2023: Tinubu Meets Buhari’s Anointed APC Chairmanship Candidate, Abdullahi Adamu [Photos]

Presidential hopeful and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has met with a candidate for the party’s chairmanship position, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.

Naija News reports that the Tinubu met behind closed doors with the former governor of Nasarawa State on Thursday at his residence in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

It is understood that the former Lagos governor met with Adamu to negotiate his emergence as the ruling party’s presidential candidate in 2023 and the party’s national convention slated for Saturday.

As of the time of filing this report, the two leaders have not released a statement regarding the meeting.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday night hosted Tinubu and other founder fathers of the party.

The President continues his consultation with stakeholders of the party ahead of the party’s national convention on the 26th of March.

The first Interim Chairman of the party, Bisi Akande, the Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, the lawmaker representing Imo West Senatorial district, Rochas Okorocha, former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau and former Governor of Sokoto State, Aliyu Wamako were in attendance.

Others at the dinner are Governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna); Aminu Masari (Katsina) and Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi.

The Caretaker Chairman of the ruling party, Mai Mala Buni and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha were in attendance also.

The dinner was fixed by President Buhari to appreciate the critical stakeholders for their continued support to his administration.

It is also expected that issues of leadership and crisis in the party were discussed during the dinner.