Less than two weeks to this year’s presidential election, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is again meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The duo reportedly met at the President’s official living quarters inside the Villa, shortly before the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, which Buhari, chaired, though the reason for the parley was not made known.
Observers, however believe it might not be unconnected with issues around the election, where the President had openly thrown his weight behind Tinubu’s quest to replace him for the nation’s number one job.
Buhari subsequently joined the weekly FEC meeting, to preside, at about 10:40am, approximately 40 minutes later than usual, as the meeting is usually scheduled to kick off from 10am.
The Nation, quotes a source as saying that the President was actually late to the FEC meeting, besides his meeting with Tinubu, exactly 11 days to the crucial polls, might have been as a result of his decision to stay back to monitor the outcome of the Supreme Court’s case against the federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the naira redesign policy, which was eventually adjourned to Wednesday, February 22.
At the weekly meeting were Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, the Head of Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, Ministers of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, Justice, Abubakar Malami, Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, and Finance Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed.
Others were, Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory, Mohammed Bello Education, Adamu Adamu, Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, as well as Ministers of State for Agriculture, Mustapha Shehuri, Budget and National Planning Clement Agba among others.
