My meeting with Buhari ‘totally unconnected’ with Obasanjo’s letter- Tinubu

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has countered insinuations that the meeting he and APC chieftain Bisi Akande held with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa In Abuja earlier on Tuesday was in response to the explosive letter written to President Muhammadu Buhari by former president Olusegun Obasanjo in which he asked the president to forget about running for a second term, citing a litany of failures.

In statement issued by his spokesperson, Tunde Rahman, Tinubu said the meeting was scheduled last week contrary to speculations.

The statement read, “Today’s visit by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande to the Presidential Villa was scheduled last week.

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“President Buhari periodically schedules talks with Asiwaju Tinubu and Baba Akande, as he does with other Nigerians and APC figures, to discuss substantive issues pertaining to the governance of the country and matters concerning the party.

“This visit was one such meeting. As such, the meeting had nothing to do with the statement of former President Obasanjo.

“It is totally unconnected. At the time of the meeting, Asiwaju Tinubu and Baba Akande were even unaware that President Obasanjo had released his statement”.

 

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