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- Previous administrations did not hold weekly FEC meetings.

- Meeting only holds when there is something new to discuss at the discretion of President.

- There is no law that says the meeting must hold every week.
With regards to the President's cancellation of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting that was scheduled to hold on Wednesday, there has been wide criticisms flowing in from across the country as to why such an important weekly meeting should be cancelled.

In response to those concerns, Presidential Spokesman Femi Adesina has come out to defend the President's decision to cancel the meeting stating that there is nothing in the constitution that backs holding the meeting on a weekly basis.

Adesina said "There is no law that says the Federal Executive Council meeting should hold every week. "There is no law that says it must be weekly.

"Under a past administration, it used to hold once every two weeks. So, there is no law that says it should hold every Wednesday.

"It depends on what you have on the agenda to discuss.

"The President is the Chairman of that meeting. So, he has the discretion to hold or not to hold (the meeting)."

"The fact that FEC does not hold in one week does not mean anything significant because the President has the discretion to hold or not to hold FEC meetings."

"It did not hold every week; when this administration began, it did not hold every week.

"And right from then, it had been understood that the FEC would hold as often as there are things to discuss." The spokesman added.