and the progress made so far