NATIONAL Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu and former Interim National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi
Akande, were at the presidential villa, Abuja on Tuesday for a meeting
with President Muhammadu Buhari ostensibly over the crisis in the ruling
party.
Both men arrived at about 3.03pm and were expected to meet with the president at his official residence.
When approached by correspondents before the meeting, he had declined to speak, but only saying,
“when I come back.”
The
president had recently designated Tinubu to lead the consultation,
reconciliation and confidence-building efforts as part of on-going
efforts to improve cohesion within the APC.
According to a terse
statement issued by Senior Special Assistant to the president on media
and publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja last week Tuesday, the assignment
will involve resolving disagreements among party members, party
leadership and political office holders in some states of the
Federation.
But the opposition the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), in its reaction to the appointment of the former Lagos state
governor, described it as a shame, noting in its official Twitter
handle, @OfficialPDPNg, that it was not the business of the president to
appoint somebody to reconcile the party but the party national
chairman.
The PDP had said it had always stated that the APC-led Federal Government of Nigeria was “inept and grossly incompetent.”
The
party added: “What other proof is required than the announcement by the
Presidency of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as Chairman, APC Reconciliation
Committee.
Source: Tribune
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