President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met a former Lagos state governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja in a closed door meeting.
The meeting was reported by President Buhari’s personal photographer, Sunday Aghaeze, who shared pictures of the President and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
NAN reports that the agenda of the meeting between the president and the national leader of the APC could not be ascertained as at the time of filing this report.
NAN reports that Tinubu had on Friday picked the ruling APC presidential nomination and expression of interest forms at the its national secretariat in Abuja.
James Faleke, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, picked the forms for APC national leader, who had since informed the president of his presidential ambition in 2023.
Faleke was accompanied by former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal and hundreds of members of the Tinubu Support Groups (TSG) to the party’s secretariat.
NAN reports that Tinubu had recently returned from Saudi Arabia, where he performed the lesser hajj alongside some of his political associates and family members.