General Election: Tinubu meets President Buhari in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari is in a closed-door meeting with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, at the Asorock Villa, Abuja.
Tinubu was said to have abandoned the ‘meet the mentor’ dinner held in his honour by the APC Progressives Sisters Network at the International Conference Centre in Abuja after he announced that he had an important meeting with the president at 9.45 pm.
News Point quoted the ruling party presidential candidate as saying, “I have a superior appointment. Late yesterday, the president called that I should be at his place by 9.45 pm this evening. What do I do? cancel it and disobey my president? and it is a command, more or less.
“I can’t say I would boycott this event or downgrade it. I have got to be here too, so first of all I seek your understanding, that is why there is always a pair for races like this. I have a vice presidential candidate,” Tinubu said.
Although the agenda of the meeting was not made public, a source in the presidency disclosed that the meeting might not be unconnected with last-minute strategies and logistics connected to the presidential election scheduled to be held in a few weeks.
This is Tinubu’s first known meeting with the president after the president pledged to continue drumming support for him at a rally in Sokoto State on Thursday.
As of the time of filing this report, both parties were still reported to be together at the State Ho
