Politics
Buhari meets Bisi Akande, Aregbesola over rift with Tinubu
President Muhammadu Buhari, last night, met with the former interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi Akande, Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola and Senator Sola Adeyeye over the lingering cold war between himself and the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The meeting which held at the Presidential Villa was the first meeting to be held by the President immediately after his return from his official state visit to Germany.
The meeting, according to sources, was called to reconcile both men so that things don’t degenerate beyond control.
The source also disclosed that the three men were invited to the meeting by the President because they are known as the core men of Tinubu who can successfully interface with him.
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Though details of the meeting were not made available, sources say the meeting deliberated over the strained relationship between President Buhari and Asiwaju Tinubu and the internal wrangling within the ruling APC, particularly in Ondo State.
It would be recalled that the Ondo State governorship primary of the APC brought to the fore the cold war that has been going on in the party for a while, as Tinubu, in a no hold barred letter, called for the sack of the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
Tinubu also alluded to the fact that what Oyegun did was beyond him, inferring that there were higher powers proding him on. These powers have been interpreted by many to be referring to the Presidency.
By Timothy Enietan-Matthews…
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