The Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad
Lawan, has met with four governors elected on the platform of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, This Day reports.
It is believed that it is part of
his ongoing consultations with stakeholders in the ruling party, over his
interest to become the next Senate President.
The Governors in attendance were:
the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara
State, who is also a senator-elect; Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State and
his Adamawa State counterpart, Mohammed Bindow.
This is coming as two other
ranking APC Senators, Mohammed Goje and Ali Ndume, who are also eyeing the
position of Senate President, have commenced discussion on the possibility of
working together.
It is understood that Lawan’s
meeting with the governors, was held on Tuesday night at the instance of the
Yobe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Geidam, who is a Senator-elect.
They discussed drumming up
support for Lawan’s ambition, at the level of the Progressive Governors’ Forum.
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